A-Infos (en) Russia, Avtonom: "This is a celebration with tears in our eyes": "Trends of order and chaos", episode 156 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

May Day ---- May Day demonstrations took place all over the world this 
past week. This holiday reminds us of the importance of class struggle 
and, in general, the importance of fighting for our rights. If you don't 
defend yourself and your ideas, they will inevitably be trampled and 
kicked under the canopy of history, pretending that your ideas and you 
never existed. And this is what is important to remember on May 1st. 
Associations with the proletariat and the bourgeoisie are mixed and 
sometimes overlap with what worries us today. The history of the past 
struggle stands next to the books that we are now writing together.

There are quite a lot of confrontations with the police, and some of us 
participated and are participating in some of them. For example, in 
Georgia at protests against the law on foreign agents.

Protests in Georgia
Georgians are protesting against the law on foreign agents and are 
organizing themselves in this fight. Many of our comrades and comrades 
help in any way they can.

Quite a lot of anarchists and anarchists left Russia due to repression 
or the threat of mobilization. For us there is no concept of 
"fatherland" and "not our business." Any injustice is something worth 
fighting. Yes, we have enough comrades all over the planet, and since 
many of us find ourselves in other realities, we need to establish 
communication with the locals and help them in their struggle. All this 
knowledge will be useful to us in our confrontation with the Russian 
death machine in the future. After all, despite everything, we all have 
friends, family and land that remains under the yoke of the state.

The fight against infill development
In Irkutsk, near the polytechnic, right next to the kindergarten, they 
began to build a high-rise building for polytechnic workers. Local 
residents write appeals to the prosecutor's office, collect signatures, 
and appeal to the governor and president. We know, yes, we think, and 
they know that this does not help. In particular, in Irkutsk, where 
developers are as closely connected with the ruling party as possible. 
And even more so if it concerns the polytechnic, which is maximally 
loyal to the leadership of the region.

We always hope that signatures and appeals will help, but the reality is 
often harsher.

Fires in Transbaikalia
Many people have written about the flood in Orsk, but floods are 
traditional incidents for the Irkutsk region and Transbaikalia. And 
often Siberia is burning on one side and drowning on the other.

So fires are still raging in Transbaikalia. In the Chita region, a dacha 
cooperative almost completely burned out, 30 out of 50 buildings were 
damaged; in comments to the news about the fire, local residents write 
that firefighters arrived 4 hours after the call and noted their 
"disgusting work." There, in the Chita region, on May 1, 200 hectares of 
forest burned. In the first case, the cause was the overlap of wires on 
power lines; in the second, the reasons are unknown.

It has long been obvious that fires in Siberia are a systemic problem 
that the state is simply unable to solve. Moreover, in addition to 
natural causes, mass fires are often caused by attempts by "black" 
loggers, protected by local authorities, to hide illegal logging.

You and I must remember the importance of fighting for our rights. Don't 
turn a blind eye to minor problems and be close to those who need help 
in their struggle. Be it comrades in distant countries, or neighbors. 
Such small confrontations allow you to be heard and not lose touch with 
others.

Yes, today tear gas, smoke from wildfires and the feeling of 
helplessness in the fight against developers bring us to tears. But 
let's do everything possible so that our children and the children of 
our neighbors live better than we live today.

Well that's all for today! We remind you that in Trends in Order and 
Chaos, members of Autonomous Action and other authors give anarchist 
assessments of current events. Listen to us on YouTube, SoundCloud and 
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