Anarchist and revolutionary must be ready for revolution to happen in every moment, especially now, when social and political protest all around the world are arising more and more often. Moreover, the possibility of global catastrophes and cataclysms is always present, and saving ourselves along with continuing our struggle in that case should always be in our agenda.
To write this article, we adopted the experience of people’s struggle in Ukrainian Maydan, successes and failures of recent anti-governmental protests in Belarus and Russia and analyzed the capacities and repressive tactics of police and intelligence in our country in last years. Though this tips were written first of all for comrades from above-mentioned countries, th... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) Starting on the night of Sunday, August 9, in response to an election widely deemed to be rigged, a massive protest movement has broken out in Belarus against Aleksandr Lukashenko, the strongman who has ruled the country for over a quarter of a century. Police have arrested thousands of people, firing live rounds and murdering demonstrators. From Sunday to Tuesday, Lukashenko’s government apparently shut down the internet and landline telephones in hopes of dampening the protests, while claiming that the blackout was the work of forces outside Belarus. Belarusian opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanouskaya was detained and apparently forced to read a script declaring that Lukashenko had won the election and urging people to “obe... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) “Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.” –Jim Dodge
Anarchy’s success as a form of egalitarian governance is undermined by all forms of hierarchical government. Anarchy is uncomfortable, but anarchy is natural. The only thing worse than the egalitarian governance of anarchy, is hierarchical government. This is because anarchy tends to prevent power from becoming centralized by an individual (king, plutocrat) or group (oligarchs, bankers, monopolizing corporations), whereas power inevitably becomes centralized by an individual or group within a hierarchical government.
In short: anarchy may be uncomfortable, but at least it prevents power from corrupting absolutely; and living ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) If you had asked people in Belarus how long the dictatorship of Lukashenko was left in early 2020, they would have looked at you like a fool. In a respected dictatorship, such questions are not asked, because you know what can happen. And in general, it so happens that the reign of the great leader is timeless. But the situation has changed so radically over the last 8 months that Belarusians took to the streets and for the first time in the new history of Belarus they fought back the police in at least 33 different cities of the country.
Today Belarusians have woken up in a new country. In it, people openly talk about hatred for the government and prepare for a violent confrontation with the police and state. They discuss online and live ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) The state wants to subdue us psychologically and render us defenseless physically, especially in case its thugs catch us. But don’t be discouraged: every action entails a counter-action. There are no walls that one can’t destroy or at least bypass. This is the instruction for how to escape from handcuffs.
Let’s put the most important rule first: you should always keep a paperclip or a bobby pin or another similar metal tool in your pocket. Make it your routine. You may need it once.
Way 1: Using a “key”.
Take a paperclip, a bobby pin, a piece of a wire or any other thin metal object/tool. Open it up at a right-angle bend. Put one end of the bobby pin into the keyhole and bend it one way, then take it out a... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) After the Russian occupation of Crimea and the deployment of troops on the territory of Donbass, part of the Belarusian opposition decided to give up trying to get rid of Lukashenko. The fear that Belarus might lose its independence became more important than the desire for freedom. At that time, many Belarusians began to ask what these Ukrainians had achieved – the loss of territories, the hybrid war with Putin, the economic ruin, and all for the sake of some abstract rights. And only now we are finally coming to the truth that the Lukashenko regime is not a protector of peace. It is rather the opposite: the dictatorship believes that there is some strong leader who knows better what is good for the people. And such a high ego is ext... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) Throughout the Soviet and Lukashenko propaganda, many may think that anarchists in Belarus are barricades and clashes with OMON. But anarchism is much more than that. Somewhere behind the scenes, there is an idea that people can live with dignity and without a dictator and Bolsheviks.
Anarchists in Belarus pointed out even before the protests started that getting rid of Lukashenko was just the first step in the struggle for people’s freedom. The regime was not built in a single day and its destruction would require people’s will. All bureaucrats and officials who supported this regime would have to leave. And their posts and positions will have to be dismantled so that no one can recreate the dictatorship.
We understand that t... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) Yesterday, the Belarusian society woke up from a long sleep. A dream in which we were kept for the last 26 years. A dream that a dictatorship can make people free. These lies, which are still being spread from state channels and some online platforms, will hardly find any place in the hearts of the people.
Last night has awakened what we have been lacking in recent years – faith in collective strength. Faith in transformation despite the risks. And this force has appeared not only in the main streets of the capital, but also in many small towns in the country, where OMON fled in fear of the demonstrators. Photos and videos of numerous clashes with special police units have finally broken the myth of quiet Belarusians praying for peac... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) It is easy to be a revolutionary or a rebel in revolutionary times. Not much is needed to do this: you join the crowd and you are already carrying on the waves of History. But it is much more formidably when everything what could be forbidden is forbidden. when humiliation from those in power is the norm, almost uncontested. When your friends and comrades are tortured in the woods and minibuses.
In such years, the only thing that pushes people to act is self-esteem and a fierce, merciless hatred of injustice. Unfortunately, not everyone is able to pour out these feelingsю Therefore that is the time for lone riots to come to fore.
Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who blew himself up in the building of the Arkhangelsk Federal Security Service on O... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) Dear Comrades,
Many months have passed since the beginning of the uprising in Belarus. The euphoria of August 2020 gradually turned into depression for some, but for many it became the basis for political organization against the dictatorship. And although the protests in the streets have so far disappeared and the dictator thinks he has won, daily resistance against the regime continues in Belarus. Neighborhood activists continue to hold one-off actions and organize themselves into small resistance cells. Telegram channels continue to push the revolutionary agenda.
Even though for the anarchists this repression is the most serious in all the years of the movement’s existence since its restoration in 1991, we continue to fight the... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
