A-Infos (en) France, Offensive* #36 "Russia: from red to black" + Editorial (fr) [machine translation]

Summary of the number ---- here in brief 4-5 ---- Analysis ---- Frontex ex Machina  The 
digital grip Crack! -- History -- Set margins as a space of radical openness -- Fighting 
-- Reclaim the field ---- FILE: Russia: from red to black ---- Russia: our past, our 
future? ---- Revolutionaries against the "red fascism" ---- Of the USSR to the Russian 
Federation, Notes on a reconquista devastating ---- Chechnya: manipulation, terror, crime 
and punishment (Ian) ---- The Return of the KGB ---- Workers, workers ... ---- Lake 
Baikal, a space of resistance ---- 2014 Olympics: snow white, green as a dollar ---- 
Libertarians, the collapse of the USSR to the present day -- The "anti-Putin" ---Horizons 
---- Feminist Struggles in Africa ---- Quick elsewhere 41 ---- Maintenance ---- Clearly 
Communist ---- Alternatives ---- The UTOBUS ---- Cons-culture ---- Books - Music - 
Performing Arts - Film

Editorial

Communism is the past. The USSR? An empire dusty antiques shop relegated to the history. A 
system of domination archaic compared to capitalism in its phase gleaming high-tech and 
neoliberalism. And Russia today, then? In the ruins of the empire deceased, the return of 
a new form of autocracy personified by Putin and his minions, it illustrate the historical 
inevitability of a country culturally doomed to suffer all authoritarian regimes. Bet that 
we would do in this case is exactly the opposite: Russia, are struggles with this, and 
they are also novel forms of domination that are experienced from 1917 to our days of 
"real socialism" in era of Yeltsin and Putin, before spreading to the rest of the world. 
The liquidation of the peasantry, forced industrialization, the destruction of natural 
habitats, the bureaucratization of all social relations ... but also more generally the 
crushing of workers, women and minorities, the rule in politics of lies and brutal 
cynicism: these are phenomena that affect today all countries of the world. In Russia, red 
hopes communist past was believed to be the black affliction among the waves of 
privatizations, the return of colonial wars and the rise of the extreme right. But this 
black one, now is perhaps the revolt. Not to mention the persistence of a combative and 
courageous anarchist movement, the events of recent years have shown a return to the 
political scene of anti-fascist groups, feminist and radical environmentalists - when it 
is not Citizen anonymous out of the mass to say no. These are the people, and beyond them 
all the Russian people, who need our support. Gold support is to first understand: what 
happened to Russia, what is happening now, and how it echoes our own experience.

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* Libertarian and Social offensive was born in the year 2003 will participate in the 
construction of a real offensive that put an end to capitalism, patriarchy and contributes 
to the development of other future reports without domination or exploitation. We advocate 
for a society based on solidarity, social equality and freedom. Several principles 
underlie OLS:

Independence Act in a manner free from any institutional logic tied to the state or capital.

Federalism and individual groups that make up the es-OLS are autonomous, they combine 
freely while respecting the foundations and values ââof the OLS.

AssemblÃisme Practice or encourage horizontal forms of organization and decision-making 
relied on direct democracy.

Anti-authoritarianism Combat all forms of domination whether social, gender, 'race' ... We 
also reject the logic of conquest of power that the implementation of cons-institutional 
powers to fight against the hierarchical practices.

Out Through our intervention policies and practices, we want to ask at the end of today's 
society. We want to promote the existence of alternative social relations and helping to 
develop space and time emancipated and subversive. We therefore take part in the emergence 
of creative utopia.

Mutual support and promote research contribution of solidarity between subversion 
projects, according to the principles of freedom of association and experimentation, to 
act in accordance with the partners ... We want to work for a world where well-being and 
happiness are among the first concerns.

The OLS is as an element in the constellation libertarian, making its contribution to the 
revolutionary movement. The organization is not an end in itself and should not take 
precedence over the struggle and reflection.

We refuse to engage in terms of our own interests organizational "pass" a fight to another 
as modes. Even if we appear from time to time as "OLS" - through Offensive newspaper we 
publish at some political events - to confront, defend or share our values, our ideas, our 
practices, we do not the logical representation. In a society based on appearances, the 
revolutionary movement must not succumb to the lure of spectacle.

We fight especially against everything that makes us human beings alienated and / or 
oppressors  : social exploitation, economic insecurity, patriarchy, heterosexism, 
technological tyranny, racism, massification. Faced with the logic of confinement and 
stupidity, we offer other forms of emancipatory associations where the return engagement 
between theory and practice are ongoing and we can build stable relationships, not 
alienating, esteem and cooperation.

We want to build a truly democratic society, if we define democracy as a form of 
organization of power to know and control our conditions. It is important to think of new 
social organizations that allow sharing of debates and decisions. This amounts to breaking 
the power of autonomy. It should not be outside of the company, but in his breast must be 
socialized.

If the parentage of OLS is part of the long history of anarchism, we refer also to other 
associations and movements. We are trying our level contribute to the renewal of the 
critical libertarian, participate in the creation and dissemination of alternative 
anti-authoritarian and liberating.
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