>Autumn 2000 >In Russia another, but, it would appear, far from calm, autumn has arrived. >The events taking place in the south of the country provide evidence that >the light-hearted flirtation of the proletariat with the authorities is >drawing to a close. > >The workers of Astrakhan, not wanting to live next to the 'gas-chamber' >Gazprom, took to the streets. The demonstrators made for the Governor, as >their grandfathers had made for the palace of 'Saint Nicholas the Bloody.' >(Yes folks, the Russian orthodox church recently canonized Tsar Nicholas II, >along with quite a number of other vermin! [P.V.]) We remember how that >demonstration ended; the 'tsar-father' did not come out to meet the people >and the workers of St. Petersburg were met instead with guns and bayonets. > >This time, so far, the bullets haven't whistled into the ranks of the >workers; though the Astrakhan workers have been unable to see 'their >Governor.' He has refused to meet with the people. His Excellency turns out >to be a political eunuch. Like in the popular song; he saw nothing, heard >nothing, and said nothing to anyone. But we don't think that the governor is >blind and deaf. For then we would simply feel human sympathy for him, and, >perhaps, pass the hat to make a collection for the treatment of his >Excellency the Governor. But this is not a question of a sick governor; he >is as healthy as a the buffalo Mesa in the Kipling story, in contrast to >many, many of those standing in the square demanding his appearance! > >Think of it, people sick with cancer, tuberculosis and other terrible >diseases, stood in front of the palace windows to await Guzhvin, while at >the same time, the was hiding his pudgy penguin-shaped body behind the stone >walls of the regional administration building. I am afraid that pretty soon, >they will start to say that he was not hiding, but that, at the very moment >that the workers were standing outside the windows of his state mansion, he >was deciding the most important problems, or even was busy with the question >of the mass poisoning of the workers by the experimenters at Gazprom. Don't >believe it for a second. > >It is completely unimportant why the Governor did not come to see the >workers! What is important is that he did not come! What's the difference >whether Guzhvin was sitting with his ass to the demonstrators, or whether he >was peeking through the curtains observing the crowd, like a schoolboy >spying through some crack on an amorous young couple. Though if he was >peeking, he could hardly have experienced a proper orgasm. But to hell with >him. After these events, we can speak more or less calmly about Guzhvin, for >he is a thing of the past. He certainly has no future. > >What's important is something else. It doesn't matter that we didn't get an >intelligible answer, only the senseless mumblings of the authorities; what >we did get was an avalanche which blocked the arterial road, the lifeblood >of Gazprom, halting entire convoys of trucks, an avalanche of the workers >own bodies. The struggle continues! > >The workers of Astrakhan are making history. In the two years which have >passed since the Samara strike, it as if the country were covered in a >cloudy, super-dense democratic wrap. Yet, under this wrap the proletariat >could be detected, like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Behind the >democratic, theatrical scenery which had been set up, Russia heard the roar >of events on a quite different scale. The Russian workers have been stolen >from, starved and poisoned, they have moved beyond all illusions in >Yeltsin's Russia, beyond the falsity and lies of the authorities, and are >once again ready to make the greatest sacrifices and unprecedented efforts. >There is the beginning of a new storm in Anzherk and Astrakhan! > >Our task is to support these elements, as they start to rage, with all the >means at our disposal! > >Hail the New Proletarian Revolution! > >All Power to the Stachkoms > >With Proletarian Greetings, > >Mikhail K. > >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#42743890 >http://proletarism.org/ >http://stachkom.org/ > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
