The Russian Political Landscape and Anarchist Prisoners

This week we’re featuring 2 guests speaking about Russia. First up, John spoke with author and journalist Dmitry Okrest about the state of anarchist and antifascist movements in Russia, the politics of Putin’s United Russia party, nazis and the far right in Russia and successes of the Communist Party in electoral politics. Then, Moscow Anarchist Black Cross member-in-exile, Antii Rautiainen, adds some more detail on repression in Russia, including the hunger strike of Network Case prisoner, Victor Filinkov, calls for solidarity from mathematician Azat Miftakhov and others.

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Rad Russia-ish Links:

• Moscow, Russia Anarchist Black Cross: https://avtonom.org/en/anarchist-black-cross
  • Avtonom Podcast in Russian!
    • Soundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/avtonom_org Автономное Действие
    • Spotify: https://sptfy.com/avtonom_org
    • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/автономное-действие/id1589860985
    • Google podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/avtonompodcast
• Minsk, Belarus Anarchist Black Cross: https://abc-belarus.org/?lang=en

• Campaign Against the Network Case: https://rupression.com/en/
• List of Moscow ABC-Supported Prisoners: https://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.php/Category:Currently_imprisoned_in_Russia
• Instructions to Donate to Those Prisoners: https://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.php/Donate
• appeal text for Filinkov in Russian: http://amp.gs/j1Kh3

Dmitry Okrest's Books:

• https://ussrchaosss.su/en
• https://sutugabook.ru/en
• https://hevale.nihilist.li/new-book-life-without-a-state-the-revolution-in-kurdistan/

Russian Limbo, Podcast about prisons: https://open.spotify.com/show/3tyBLCEQnvkY9L3DdrGry1

Antii Rautiainen's podcast links:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/arautiainen
• Spotify: https://sptfy.com/arautiainen
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/arautiainen

Past interviews on repression in Russia:

• Antifascist Struggle in Russia (Feb 2019): https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/10/anti-fascist-struggle-in-europe-repression-in-russia/

• FSB Is The Real Terrorist w Antii (March 2018):
  https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2018/03/11/fsb-is-the-real-terrorist-intl-solidarity-with-russian-anarchists-antifa/

• Intl Solidarity with Russian Anarchist and Antifa Prisoners w Antii (July 2016): https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2016/07/12/intl-solidarity-with-russian-anarchist-and-antifa-prisoners/

• Anarcha-feminism + LGBT in the former-USSR today: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/03/10/interview-with-volodya-anarcha-feminism-lgbt-in-the-former-ussr-today/

Announcement

Keith "Comrade Malik" Washington

In a quick announcement, we want to note that The SF Bay View National Black Newspaper editor Nube Brown just published an article showing that Keith Washington, aka Comrade Malik, admitted in a letter to a prosecutor in 2011 (while throwing a prisoner seeking legal support to the wolves) that he had and would gladly work with law enforcement and the FBI to snitch on inmates or whoever as a source or informant. Malik was then incarcerated in Texas and became involved in organizing with the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and participated in the 2016 nationwide prison strikes, gaining notoriety. Malik came to play a prominent role in the prison movement and was in 2020 released to a halfway house in San Francisco after a surprising parole from Texas and brief stint in Federal prison. Malik helped to run the SF Bay View upon release but has since left. I think a lot of facts on this still need clarification, but some things just don’t add up with Malik’s situation. Check out the piece by editor Nube Brown with an addendum by former editor Mary Ratcliff at SFBayView.Com and likely in the print edition of the paper.

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