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Bez Granits (No Borders): new anarchist newspaper for the Baltic region

Petrograd | 19.11.2009 19:56 | Repression | Social Struggles

On November 7, 2009 (Nestor Makhno's birthday anniversary) a new
anarchist newspaper, Bez Granits ("without borders" / "no limits")
published its debut issue - 12 black and red pages which were prepared
by the collective which was at the moment spread between St.
Petersburg, Russia, and Riga, Latvia.

The newspaper contains an article on what we think this whole anarchy thing is all about, an overview of protest activity in St.Petersburg in September-October, some analysis of protests in the Latvian town of Bauska where the local authorities intended to close down the local hospital and in St.Petersburg where several protests erupted due to controversial construction projects. It is followed by a history of early 20th century Latvian anarchist movement (including the Sidney street siege where a couple of well-armed revolutionaries faced off hundreds of soldiers, Winston Churchill and artillery), some information about St.Petersburg's Street University (a free education co-op) and the Stanford Experiment. Finally, there is an interview with an anonymous
participant in the January 13, 2009 riots in Riga and some information from St. Petersburg Anarchist Black Cross - solidarity action with the gaoled Serbian anarcho-syndicalists and some stuff on the Russian anarchist Alexei Bychin who is imprisoned for self-defense against fascists.

There is also an appeal from the editorial collective:

"We, anarchists and libertarian activists from St. Petersburg and Riga have decided to publish a newspaper. This is the first issue of our publication. At present there is not a single periodical meant for a wide circle of readers that would give an anarchist outlook. We are going to speak about what is really going on in the region. We are going to write about protest actions, victories and repressions, inform you about the events of which neither government nor opposition media would ever tell you. We are going to remind you about the history of the struggle of our peoples for freedom against Tsarism,
bourgeois regimes, fascism and Soviet totalitarianism, to write about the events of “informal” culture, to discuss how we can organise life without governmental dictate and exploitation. We hope that this newspaper will promote self-organisation and mutual help, we believe that during the crisis it is especially important. Many people tend to think that political parties change but the life does not become any easier or freer. Luxury on one side and poverty on the other, destruction of your favourite pieces of nature, hard work for a boss, bureaucracy and violation of our rights by those in power, noisy patriotic propaganda and commercial advertising – all this provokes a natural protest but so many of us feel lonely and desperate. We will be glad if this newspaper helps us to find friends and get involved in the struggle. We invite our neighbours - comrades from Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and East Prussia to join this project.
Dear readers, please let us know what you think about this edition. What problems should we cover? Send us your materials, speak about your experience of struggle.
We have decided to publish the newspaper in Russian because most of the people in our countries know Russian, but if you prefer to write in English – feel free to do so, we can publish English materials as well.
We appeal to all those who believe in ideals of freedom – let us work at this newspaper together."

Contacts: balticpaper (at) gmail.com
PO Box 30, St. Petersburg-9, 195009, Russia (do not write anything
else on the envelope)
The PDF version of the 1st issue of Bez Granits can be downloaded here -
 http://bakunista.nadir.org/downloads/zines/bg1.pdf

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