Anticap

In mid-September, the coalition of the Forum of the Left Forces (which includes many left-wing organizations of Moscow) held its annual campaign in the form of the procession and rally "Anti-capitalism-2013". It could be assumed that the goals and objectives of the event will be clarifying the people of injustice in capitalism, and the participants in the action will tell you what alternatives to this political and economic formation can be. However, in the announcements and in press releases about the "anti-tank", and at the event itself we did not hear about the surplus value or the alienation of labor. No one talked about the ideas of the classics of socialism - Bakunin, Marx, Kautsky, Plekhanov, and modern left -wing ideologists were completely savvy - for example, Erich Fromm or the subcommint Marcos.

But the preparation, conduct and consequences of this action revealed a lot of problems within the Moscow left movement. In 2012, Antikap was unsuccessful. Gloomy weather, a small number of demonstrators, deserted street. It was not clear why this action, where there were frozen activists with red flags and banners ... that these wet people go to socialism, there was no great confidence!

Already in the summer of 2013, when organizing the next procession of anti -capitalists, it became obvious that errors were not meaningful and practical conclusions were not drawn. Trade Unions and initiative groups (for example, the Teacher’s Trade Union or the Migrant Trade Union) did not attract the promotion. The participation of migrants would become relevant in connection with that malnutrian hysteria and xenophobia, which is inflated by power.

Before the procession, it suddenly became clear that various kinds of national socialists and other fascists were not averse to taking part in the action. Here, the Coordinating Council of the Forum of the Left Forces (as the organizer of the rally) should directly ban the participation of the ultra -right in the event, but they took a centrist position - they decided to ban nationalist flags and posters, but not the participation of nationalists. There are opinions that the organizers decided with the help of these people to ensure the mass. Seeing the fuzzy position of the organizing committee on the participation of national socialists in the Antikapa, some of the anarchists decided to boycott the action. Then, for various reasons, part of the other left -handed non -Stalinist organizations refused to take part - the “Committee for the working International”, “The Union of Labor Poor”, and the Russian socialist movement simply did not come without any explanation.

Also, at the very last moment, partocrats from the leadership of the Russian United Labor Front registered Ministry of Justice (Rot Front) decided that their activists would not participate in the Antikup. The "front -line soldiers" had long wanted to crush non -systemic left -wing, constantly demanded privileges for themselves to resolve issues, for example, that their voice was equal to the voice of everyone else. When they did not succeed, as a formal pretext they said that they did not want to go out with the "bourgeois" LGBT movement. Although previously this did not prevent them from rally with a rainbow movement, for example, at a rally against police lawlessness in May 2012.

And on September 15, in a more modest amount than last year, activists went out into the street. More than half of them turned out to be nationalists and nationalballs. Just behind them, a couple of dozens of social democrats from the "left socialist movement", anarchists and opponents of homophobia are located.

It would be strange if there were no provocations with such a composition of participants. First, the nationalist, and then the National Bolsheviks took turns attacked people who were grouped at the rainbow flag. A group of national socialists with black flags at that time chanted antifeministic and homophobic chants. One of the attackers on left -wing and gender activists, the National Bolsheviks Mikhail Pulin began to blackmail the applicants of the rally: he tried to demand that they remove the rainbow flag. The organizers succumbed to pressure, showing softness, and in violation of their own decision they first asked, and then demanded to curtail the LGBT Flag. So the centrism of the organizers resulted in opportunism, and the National Bolsheviks with the nationalists joined them began to dictate their conditions and actually seized the event. In such conditions, part of the left, together with rainbow activists, decided to leave the march.

The remaining people safely walked under the rain with slogans like “Glory to the Great Stalin”, “Russia from Warsaw to Port Arthur” and as a nail of the program-“Sell your wife, buy a rifle!” It all ended with a small rally.

Soon, the discussion of what happened began on the left media resources. Many people understand that if the left forum wants to remain really left, without right, conservative and nationalist bias, he needs to follow his own program documents and completely prohibit the presence of nationalists on his shares. But we must also not try to lower the situation on the brakes with the provocation of the national blogs, and in an ultimatum form to demand excuses and the cessation of provocations. If the National Bolsheviks once again allow attacks on other members of the Left Forum, then their membership in the forum must be suspended or stopped altogether. On public actions, it is worthwhile to declare such slogans and requirements, having seen which the nationalists simply will not want to come. It is necessary to nominate not a stupid and absurd slogan "Russia without bourgeois", but the requirement "Against the cut of the social budget" or "For internationalism!" In order for the action to become mass and relevant, and not by traditional walking with red banners and internal showdowns, it is worth inviting trade unions, various groups of deceived equity holders, ecologists, students and so on.

Behind Abracadabra with the names of small left -wing groups and reflection on a failed street action, the prospects of the left forum are emerged (as a significant part of the organized left movement). It's time to determine what a modern left -wing idea is a return to the past with Brezhnev and powerless, the poor population, which, already leaving the school age, ceased to believe in communism? Or are we looking into the future, in economically developed and humane socialism? Having chosen the wrong path, we risk being in the society of rabbits and boas from the same name by Fazil Iskander.

Nikolai Caucasian - lawyer of the Committee "For Civil Rights", activist of the movement "Left Socialist Action", accused in the so -called "Swamp case"

The text was recorded and transferred to the editorial office of the RS by the lawyer of the Caucasian, according to the conditions of his house arrest.