The Ligovsky Prospekt
Rejecting all absolutist morality and authoritarian restraint's, we anarchists do not hesitate to commend theft, the destruction of all phoney baloney scholarship, the abolition of work, total state subversion, and a world-wide peasant revolution with unlicensed pleasure as its only goal. In view of the basically anarchist character of this planet wide social revolution, these theories and propaganda-of-the-deed are eminently desirable and achievable.
In spite of unfortunate casualties. Some of us won't live to see the revolution.
Chernov’s choice By Sergey Chernov - Staff Writer
This space is supposed to be about musical entertainment, but this week the local music community is in shock over the violent death of a St. Petersburg musician who was killed last Sunday.
Twenty-year old Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death by a group of eight or 10 attackers in the city center, outside the Bukvoyed bookstore near the crossroads of Ligovsky and Nevsky Prospekts. His friend Max “Zgibov” Zgibai, bass player with the punk band Potom Budem Pozdno, was also stabbed. He was badly injured and is now in hospital.
According to his friends, who wished not to be named in print, Kacharava, Zgibai and others were apparently followed from Vladimirskaya Ploshchad, where they took part in a Food Not Bombs campaign event distributing food to the homeless. Suspected nazi lookouts were spotted on the square at around 4 p.m.
Some of the campaigners were in the store while Kacharava and Zgibai were outside finishing a bottle of beer when they were attacked. The attack lasted about a minute — leaving Kacharava dead and Zgibai wounded, Kacharava’s friends said.
Kacharava, who was in his fourth year of studies at the St. Petersburg State University’s Philosophy Faculty, played guitar with local punk bands Sandinista! and Distress and was active in anarchist and anti-nazi movements.
Nazi attacks are frequent in St. Petersburg, but most of them get scant media attention.
Last year Andrei Burlaka, the editor of the web site Rock‘n’Roll.ru was beaten by a group of Nazis who came toward him shouting “Heil Hitler!” They left him lying unconscious with a broken nose at Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro. That incident was not reported.
In a written statement on Thursday, Kacharava’s friends condemned Governor Valentina Matviyenko’s attempts to deny the political motives behind Kacharava’s murder as “insulting to his memory.”
Just a few days before his death, Kacharava had returned from a five-date Swedish tour with Distress, a band he joined earlier this year. His main band, though, was Sandinista!, which he co-founded in 2003. Named after the Clash’s album, the band performed songs dealing with political and social issues. Sandinista!’s debut CD is scheduled for release on Moscow-based label Old Skool Kids Records. Some MP3 files can be downloaded from the band’s website at www.myspace.com/sandinistaxspbhc.
This week people placed flowers and candles near the place where Kacharava was killed. Friends, musicians and everybody who cares will gather outside the Bukvoyed book store, 105 Ligovsky Prospekt, at 6 p.m. on Monday.
1942 -- [November 16] Fransesco Fantin: Anti-fascism and internment in Australia
The 16th of November 2002 marks the 60th anniversary of the murder of Italian-Australian anarchist Fransesco Fantin in an Australian internment camp at the hands of fascists.
"To describe him as a hero is not to depict him as a grand figure bestriding the passage of history. Fantin was hardly that. Fantin did not want to die. He did not want to continue to confront Fascism. Had he had his choice he would, as he made clear, have moved away from the aggression in Loveday 14A. But when his choices were denied and his options limited by forces beyond himself he did not deny his beliefs..
He affirmed them. He was a hero despite himself; a reluctant hero and therefore a real hero."
— Paul Nursey-Bray
Paul Nursey-Bray from the University of Adelaide Politics Department has thoroughly researched his life and murder, and its social impact at the time (Fantin's murder effectively changed Government policy on internment of those who could prove they were antifascist).
This research has also inspired a play, and a radioplay. A musical performance was also composed to accompany an exhibition of photographs of Fantin. Fantin's life and his death is little known outside of Australia and Italy, and even in Australia it is not adequately remembered.
On November 16 think of Fantin and the many other unsung anarchist and antifascist heroes.
See the Radical Tradition, an anarchist & radical Australasian History Page http://www.takver.com/history/fantin_fransesco.htm
Student Murder Investigation Continues
By Galina Stolyarova - Staff Writer
As the prosecutor’s office continues investigating the brutal murder of local anti-fascist activist Timur Kacharava, a 20-year-old philosophy student at St. Petersburg State University, his friends and colleagues say he was the victim of an organized and well-armed neo-nazi group.
Kacharava was stabbed to death outside the Bukvoed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt opposite the Moskovsky Railway Station at around 7 p.m. on Sunday, when two dozen teenagers armed with knives attacked Timur and his friend Maxim Zgibai, another student.
“St. Petersburg’s fascists aren’t a disorganized gang; they are a fully-fledged, militarized group, boasting a diverse structure, complete with scouts, guerrillas and access to classified databases containing personal information on local citizens,” said Timur’s friend Oleg N., who asked that his real name not be given for security reasons. “Timur had been attacked by fascists before. He had complained of being followed. Just three days prior to his murder, he told his girlfriend he felt threatened and worried for his life.”
In spite of unfortunate casualties. Some of us won't live to see the revolution.
Chernov’s choice By Sergey Chernov - Staff Writer
This space is supposed to be about musical entertainment, but this week the local music community is in shock over the violent death of a St. Petersburg musician who was killed last Sunday.
Twenty-year old Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death by a group of eight or 10 attackers in the city center, outside the Bukvoyed bookstore near the crossroads of Ligovsky and Nevsky Prospekts. His friend Max “Zgibov” Zgibai, bass player with the punk band Potom Budem Pozdno, was also stabbed. He was badly injured and is now in hospital.
According to his friends, who wished not to be named in print, Kacharava, Zgibai and others were apparently followed from Vladimirskaya Ploshchad, where they took part in a Food Not Bombs campaign event distributing food to the homeless. Suspected nazi lookouts were spotted on the square at around 4 p.m.
Some of the campaigners were in the store while Kacharava and Zgibai were outside finishing a bottle of beer when they were attacked. The attack lasted about a minute — leaving Kacharava dead and Zgibai wounded, Kacharava’s friends said.
Kacharava, who was in his fourth year of studies at the St. Petersburg State University’s Philosophy Faculty, played guitar with local punk bands Sandinista! and Distress and was active in anarchist and anti-nazi movements.
Nazi attacks are frequent in St. Petersburg, but most of them get scant media attention.
Last year Andrei Burlaka, the editor of the web site Rock‘n’Roll.ru was beaten by a group of Nazis who came toward him shouting “Heil Hitler!” They left him lying unconscious with a broken nose at Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro. That incident was not reported.
In a written statement on Thursday, Kacharava’s friends condemned Governor Valentina Matviyenko’s attempts to deny the political motives behind Kacharava’s murder as “insulting to his memory.”
Just a few days before his death, Kacharava had returned from a five-date Swedish tour with Distress, a band he joined earlier this year. His main band, though, was Sandinista!, which he co-founded in 2003. Named after the Clash’s album, the band performed songs dealing with political and social issues. Sandinista!’s debut CD is scheduled for release on Moscow-based label Old Skool Kids Records. Some MP3 files can be downloaded from the band’s website at www.myspace.com/sandinistaxspbhc.
This week people placed flowers and candles near the place where Kacharava was killed. Friends, musicians and everybody who cares will gather outside the Bukvoyed book store, 105 Ligovsky Prospekt, at 6 p.m. on Monday.
1942 -- [November 16] Fransesco Fantin: Anti-fascism and internment in Australia
The 16th of November 2002 marks the 60th anniversary of the murder of Italian-Australian anarchist Fransesco Fantin in an Australian internment camp at the hands of fascists.
"To describe him as a hero is not to depict him as a grand figure bestriding the passage of history. Fantin was hardly that. Fantin did not want to die. He did not want to continue to confront Fascism. Had he had his choice he would, as he made clear, have moved away from the aggression in Loveday 14A. But when his choices were denied and his options limited by forces beyond himself he did not deny his beliefs..
He affirmed them. He was a hero despite himself; a reluctant hero and therefore a real hero."
— Paul Nursey-Bray
Paul Nursey-Bray from the University of Adelaide Politics Department has thoroughly researched his life and murder, and its social impact at the time (Fantin's murder effectively changed Government policy on internment of those who could prove they were antifascist).
This research has also inspired a play, and a radioplay. A musical performance was also composed to accompany an exhibition of photographs of Fantin. Fantin's life and his death is little known outside of Australia and Italy, and even in Australia it is not adequately remembered.
On November 16 think of Fantin and the many other unsung anarchist and antifascist heroes.
See the Radical Tradition, an anarchist & radical Australasian History Page http://www.takver.com/history/fantin_fransesco.htm
Student Murder Investigation Continues
By Galina Stolyarova - Staff Writer
As the prosecutor’s office continues investigating the brutal murder of local anti-fascist activist Timur Kacharava, a 20-year-old philosophy student at St. Petersburg State University, his friends and colleagues say he was the victim of an organized and well-armed neo-nazi group.
Kacharava was stabbed to death outside the Bukvoed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt opposite the Moskovsky Railway Station at around 7 p.m. on Sunday, when two dozen teenagers armed with knives attacked Timur and his friend Maxim Zgibai, another student.
“St. Petersburg’s fascists aren’t a disorganized gang; they are a fully-fledged, militarized group, boasting a diverse structure, complete with scouts, guerrillas and access to classified databases containing personal information on local citizens,” said Timur’s friend Oleg N., who asked that his real name not be given for security reasons. “Timur had been attacked by fascists before. He had complained of being followed. Just three days prior to his murder, he told his girlfriend he felt threatened and worried for his life.”
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