Elena wrote:
> Despite recent threats by vise-premier Nemtsov to cut payments to those
> coal-mining regions where the so called |rail war¼ is not over, Cheliabinsk
> region miners decided to maintain the blockade of the Transsib. But local
> authorities have learnt the previous lessons and used special police forces
> against protesting miners. Hundred of workers were surrounded by 1500
> policemen near Dubrovniki railway station. The miners could not resist armed
> police, but have refused to return to work and are standing near the
> railroad guarded day and night by policemen.
> On the 11th of August the NPG President Alexander Sergeev was arrested in
> Moscow charged with organizing railroad blockades. He was set free after
> workers from the picket outside Govt building had held an unauthorized rally
> demanding his release. In his latest interview he said that the workers have
> right to self-defence and to armed struggle for their interests.
> The representative of Russian factories and plants picketing Moscow White
> House have set up the All-Russian strike committee in order to coordinate
> strike movement and further struggle. Their latest slogan is |All power to
> strike committees!¼