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Review of the persecution of anarchists and anti-fascists in 2023

 Review of the persecution of anarchists and anti-fascists in 2023

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

Each year we summarize repressions against anarchists and antifascists in Belarus and try to point out general trends in state violence. To continue the struggle for freedom, we should know what tools our enemies use and should understand the conditions of your comrades. To do so, we suggest reading our 2023 review.

Conflicts and anarchists

Conflicts and anarchists

From Pramen

We were prompted to write this critical text by a situation that happened recently in social networks. In brief: we were invited to an anarchist group, where there was a person X., who was responsible for some pretty big problems within the anarchist movement. As a result of a conversation about X. we were removed from the chat room because we were considered to be engaging in “policing” and “blackmail”.

Granice człowieczeństwa (Borders of humanity)

NO BORDERS NO NATIONS

From no.borders.team

The film was made in the first year of events on the Polish-Belarusian border, when the eastern corridor leading to the EU countries from Belarus and Russia was opened on a large scale. In the movie people from an anarchist collective, the No Border Team, active at the polish-belarusian and polish-ukrainian border will talk about the current situation, state racism, their struggles and support.

News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, August 2023

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From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

Only in August we got to know the outcomes of a trial of Dzmitry Dubouski, which had taken place inside a penal institution on 27 June. The judge decided to transfer Dzmitry from a penal colony to a prison (with significantly harsher conditions), allegedly for “repeated disruption of order and breaking of regulations.” Upon the sentencing, Dzmitry was transferred to a prison nr. 4 in Mahilioŭ.

Belarusian anarchists took part in the congress in St. Imier

Belarusian anarchists took part in the congress in St. Imier

From Pramen

Members of the Pramen collective, activists of the ABC-Belarus and other Belarusian anarchists took part in the international anarchist congress in St. Imier, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Anarchist International. The congress itself was attended by more than 4,000 people from different parts of the world, including South America, Africa and Asia.

News on anarchist political prisoners in Belarus, May 2023

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From ABC Belarus

From 25 March there are no letters from Aliaksandr Frantskevich*. His mother visited an office of a head of the penal colony. There, the chief jailer told her that Aliaksandr is constantly in the punishment isolation cell where writing and receiving letters are not permitted. The prison administration placed Aliaksandr into the punishment isolation since he arrived to this institution. Aliaksandr declared that he is “not going to work for the administration of the colony, for terrorists and murderers.” Thus, Aliaksandr spent all April and all May in punishment isolation. He also celebrated his birthday there.

News about Belarusian anarchist prisoners from March 2023

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

After that, the anarchist was transferred to correctional camp No. 11, where they systematically began to put pressure on him – regularly placing him in a punishment cell. On March 24, Nikita Emelyanov turned 23 years old. This is his fourth birthday, which he met in prison.

Anarchists at the back of history?

 Anarchists at the back of history?

From Pramen

For many years the anarchist movement in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine has participated in major political events with varying degrees of success. Maidan in Ukraine, protests against slavery and 2020 in Belarus, actions in Russia – wherever the struggle against authoritarianism began, anarchists were at the forefront. The same situation developed when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many comrades from various parts of the former Soviet Union took up arms to fight against Putin’s inhumane regime. Today there are more than a hundred anarchists and anti-fascists fighting in Ukraine, scattered across different units and sections of the front. Some have been able to create their own small fighting group of comrades and friends, while others fight on their own in the ranks of the ZSU.

Anarchism as a problem of anarchism

the world is yours

From Pramen

In the last month, several texts have appeared on various online resources [1][2] about rethinking anarchism or trying to think of a future in the case of a collapse of authoritarianism in Belarus or Russia. The texts are filled with rather dubious appeals, ranging from a rejection of anti-capitalism to a transition from anarchism to general ideas of self-government, direct democracy and the struggle for human rights.

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