Update : Kim Jong Il Announces Plan To Bring Moon To North Korea!
Happy Birthday Kim Jong-il!
Slackbastard Central Committee Commemorates 68th Appearance Day of KPA Supreme Commander KIM JONG IL!
The KPA (Korean People’s Army) and The Songun-Based Revolutionary Line is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era!
May the Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution led by KPA Supreme Commander KIM JONG IL and the Pyongyang Mission of the AINDF (Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front) fly forever in our hearts!
Rural People’s Party Central Committee statement concerning 2.16 General KIM JONG IL Appearance Day (February 3, 2009):
Once again comrades we near an occasion momentous for humankind and all the revolutionary forces who desire to see communism realized. On 2.16 2009 (Juche 98) the anniversary of the birth of KPA Supreme Commander KIM JONG IL occurs. Born at the secret camp at the base of Mt. Paektu, KIM JONG IL was brought immediately into an atmosphere of intensive revolutionary struggle as the son of KIM IL SUNG. KIM IL SUNG established the forward revolution of Korea under the banner of the Juche idea, which the RPP upholds as the guiding principle of the party and the penultimate of communism today and under which the DPRK has flourished in proletarian state power, treading incessantly toward communism, for decades. KIM JONG IL furthered the worldwide revolutionary advance of the Juche idea through setting the bar high in marching toward a collective and human-centred future in Korea with the campaign to imbue all of society with the Juche idea of the Great Leader KIM IL SUNG. In addition, KIM JONG IL advanced Juche with the development of the mighty weapon of Songun politics: the army-first approach making the DPRK an invincible fortress protecting the beloved people’s socialism against imperialist encirclement through force of arms…
These trips “have become popular amongst our KFA members as well as other people, who are welcome to join, to experience North Korea outside the tourist trail and have interaction with North Korean citizens first hand.” The next trip is scheduled for April 11–April 20, but hurry — the deadline for pre-inscription is March 5!
See also : Letter of Criticism to the Rural Peoples Party: In Defense of Marxism-Leninism, Marcus Winter and Prairie Fire, October 20, 2008: “This article is written and addressed to the Rural Peoples’ Party (RPP) from the members of the Hoxhaist Union and the American Party of Labor [‘a growing Marxist-Leninist Party in the United States’]. This article shall focus on Juche, the ideology of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (North Korea) which shall be henceforth referred to as the DPRK, and its deviation from the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. Hereby I shall seek to make the case that the Juche idea formulated by Kim Il-Sung must be officially recognized as revisionism and not a “continuation” of Marxism-Leninism. To put it concisely, revisionism is defined as the “watering down” or flat-out abandonment of Leninism as a science and as an ideology. This term encapsulates with the utmost clarity what the Juche idea of the DPRK has become—a “replacement,” a “perversion,” if you will, of the science of Marxism-Leninism…”
In the meantime, the revisionist, bourgeois perverts at the imperialist BBC relate lies about the Great Leader:
Konstantin Pulikovsky, a Russian emissary who travelled with Mr Kim by train across Russia, reported that the North Korean leader had live lobsters air-lifted to the train every day which he ate with silver chopsticks.
The two men shared champagne with a bevy of female companions of “utmost beauty and intelligence”, according to Mr Pulikovsky.
Mr Kim also has a reputation as a drinker.
He was seen draining 10 glasses of wine during his 2000 summit with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and is known to have a taste for Hennessy VSOP cognac.
But still…
FRIENDS OF KIM
A film by RAPHAEL WILKING and HANS VAN DIJK
Hilarious and ultimately sobering account of the first time an international group of Kim Jong II sympathizers visits North Korea. Declared as a nation on the axis of evil by George W. Bush, North Korea is the country many love to hate.
FRIENDS OF KIM chronicles the ‘International March for Korea’s Peace and Reunification’ organised by the Korean Friendship Association through North Korea. Its aim: to show solidarity with the regime and the North Korean people. The authorities even allowed some US citizens in and an American journalist from ABC.
The KFA, is a worldwide group of supporters of North Korea. They are young, idealistic and fed up with the consumerism of the Western world. Its leader is a 29 year old Spanish citizen, Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Perez. Originating from an aristocratic family he heads the organization in true North Korean fashion.
In 12 days the 22 participants of the March travel through a country full of monuments, propaganda and poverty. FRIENDS OF KIM is a film about idealism, trust and crime. It begins as a magical mystery tour but gradually some travelers discover that the “workers’ paradise” is far from heavenly.
NETHERLANDS | 2006 | 55 minutes
Long live KIM JONG IL! Long live the immortal JUCHE IDEA and SONGUN POLITICS!
SENIOR Israeli diplomat Dan Gillerman has urged Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd not to send a delegation to a United Nations forum on racism, saying it will be used as a platform to bash Israel.
In an interview with The Age, Mr Gillerman, who was Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations from 2003 until September last year, also strongly rejected calls for war crimes investigations against Israeli commanders involved in the recent Gaza offensive.
Speaking from his office in Tel Aviv ahead of a scheduled visit to Australia at the end of the month, Mr Gillerman said the 2009 UN World Conference Against Racism, also known as “Durban II”, to be held in Geneva in April, was a charade.
“Keep away from Durban,” Mr Gillerman said…
Doctor Dan (b.1944) is a former banker, CEO, and ♥s the free market. He also called former US President Jimmy Carter a bigot in April 2008, following Jimmy’s meeting with Hamas’ official Khaled Meshaal: ‘Carter “went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands,” he said… The former U.S. president, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has said Hamas’ top official Khaled Meshaal told him during meetings in Damascus last week that Hamas would “accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians”.’
Speaking of Durban, back in June 2008, Anne Bayefsky called on the Australian Government to join the Canadian, US and Israeli governments in boycotting the conference, scheduled to take place in April 2009. Bayefsky writes: “The United Nations is planning a global anti-racism conference that is destined to encourage racism. Known as Durban II, and to take place in Geneva next April, it follows the notorious anti-semitic hatefest held in Durban seven years ago” (“Australia must boycott the next racist hatefest”, Anne Bayefsky, Sydney Morning Herald, July 22, 2008). According to Bayefesky, “There is no doubt that Durban II will use a UN platform to encourage racism, spread anti-Semitism and undermine democracy’s most precious freedoms. The question is whether democracies will deny it legitimacy – in pursuit of the actual protection of human rights.” Bayefesky further notes that:
The US and Israel walked out of Durban I. Australia stayed, making a bitter statement about the Durban declaration adopted by governments in the final moments: “We regret that far too much of our time has been consumed by bitter, divisive exchanges on issues which have done nothing to advance the cause of combating racism … The references to the Middle East contain language which will do nothing to achieve greater peace in that troubled region and nothing to advance the objectives of this conference.” However, the specific reservations Australia made to the declaration have been omitted by the UN ever since.
Bayefsky is a former academic, lawyer, and flack (aka‘Senior Fellow’) employed by the corporate think tank the Hudson Institute, “a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Your gift is tax deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law”, established in 1961. Numerous corporations — including Ciba-Geigy, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Heinz, IBM, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Monsanto, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble and Westfield Corporation — have paid handsomely for Hudson’s allegedly “innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom”: “The Hudson Institute received close to $25 million between 1987 and 2003 in foundation, corporate, and government grants, according to Media Transparency and the Capital Research Center”. On a totally awesome note:
One of Hudson’s founders, Kahn, was one of the more infamous products of the RAND Corporation, where, beginning in 1947, he developed nuclear strategies that downplayed the impact of a thermonuclear war and was supposedly the inspiration for the character of Dr. Strangelove. In a discussion of Kahn’s ideas in the New Yorker, Louis Menand quoted Kahn’s 1960 book, On Thermonuclear War: “Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, objective studies indicate that even though the amount of human tragedy would be greatly increased in the postwar [i.e. nuclear] world, the increase would not preclude normal and happy lives for the majority of survivors and their descendants.”
Boycotting international institutions is often ineffective and counterproductive, and countries such as Australia stand to lose much from disengaging. The recent call for Australia to boycott the second United Nations conference against racism in Geneva next year is no exception…
Ben and Andrea also reckon “diplomacy and the UN …remains our best, albeit flawed, “hope” for universal human rights promotion”; Anne, on the other hand, wants the UN abolished, and a United Democratic Nations established — no doubt comprising, at the very least, Canada, Israel, the United States and Australia (if it plays it’s cards right and withdraws from the upcoming anti-semitic hatefest).
See also : The Durban Declaration : The United Nations World Conference Against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was held in Durban, South Africa. “Over 7000 representatives from governments and civil society participated in the Forum from August 31 to September 8, 2001.”
ATHENS, Greece: A small anarchist group has claimed responsibility for 17 firebombings carried out last week and threatened further attacks.
All but one of the attacks with makeshift bombs were carried out in Athens on Wednesday and Thursday, and they targeted people such as a top anti-terrorism prosecutor, a prominent politician and a judge.
No injuries or serious damage resulted, but the firebombings were carried out during the day, making them very unusual for arsonists’ attacks in Greece.
“Our attacks are not symbolic, they are acts of war. … We will be back soon,” Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a self-described “urban guerrilla” group, said in a statement published on a leftist Web site Saturday.
It said it dedicated its attacks to “authentic revolutionary” Dimitris Koufodinas, a prominent member of the terrorist organization November 17, who was arrested in 2002 and is serving multiple life sentences.
The little-known Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei group only surfaced last year, and police have said they know little about it but take its threats of sustained urban guerrilla action seriously.
“This is a new development,” Deputy Interior Minister Christos Markoyiannakis told Greek media Sunday, referring to the claim of responsibility. “We must be vigilant.”
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Odd that an anarchist group should dedicate its actions to a Marxist nicknamed Poison Hand…
Revolutionary Organization 17 November (Greek: Επαναστατική Οργάνωση 17 Νοέμβρη, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri), (also known as 17N or N17) apparently murdered two dozen or so people during the course of its Reign of Terror, the first being CIA station chief Richard Welch on December 23, 1975.
The beginning of the end for 17N/N17 was June 2002, when Greek police arrested Savas Xiros. Remarkably, he was the first member of the group ever detained by police. The following months brought further arrests, including that of Dimitris Koufodinas, who surrendered to police after having spent weeks on the run. Despite his denials of any involvement, ‘for the investigating officers, [French-born academic Alexandros Giotopoulos] matched the profile of the brain behind the group, the “ideological instructor of the organisation and the writer of its proclamations”. Giotopoulos is the son of Dimitris Giotopoulos, a well-known 1930s Greek Communist and follower of Leon Trotsky. He is believed to have been active in the Paris-based student opposition to the military dictatorship which ruled Greece between 1967 and 1974.’
In December 2003, Giotopoulos, Koufodinas and 13 others were found guilty of various crimes (in “Greece’s first terrorism trial”), and received multiple life terms (although “The maximum amount of time any of them will spend behind bars… is 25 years”, supposedly).
Dimitris was known as “Poison Hand” for his skills with a pistol, and got 15 life sentences at trial.
In January 2007, the US Embassy in Athens was attacked, and the blame attributed to a group called ‘Revolutionary Struggle’; “Greek authorities have said they view Revolutionary Struggle as a successor to the November 17 group”.
Word on the street is that University of Waikato Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy Crawford is trying desperately hard to read a report into a student’s Masters thesis, pulled from the University’s shelves after a complaint was received by the subject of the thesis, Kerry Bolton. Unfortunately, whenever Roy reads more than a few sentences, he is suddenly struck down with a blinding headache, and can read no more.
A Waikato University masters student whose thesis was abruptly pulled off library shelves last year has threatened legal action against the university.
The thesis, which explores Satanist and neo-Nazi themes, was removed from the university library without warning at the beginning of October following a complaint by the subject of the research, former National Front secretary Kerry Bolton.
By mid-October, two top academics had been appointed to review the processes around the thesis and a defamation complaint amid accusations of university censorship. The outcome of that investigation is yet to be made public.
The author of the thesis, philosophy and religious studies student Roel Van Leeuwen told the Waikato Times this week that the university’s tardiness was “unconscionable and is prolonging what is becoming an increasingly negative and intensely disagreeable state of affairs”.
He had sought legal advice in relation to the damage that had been done to his academic reputation and his future employment prospects.
“At this point, I have no idea what the nature of the investigating committee’s findings will be or how they will impact upon the grade given to my thesis,” Mr Van Leeuwen said. “With this uncertainty hanging over my head I am finding it difficult to move on as my masters thesis mark forms the foundation of admittance into PhD programmes and the necessary scholarship award that goes with it.
“Until the report is released I cannot help but feel unable to move on.”
Mr Van Leeuwen said the university had not contacted him at any stage during the investigation to let him know of its progress.
“It is beyond appalling that I am informed of the report’s completion by browsing Bolton’s website rather than through official university communications.”
University Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy Crawford told the Waikato Times two weeks ago he had received the report. However, he said yesterday that internal processes were yet to be worked through.
Professor Crawford said he was obtaining feedback and had not yet reached any conclusions on the report.
While he appreciated the process was taking longer than originally hoped, his first responsibilities were to the university community as well as ensuring fairness for all involved, including the complainant.
He would not make any further comment until the review was complete.
BONUS! Footage of !nataS @ work! (Extremely graphic!)
Recently Danish Autonom Info Service contacted us to ask some questions on current political situation and state of the “left” in Russia. Danish version of the interview is available at Danish indymedia. Answers by activist of Moscow Autonomous Action Igor, in personal capacity.
How is the situation among leftwing radicals in Russia after the murder of Anastasia “Skat” Baburova?
At first I must point out that there is no consensus amongst Autonomous Action on the question if we are “left” or not. All of us are libertarian communists, most of us are anarchist communists, but question of “leftism” is more controversial. Some of us consider themselves “leftists”, me not because “left” is just identity and symbols, such as Che Guevara T-shirt.
Personally, I do not consider myself “leftist”, I do not really know how their situation has changed, probably not at all — irrelevant Trotskyists keep organising their seminars, I suppose patriotic majority of the “left” is certain that Nastya was murdered by some kind of international Jewish conspiracy.
What comes to anarchists and libertarians, a bit of radicalization has been visible as demonstration the next day after murders was first major anarchist demonstration in Moscow with some property destruction. But many anarchists have been murdered during last years so I do not think a single murder may change situation a lot.
We know that the assassination was aimed at Stanislav Markelov, and that Anastasia was with him by accident, when the hired killer turned up. Rumours say that the clues lead to military circles or to rightwing extremists in Moscow. Has it meanwhile become clear, who stands behind the assassination?
No, and I do not see much reason to speculate. Stas touched interests of many different authorities and groups, not only Nazis or military circles.
Can you shortly characterize the situation of Russian society today?
I think this is a bit too wide question. Economic crisis has hit Russia more hard than most of the West, but not as hard as Latvia or Iceland for example. Protest activity is rising, but yet it is hard to see if it will grow to an uprising similar to that of spring 2005. TV is pretty much controlled by the state, but one commercial TV-station is half-independent, there are also independent papers and radio stations but these are not available in all regions. In general, Russia is a huge country and there are huge differences between the regions — some have rather liberal regimes (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Karelia and Perm for example), others are very authoritarian (Chechnya, Ingushetia before recent regime change, Mord[o]via, Bashkorstan, Mari El and Kalmykia for example). There are currently 6 anarchist and anti-fascist political prisoners in Russia, 4 of whom are on remand. As for “leftist” political prisoners, it depends if you count National-Bolsheviks as left for example.
Can you describe the leftwing radical milieu in Russia/Moscow today? Which political tendencies and groups exist and what are their primary activities?
Again, it depends whom do you count as “left”. That word may mean pretty much anything.
Largest “self-described left” force is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation KPRF. They work “inside the system”, and try to curb radical street activity as communist parties do everywhere. Recent electoral restrictions have been useful for them, as all other oppositional parties have been practically excluded from the federal political system. Their main electorate are state bureaucrats and pensioners. They are maybe even more patriotic than communist parties in other countries, they were supporting bloodbath in Chechnya for example. However they have not attempted alliances with outright fascists for a while.
On Jan. 21, on the 85th anniversary of Lenin’s passing, Communist Party (KPRF) leader Gennady Zyuganov rebuked critics of the mausoleum who think Lenin should be properly buried, saying, “Any attempt to vulgarize the memory of the Soviet era, to rewrite it, to take away monuments to Lenin, is an attack on the Russian Federation itself. (…) It was Lenin himself, who created the modern Russian state.”
“Motherland”-party [Rodina] is a Kremlin-created structure to compete with KPRF vote. They are even more vehemently patriotic than KPRF, although they have sidetracked the outright Nazis who were there when party was founded.
More hardline Stalinists are pretty much marginalized as they never had other strategy than electoral, which is no way these days. Revolutionary Communist Worker’s Party RKRP maybe has some presence still in some alternative trade-unions (such as Zaschita Truda, “Defence of Work”), but hardline anti-semite TR (Working Russia) apparently not.
There are number of Trotskyist (self-described or not) groups, but none of them has more than few dozen people and they are pretty much irrelevant.
In terms of “youth street politics”, it used to be realm of two groups — National-Bolshevik Party and Stalinist AKM (Vanguard of Communist Youth). Both of them are in decline due to repression, and for example in Moscow active anarchists are more than both of them together — however due to lack of commitment, anarchist seldom manage to mobilize more than them.
In Siberia there is Alternative Trade Union Siberian Confederation of Labor, some of their activists are anarchists or syndicalists. They have some 6000 members.
What comes to anarchists (whom I do not consider left personally), movement has been growing constantly during the last 9 years. Anarchist organisations include Autonomous Action, Rainbow Keepers (main activity of which is ecological protest camps). There is not much left from Association of Anarchist Movements ADA, but they still have few active people. In Moscow there are two syndicalist groups — KRAS (Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists) and MPST (Inter-Professional Union of Labor).
However majority of anarchists are outside organisations, these networks also involve number of people who consider themselves just anti-fascists for example.
Anarchists are ready to join any current protest initiatives, main activity initiated by anarchists themselves during last years has been joining dwellers’ protests against urban development, other ecological protests, anti-war and anti-army actions, anti-fascism and anti-repression work. At times there are squats as well.
Can you mention some of the most important print- and internet medias for the revolutionary, Russian leftwing?
I do not care about the “left”. What comes to non-authoritarian activists, they are very active in terms of zine publishing, for example in year 2007 alone there were more than 60 different zines published in Russia, however mostly on music and other subcultural themes. What comes to strictly political publications aimed and wider audience, they are few and besides several journals and papers of Autonomous Action, only anarcho-syndicalist papers come out with slightest regularity.
What comes to internet, social networks and blogs have quite a lot replaced anarchist websites — this is good as they make reaching out for the people more easy, but also bad as reaching out for information is sometimes tricky and because there are no anti-authoritarian technical platforms which may really compete with the commercial ones.
For a comprehensive list of contacts, check contact section of Abolishing the Borders from Below-journal or Anarchist Yellow Pages-website. But the following is a selection of most important websites of anti-authoritarian spectrum:
Does there exist feminist and queer groups or networks in Russia/Moscow? If yes, what are their activities?
There are no really inter-regional feminist organisations, but there are some groups and various kinds of networking for example in social networks and between people in academia (who are not many). There are many LGBT organisations, fighting between themselves on the right to present the community towards West and to receive grant money. Otherwise they do whatever such organisations do in all countries — lobbying, education and sometimes small street actions. You may read about our attempts to cooperate with these people in English here and here.
What is your attitude towards the reformist leftwing?
That does not exist much in Russia. Biggest “self-described left” in Russia is the KPRF, which claims that it will return Soviet Union if they will get the power, which I think is a rather radical idea, albeit a stupid one. Social-democrats do not really exist in Russia. But if you ask about likes of KPRF, I do not really care about them as long as they are not an imminent physical threat against us.
How is the composition of the rightwing extremist scene in Moscow? Do they have a connection to political structures of power in the parliament? Is there any documented connection to police or military circles?
Nazis attempt to reach more for the middle class and get rid of their lumpen image, and at times they have some success with this. They have some connections to Duma, where some right-wing deputies may help them by doing enquiries on “terrorist antifa activity” for example. Some individual cops are Nazis and this is well documented, for example with case of our comrade Bychin from St. Petersburg, who was in a fight with two boneheads, and another of them was a cop. I haven’t come across with clear connection to army structures, but for example many of the people who put a bomb to Cherkisovsky marketplace in Moscow were former veterans of special forces. However mainstream of the deputies and cops are against Nazis.
How strong is the anti-fascist resistance and how does it act towards public appearance of the extreme right?
It is not clear if Nazi movement is going down due to general tendency towards welfare, stability and control in Russia, due to state repression or due to Antifa. Probably all of these factors play some role, Antifa being the least significant.
It is not really possible to influence public appearance of the extreme right in Russia. Counter-demonstrations are not allowed, and antifa is not ready to battle hundred of riot cops, which would be result of defying such bans. What anti-fascists may do is to ambush smaller groups of Nazis and sabotage, but these activities do not really influence public appearance of fascists, they only make them more cautious and spread fear amongst the Nazi scene.
Much has been written in English about Antifa in Russia during last years, you may for example make a search in Google with keywords “antifa Russia” and you find much interesting stuff.
Thanks dear comrades, is there anything you want to add?
Nothing at this point, keep up the spirit! Struggle for Ungdomshuset was a big inspiration for Russian anarchists and activists, hope that you may maintain the momentum of struggle in Denmark!
NB. antifa.net has re-launched; Anti-fascist Attitude — the first ever documentary on the emerging Russian anti-fascist movement made by the activists themselves — is available for download under a Creative Commons License here and here.
On 19 January in the centre of Moscow Anastasia Baburova, a journalist with Novaya gazeta, and the lawyer Stanislav Markelov were shot dead. The killer stood behind them and aimed at the back of the head. He had no reason to fear. Not one such public political assassination has yet led to a trial or conviction.
Stanislav Markelov was an exceptional lawyer.
He took on hopeless and dangerous cases. A Moscow attorney, he was constantly in Chechnya, representing the interests of the victims of extra-judicial punishment and torture. He also dealt with cases elsewhere of those who had been attacked by Russia’s fascist groups.
Stanislav defended those who were killed or humiliated by the State. He was a friend to our newspaper and its legal advisor. He was responsible for the civil cases of Anna Politkovskaya, defending those she wrote about. He represented our journalists in court. Stanislav was attorney for the family of Igor Domnikov, an editor with Novaya gazeta who was murdered in 2000, and tried to force the authorities to open criminal proceedings against those who were behind that killing and who remain, to this day, at liberty.
Anastasia Baburova only joined Novaya gazeta in October 2008.
She very much wanted to work for the newspaper and decided to investigate crimes committed by Russia’s Nazi groups. She had very little time to do her job.
In essence, Stanislav and Anastasia were simply decent people who could not tolerate what the majority in our country has accepted. That was enough for the lords and masters of Russia to issue their verdict, for those who are allowed to kill in our country…
Nowave: “No offence but honestly who gives a shit about some anarchist in Russia.”
Fruitsalad: “If Russians are so interesting to you, move to Russia.”
~ Melbourne Punx Forum, October 2008
What We Feel was formed in the late November of 2005 by 5 guys from different cities of european part of Russia, who were a good friends, and wanted to play good music with political message together. Since that time we played with bands from different cities of Russia, from Belarus, Ukraine, Finland, Germany, Lituania, USA, Chech Rep., Bulgaria.
In Russia we toured together with such bands like: Tackleberry (Germany), The Force Within (Germany), Last Hope (Bulgaria), Devil Shoots Devil (Belarus), I hope you die (Belarus).
Horrible incident happened on the last day in Moscow in our tour with Tackleberry. Our friend Sasha Rjuhin was murdered [April 16, 2006] by nazi shitheads on his way to the club, were we had to perform. We’ll never forget you bro. RIP. This murder shocked us all as well, as our German friends, and the whole scene as well. Anyway it forced us to keep together, to be closer to each other…
Our music is an explosive mix of melodic punk/hc, with NYHC influences and social/political lyrics, hardcore scene message. All of us are vegetarians or vegans. We always support and take a part in an active antifa, antistate, alf, food not bombs movements and actions, we are against racism, sexism and homophobia. We are friendly to all sXe people, but we are not sXe band (most of us are not).
Our future plans – play as much as possible in different parts of Russia, to support the antifashist movement in this places, and release a third split cd with great band from Bulgaria – Last Hope.
so, see you at our gigs.
take care.
keep on the fight.
wwf
Elections to The Knesset (The Israeli Parliament) done come and gone. The ‘right-wing’ have been the big winners, and on that basis will presumably continue to ‘Bring the Zionist Dream to Life’ for some time to come.
Kadima (Forward) 28; Likud (Union) 27; Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Is Our Home) 15; Labor 13; Shas (Sephardi Keepers of the Torah, religious-Zionist) 11; United Torah Judaism (religious-Zionist bloc) 5; Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, leftist, non-Zionist) 4; United Arab List-Ta’al (non-Zionist bloc) 4; National Union (religious-Zionist) 4;
(New Movement–) Meretz (Vitality, left-Zionist) 3; Habayit Hayehudi (The Jewish Home, religious-Zionist) 3; Balad (National Democratic Assembly, non-Zionist) 3.
Voter turnout: 65.2%.
Assignations of ‘left’ and ‘right’ are somewhat difficult and not necessarily relevant, at least insofar as the Occupied Territories (the nominally independent Gaza and the West Bank) are concerned. (Note that both Labor and New Movement-Meretz are members of the Socialist International.) No matter which party — Kadima or Likud — eventually cobbles together a coalition to form government, the people of Palestine will lose; in the longer-term, so too will the people of Israel.
As it stands, it appears most likely Likud will form a coalition with some of the other rightist parties.
In general, Israeli voters appear to be tired of the blah blah blah that constitutes ‘the peace process’, and are looking for a more direct solution to the Palestinian problem: “…a clear majority of voters supported parties that regard military force, rather than peace talks, as the best way to safeguard the country” (Israeli Election Reflects Resurgence of the Right, Shift Indicates Frustration With Failed Peace Talks, Griff Witte, Washington Post, February 14, 2009).
…the party of ultra-nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, which scored a third-place finish that vaults him into a king-making role, has promoted the notion of the enemy within. He has warned Jewish Israelis that the nation’s Arab citizens, who make up about 20 percent of the population, are undermining the state. The key to Israel’s long-term security, he has suggested, is to rid it of Arabs — even if that means turning over Israeli land where Arabs are concentrated to a future Palestinian state, in exchange for West Bank settlements…
The watchword on the streets was: “The landlord’s gone crazy”. The goal of the operation: “To fuck their mothers’ mother”. Calls to erase Gaza rode lightly off people’s lips. Hamas are armed and dangerous. Destroy their buildings, their personnel. Anyone around them is as good as dead.
Since the end of the 2006 Lebanon War, the expectation of a future “big operation in Gaza” that would restore the muddied honor of the Israeli army has been periodically floated in the media, and normalized in Israelis’ consciousness. On the day after the US elections, Israel was the first to break the elapsed ceasefire with Hamas, which in response renewed its own rocket attacks. In truth, Israel had never kept its side of the Egyptian-brokered bargain over the ceasefire, in failing to end the harsh economic blockade.
A Russian joke: “They told me, ‘Relax, it could be worse’. So I relaxed, and indeed it got worse.”
My eyes stung, I was coughing, my nose was running. Along with cameraman David Hawley and freelance producer Kareem Khadder, I had just been tear-gassed — not for the first time last Friday — during a day-long clash between Palestinian kids and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Na’alin, on the West Bank.
We had gone there to gauge the Palestinian view of Tuesday’s Israeli elections. Na’alin, and many other towns and villages like it in the West Bank, are in the forefront of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Here, it all comes down to the most basic element in the century-old conflict: control of the land…
Back in the town of Na’alin, the kids throwing stones at Israeli troops do have some odd companions. Young Israelis, some of them self-described anarchists, also take part in the protests.
They don’t throw stones, but they do offer useful advice. “Laththam! Laththam!” one Israeli with black tattoos on his arms tells a young boy, no older than 12, hurling rocks with a home-made sling.
“Laththam” is Arabic for “cover your face,” the advice imparted because if Israeli troops can identify stone throwers, they arrest them.
There still is cooperation of sorts between Palestinians and Israelis, but it’s an increasingly rare commodity. And this election probably won’t do anything to bridge the growing gap between the two — the curious friendship in Na’alin notwithstanding.
Weekly demonstration against the wall, Bil’in. Video by David Reeb.
On Friday, Israeli and international activists joined Palestinians in the West Bank villages of Bil’in, Ni’ilin and Um Salmuna demonstrating against the Apartheid wall built on their lands.
In Bil’in, residents gathered after the Friday prayers and headed out from the village center towards the direction of the wall in a large, energetic march whose message included not only the call to dismantle the wall and end the occupation, but also to lift the siege on Gaza, an ongoing crime which many – in Israel and worldwide – seem able to ignore with the end of the brutal military assault…
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
On May 28, 2007, the US neo-Nazi leader David Lane passed on. Ceased to be. Expired and went to meet ‘is maker; a stiff, bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace; ‘is metabolic processes are now ‘istory. ‘E’s off the twig, kicked the bucket, shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile.
Unlike Ian, whose mangled corpse was buried, David was cremated. His ashes were not scattered in his birthplace (Woden, Iowa), however, but divided into 14 neat little piles. That is, after a previous scheme to place his ashes in a pyramid in a White homeland / Pioneer Little Europe / Aryan compound failed to materialise. Terrorist, ’14 Words’ Author, Dies in Prison, Intelligence Report, Fall 2007:
Neo-Nazi activist April Gaede, a Kalispell, Mont., resident who corresponded frequently with Lane, announced with great fanfare that she and “the gals from WAU [Women For Aryan Unity]” had established a David Lane Memorial Fund to cover the expenses of interring Lane’s remains.
According to Gaede, Lane told her that he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes placed in the capstone of a pyramid monument. However, Gaede wrote on the racist online forum Stormfront, “Since we are not in a situation to build a monument in a White homeland,” Gaede was arranging to instead distribute Lane’s ashes among 14 smaller, portable pyramids, which would then be enshrined in the homes of 14 white nationalist women. (The number of pyramids is a direct reference to “the 14 words,” the white nationalist catchphrase authored by Lane: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”) Lane’s body reportedly was cremated in early June after a private ceremony near Kalispell.
April Gaede is mother to Lamb and Lynx, the sisters who form the awesome nutzi folk duo Prussian Blue, named after Zyklon B, the trade name of a cyanide-based insecticide infamous for its use by Nazi Germany against humans in the gas chambers of extermination camps during the Holocaust. (Prussian Blue is also the title of Richard Clapton’s first album, released in 1973.)
As for David, he was in prison when he died, serving a 190-year prison sentence in the Federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Originally a member of the John Birch Society, he later joined the KKK, then the Aryan Nations. On September 22, 1983, Lane was among the nine or ten founding members to be sworn into die Bruder Schweigen, commonly known as ‘The Order’, a group which dedicated itself to delivering “our people from the Jew and [to] bring[ing] total victory to the Aryan race”.
RAHOWA!
In addition to his coining The 14 Words, as a member of The Order, Lane is probably best known for his role in the 1984 murder of Jewish radio talk show host Alan Berg. Lane & Co. were inspired by The Turner Diaries, authored by the dead nutzi Dr William Pierce. The Diaries — along with My Awakening by ex-KKK Grand Poobah David Duke, The Myth of the Six Million by David Hoggan, In Defense of Anti-Semitism by Edgar J. Steele, The International Jew by Henry Ford, Did Six Million Really Die?, The Leuchter Report by Fred Leuchter and the video game Muslim Massacre — are all available for FREE! download on Australian Protectionist Party member Martin Fletcher’s website, Down Under Newslinks. There you can also find a gallery of ‘Anti-Jew posters’ produced by Serbian fascists during WWII, and cartoons produced by Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance.
Sample poster:
Sample cartoon:
Martin Fletcher:
As for Lane’s remains, one little pyramid has made its way to Australia.
Over to the bizarros on Stormfront Down Under on David Lane – Ash Spreading Memorial Service!
b_gretel
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Perth, Australia
Pro-White concious [sic] people have the opportunity to attend the planned ash spreading memorial service of the late David Eden Lane in Perth, Western Australia upholding the final wishes of Mr. Lane and his family.
Mr. David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was more commonly known for redefining the racial religion known as Wotanism. David Lane was first to coin the phrase “We must secure the existance [sic] of our people and a future for white children” known as the 14 words. David Lane also developed the 88 precepts which are widely accepted as a set of guidelines for achieving and maintaining white people only living spaces and nations.
Due to roles he played in the reactionary [sic] group titling themselves “The Order” he was sentenced [to] 190 years inprisonment [sic] during which he died of medical complications on May 28, 2007.
If you wish to attend this memorial serivce [sic] please contact: [email protected] RSVP-ASAP!
* Date will be finalized when attending numbers have been estimated.
* Civil and neat attire is expected for the proceedings.
HatemongerCA
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Otways
Sounds good. Who is hosting the event?
Steelcap Boot
Join Date: Feb 2004
[Location: Perth, Australia]
I have just returned from witness [sic] to the package that contained the ashes.
All those White Nationalists who wish to attend and show their respects during this overdue service for David [L]ane here in Western Australia will need to contact –
Okay SCB, I take it this is being kept on the low.
I’m no where near Perth so I won’t be attending but good luck and best wishes to those who attend.
Mygeeto
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Victoria, Australia
Just asking, but why is he being scattered in Western Australia? thought he would want to be burried/scattered [sic] in America…
b_gretel
It was David’s wish to have his ashes spread around all the white nations.
Hate Society
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Perth. Australia
I can not urge people enough to attend the ceremony and pay their respects to such a great man. Please remember this man was not only the creator of the 14 words, but he suffered a great deal behind bars for our cause and practically gave his life for you and me. So please, come together, and give something back to some one who has sacrificed so much for our cause.
Hail David Lane! 1488
Etain
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: N/A
Please forgive me for dictating a timeline for your planned event, but you’d probably find more people could attend if you coincide the ceremony with the B&H gig around ANZAC [D]ay. From what I understand they’ll [sic] be interstaters coming for the gig, and they could attend two nationalist [sic] events in one weekend. Just a thought.
Brazil has called in the Swiss envoy to discuss an alleged bonehead attack near Zurich on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins.
Three boneheads are reported to have attacked Paula Oliveira, aged 26, on Monday, leaving her badly scarred.
Ms Oliveira received some 100 razor cuts, and the initials of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) were also carved into her body.
Ms Oliveira’s family says the assault was racially-motivated.
It says she had been speaking Portuguese outside a Zurich train station shortly before the attack.
“What they did to my daughter is like a horror movie,” Ms Oliveira’s father, Paulo, told Brazil’s Globo TV.
The attack has caused shock in Brazil where it has been widely reported along with graphic images of the scars inflicted on Ms Oliveira, the BBC’s Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo reports.
Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim has described the assault as “grave” and “shocking”.
The facts surrounding the attack remain unclear but police in Zurich say a man called them on Monday evening to report that a woman in a train station needed help.
The assault is said to have continued for about 10 minutes. Ms Oliveira told police that she had suffered a miscarriage shortly afterwards in a toilet near the train station.
Ms Oliveira was working as a lawyer for a big European company in Switzerland. She is said to have been living legally in the country for almost two years.
No-one has been arrested in connection with the attack. Swiss police have asked for patience while the investigation is continuing.
A lawmaker from the Swiss People’s Party condemned the attack.
“If that really was someone from our party, we wouldn’t hesitate for a second. That person would be immediately kicked out,” Oskar Freysinger told the Associated Press news agency.
Earlier…
Courage & Solidarity not Blood & Soil
In Bern, Switzerland, according to AP, 500 antifa managed to disrupt a march by 10,000 members and supporters of the People’s Party (SVP), described as a ‘nationalist’ party by AP (Swiss president calls for calm after pre-election violence in capital, International Herald Tribune, October 7, 2007). In other reports, the SVP is described as belonging to the far right. In 2003, “The party ran an anti-foreigner campaign, in which asylum seekers were portrayed as criminals and drug dealers”, and gained 27% of the vote in national elections, or 55 seats from a total of 200. The party’s leader, Christoph Blocher, is a billionaire industrialist, and “The party recently launched a campaign to deport criminal foreigners, illustrating its point with posters showing white sheep kicking a black sheep off a Swiss flag.”
Whoever suspected Swiss nationalists could wield such influence over the ideological pronouncements of Australian-based Tories?
The next big bonehead gig is scheduled for ANZAC Day in Perth; the same location local plasterer Paul Innes — moderator of the White supremacist Stormfront Down Under, and a supporter of the two organising groups, Blood & Honour Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins — is planning on creating a Pioneer Little Europe: nie blankes!
New York, February 11, 2009–The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Russian authorities to immediately investigate a death threat that was sent to a human rights research center. In an e-mail, a neo-Nazi group threatened to murder a number of journalists and intellectuals in the next year, according to the recipient of the threat.
The sender told Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy head of the human rights research center SOVA, which documents the activities of radical nationalist, neo-fascist, and xenophobic groups in Russia, to “prepare” to be the next in line, and made reference to recently slain lawyer Stanislav Markelov. Markelov was shot at the same time as Anastasiya Baburova, a Novaya Gazeta journalist who was with him. Kozhevnikova told CPJ she received the message, signed by a Russian neo-Nazi group known as “BTO,” on Sunday, a day after SOVA announced plans to hold a press conference on the rise of related crimes…
Given the Russian state’s denial, complicity and general indifference, SOVA plays a crucial role in monitoring the deadly antics of Russia’s burgeoning fascist parties and movements.
MOSCOW (AP) — The number of hate crimes rose in Russia last year as the global economic crisis fueled xenophobic feelings but higher conviction rates kept the number from going higher, a human rights group said Wednesday. Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy head of the Sova group, which monitors hate crimes in Russia, said 97 people were killed and 525 wounded in apparent hate crimes…
The increasing number of ‘hate crimes’, and the growing popularity of the movements and ideologies which nurture them, have important implications not only for Russia, but Eastern and Western Europe generally, in numerous parts of which fascist and racist movements are on the rise. The global economic crisis, and the anxieties it produces, provide fertile ground for demagogues. In conjunction with the collapse of European socialism — especially in the countries of the former Communist bloc — nationalist, racialist and xenophobic sentiment form a powerful matrix from which incipient fascist regimes may be born.
It was 9.10pm and Karen Abramian was returning home to his flat in southwest Moscow. Abramian had been visiting his parents in a nearby tower block. His journey back took five minutes – past a series of grey high-rise buildings soaring into Moscow’s packed skyline and a children’s playground, and up a modest flight of steps. As he punched in the entrance code, two young men, one wearing a baseball cap and one a bandana, approached him from behind. And then they stabbed him. They stabbed him again – methodically slashing his head, neck, back and stomach. Abramian pleaded with his attackers. “Don’t do this. Please take my money,” he begged them. His assailants – two slight, boyish, almost nerdish figures – ignored him, stabbing him 56 times. At this moment, Abramian’s wife Marta peered out of their ninth-floor apartment window and spotted two boys beating a dark shape lying on the ground. The couple’s 14-year-old son Georgy, who had been playing nearby, found his father in the entrance, bleeding profusely. Georgy took off his T-shirt (it was April, still winter in Russia, and bitterly cold), wrapped it around his father and ran upstairs. Abramian was conscious when Georgy came back with a blanket and pillow. Georgy wrapped his father in it and they waited in the gloom for an ambulance. Abramian told his son simply: “They were skinheads.” Four hours later, in the early hours of 17 April 2007, Abramian was dead. Doctors had been unable to stem the colossal loss of blood…
Abramian’s killers were Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, both 17. According to Harding, the pair are among the worst mass murderers in Russia’s modern history, having killed 20 people and attacked at least 12 others, who had survived.
In December 2008, Ryno and Skachevsky were sentenced to 10 years in jail, the maximum sentence for a juvenile. Five other members of their gang were jailed for between six and 20 years. The jury acquitted [one female] and one other male gang member. During the trial the boneheads showed no remorse, giggling frequently and even laughing at the families of their victims.
The average age of murderous Russian boneheads is young: 15 or 16. They mobilise around the slogan ‘Russia for the Russians’.
According to Sova, 96 people were murdered in 2008 in racist or neo-Nazi attacks, with another 419 beaten or wounded. (The number of deaths was 50 in 2004, 47 in 2005, 64 in 2006 and 86 in 2007.) Last month, another 12 people were murdered. Sova’s research suggests that xenophobic prejudice has become mainstream, acceptable. And while most Russians don’t support radical ideas in practice, there are around 2,000-3,000 young boneheads prepared to attack and kill migrants, [Alexander Verkhovsky, director of Sova] estimates.
Russian authorities have, until recently, been more than happy to allow the little boneheads to butcher at will. The stark inequalities in wealth in contemporary Russian society can’t help but breed social resentment, and channeling social discontent in the direction of immigrant workers — rather than Putin and his cronies, the oligarch — is politically astute. This is especially the case given that the civic institutions which characterise Western democracies barely exist in Russia, and the transition from Communism to Capitalism was governed by an authoritarian regime remarkably similar in its composition to that which preceded it; the military and security apparatus remaining in near-total dominance throughout.
Even a cursory examination of the social situation in modern Russia reveals a deeply divided society. An array of statistics documents the reality of two different worlds that hardly come into contact with one another. One—the world of wealth and luxury—is inhabited by an insignificant minority. The other—the world of social decline and an arduous struggle for life’s necessities—is inhabited by millions upon millions.
Figures showing the distribution of wealth reveal the glaring nature of this social polarisation. According to government data, the incomes of the very richest members of Russian society are 15 times those of the poorest—one of the highest levels of social inequality to be found among the world’s leading countries. In Moscow, this difference is 53-fold…
The American business magazine Forbes recently published its list of the world’s billionaires for 2005, which included 33 Russian citizens, illustrating once again how the political life of contemporary Russia, under the leadership of President V. Putin, is aimed, first and foremost, at the satisfaction of the interests of post-Soviet big business and oligarchs.
The wealth of the planet’s richest people grows with unprecedented speed. In 2005, the number of billionaires reached 793, having risen by 102, and their net worth exceeded $2.6 trillion, having risen by 18 percent. The average wealth of a member of the list is $3.3 billion.
The indicators of the “Russian part” of the list, which grew by six people since the previous year, correspond exactly to this general tendency, and sometimes even exceed it. The net worth of the Russian nouveax riches nearly doubled in the course of a year, from $91 billion to $172 billion. Twelve of them figure in the world’s top 100. In the lead is Roman Abramovich, the governor of Chukotka and owner of the British soccer team Chelsea. His wealth grew—especially because of the sale of the company Sibneft—by nearly $5 billion, and is estimated at $18.2 billion. He rose from 21st to 11th place in the world list. [In 2008 Forbes ranked him as the fifteenth richest person in the world.]
After him follows the head of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov, the former deputy minister of the USSR’s state-run oil industry, whose wealth more than doubled to $11 billion. Next are Vladimir Lisin, the head of the Novolipetsk Steel; Viktor Vekselberg, buyer of Faberge eggs and pretender to the governorship of Kamchatka, director of the Siberia-Ural Aluminum Company SUAL and the oil company TNK-BP; Alfa Group Consortium head Mikhail Fridman; and other well- and not-so-well-known “heroes.”
In growing recognition of the potential threat an out-of-control populist, right-wing, xenophobic movement poses to the state — and the elites which govern it — Russian authorities have begun to extend their repressive measures to some elements of this movement. Thus:
In November 2008, police and federal security agents broke up the Slavic Union’s annual “Russian March”, arresting 1,000 people, including [its leader Dmitry] Dyomushkin. He was released after several hours in custody, however, and eventually fined a paltry 1,000 roubles (£23). Russia’s authorities are clearly rattled by the rise of the far-right, whose political appeal is likely to grow as the country slithers into economic crisis. As living standards tumble it is immigrants who will get the blame. There is no prospect of a pro-western Orange Revolution in Russia. But the possibility of a far-right revolt against Putin is real and growing. The boneheads – a pimply, adolescent army of lower-middle-class racists – pose a serious threat to the Kremlin’s otherwise vice-like grip on power.
In Australia, groups such as the Southern Cross Soldiers — a pimply, adolescent army of lower-middle-class racists, proclaiming ‘Australia for the Australians’ and shouting ‘Fuck off we’re full’ — provide a largely pacific, less organised, less articulate, less popular, much more marginal equivalent. That said, as a potential pool for recruitment, despite his obvious ineptitude, Dr James Saleam of Australia First is right, and the Soldiers’ WN critics on SF are wrong, in recognising these young patriots as being a potentially lucrative — if in other ways horrifyingly shallow — source of new talent. Their hostility to various forms of Wog — principally Lebanese, and Muslim — expresses an underlying anxiety regarding their place in Australia; or, alternatively — and more accurately — their own displacement from the centre of the Australian Story. Until HoWARd stole her thunder, Pauline Hanson was able to capitalise upon some elements of this among the rural and regional population of Queensland. Thus while they may be little shits, they are useful little shits, and, assuming they survive beyond the next few years, will likely produce at least a small number of more ambitious, and more talented, and therefore more likely successful, White nationalist militants.
This jingoist flag-waving has a tinge of 1930s populist fascism about it. We don’t like to say it, but Hitler was a very popular leader. If he’d bothered to run an election, he probably would have won it. He used populist techniques — appealing to the population but on the basis of chauvinistic and racist premises. Now, we’re beginning to see elements of that in the demeaning of the concept of patriotism by reducing it to coerced pledges of allegiance to the flag…
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
