20 September 2001
A coalition of extremist leftist parties, almost all of which are known to regularly use antisemitic and racist slogans, announced plans to march on Moscow on September 15-16 to protest globalization, according to the September 14, 2001 issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
The driving force behind the demonstration appears to be Viktor Anpilov's "Working Russia"-a Communist splinter group that often engages in antisemitic rhetoric. They were joined by members of the National Bolshevik Party-a racist, antisemitic radical group whose leader Eduard Limonov is in jail facing charges of terrorism-and the Union of Communist Youth of the KPRF-the Communist Party's youth wing, whose members recently organized an antisemitic demonstration outside the embassy of the Palestinian Authority in Moscow.
Aleksandr Kuvaev, the head of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party, who once vowed to protect the infamous antisemite General Albert Makashov against "Kikes and evil idols," also participated, along with General Makashov's "Movement to Support the Army." However, it does not appear that the Communist Party officially supported the demonstration. "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" added that Russia's leading neo-Nazi rock star Sergey "Spider" Troitsky also planned to give a performance. Organizers promised "non- standard and radical actions" during what they called "the first, unprecedented anti-globalization action in Russia."
The march took place as planned, drawing several hundred participants, many wearing bandanas to cover their faces. Marchers chanted "Death to the bourgeoisie!" "Globalization is fascism!" "The USA is the number #1 terrorist" and "Send a plane into the White House!" Viktor Anpilov praised last week's terrorist attack on the US, saying that it "brought joy to all progressive people, though one feels sorry for the simple people [who died]." He also told the marchers: "You must with your own hands hang in the same alley Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and Bush!"
At least one policeman was injured during a fight with a protestor and one protestor arrested.
A key leader of the RKRP from its birth, and leader of the mass movement Trudovaya Rossiya (Labour Russia) which it simultaneously set up, was Viktor Anpilov. Early in 1992 Anpilov , who under the old regime had made his career as a journalist and political commentator, became co-secretary of the RKRP. In those days 10 - 30,000 people would gather at rallies of the RKRP's popular movement, Trudovaya Rossiya, in Moscow. Its 15-man executive established in 1992 included many who have remained RKRP leading members till this day, but also those who became founders or key activists of other parties - such as Vladimir Miloserdov, of the deeply antisemitic and ultra-nationalist Russian Party, Viktor Ilyukhin, KPRF deputy who has said that Jews are committing genocide against the Russian people, and Igor Malyarov, leader of the largest Komsomol (communist youth league) in Russia, who recently backed Putin as presidential candidate on the grounds of his "patriotism" , and believes that Russia's destruction of Chechnya was "precisely what modern Russian society needs". (10), (11). Today Anpilov is well-known even outside Russia for his hysterical antisemitic speeches, which are a permanent feature of his meetings and rallies. For example, at a recent conference in Moscow, he declared: 'Against the USSR works "nasty monetary international", but we shall not hide, it is the Jews who have the most part of the monetary capital. There is a world struggle of people for liberation, and the uniform communist party is necessary for this purpose' (12) But this aspect of his politics was also clear during his role as co-leader of the RKRP, when for example, he described Yeltsin's regime on national television as a "Jewish conspiracy". (13) In 1997 Anpilov formed an alliance with the openly nazi National Bolshevik Party of Limonov, then later with the grandson of Josef Stalin, the antisemite Dugashvilli. (14), (15). Another well-known personage of the red-brown scene, General Albert Makashov, was among those elected to the central committee of the RKRP at its foundation (16). Makashov, who was one of the main leaders of the battle to defend the parliament from Yeltsin's troops in 1993, is notorious for his antisemitism. In 1998 he publicly called for the extermination of all Jews in Russia (15). He is admired by neo-nazis around the world, including the Ku Klux Klan (David Duke has travelled to Russia more than once to discuss "co-operation" with him. (17). http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/ats-l/2001.01/msg00008.html
References 1. Obninsk Komsomol, http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3814/index.html 2. Verbal sources including Duma Deputy Oleg Shein, co-chair of Zaschita union 3. Trudovaya Rossiya 7/111 4. Vitaly Kiriakov stood on the RKRP's bloc No. & in the 1999 duma elections, http://grankin.com.ru/elections/block6/block6_sp3.htm 5. Trudovaya Rossiya 1/105 (Model of Russia Vyborg TSBK Soviet) 6. Statement by KPRF Chairman Gennady Zyuganov 23 December 1998 (published on website of KPRF under the heading "Official Information") 7. Biography of Gennady Zyuganov published by internet news site, http://www.panorama.ru 8. "KPRF na Zapasnom Puti Rossiskogo Kapitalisma" by Oleg Shein, pub. Astrakhan Organisation of OFT 1998 p. 149 9. See RKRP website: http://www-win.convey.ru/~RKRP 10. history of Trudovaya Rossiya published on website http://www.nns.ru 11. "Communists Defect as Putin Heads for Triumph Bandwagon", by Amelia Gentleman in "The Observer" (UK) 19 March 2000 12. http://www.leviy.ru/news/live_op/kommunizm/kprf/May/21.htm 13. 1997 report on antisemitism published on http://www.ort.org/jpr/AWRweb/Europe/russia.htm 14. "The Stalin block: Labour Russia, Officers - for the USSR" http://elections.ru:8080/duma/others/stal.html 15. "The Escalation of Antisemitic Violence in Russia", August 1999 published by Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry 16. http://www.panorama.ru:8101/works/vybory/party/rkrp.html 17. LA Times 6 Jan. 2001 18. Trudovaya Rossiya 100 published 1999 19. English translation of the Leningrad declaration found on website of the Parti du Travail de Belgique http://www.wpb.be/icm.htm 20. "Zavtra" 10 November 1998 Prokhanov interview with Barkashov, leader of RNE 21. Trudovaya Rossiya 2/83 22. Trudovaya Rossiya 15/119 23. Website of Bylevsky Komsomol http://komsomol.narod.ru/faq.htm#question8 24. Letter from Oleg Torbasow to internet list KZoT-STOP (list hosted by http://www.egroups.com) 30 Dec 2000 25. Documents from Russian National Unity party website http://www.rne.org including RNE programme adopted on 15 Feb 1997 and "Primary Goals" 26. Trudovaya Rossiya 14/95 article "The Fifth Column" Lisa Taylor may be contacted care of: International Solidarity with Workers in Russia (ISWoR); Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London SE5; E-mail ISWoR at aol.com WORKERS OF ALL LANDS & CULTURES UNITE! * * * ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN (AFIB) 750 La Playa # 730 San Francisco, California 94121 To subscribe: afib-subscribe at igc.topica.com To unsubscribe: afib-unsubscribe at igc.topica.com Inquiries write: tburghardt at igc.org Via the Web --> http://www.antifa.net/af/afib.html Archive --> http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff/afib-bulletins.html ANTI-FASCIST FORUM (AFF) Antifa Info-Bulletin is a member of the Anti-Fascist Forum network. AFF is an info-group which collects and disseminates information, research and analysis on fascist activity and anti-fascist resistance. More info: E-mail: afmail at antifa.net; Web: http://www.antifa.net/af Order our journal, ANTIFA FORUM, cutting-edge anti-fascist research and analysis! 4 issues, $20. Write AFF, 522 Church St. Box 90, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2E3 Canada ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ ++++ if you agree copy these 3 sentences in your own sig ++++ ++++ see: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ++++
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 03:38:59 -0400, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anpilov is not an anti-Semite, you dork. He's a Stalinist.
>
>
>> From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus
>> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 00:09:59 -0700
>>
>> Chris (and CB) Alot of the nicest leftists I've known and met have been
>> CPUSA or ex-CPUSA. Mostly rank and file Jimmy Higgins types (a few
>> leaders like the recently deceased William "Bill" Sennett who fought the
>> fascists in Spain), either Jewish or Slavic, Polish, Italian, etc. in
>> the open hearted, passionate way I remember from East Coast cities.
>> Folks that walked many a picket line and endured much, to build what
>> elements there are of racial, social and economic justice in this
>> country and give some breathing room to the Vietnamese, Nicaraguans,
>> South Africans, etc.
>> A cliche (which doesn't make this one false) heard by many, "tourists of
>> the revolution, " as Hans Magnus Enzenberger termed it, is to
>> distinguish between the people and the USG.I distinguish bwteen that
>> nice elderly couple that gave you the use of their couch to sleep on for
>> 2 months, and leaders of their Party that give a platform to such anti-
>> semites as Anpilov http://www.communist-
>> party.ca/english/spark/html/ANPILOV.html
>>
>> http://www.panorama.ru/works/patr/bp/1eng.html
>> NATIONALISM, EXTREMISM AND XENOPHOBIA Extremism and xenophobia in
>> electoral campaigns in 1999 and 2000 Vladimir Pribylovsky
>> NATIONAL PATRIOTS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ELECTION FOR THE THIRD
>> STATE DUMA
>>
>> http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/317/cprf.html
>> Michael Malkin examines the Great Russian chauvinism and anti-semitism
>> of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
>>
>>
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