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Yesterday 4th of February a small bomb, supplied with a timing device, exploded in 4:20 PM in Vladimirskaya square of St. Petersburg, where Food Not Bombs is organised every sunday by different rotating groups.

In may of 2004, Vahtang Devitlidze, anarchist and member of Federation ofRevolutionary Anarchists, was hanging in centre of Krasnodar with twofriends. They ran to a group of local Nazis, and soon a fight broke out.There was no choice - in order to defend himself, Vahtang had to pull aknife. As a result, he wounded one of the attackers to leg, while he wasalso hospitalized with less serious wounds himself. Already when a fight wasover, police showed up and arrested people.

Rightist demonstration at Otrokovice dispersed by police because of brawls with anarchists at 16:00 today, two hours before its planned end.
The demonstration, organised by the National Corporativism association in protest against the left, was announced to the municipal authorities in Otrokovice, south Moravia, beforehand. Five radicals were detained during the brawls when both camps were throwing bottles and explosive charges to one another.

Today, January 13 2007, police attacked the anarchist and anti-authoritarian motorbike demo in solidarity to the three comrades arrested at the social forum on May 6 2006 in Athens. The demo was attacked by special motorbike forces (Z team) on the way back from Nikea hospital where there had been a solidarity gathering for two of the imprisoned comrades Tarasio Zadorozni and Gerasimos Kiriakopulos who are on hungerstrike.
The anti riot police squads (MAT) then stormed the comrades on the ground, 42 were taken into custody at the national security police headquarters in Athens, many of them injured, and 4 of them are still being held 9 hours later.

Jan. 11 marks the fifth anniversary of the first extradictions to Guantanamo. In connection with this, groups around the world have decided to organize protests, demand that Guantamo be shut down and in general protest against torture and repression committed by the state using the pretext of the "war against terror."

In Warsaw anarchists protested on Jan.6 in front of the US Embassy and the Ministry of Defense. Despite the rain, there was a good crowd from various organizations and collectives present. The action was entitled "Shut Down Guantanamo", there was a banner reading "Enough State Terrorism" and various signs, for example "This is what your democracy looks like" or "The real terrorists are in the White House". Some people held signs with the names of people detained. Part of the crowd was dressed in orange jumpsuits and a few people were dressed like US solidiers.

Overview about the mobilization against the G8 in Germany (Heiligendamm, near: ROSTOCK) in June 2007.

15th of December 10 AM welder V.S. Chukanov, who has been participating tohungerstrike of Yasnogorsk car factory workers was hospitalized in a serious condition. Two other hungerstrikers are also getting worse, but this far they have refused to leave site of the strike. Hungerstrike has been going on with avarying levels of intensity since 1st of November, so many participators are in a weak condition.

I was in Tallinn and Narva 29.-30. September checking the scene and it looked really good! 29th of September there was a movie screening of "Surplus" and "Colours of Resistance" (latter about year 2000 protests in Prague) with Estonian subtitres, and 80 people (!) came to the screening.. there is both Estonian and Russian speaking anarchist scene in Tallinn, in movie screening both of these were around but in general there is a serious language problem as people do not really have a common language as many speak only one language. Punamust.org is practically only Estonian language project, recently a Russian section of the site was opened but it was a huge work as nobody spoke language very well. Some Russian speakers had plans to publish a bilangual zine.

On Sunday, December 17, 2007, anarchists held a picket in front of the main post office in Warsaw in order to protest the deal most trade unions made with the bosses and to show solidarity to those who had still not signed the deal and who were deciding that day whether or not to renew strike action.

Nov. 11 is a patriotic holiday in Poland and the fascists come out on the streets. Elections this year were scheduled for Nov. 12.

About 200 activists marched Friday through the downtown of the Romanian capital to protest discrimination based on race, disabilities, gender or sexual orientation.

> Last year, Russian authorities decided finally to get rid of the> ceremonial> weight of the October revolution, scrapping the holiday of 7th of> November (which had for years been called "Day of pacification and> agreement"). But as increasing amount of working days would hardly make > you> re-elected, a new holiday had to be added to calendar - 4th of November,> "Day of unification of the nation". As part of the same reform, mayday> holidays were shortened from two to one day, but holidays around New Year> were increased to ten days.

For seven days students of Belgrade University blocked the building of Philosophical faculty, until faculty and University agreed to support demands of students against tuition fees against the government. This is just a short overview of student protests in Serbia.

International Gathering to prepare the protests against the g8-summit 2007
9th-11th february in warsaw/poland. An invitation to an international meeting
of coordination to all those, who desire to build up unbound radical resistance
against the g8 summit 2007.

On Nov. 13, a wildcat strike of mail carriers started in the Gdansk post office. Now the strike has been taken over by different unions, mostly Solidarity, and has spread to most major cities in Poland.