WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA News Journal Update - (en) Russia, Avtonom: War and Peace: "Trends of Order and Chaos", episode 141 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In memory of anti-fascists ---- January 19 is the day of remembrance of
Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova killed by the Nazis.
Anti-fascist marches were usually held on this day, but in recent years
the authorities, under the pretext of concern for the health of
citizens, have limited the organization of commemorative events solely
to the laying of flowers. This year, flowers were laid and candles were
lit on Prechistenka not only in memory of Stas and Nastya, but also in
memory of all the killed anti-fascists. Since then, fascist ideology
under the guise of anti-fascism has become the ideology of the state.
The slogan of the anti-fascist marches on January 19 still does not lose
its relevance: "To remember is to fight . "

War
The war with Ukraine, which in Russia is forbidden to be called a war,
is now in its second year. For the second winter in a row, Russian
troops are trying to destroy the energy infrastructure so that the
residents of Ukraine simply freeze to death. But come on, it just
doesn't work out. Although, of course, there is war fatigue.

And having communicated a lot with Ukrainians, including refugees, well
understanding why Dmitry Petrov died, who was for me an example of an
anarchist-revolutionary, I will probably express the idea, unpopular
among some anarchists, that we should just take it and make peace with
this stage of the war will not work. Naturally, I am talking about this
for Russians and foreigners not from Ukraine.

Ukrainians themselves will decide what to do. I believe that making
peace now is at least giving Putin a break, allowing him to build up his
military force, build better engineering structures, and no, not for
civilians. This means leaving prisoners and non-combatants under fascist
occupation, in torture cellars. It's like making peace with Hitler while
he's in France or Poland. For an anarchist, of course, it makes no
difference where the state border lies, just as there are no good
authorities and police. But would you really give Poland or France to
Hitler? Are you sure that Hitler is peaceful? What would the Poles and
French say about this?

I have already referred to the history of World War II more than once in
trends. For example, she talked about how Spanish anarchists
participated in the French Resistance, including as independent partisan
detachments, and even as part of the Free French they helped the rebels
of Paris. Some of the anarchists who found themselves first in French
and then in German concentration camps died there, and some lived to see
victory.

However, if Putin immediately capitulates, then, of course, everyone
will only be happy about such a quick end to the war. However, this will
not happen. He and his circle need war at any cost. So the Russians can
only increase all types of resistance and help the Ukrainians where
possible. Resistance to the fascist regime in Russia itself is also an
important contribution to the fact that peace will come sooner. War
fatigue has already led to the Russian revolution, this is a good chance.

Anti-imperial alternative
Those who in Russia itself do not rely on the authorities, I believe,
are not at all obliged to indulge the general fear that a country
without a "strong hand" could fall apart. Well, definitely not what
should frighten an anarchist is the collapse of a half-collapsed empire.
Actually, what are people who are not familiar with anarchist theory and
practice afraid of? They are afraid of interethnic massacres, banditry,
hunger, devastation and other lawlessness. Such fears also have roots in
Russian history. Including not so far away.

What can anarchists do against this? Well, firstly, if we again turn to
history, there were examples of independent peasant republics in Russia,
even a sailor's republic. And in the same Ukraine, the Makhnovists
fought with the German occupiers, both the whites and the reds, and
there were no problems with hunger. There was a famine under the Bolsheviks.

Mutual assistance and self-government are natural things not only for
survival, but also for a normal life. Many people already have
experience in volunteer organizations. And unlike the times of the civil
war or the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have in our hands such an
effective means of coordination as the Internet. So horizontal networks
of communities and councils are what anarchists can and should teach,
and not be afraid of ending up in anarchy. Are we anarchists or who then?

Well, let's say anarchists are not afraid of anarchy, but citizens of
the empire are. Although for me, what could be worse than war? Okay,
let's remember, we study Comrade Kropotkin's ideas on federalization.
Who wants a soft transition to further self-government, so here you go,
and here anarchist thought has worked.

The examples of Rojava and the Zapatistas do not inspire confidence in
everyone, since they are constantly trying to destroy both the Kurds and
the Indians of Chiapas. Well, why not make the presence of nuclear
weapons an advantage instead of a problem? Of course, all sorts of
Western capitalist ministers there are afraid that nuclear weapons will
end up not in a single country, but in some communes or even federal
republics that they do not understand. But on the other hand, at this
particular moment, nuclear weapons are in the same hands, and these
hands periodically threaten nuclear war, according to the principle "I'm
crazy and I have a grenade." Well, why not declare to the newly formed
republics, federations or communes that "we are not crazy, but let the
nuclear bomb serve as a guarantee of non-aggression for now, and in
general, let's agree on general nuclear disarmament"? Fairy tales? Well,
somehow more real than Mrs. Shulman's fairy tales. All this can become a
very real "road map".

Protests in Bashkortostan
Let's return to the current situation. Disintegration into national
republics is quite likely. The authorities are afraid of this.
Unfortunately, people's legitimate dissatisfaction with the current
lawlessness quickly turns into nationalist channels than into concepts
of class struggle . On January 19, an article dedicated to the protests
in Bashkortostan was published on our website .

The thirst for justice and protest against lawlessness is a
revolutionary engine, but flirting with nationalist ideas can lead such
a movement not to the destruction of injustice, but to the creation of
new injustice, this time in relation to people of other nationalities.

White scarves
At the moment I can't say anything good about the movement of the
mobilized wives "The Way Home" . Why? It would seem that this was a
spontaneous movement of women also tired of the war. But what are they
asking for? I would strongly welcome the demand to bring their husbands
home. But they demand to replace them. On other military personnel. In a
dispute with representatives of Putin's campaign headquarters, where one
portrays a good investigator, the other an evil one, the "Way Home"
activist demands that the mobilized men be replaced with contract soldiers.

The Way Home movement uses white scarves, like the Mothers of May Square
. During the dictatorship, Argentine women in white headscarves demanded
to know the fate of their husbands and children kidnapped by security
forces. They did not demand that their relatives-prisoners be replaced
with someone else.

As the Russian army kills and kidnaps Ukrainian children , the women of
The Way Home ask to replace their husbands at the front rather than stop
the war and withdraw the troops. Whether this will be the next step in
their overall demands is not yet clear. Although some wives of those
mobilized, unfortunately, it is too late, they understand that the best
thing a mobilized person can do is to leave the unit. That is, to
escape. Perhaps many have seen the appeal of Maria Ishkova from St.
Petersburg, whose husband died before the New Year.

"I came to celebrate the New Year with my husband. Yesterday my husband
passed away. My colleagues called me and told me that he died yesterday.
Women, I ask you, if you have the opportunity, save your men. I am very
sorry that I did not I had time. I just didn't have time. You don't have
time, every day can become fatal.

The only option is to escape. Probably, we ourselves are to blame for
everything. I was not interested in politics, what was happening in the
state, laws, I was not interested in anything other than "work-home,
work-home." And so I lost my most beloved person. And now I'm awake. Our
loved ones die simply for nothing. Nobody needs this."
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The issue was prepared by Nina T.

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