Solidarity is Our Weapon
lib.edist.ro texts and ways to support anarchists in Central and Eastern Europe
Pictured: Nestor Makhno and a member of the Anarchist and Antifascist Territorial Defense Battalion in Ukraine.
Support Ukrainian and Belarusian Anarchists and Antifascists!
If you are able, please consider donating to Solidarity Collectives, the Anarchist Black Cross Belarus, and/or the Anarchist Black Cross Moscow. All three are making a significant and meaningful difference to our comrades in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Donations to Solidarity Collectives support frontline Anarchist and Antifascist fighters and Ukrainian internally displaced people and refugees. You can also opt to donate only to the later. In the case of ABC Belarus and ABC Moscow, your donation directly supports anarchist and antifascist prisoners.
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Solidarity Collectives
Direct support for members of the Anarchist and Antifascist Battalion resisting the invastion (upgraded body armor and helmets, etc.) and mutual aid for displaced civilians. You can donate only for mutual aid work if desired.
Anarchist Black Cross Belarus
Supporting Belarusian Anarchist Political Prisoners by paying legal fees and providing food and other necessities for those already imprisoned.
Posters
In memory of our fallen comrade Dmitry Petrov, you can download a PDF poster for wheatpasting or simply posting up at home
Texts
edist.ro Collections
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Why Anarchists Fight in Ukraine (May 2023)
General/Introductions
If you read nothing else we suggest starting with:
These are also very good introductory texts:
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Anarchist Black Cross Belarus: Statement of the ABC Belarus on the war in Ukraine
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Anonymous: Ukrainian Anarchists Mobilize for Armed Defense, Draw Solidarity from Abroad as Russia Invades
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Anonymous: War and Social Struggle
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Antti Rautiainen: Misconceptions about imperialism, and anarchist collective traumas
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Antti Rautiainen: Why should we support Ukraine?
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Julius Gavroche: Of war and revolution: Ukraine
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Pramen: The Position of the Group of Belarusian Anarchists in Warsaw on the War in Ukraine
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silberfuchs: Anarchists and Antifascists in the War in Ukraine
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silberfuchs: To Hell and Back
Interviews and First-Person Accounts
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CrimethInc: Interview: The Committee of Resistance, Kyiv
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Dmitry Mrachnik: Fascism Reborn: We Must Slay It
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Maxim Osadchuk: A Nation of Anarchists
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Oleh Andros: Seven Years of Rising From Infantilism
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Resistance Committee: Manifesto of Resistance Committee
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Resistance Committee: "this is not a war where there is space for ideological purity"
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Tom Lord and Ilya: "Defensive war as an act of popular resistance...": Exclusive Interview with an Anarchist Fighter of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine
Eastern/Central Europe
Belarus
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Anarchist Black Cross Belarus: No One Will Be Left Alone
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Anarchist Black Cross Belarus: Statement of the ABC Belarus on the war in Ukraine
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Anarchist Black Cross Belarus and Pramen: Uprising in Belarus from an Anarchist Perspective: Society, Prisoners, Chronology, Events
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Anonymous: Belarus: "When We Rise"
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assembly.org.ua: Rail war! Belarusians face the death penalty, the blocked Trans-Siberian, anarchists work around Moscow
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Pramen: Blood on Your Hands
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Pramen: The Position of the Group of Belarusian Anarchists in Warsaw on the War in Ukraine
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Pramen: We and the War
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Pramen and Ilya: “Now it’s definitely time to act” An interview with a member of the Anarchist and Anti-authoritarian Brigade
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silberfuchs: Solidarity is Our Weapon!
Central Europe
Kazakhstan
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Anonymous: The Kazakh insurrection
Russia
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Anarchist Black Cross Russia: Misconceptions about imperialism, and anarchist collective traumas
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Anonymous: The End of Peaceful Protest
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Anonymous: Russian Anarchists against the Putin regime’s war with Ukraine
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Anonymous: Spring Is Coming: Take to the Streets against the War
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Anonymous: Two Anarchists Arrested in Moscow
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Anonymous: "A Word Won't Stop a Bullet"
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assembly.org.ua: Rail war! Belarusians face the death penalty, the blocked Trans-Siberian, anarchists work around Moscow
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assembly.org.ua: Russian anti-military arsonists: "There are more of us every day"
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CrimethInc.: Russia: Waiting for the Wheel of History to Turn; Reflections on the First Phase of the Russian Anti-War Movement
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Ivan Astashin: Violence is the Norm
Ukraine
In addition to the above:
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Malcolm Archibald: Atamansha: the Life of Marusya Nikiforova
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Michael Palij: The Anarchism of Nestor Makhno, 1918-1921: An Aspect of the Ukrainian Revolution
Older Zine Collections (2022)
For Our Freedom and Yours!: Anarchists, Anti-Fascists, and the War in Ukraine (June 2022): PDF for Printing
On the Front Line: Anarchist Resistance and Mutual Aid in Ukraine (June 2022): PDF for Printing
Solidarity is Our Weapon: Repression and Resistance in Belarus (July 2022): PDF for Printing
Why We Fight: Anarchists and the Struggle for Freedom in Ukraine and Russia (June 2022): PDF for Printing
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