WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA News Journal Update - (en) Russia, avtonom: We're All Going Home: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 107 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 prepared by the editors of the Siberian telegram channel "Irkutsk anarchist".

Here are the main stories on the agenda of the past week ---- Violence is their
bread ---- In Novosibirsk, a man in military uniform and with a chevron,
presumably PMC "Wagner" raped two schoolgirls 10 and 12 years old. At the same
time, he threatened that he would blow them up with a grenade. ---- Also this
week, a Wagner PMC mercenary was shot dead in the Irkutsk region - he celebrated
his return from the war, quarreled with a drinking buddy and received a fatal
shot from a gun. ---- This is not the first time that participants in the invasion
of Ukraine - mobilized or the mercenaries continue violence, already at home
killing other people or each other. We have already noted earlier that people who
have connected their lives with violence on behalf of the state do not leave it
in the place where they went to commit it. They take it with them to where they
came from. Violence surrounds our society, as its main functions are organized on
the basis of coercion and other forms of violence - including physical.

It is a pattern that women are the first to face this violence. By the same
logic, domestic violence has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Domination
is the logic of patriarchy, which holds capitalism, colonialism, and the state
together like glue. In the coming months and years, we will see a continuation of
this picture: the machine of state violence has spun more than usual, and no one
will escape violence.

Therefore, it is necessary to learn to defend oneself - and most importantly, to
organize self-defense collectively. Given the inability of the Russian state's
security apparatus to solve internal problems, it can be assumed that the
satisfaction of the human need for security will cease to be an area in which the
Putin regime holds a monopoly. Therefore, security will certainly become one of
the most pressing issues in our society, along with food, transportation,
infrastructure, healthcare and other issues where people will need mutual
assistance. People will inevitably organize structures to deal with all sorts of
such problems - for example, the need for self-defense.

The question for anarchists and anarchists is this: can we become a movement that
will take part in the creation of such structures and influence how they are
organized and whether they serve the people, and not the government or new power
structures?

Fear and Justice in Novosibirsk
Meanwhile, let's go back to Novosibirsk. There, Orthodox imperialists went on a
religious procession and demanded that Putin "deal with the migrants", referring
to several different incidents of conflicts with men from Tajikistan that ended
in the death of locals.

It is ironic that the protesters, in their appeals to the authorities, drew
attention to the fact that these incidents are especially egregious now that the
war is going on. The fact that the Putin regime is sending both Russians and
people of other nationalities en masse to die in another country for goals that
are not close to the population of Russia did not particularly worry the
protesters. Needless to say, the protesters were also not interested in the
question of why many Tajiks and Tajiks are forced to go to the Russian
Federation, work as cattle, and face racism from the cops and the local
population. Be that as it may, Orthodox Russians actually have more common
interests with any migrants and female migrants than with the authorities at any
level in Russia.

In this example, we see that our society is sorely lacking in solidarity and ways
to resolve their conflicts in a self-organized manner, without the intervention
of the authorities and their power apparatus. Their goal is that we are not able
to solve social issues and situations on our own, and therefore present our power
structures as the only possibility. To do this, they also need to point to
conflicts between different religious and national groups as the source of the
problem. Then the conditional Tajiks and Tajiks will seem to be a problem, even
more destitute and disenfranchised than conditional destitute and disenfranchised
citizens and citizens of the Russian Federation. It is they, and not the
snickering authorities and their garbage, who directly and indirectly rob and
kill most people in this country.

War against nature
Murder, murder and all for the glory of capital.

The authorities of Buryatia have allowed 3,000 cormorants to be killed, and they
even offer to compensate the hunters for the costs of shooting. Allegedly, the
birds are unlikely to inflict on the fauna, since they eat the "valuable and
protected" Baikal omul.

Capital is once again trying to absolve itself of guilt. Recall that for a long
time (since 2017) omul fishing is prohibited, but despite this, it is caught in
tons. But the authorities cannot sign that, thanks to their actions and
inactions, omul continues to be caught? That is why the government is now making
such stupid statements. Why stupid? Cormorants are natural participants in the
Baikal ecosystem, and if they were a threat to fish, the omul would not have
survived. The only ones that harm the fish are anthropocentrism. First, they
catch one species in such quantities that it becomes dangerous for the species,
and then they turn on the role of "reasonable regulator" and begin to exterminate
the other species.

But it would be naive to say that these people present man as a species in the
form of a value.

Explosion of human history
In the Irkutsk region, another site of an ancient man was destroyed by
explosions. In April, an exploration company carried out explosions near the
Talma River, and this led to the fact that they damaged the archaeological site.
More specifically, they damaged the rock paintings, which are several thousand
years old.

It was possible to attract the attention of the prosecutor's office and the
regional service for the protection of monuments only after the first explosions.
By this time, one of the sites of the ancient man, which is more than seven
thousand years old, was destroyed.

Local residents say that the explosions near the Talma pisanitsy are carried out
by the Seismopoisk company, which is looking for oil and gas fields. Historians
are perplexed how such a project passed the examination and received permission
to carry out work.

There is nothing "holy" for the state and capitalism. Their values are power and
money. And no matter what someone declares, they deeply care about history, and
nature, and the people. Even now, no one has appreciated what a cultural loss
mankind has suffered. No one asked the questions "whether the search for oil is
worth the destruction of nature and human culture."

We should be asking these questions. We should find some balance between
primitivism and "rejection of progress" and techno-optimism with cyberpunk in the
future.

We are all going home
The loudest event was the entry of saboteurs into the territory of Russia. You
all have already heard about it, if not, then the RDK (Russian Volunteer Corps)
and the Freedom of Russia Legion entered the territory of the Belgorod Region and
made a lot of noise there. For more than a day, shots and explosions rang out,
and the commander of the local self-defense was killed.

The Legion "Freedom of Russia" seems generally mythical and there is no
confirmation that it really exists, but the RDC are Russian nationalists who are
fighting on the side of Ukraine as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the
current regime, they do not like only the destruction of "Russians as an ethnic
group." In other words, these are the same fascists, but in profile.

Perhaps we will all have to confront these formations in the future, because they
do not even carry criticism of authoritarianism and will certainly begin to
attack citizens if they seize power.

How to treat such events is a question that cannot be answered without
contradictions. Yes, these are also fascists, and all according to the precepts
of the classic Escobar: this is garbage, this is. But the fascist saboteurs are
still shaking the system, which we wish a speedy collapse. Does this mean that
these fascists are "good"? Naturally, no. However, their actions provide another
window for maneuver, and each such opportunity is now worth its weight in gold.
We are not in a position to neglect even the slightest cracks in the system.

But I would like to remind you that our comrades and comrades are also fighting
on the side of Ukraine. We invite you to read a long article about Dmitry Petrov,
who died near Bakhmut last month, and get acquainted with the activities of the
Solidarity Collectives, a volunteer network that helps at the front.

Conclusion
Somehow it happened that in this issue we concentrated on the violence and
destruction that humanity brings in its current form. Of course, it is important
to know about these things and analyze them, but we still want to remind you that
the world does not consist of only darkness and hopelessness, there is still a
lot of beauty in it, for the preservation of which we should fight. Let's not
forget about it and do not despair!

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the
participants of Autonomous Action and other authors give anarchist assessments of
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