As the #UkraineWar goes on and more lives are taken, we encourage any kind of grassroot solidarity. Comrades in Ukraine are helping other working people to survive and need our support. Through this link we can help them even "only" by financial means: abcdd.org/en/2022/02/24/… 1/n
We also want to help Russian comrades who are trying to stop the war from their side, organising against the Russian government as any of us should do against ours. Here's how we can support them financially: wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.php/D…
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This is a statement shared by some anarchists in Russia we'd like to share again (translated in multiple languages by Crimethinc): crimethinc.com/2022/02/22/aga… 3/n
Against Putin's war we wage class war. Solidarity to all the working people of Ukraine and Russia. 4/4
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered massive resistance in Ukraine and enormous sympathy of the population in many other countries, such as Germany, Kazakhstan, and Czechia. It has also led to large demonstrations against the war inside Russia itself which 1/4
Although brutally repressed (with around 6.000 protestors arrested), indicate a relevant part of the Russian population agrees with the obvious: this is an unfair war of conquest and Putin must cease immediately. This has also been visible in metal 2/4
Today's upload: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered massive resistance in Ukraine and enormous sympathy of the population in many other countries, such as Germany, Kazakhstan, and Czechia. 1/3
It has also led to large demonstrations against the war inside Russia itself which, although brutally repressed (with around 6.000 protestors arrested), indicates a relevant part of the Russian population agrees with the obvious: 2/3
This is an unfair war of conquest and Putin must cease immediately. This has also been visible in metal, with many bands speaking up, in some way or another, and today the Antifascist Black Metal Network wants to honor their bravery by having the amazing SHOW ME A DINOSAUR 3/3
This morning most of us woke up to the news that the war we had been waiting for had started, or more properly escalated since this war has been going on since 2014 and already claims many thousands of casualties. 1/n
We feel the need to make our stance clear in this for two reasons. Firstly, local black metal scenes, the kind the network was created to fight against, were intimately involved in the preparation of this conflict in both Russia and Ukraine 2/n
from spreading nationalist hatred to outright funding right-wing paramilitaries. Secondly, as leftists, communists, and anarchists we need to address the proverbial elephant in the room. 3/n