Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #36, Spring 1993 anticopyright - Anarchy may be reprinted at will for non-profit purposes, except in the case of individual copyrighted contributions. ON GOGOL BOULEVARD @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ On Gogol Boulevard (OGB) is the bulletin of New York City Neither East Nor West, networking East and West alternative oppositions and printing news and documents unavailable in the corporate or `left' media. We also bring Third and Fourth World activists into these efforts. This regular OGB section in Anarchy will serve the same function. We encourage all those involved in "Neither East Nor West" type activity to regularly contribute to this section. Please address letters, reports, documents, debates, graphics, photos, etc. directly to OGB. This is not a section for anarchists only. We are interested in all things promoting freedom, such as workers', women's, minority, and gay rights, environmental and anti- militarist issues, and anything pursuing paths other than the capitalist and state bureaucratic models. By the way, Gogol Boulevard is a noted hang-out for Moscow's counter-culture - see you there! On Gogol Boulevard/Neither East Nor West 528 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, NY. 11215 (718) 499-7720 "On Gogol Boulevard" formerly appeared in the Love and Rage newspaper. For background on why we're no longer there send $1.00 to the NENW for a photocopy of the exchanges in their Discussion Bulletin. We ask that people subscribe to them as they will contin- ue to carry some East news from us: $9 third class, $13 first class, $13 international, free to prisoners & GIs (POB 3, Prince St. Station, NYC, NY. 10012). Anarchy has no where near the international circulation that Love and Rage has, including the key Neither East Nor West contacts in the East/Third World. Anarchy will mail us a bundle to make up for some of it. But we need a subsidy for the mailing. Tax-deductible contributions made out to the Aspect Foundation for the mailing (plus our other work) should be sent to: Neither East Nor West, 528 5th St., Brooklyn, NY. 11215. If you don't care about the `tax- deductible' then make checks out to "On Gogol Boulevard." Also, we'll be petitioning Love and Rage demanding they carry our autonomous section again. Please help by sending a `yes' vote to us. Thanks! BYELORUSSIAN CONFERENCE "In August, in Minsk, the first anarchist conference of active anarchists in Byelorussia was held. We regarded resistance to church-nationalistic propaganda accepted by the government and privatization as our most important issues." Contact: Oleg Novikov, 223710 Soligorsk, ul. Mira, dom. 19, kv. 291, Byelorussia 223710 REPORT FROM MOSCOW By Laure Akai (Laure makes criticism of some Russian anarchists. They are free to reply to her in this section (please try to keep it brief!). On Oct. 17th, there was a protest in front of McDonalds. About 20 people attended, including members of the Initiative of Revolution- ary Anarchists (IREAN, who organized it), Workers Power (one Austrian Trot calling himself a group) and the Goldman Internation- al Dancing Brigade (one crazy women calling herself a brigade). Three days later a bomb was thrown at McDonalds and 9 people were injured. None of us did it. There were 2 rallies against fascism. One was on the 24th of Sept. across from the German Embassy. Members of the Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS), IREAN, the Dancing Brigade, and 2 Trot groups came. One Trot group is again one member. One month later, on Oct. 24th the same IREAN/Trot group held an action against racism in Europe. This failed to draw a large crowd. (When will an action against racism in Russia be?) Later that night, armed with anti-clerical fliers, myself, 2 visiting Germans, and one guy from IREAN went to make an action against Billy Graham [a fundamentalist U.S. preacher]. We managed to get into the auditorium with a megaphone but didn't manage much because of the extreme security. We threw leaflets off the balcony. Later when one of us tried to start a protest outside, we were mobbed. At the beginning of the month MRAK, the anarchist youth group, printed anti-militarist posters and went around postering and painting military commissariats. On the 6th of Nov. there was a picket outside the Moldavian em- bassy here organized by the KAS. It was partly against the fascist government of Moldavia, and partly in support of [anarcho-syndical- ists] Igor Hergenreorder and Tamara Burdenko whose repression has gotten worse: they had their window shot out, police came and searched their flat twice, and they were called in by the Ministry of Interior and the Procurator. We demanded that this harassment be stopped. Before I go on to talk about the 7th and 8th of Nov., I should mention the Trotskyist problem. There are 7 or 8 `groups' of them in Moscow and 5 of them are composed entirely of foreigners. Among them are the Spartacists, one of whom was killed here some months ago. These people are on their missionary assignments and they are highly organized, but basically ineffective. Many of you reading this know of their history of entryism. [Joining other causes/- groups in order to take them over. As this article was intended for Love and Rage's defunct OGB page, Laure follows with: "Of course many of you won't, particularly if this is going out to the readership of Love and Rage. Members of this project, and the pub- lishers of OGB have proven to have a bad understanding of the essential nature of Trotskyist projects." Some ex-Trotskyists were members of Neither East Nor West-NYC at its formative stage when Laure was a member. NENW has a policy of no collaboration with Le- ninists. -Bob McGlynn] So too are IREAN members here. Several of them have met with foreign Trots (including Mandel [Er- nest, famed Belgian Trot economist]), have gone to their conferenc- es and they continually hold actions in conjunction with them. The CNT/AIT flag (the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist National Confedera- tion of Workers/International Workers Association) and the (U.S. based) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) black cat fly next to those of the Trot 4th Internationalist Tendency. (The fact that they carry both the AIT flag and the IWW symbol seems to confirm to me that they don't understand what the politics of these groups are but merely fetishize their symbols. There are no syndicalists in the group and they are at war with syndicalist (mostly) KAS. So why hold the banner of the AIT which is a much more bureaucratic group?) I have some serious reasons to doubt the intelligence of some members of this group, and not only about the Trotskyists, but about their demo on the 7th of Nov. On Nov. 7th they had a demo under the slogan "Long Live the Revolution." Nowhere was it clear that they had any opposition to the Bolshevik coup d'etat (revolution) of 1917. Marching down the street with the Trots (at least Workers Power had a leaflet - anybody could assume that this Trotskyist-Leninist leaflet represented the march), anarchist and Communist songs were sung. But the worst thing was the Brezhnev incident. At Manezhnaya Square, where all the commies were to gather, I saw some portraits of Brezhnev. At first I thought nothing of it, as people were holding Lenin and Stalin. When I got up close however, I found that they were being held by people from the IREAN demo, including one member of IREAN. I asked her what it was about and she replied "How can I explain to you..." and then didn't. I then was complaining with some people about it and they said they were told that they were trying to make a provocation. So I was provoked and I took a marker to deface Brezhnev. However, as soon as I started to do it they seriously defended the Brezhnev photos! Later on they were on the radio saying they want to reestablish the CPSU as it was 10 years ago. Although this seemed obviously a joke, and surely that's how it was intended [confirmed -Bob McGlynn], it wasn't funny. They merely stood there holding Brezhnev - no guerrilla theatre, no funny slogans - and blended in with the other commies. There are many people who want to bring back the Brezhnev era and it simply seemed that they were among them. What a stupid fucking thing to do in front of the international news media and the commies. It's like going to a U.S. patriotic demonstration, holding up Reagan, and not saying anything, just standing there with Reagan. And on the 8th of Nov. there was a concert to celebrate the birthday of Nestor Makhno. NO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS! Sendero Verde can't go home Orlando Polo and Mercedes Paez are activists and members of Cuba's only green/anti-authoritarian opposition group, the Eco-Pacifist Movement "Sendero Verde" (Green Path). After touring the U.S. the Cuban government refused them permission to return to the island. Neither East Nor West-NYC (NENW-NYC) launched a letter writing cam- paign on their behalf, and because of that Cuban officials met with the Green Pathers. But permission to return is still denied, so another round of letters is being called for. Please write letters demanding that Orlando and Mercedes be allowed to return home, and address them to the Cuban Interest Section in Washington D.C. Mail them to NENW-NYC who'll get them to Cuban officials: Neither East Nor West, 528 5th St., Brooklyn NY, 11215, U.S. (Tel: 718-499-7720) BULGARIAN ANARCHIST NEWS October 4, 1992/Sofia, Bulgaria Hello friends, anarchists, In the FEDERATION OF ANARCHIST YOUTH/FAM in Bulgaria we member over two hundred people from a few localities. Our federation was established in June 1990. Here are the highlights of our actions in the last three years: 1990 -June 11-18, barricades in the streets of Sofia against the election manipulations from the political forces. -July 3-August 5, participation of "City of the Truth" against the Communist president Petar Mladenov. -November 7, demonstration by the monument of Lenin, marking the anniversary of the beginning of the Bolshevik terror seventy years ago. -November, participation in the demonstrations against the Communist government. 1991 -January, demonstration at the USSR embassy against Soviet violence against Baltic countries. -May 1st, meeting with over of three hundred participants. -June 2nd, procession in Sofia to the monument of Christo Botev, the first Bulgarian anarchist and national hero, perished for the liberation of Bulgaria from Turkish power in 1876. -June 26, picket at Bulgarian DS (State Security) for Radionov and Kuznetzov - two young Russian anarchists who were arrested in Mos- cow in February 1991. -October 19, demonstration at British embassy in Sofia and presentation of a petition with request to release all poll tax prisoners. 1992 -May 19, anti-military rock concert at the Minister of Defense for radical changes in Bulgarian army, reduction of the time of military service and introduction of an alternative civil service for conscientious objectors. The FEDERATION OF ANARCHIST YOUTH in Bulgaria want to be in contact with anarchistic groups and organizations all over the world. If you would like to, please send us your periodicals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, badges, cassettes with alterna- tive music and other anarchistic materials. Our new address (temporary): FAM c/o Antonio Grozdev, 18 Nikola Slavkov Street, ET. 3, AP. 6, Sofia 1463, Bulgaria Send your materials and letters about the problems of the anarchism to our country. (ATTENTION! Destroy our old address: Todor Riznikov, Boul. Tr. Kostov 4 et. 4, Sofia Please don't send any letters to this address.) Greetings, Luben Handjiev-Coordinator for FAM The following is from the newletter ACTION #2 4/20/92 published by F.A.M. (Federation of Anarchist Youth) in Bulgaria: THE ANARCHISTS IN OUR COUNTRY DON'T SHAVE THEIR HEADS The newspaper Bulgarska Armia ("Bulgarian Army") in its issue 215 from March 27, 1992, regarding the appearance of 1st issue of a newspaper Action, the newspaper, with hidden satisfaction, quotes that "in the countryside the ideas of anarchy are, on a small scale, popular with the youth. The national anarchists express dismay at the receptivity of the young people today to national- istic, neofascist, racialist, anti-semitic and other monstrous ideologies" announces the national military semi-official organ. Materials were prepared by Stanil Yotov Translated Georgi Nikov Other Addresses For Contacts In Bulgaria: Elena Tzaneva, Ul. Skobelev 31, Kazanluk 6100 Mihail Stefanov, Ul. Vasil Levski 89, Stara Zagora 6000 Dimitar Georgiev, Kv. Petleshev, Bl. 146, VH.6, AP.2, Varna 9000 Svetoslav Chenkov, Ul. "Izar Samuil," Bl. "Zora" 2, Et.4, Ap.13, Pleven 5000 EAST-WEST ANARCHISTS MEET on "The Prospects for Anarcho-Syndicalism in Eastern and Central Europe" Between Nov. 25-29,'92, anarcho-syndicalists (anarchist unionists) from several countries met in Berlin. Delegates from anarchist unions and groups came from Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine to be the guests of the Free Workers Union (FAU) Berlin local. Also present were members of the FAU from different parts of Germany and the current Secretary of the International Workers Association (IWA). Guests from other organizations were also present at various times, including a delegation from the Swedish Central Workers Organization (SAC), and members of a couple of German anarchist groups and periodicals. Greetings were received from the Workers Solidarity Alliance-IWA (USA), from a Confederation of Anarcho- Syndicalists group (Ex-USSR), from the FAU Coordinating Commission, the Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) and from a group in White Russia. One of the things the meeting agreed on is the publication of an information and coordination bulletin for the East and. It was agreed that the Initiative of Revolutionary Anarchists-Moscow (IREAN) would form the first editorial group. They'll produce 4 issues, each issue in Russian and English. There will be no editing or censorship of the contributions from participants. IREAN will print and distribute the bulletin. The first issues will be funded by the IWA Secretariat. The name of the bulletin will be A.S. Info: Open Bulletin From Friends of the IWA (`A.S.' as in anarcho-syndicalist). The first issue will be free. Later issues will be sent to subscribing contributor organizations for postal costs. To submit text write: Dmitri Kostenko, 105215 Moscow, Ul. Parkovaya 9-aya, Dom. 55 Kv.60, Russia To continue the work started in Berlin it was agreed that a further meeting will be held in the Summer of '93 in Zaporozie, East Ukraine, to be hosted by the Confederation of Independent Unions of Zaporozie. This meeting will examine the progress of anarchist unionism in the East, and the development of coordinated activities and the bulletin. (Contact NENW if you want more information on the Ukraine meeting.) A new editorial group can be chosen for the bulletin at this meeting, as there should be rotation of this responsibility. The eastern region of the FAU (in the former Communist GDR) announced that they have formed an East European Working Group to help with East-West coordination. This working group will meet regularly to check on progress in the East, exchange information between Eastern and Western groups, publicize Eastern anarchist union activities in the West, and support groups in the East where possible. Contact them at: A Laden, Rathenowerstr. 22, D-1000 Berlin 21, Germany (FAX: 030/ 3948447) (Info thanks to the U.S. Workers Soli- darity Alliance) ANARCHISTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA A-Kontra is a Czech anarchist paper with international reporting as well. It isn't just limited to coverage of anarchists. It sees itself, rather, as a medium for various left and Romani (`gypsy') initiatives. (A Romani paper is also produced in the same offices.) It's emphasis is on anti-fascist work, as well as the struggle against the unsocial politics of the conservative right government. Through the demagogic anti-communist and anti-left propaganda of the right wing parties, the general public supports nationalist and racist currents. Even militant fascists receive recognition, sympathy and often direct support from the population. At times there is the feeling of a pogrom against Cubans, Asians and above all, Romanis. There have been a number of deaths. Leftist groups are under massive pressure from all sides. A-Kontra, as an important part of the counter-publicity is under pressure. The newspaper's office has been destroyed a number of times and the people threatened. A-Kontra/Ramad, Bubensk  1, 17000 Praha, Czechoslovakia ALIK IS BACK Recently Love and Rage and Neither East Nor West have received mail from Ukraine's Alik Olisevich. Alik was a member of Lvov Trust Group who were famed for writing a solidarity statement for A "US out of El Salvador" blockade at the Pentagon on Oct. 17,'88. Their writings appeared in On Gogol Boulevard, Rage, Star Route and All Ways Free. After being out of touch for a while Alik is back with a big project: The European weekly newspaper distributed in 150,000 copies throughout the ex-USSR. In a recent issue they ran an appeal mailed out by Love and Rage for Peruvian anarchist political pris- oner Andres Villaverde. Alik wants anarchists and others to send the European your zines, leaflets etc: Alik Olisevich, c/o European, 2900 Lvov, Universitet ul. Sichevyh Strelzov dom 16, Ukraine (Tel: 79-47-53, 72-88-76) STOP REPRESSION OF ANARCHO-SYNDICALISTS IN MOLDAVIA Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalist members Tamara Burdenko and husband Igor Hergenreorder are suffering under the ex-USSR Moldavian regime. Both have published articles denouncing the government's authoritarianism and nationalism, as well as the growth of fascist ideology. Tamara was fired from her job April 29,'92. Igor was questioned and physically threatened by the KGB July 22. On July 24 an unknown person rang their bell and gave Igor a sack that contained a severed dog's head. On July 25 Moldavian TV news warned of those "creating anarcho-syndicalist groups." Soon after Tamara and Igor's lawyer refused them further service. Additionally, they've had break-ins, their phone line is often cut, and their neighbors have been warned about them. Please help by mailing protest letters to: The People's Court for Buykan Sector, Moldavia, Kishinev-1, ul. M.Vistyazul, d.2, Attn: President of the Court Ministry of Justice, Moldavia, Kishinev-12, ul. Stefan cheu Mare, d.73 Parliament, Moldavia, Kishinev-1, ul. Stefan cheu Mare, d.105, Attn: Secretariat of the Moldavian Parliament Human Rights Com- mission President, Moldavia, Kisinev-1, pl. Velikogo Nationalnogo Sobraniya, d.1, Mircha Ion Snegur NETWORK OF EAST/WEST WOMEN The Croatian Dubrovnik hotel lobby was dim after the bright Adriatic sun as women from all over Central and Eastern Europe gathered for the first conference of the Network of East/ West Women in June 1991. For three intense days, 55 women - feminist activists, students, union organizers, lawyers, professors, journalists, and writers - from all the countries of the region met with 20 feminists from the west. We were there because even with the great changes of 1989, there was little discussion of women's issues in the newly emerging civil societies. Women were losing abortion rights and suffering high rates of unemployment; they were not being represented in the new governments. As our keynote speaker, journalist Slavenka Drakulic from Zagreb, put it, "In the new democracies, women's position should not get worse." In Dubrovnik, we began an intense conversation: What is happening to women in each of the Central and Eastern European countries? What women's networks already exist and what new ones are needed? What should the priorities of an independent women's movement be? How does each group plan to cope with new threats to reproductive rights? These questions are even more urgent a year later. And the energy from that weekend has blossomed into many projects across the region. That summer, the Network financed the opening of the Curriculum Center and Library for Gender Studies in Prague, which now has a library, hosts consciousness-raising groups, and pub- lishes an occasional bulletin of news, essays, and reviews. The Network's ultimate goal is to have at least one women's center in every country in the region. The Network has perceived interest among women from the former Soviet Union as well. Preliminary contacts have been made in Moscow which include the Moscow Center for Gender Studies and Transfiguration. Above all the Network aims to create dialogue across national boundaries about feminism and help Central, Eastern European and former Soviet feminists begin their own projects that will respond to local issues, from employment, wife beating and rape to gender studies in the university and politics. Sonia Jaffe Robbins/Ann Snitow, U.S. co-coordinators Network of East\West Women, Department of Journalism, NYU, 10 Washington Place, New York NY 10003. Tel. (212) 998-7966 (Fax: 212-995-4148) Postscript: On Dec. 20th, the NYC chapter of the NEWW held a 50 strong picket at St. Patrick's Cathedral protesting against a proposed anti-abortion law in Poland that could land a Polish women and her doctor in jail for 10 years. Members of Neither East Nor West-NYC have joined NEWW and highly recommend the group. Also recommended is Women and Earth, a continuation and expansion of the famed Women and Russia Almanac, founded in Russia in 1979 by Tatyana Mamonova (who was then forced into exile). Women and Earth is bilingual, biannual, and free to Easterners. $10 will get you a copy and cover the cost of one to the East: Women and Earth, 31 Tamarac Rd., Westport Ct.,06880, U.S. Outside of U.S.: GPO Box 4528 Melbourne 3001, Australia RUSSIAN ANARCHIST PRESS AGENCY FORMED AN-PRESS is the information publishing center of the Anarchist Democratic Union (ADU). Founded in November 1990, AN-PRESS created a large information system in Russia and in the other parts of former Soviet Union - Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Siberia. AN-PRESS is the unique all-anarchist information agency in the USSR. Staying with the position of so called "united anarchism," AN- PRESS gives in the pages of its Bulletin AN-PRESS (which it publishes two times a month) information about the activity of anarchist organisations of many trends: anarcho-democrats (ADU), anarcho-syndicalists (the Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists), anarcho-communists (the Initiative of Revolutionary Anarchists, Anarchist Radical Youth Union, Anarchist Communist Revolutionary Union, etc.), and anarcho-individualists (the association of Anarchist Movements). Thereby, AN-PRESS helps to unite isolated anarchist organizations. Understanding the necessity of comprehending the theoretical legacy of international anarchism, AN-PRESS publishes booklets about the opinions of anarchist theorists. We published booklets about Russian anarchists M. Bakunin and P. Kropotkin, and also about one of the anarchism's creators W. Godwin. We plan to publish materials about P. Proudhon, B. Tucker, M. Stirner, L. Tolstoy and others. AN-PRESS publishes the irregular newspaper ADU Free Agreement ("Svobodny Dogovor"). Being short of publishing equipment and money, AN-PRESS appeals to anarchists all over the world with great resources asking to render us help. We can give you information about anarchist movements in the countries of East Europe and former USSR. You may set up contact with the information publishing agency AN- PRESS through the executive editor of Bulletin AN-PRESS, P. Geskin, and the agency's secretary, A. Maishev. The addresses: 199048 USSR St. Petersburg, 9 Liniya dom 78, kv. 13, P. Geskin 194018 USSR St. Petersburg, pr. Parhcomenko dom 33, kv. 76, A.V. Maishev GAYS IN EX-USSR To answer many Western readers' questions about the situation of sexual minorities in the ex-USSR, I would like to indicate that it is relatively difficult even to raise that question within the workers' movement, since the majority of workers are relatively conservative on this point (they would often agree with the actions of the Soviet government in the 1930-1940s, and of Germany in the years 1933-1945). In Russian law, just as before, there is an article of the Criminal Code, which punishes voluntary homosexual contacts (with prison sentences of up to 5 years, or 8 years in special cases), but only for men. Women cannot be prosecuted in Russia for having homosexual relations. Addresses for more information: The Group for Psychological Aid to Sexual Minorities, Moskow, ul. Malomoslovskaya, 4, "Medicine and Reproduction," N.Oleynikov The Organizing Committee of the Moscow Union of Homosexuals, Moscow 109180 J-180, Box 11, Editors of the newspaper "Tema" The Organizing Committee of the Russian Organization for Lesbian Rights, (Moscow Tel: 177 24 28 [Sveta], 153 90 35 [Genia]) The organizing Committee of the "AGRO" Association, Moscow 129224, Box 157, Editors of the magazine "Risk" The Organizing Committee of the "Nevskaya Perspectiva" Association, Saint-Petersburg 191186 D-186, Box 108 The Editors of the "Sibirsky Variant" newspaper, Barnaul 656054, Box 763 The Organizing Committee of the Association for Equal Rights to Sexual Minorities, Latvia, Riga 226001, Box 460 (Reprinted from Information Bulletin SMOT #6) ANARCHISTS, FASCISTS, AND THE NEW POLISH STATE Terminator III, or the final solution of the anarchist question The Communists did not manage to eliminate anarchists in public life. In spite of the standard set of repressions, our leaflets and magazines appeared; manifestations, pickets and happenings occurred. Alas, the new blockheads don't like us either. In the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza in the text "Senate Lustrates" (Note: `Lustration' is the term Easterners are using to refer to the naming of and removing of Communists from power.) one can read: "Solidarity deputies do not propose to remove old party functionar- ies, but they want to eliminate in public life members of `fascist, anarchist, and terroristic organizations, both foreign and domestic.'" So it turns out that Solidarity after having settled all problems of the workers is ready to deal with fascists and anarchists. Police will fight fascists and at the same time support them in fighting us. Sympathy to groups like the Anti-Nazi Front, which, as they fight against fascism, will be targeted by police. It is interesting how the deputies are going to fight terrorism. Probably by disconnecting phones when kids who don't like their tests will by phone inform that there is a bomb laid under the school. The chances are that the third assortment of activists, who remained in Solidarity, went down to the level of the jailer nicknamed `Dekiel' (Note: A comical sounding term in Polish, it means `cover' or `lid' as in keeping the lid on prisoners.) expressing his attitude to anarchy in the following way: "Anarchists?!! All you need is Hitler! Then we would have democracy." (From Wolny Magazine #6 '92, of the Polish Anarchist Federation.) HOW DO THEY LIVE BEHIND THE BORDERS? In Lithuania the fascist tendencies are getting stronger. It began with a statement that Lithuanians have more rights to live in Lithuania than people of other nationalities and grew into moral and physical terror against differently minded people (explosions at the meeting of the ex-Communist Party, violent actions of right- wing activists at meetings organized by leftists). The political unions of the left unfortunately remain passive. In Shauli we still have the power to fight, but just in Shauli and only yet. Now a bit of social problems. The average earnings of people is only about 20-30% of the necessary minimum. The government destroys the economy with huge taxes. The whole social system starts falling apart. The fear of being called a commie is spreading in the society. The politicians, except rightists, don't have any strength to oppose this situation. There is a will to resist among the workers, but the majority can't deal with present conditions and therefore help the pro-fascist state propaganda. The other reason which won't let them to release this will is the absence of unity among themselves. After the Workers Union showed its opposition to the government the stream of new powers arrived. But in general, the Workers Union is a pro-governmental organization, which slowly degrades. Last month they had a goal to isolate the workers' leaders, who had an opposite viewpoint. But even though the idea of giving up the Workers Union membership is getting stronger, our organizations aren't ready yet for any independent actions.