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Solidarity: Moscow comrades arrested

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These are the same comrades that recently organised a protest in Moscow against repression in South Africa.

http://www.avtonom.org/en/node/12872

On arrests after direct action in Khimki 28th of July

Today (30th of July) names of two activists, arrested in related to criminal case on “hooliganism” after attack against city administration of city of Khimki in Moscow region 28th of July were published in maintream news – Aleksey Gaskarov and Maksim Solopov.

We will not now remind about details of corruption and violations, connected to construction of new Moscow – St. Petersburg highway through Khimki forest, or the protest campaign against it, as you may read about all of this in our website in respective section. Obviously, these arrests were just yet another confirmation of the pathetic unity, which was recently reached between regional and federal authorities, big business, local police and right-wing football hooligans, which all together protected against eco-camp of those protesting the clearing the forest from the highway.

Aleksey Gaskarov is a libertarian socialist, who during many years was one of the most active people in the movement in Moscow region. Maksim Solopov is a leftist, not an anarchists, but besides disagreements he proved him self to be a trusted comrade in anti-fascist struggle. Aleksey and Maksim are one of the few people in Russia, who publicly, with their own faces, supported most determined means against Nazi mayhem and excesses of the authorities in the country, take for example this program from REN-TV:

As a result, Nazis were threatening them plenty of times, and now apperently “Center of Counteraction Against Extremism” of the Moscow Region decided to deliver them a blow.

We demand immediate release of Aleksey Gaskarov and Maksim Solopov, no matter if they participated to action in Khimki 28th of July or not – those fighting corruption and excesses of the authorities are not hooligans, but heroes!

Free Aleksey Gaskarov and Maksim Solopov!

Information service of Autonomous Action

Solidarity Protest in Support of AbM at the South African Embassy in Moscow

https://avtonom.org/en/node/12664

This afternoon, about 13 hours, the South African Embassy in Moscow, a small group of anarchists held an unauthorized picket in support of social activists and residents of informal settlements in South Africa. Participants unfurled a banner “No to repression against activists in South Africa,” had scattered leaflets in the open windows of the embassy and lit the fireworks. On the banner was the emblem of the movement represented “Abahlali baseMjondolo” (“Movement Shack Dwellers”) – a powerful grassroots protest movement of the poor in South Africa, which is subjected to repression.

Everyone managed to escape from the scene, and a banner left at the neck of a perturbed police officer.

Text of leaflet:
No to repressions! STOP REPRESSIONS!!! No to repressions!!! STOP
REPRESSIONS!!!

We do this action in order to express solidarity with all oppressed people
in South Africa! Since the residents of informal settlements, are being
evicted in the transit camps «Blikkiesdorp», with informal traders, who
at the request of FIFA banned the trade during the World Cup in the tourist
areas. We express our solidarity with those whose voices are silenced and
silenced in the modern “democratic” South Africa – a movement “Abahlali
baseMjondolo” in Durban, which in September 2009 and underwent a planned
attack in the settlement, “Kennedy road”.

We see how, after coming to power of the African National Congress, the
majority black population continues to live on the brink of
poverty. Deportations to concentration camps, the demolition of informal
settlements, forcing the poor as a class outside of the cities that are
intended elites should be a place of residence of the rich and the cradle
of their capital – that is what the ANC offers for their citizens who
fought for many years against apartheid and received in return a new
system of exploitation and oppression.

We want to remind the Government of South Africa that the whole world looks
up to you! As a long time ago, we express our protest, and his anger
policies of oppression and domination in the poorest residents of South
Africa.

With Anarchists
Moscow