Freedom to peoples, death to empires!

2005-08-31 10:28:13

August, 19-21, 2005, in Yaroslavl has passed XVIII Congress of Association of Movements of Anarchists of Russia (AMA-HELL in translation). In edition if "Caucasus-center" the resolution of congress of the AMA has arrived. Edition if "Caucasus-center" publishes the full text of the resolution for informing the readers on the purposes and problems of one of Putins opposits, despite of categorical unacceptability of some key positions of anarchist idea, including in relation to the Chechen State .

The resolution of XVIII Congress of the AMA

About WAR ON CAUCASUS

Terrorist actions of authorities of the Russian Federation on Northern Caucasus - display of a imperial and colonial policy which is necessary to finish. The government of Russia: Yeltsin and Putin; all employees of devices of presidential administrations, the governments and Security Council of the Russian Federation since 1994; all management of power and economic departments of the Russian Federation; all members of political parties involved in voting for the Constitution of 1993 on which peoples without their consent are recognized as the part of Russian Federation; everyone, voting the budget of war and supporting militaristic and "antiterroristic" legislation; everyone involved with imperial propagation, unwrapped by fascist and official MASS-MEDIA of the Russian Federation; all direct executors and active helpers of this policy - should feel the fulll weight of the personal responsibility for murders of hundreds thousands of people.

Moral part of this responsibility also lies on all capable population of Russia.The responsibility for shameful passivity and the compelled collaboration. At the same time for peoples of Caucasus and Russia the BASIC ENEMY IS the KREMLIN MODE which HAS ORGANIZED WAR. For this reason we do not recognize and may not recognize those means which the part of fighters of the Chechen Resistance use. Any, even the most fair, by the purposes acts of the terror directed against the peace population may not be justified. Xenophobia as antiCaucasian, and antiRussian character is unacceptable.

Each nation has the right of self-determination and independence. However independence of peoples of the Chechen Republic does not mean for us a recognition of the state sovereignty of Republic Ichkerija. The right of the population of the Chechen Republic on self-determination and self-management may be provided only by its self-organizing excluding occupational imperial mode, andnational-separatistic statehood. Today's leaders of Ichkerii lean on broad support of Chechen people in struggle against the external enemy. however their real policy may not express interests of people. ON DURATION OFTHE CENTURIES PEOPLES OF CAUCASUS DID FINE WITHOUT ANY STATE, THEY CAN DO WITHOUT IT FURTHER.

The decision of a question on war, no less than a question of the responsibility of its organizers is impossible at preservation in Russia of a mode of the state dictatorship. Any negotiations with the state mode of the Russian Federation can not provide even a time suspension of operations and will not determine any of the reasons of occurbing massacre.

The problem of the termination of colonial wars and the state sharing of territories really may be decided only by destruction of statehood. The opposition to war is inseparable for us from counteraction to all state system which, plundering people of Russia , uses the stolen means for suppression of resistance - both on Caucasus , and behind its limits. The exit - only through rise of mass national movement in Russia and on Caucasus which liquidates dictatorship of the Kremlin, will destroy the state and administrative borders and will establish NATIONAL SELF-MANAGEMENT in the forms appropriate to will and desire of each group of people to what it belonged to the nation.

Today, when anti-war movement is weak and is not numerous, and people continue to perish, we are ready to participation in joint actions with all opponents of imperial politics. We are categorically not consent with those "anarchists", "lefts" and "liberals" which reproduce propaganda installations of authorities of the Russian Federation concerning the Chechen resistance , accenting attention to negative components of national-liberation struggle both real, and invented, - and by that actually promote continuation of a colonial policy. Their antiislamic declarations play on a hand to the state and fascist propagation.

Is completely inadmissible to put a mark of identity between a management of the Russian Federation and leaders of the Chechen movement, equally opposing both those, and others to the peace population. The number of victims in federal armies and gangs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on Northern Caucasus does not go in any comparison with the amount of victims as a result of inadequate reciprocal acts of terrorism.

The ethnic for us question has no basic value. Any group of people has the right to self-organize and voluntary to generate own system of self-management at own expense and without dictatorship in relation to associates. Each such group may show resistance of aggression, not requiring in any justifications. Such image of actions is IRRESPECTIVE OF THE NATIONALITY, and it is impossible to demand of participants of these groups of obligatory refusal of their national self-identification.

The task of assimilation of national minorities by "title nations" is the purpose of compulsory imperial politics. Anarchists do not suport such actions.

Thus, national-liberation movements, contrary to the in many respects to installations unacceptable for us, basically are justified as are resistance to national oppression. Ambiguity of their recognition of anarchists, our negative attitude to their national-separative tendencies at the same time should not give any chances to chauvinism, including its latent forms.

Proceeding from this, concerning war proceeding on Caucasus by us are put forward as prime following slogans:

FREEDOM TO THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC ! and FOR THE RIGHT OF EACH PEOPLE ON SELF-DETERMINATION! not in sense of maintenance of territorial - state sovereignty CHRI, and as a task of clearing of imperial national oppression;

AGAINST POLICIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON NORTHERN CAUCASUS! as the definition of the basic direction of struggle;

PEACE WITHOUT ANNEXATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS! - understanding under "annexation" any violent inclusion of territories in structure of the states, and under "contribution" compulsory collection from the population of payments on maintenance of a mode of occupation.

Practical tasks facing to us remain:

- education on places of anti-war committees and groups with active participation of anarchists;

- Realization of anti-war pickets and meetings, release and distribution of anti-war propagation and propaganda;

- Antidraft campaign;

- As far as it is possible - the appropriate work in military units and divisions;

- Influence on the infrastructures providing realization of army operations.

Irrespective of the nearest results of these actions our participation in them is necessary.

FREEDOM TO PEOPLES, DEATH TO EMPIRES!

XVIII Congress of Association of Movements of Anarchists,

Yaroslavl, August, 19-21 2005

Kavkaz Center

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