Our enemies are not the other exploited but the bosses and the state. We reject all nationalist and Common Front appeals, even if we recognize the horror of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But Putin did not become a dictator on February 24 because the Western media and leaders condemned him. The dictatorship has always been there, Russia and its vassal Belarus have always been police states. It was enough to look at things and not do anything. The brutal repression of all popular demands, opponents murdered, tortured and imprisoned…
We think of our anarchist comrades, like Ilya Romanov who spent long years in jail or the two young Russian companions recently sentenced to several years in jail for dynamiting a political police station – in a video game! We also think of the 2020 revolt in Belarus, when the inhabitants of this country wanted to overthrow the dictator Lukashenko. Dozens of people were killed by the police, hundreds tortured, thousands imprisoned to the indifference of Europe. While they wanted to have the upper hand in the geostrategic games, the Western governments never condemned the Russian police state which on the contrary has always been an important economic partner. Société Générale, Total, Engie, Renault, the Auchan group… it is also with French money that Putin’s dictatorship has prospered, it is with this money that the army that today massacres civilians and threatens nuclear disasters has been financed.
Today, our comrades in Eastern Europe continue to fight. Like many other civilians, Ukrainian anarchists have taken up arms to resist the Russian invasion. On the other side of the front, Russian and Belarussian anarchists, like tens of thousands of people, are opposing the imperialism of Putin and his underling Lukashenko. We do not think of them as victims, but as revolutionary fighters. Like Mikhail Zhlobitsky.
We can only try to be on their side in fighting against the state and the bosses here.
Last night we set fire to a BMW with diplomatic plates and an Aston Martin SUV on Edmond About street in the Parisian district of Passy.
May the opposition to this imperialist invasion trigger a revolution all over the world!
