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Today, people from the Students' Initiative* held protests around Poland against the new Minister of Education, Roman Giertych. Giertych is the extreme-right leader of the League of Polish families, and the youth organization he reactivated (which had a history before the communist days of conducting progroms) is best known for attacking gay parades and the like.

Translation in fromhttp://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10026Russian original of below article:http://zonakz.net/articles/?artid=14425

23.26 - On indymedia are pictures (here also) from the demo.

19.05 - Two people from Germany are detained by the police, they may be given rather serious charges. At the police station on Wilcza Street one Warsaw activist is being held. The reasons for detaining the activist are not yet known, and the detention will probably not last long.

17.20 - there is not yet any confirmation of where the two detained people are being held. The police are providing varying responses regarding where the two are being held. About 30 antifascists are trying to find them at the moment, however, the police at ul. Wilcza 21 are noting everyone's identities rather than answering the question.

16.10 - anarchists and other anti-fascists are moving in the direction of the police station at 12 Dzielna Street, where it seems that two foreign anti-fascists are detained (including the German anarchist referred to earlier).

15.40 - we have received reports that the police have detained several more anti-fascists. Some of them are surrounded by a police cordon.

15.30 - the demo is ending at Theatre Square [plac Teatralny], now there are speeches, in 10 minutes it will end.

15.15 - speeches continue at Theatre Square from the motorised platforms. There has been an unconfirmed report that the German anarchist has been released. If this turns out to be false, then a solidarity action in front of the police station is planned.

14.50 - situation calmed down. The demo is going to Bankowy square.

14.45 - about 20-30 NOP-ers attacked the demonstrators. A struggle occurred.

14.15 - The head of the Parade is moving along Marszałkowska street. There are a few thousand people: about 5000 from Konstytucji Place to the Rotunda. There are two sound platforms on cars with speakers. We have reports that NOP-ers are trying to enter the crowd in order to attack individual people.

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In regard to the fact that many people (in Poland and abroad) offered me help, I'd like to THANK EVERYBODY VERY MUCH. Everyone who organized a concert, the musicians and the people who came. Thanks for all the kind
words and all the support I got when I was in the hospital.

A gay parade was held in Bucharest on Saturday with over 500 people marching. The parade was attacked by the New Right movement and New Generation party. The Orthodox church was also active in campaigning against the parade. The attackers throw stones at the parade. Six people were also attacked in the subway.

5 people have been arrested in connection with the Blood and Honor Redwatch site in Poland.

The site lists the names of hundreds of "traitors" "pedafiles" "leftists" "jews" etc., including addresses, phone numbers and photos. Numerous threats and a few acts of violence have ensued including the brutal stabbing of Maciej D. in Warsaw.

THE BACKGROUND
A strike of medical personnel has been going on for the last three weeks in Poland.
The strike follows mass actions in April when personnel from all 650 state-funded hospitals in the country protested and struck, performing only vital operations. As of May 30, over 120 hospitals in the country have gone on strike or have declared that the are going.

The parade in Moscow scheduled for Saturday, May 27 had been banned by the authorities. The gay and lesbian activists decided to march anyway and to go to Alexandrovski Sad, beside the Kremlin, to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a monument which represents Russia’s struggle against fascism.

Today a few hundred people marched in Warsaw despite the pouring rain to protest again against the Minister of Education, Roman Giertych. They also protested against growing fascism in the country.

Few days ago, on 16th of May, in the evening, an antifasciscist activist was attacked by two nazis, with clear intentions to kill him. They have been following him, and, suddenly one of them steped in front on him and used a pepper gas on him. Then the other one stabbed him in his back with 30cm long knife. Maciek fell on the ground and was kicked by the nazis for a while, with them shouting "We'll kill you, you leftist motherfucker!".

Maciek was taken to the hospital and underwent serious life-saving surgery (when he got to the hospital the doctors said that his condition was "critical"), and now is recovering. He still is not 100% OK, he still has blood in his lung. He says that he is sure that the attack was due to his personal data recent appearance on a nazi site called "redwatch". Redwatch is a web-site that have existed for several months now and it promotes the idea of "killing the enemies of the race" and the organization behind this is a very radical neofascist "Blood and Honor". The problem is that Maciek didn't have medical insurance, so that he may be forced to pay up to 20.000 PLN (5.000 euro).

Apparently the city of Bialystok legalized a pro-Giertych rally organized by fascistic Mlodziez Wszechpolska and an anti-Giertych rally organized by anarchists for tomorrow at the same time only a few meters away from each other. The right-wingers, realizing that they could only count on about 30 people to come to their demo vs. a few hundred for the anarchists, decided to cancel their action.

The Ukrainian government plans to erect a statue to Simon Petliura on December 1 in Kiev. Anarchists protest against yet another monument to a pogromist and right-wing murderer.

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Greece, Athens 4-7 May: An anarchist forum, a demo & a riot (photos) & the co-operation of the European Social Forum with the police in arresting dozens of innocent passers-by and bystanders and charging seventeen of them.