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Russia ---- IN 2025 MORE THAN EVER: PEACE IN THE COTTAGES, WARS IN THEPALACE ---- Editorial of Olga Taratuta Initiative Newsletter #7! ----
This newsletter is the seventh of the "Olga Taratuta" Solidarity
Initiative, created on February 24, 2022. It comes one year after the
previous issue, published in January 2024. Does this mean that our
activities have slowed down in 2024? Alas no, quite the contrary,
because the war in Ukraine has only redoubled and with it the need for
solidarity with those who refuse it. Our human and material resources
have been mainly devoted to "field" activities, but we will try to
publish the newsletter more regularly in 2025, why not with your help?
We need translators (Russian, English), and especially distributors. You
can photocopy the bulletin to distribute it around you. We can also send
you copies if you have the possibility to drop off the bulletin in
bookstores, associative places. In any case, do not hesitate to contact
us by email
In this maelstrom of misfortune and despair that war brings, we have
been able to see some reasons for hope. Of course, it is at our
microscopic level, but these grains of sand contradict many current
speeches, in the media but also sometimes in activist circles! First of
all, Ivan, a young Russian rebel whom we had favorably supported in his
asylum application has now acquired his autonomy and flies freely on his
own wings. There is also our young friend Boris, also a Russian rebel,
who has also officially obtained his refugee status. Thanks to his
efforts and the support of companions who hosted him during this entire
period, in one year he learned French and found a job that will also
allow him to be independent. In addition, his friend Natalia, who is
Ukrainian, was able to join him and also obtained refugee status. We
wish this couple much happiness, a symbol of a possible future despite
the noise of the bombs.
We warmly thank all the people who participated in the solidarity fund
with the rebels and deserters. We collected almost 5,000 euros, half of
which was used for winter solidarity with the anarchists in Ukraine, and
the other half for solidarity with the Russian rebels we are hosting, as
well as for solidarity with the Orange Fox Bike strikers. This strike,
led this fall in Paris by Russian and Ukrainian refugees who went so far
as to occupy their workplace, is another reason for hope.
Solidarity can be expressed in different ways. For example, Sergei,
another Ukrainian refugee, has happily made the most of the vegetable
garden that a companion of the Initiative has made available to him.
We participated in the anti-militarist days organized by the CNT-AT of
Auch, on the weekend of November 11, where we presented the situation of
the anti-war movement in Russia and deserters in Ukraine. The Union
Pacifiste (UPF) also invited us to present the Initiative in its program
"Si Vis Pacem" on Radio Libertaire. The program can be listened to
online here
We also participated in the program of the Friends of Maurice Joyeux on
January 12, which can be[listened to here
Finally, in December, we participated in a rally in support of Russian
and Ukrainian deserters, in order to make visible this reality that
thousands of young people refuse to go and get themselves killed.
In 2025, the initiative will continue with its small means and those
that its friends and supporters bring to it, to shout loud and clear<br>
"peace to the cottages, wars to the palaces!"
Summary of the bulletin:
In 2025, more than ever, peace to the cottages, wars to the palaces!
Solidarity with the Russian and Ukrainian workers of Orange Fox Bike, on
strike in Paris against their thug boss!
From Paris to Cologne via Berlin: deserters from all countries, unite!
Winter campaign 2024-2025 of solidarity with Ukrainian anarchists!
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URGENCE SOLIDARITE
Initiative of solidarity with refugees, deserters, pacifists
in Ukraine as in Russia and Belarus
War is raging in Eastern Europe. In a war of imperialist aggression,
Russian troops have invaded Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin.
There are already many dead and wounded. New escalations are imminent.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have thrown themselves onto the roads to
escape the death that is advancing with its tanks and bombings. In
Russia, courageous demonstrators are braving repression to express
loudly their refusal to march in step with the military. In Belarus,
anarchists are campaigning to encourage soldiers to desert.
Whatever rhetoric - "humanist", nationalist, militarist, historical or
other - justifies the current conflict, behind it there are only the
interests of those who hold political, economic and military power.
Bombing peaceful cities, killing people, all this has no justification.
For us, workers, peasants, pensioners, students, this only brings
suffering, blood and death.
Because Nationalism is war, we oppose all forms of nationalism and we do
not take sides with any government, neither here nor there. Our
solidarity goes to the people, not to the institutions.
We invite all those who, like us, aspire to freedom and abhor war to
join our solidarity initiative to support - materially and financially -
those who fight against war, whether they are Ukrainian, Belarusian or
Russian. We are particularly seeking to support Russian and Belarusian
deserters and pacifists, who hold part of the solution against the war
in their hands. We are also participating in solidarity with refugees,
calling for them to be welcomed as widely as possible in Europe.
Our initiative is independent of any political party. It is strictly
secular.
We are inspired by Olga Taratuta. Ukrainian Jewish anarchist
revolutionary activist, born in 1876. Imprisoned for more than 10 years
in Tsarist prisons for revolutionary activities in Odessa among others,
freed in February 1917 in the wake of the revolution, she founded the
Black Cross in Kharkov in 1920, to help political prisoners of the
revolutionary movement, whether they were in the prisons of the White
Russians, Ukrainian nationalists or Bolsheviks. She was imprisoned again
for her solidarity activities by the Bolshevik power, which would end up
shooting her in 1938. Olga Taratuta is a universal figure of the
uncompromising struggle against dictatorship and for freedom.
Peace in the cottages War in the Palaces!
Read in courant autrement: CA 336 January 2024
Ukraine: in the face of war, resistance. But with whom? With the State
or with the population?
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4350
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