A-Infos (en) UK, ACG: KRAS I.W.A. - Navalny and the Protests in Russia (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The ACG republishes the following text from the Russian 
anarcho-syndicalist KRAS (Confederation of Revolutionary 
Anarcho-Syndicalists) with which we are in agreement. ---- SECTION OF 
I.W.A. IN THE REGION OF RUSSIA ABOUT THE LAST PROTESTS FOR NAVALNY ---- 
We, anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, consider it completely 
unacceptable for ourselves to take any part in political shows organised 
by supporters of the right-wing populist Navalny, who is sadly "famous" 
for his openly nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Caucasian and 
anti-Semitic statements. To march in the ranks of the demonstrations 
they convened would mean - regardless of any excuses or "explanations" - 
to tailend one of the political gangs waging a dirty and unprincipled 
struggle for power.

We, as anarchists, believe that both the current authoritarian regime in 
the Kremlin, which became the successor of Yeltsin's neoliberal clique, 
and the opposing group headed by Navalny, which is now seeking to seize 
the leadership of the entire mass of disaffected, are just the spokesmen 
for the interests of the country's true rulers - the dominant Oligarchy 
and its "Iron Heel". Supporting any of these camps completely 
contradicts our anarchist convictions and our social revolutionary goal. 
Participation in the struggle for power between various parties, 
coalitions and cliques, and the transfer of more than justified social 
discontent of people into the rotten channel of politicking only 
distract the working class from the struggle for its true social 
interests, from the awakening of labour class consciousness and, 
ultimately, from social and personal liberation.

We, anarchists, stand for the immediate and unconditional release of all 
anarchist, left-wing radical and social prisoners who are languishing 
today in the dungeons of the Oligarchy. But we are convinced that such a 
result must be achieved on our own, without turning into actual 
voluntary or involuntary servants of certain alien contenders for 
political power for the sake of continuing the same anti-social and 
neoliberal policy in the interests of Capital. We cannot fight side by 
side with those who did not interfere with the total privatisation and 
destruction of affordable health care and education, who did not oppose 
the anti-human pension reform, who last year supported the introduction 
of a universal terrorist system of surveillance and house arrest under 
the pretext of "fighting the epidemic". There is no "lesser evil" for 
us, and we do not enter into an alliance with the enemy - even when he 
is the enemy of our enemy.

No to political struggle - for social resistance!

We should have no illusions about Navalny though. He has built a 
movement based on populism and Russian nationalism. In 2006 he 
campaigned for a far-right event, the Russian March, to be allowed to go 
ahead, and took part in it. The movement he founded the following year, 
The People, went into alliance with the nationalist groups the Movement 
Against Illegal Immigration and Great Russia. He supported Russia during 
the war against Georgia in 2008, and called for all Georgians to be 
expelled from Russia. On several occasions he has called for the 
expulsion of illegal immigrants and demanded visa restrictions for the 
Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, 
Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. He supported a nationalist campaign, Stop 
Feeding the Caucasus that has called for ending federal subsidies to the 
governments of Chechnya and other North Caucasus republics, part of the 
Russian Federation.

Navalny is against "corrupt businessmen", not "honest" ones, and he 
advocates complete freedom for business interests in Russia. He is a 
supporter of economic liberalism, which in no way will benefit the 
Russian masses. He has managed to become the lightning rod for the 
raging discontent felt over inequality and corruption and repression. 
The emerging movement needs to break with him and his ilk and establish 
its own independence. This means a critical engagement with the movement 
by revolutionaries in order to attempt to wrest it from the influence of 
the Navalny group. This must have the aim of working towards a 
revolution to overthrow the Putin kleptocracy ¬ and to establish genuine 
communism in Russia - libertarian communism.

Neither Putin nor Navalny!

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2024/02/17/navalny-and-the-protests-in-russia/
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