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Everything But The Girl @ WFYS, Moscow, USSR, 1985

XII International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow '85

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"Sejatinya, sebuah perjalanan akan sampai pada ujungnya. Ujung yang tak akan pernah kita kira. Perjalanan yang membuat kaki kita menapaki makna sesungguhnya. Menapaki berarti membiarkan langkah kita meninggalkan sebuah tanda. Tanda yang akan selalu kita kenang. Tanda itu tak akan mampu dilihat dari atas, dari mata yang kasat. Tanda itu hanya dapat dilihat dari bawah. Walau menapakkan kaki di bawah, kiranya tak akan pernah ada kedukaan. Melangkah di bawah membuat kita mengetahui banyak hal yang tak pernah mampu dilihat dari atas sana. Segala puji bagiNya" [20 Oktober 2017, Gorki] #throwback #lejournaldelavie #wfys #wfys2017 (di Gorki, Moskovskaya Oblast', Russia)

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Sketches from Sochi: Parade of leftist delegations 

The delegation of the St. Petersburg branch of the United Communist Party (OKP), participating in the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi, Russia, continues to publish short notes on what is happening. The second day of the festival just finished. But for us, the opening of the festival was today, not yesterday, because the parade of delegations took place in the early morning. Moreover, these were delegations that came for the political festival, rather than for romantic, meaningless entertainment with ping-pong, lectures on successful youth entrepreneurship, football matches between national teams of Russian corporations, computer games and other crap. From Russia there were only delegates of left organizations at the parade. No MGER (Young Guard of United Russia) and LDPR (Liberal-Democratic Party) [bourgeois nationalist groups]. A certain number of apolitical Russian students would have come, probably, but no one ever informed them about the parade. It simply did not appear in any program of the festival. It's a pity, because they could have been imbued with the correct festival atmosphere. Because the colorful parade of left-wing youth from Europe, Latin America, and Asia marched cheerfully and fervently. OKP members from different regions, who made their way to the festival, followed the party flag brought by the Leningraders. What else? For us it is already obvious that the official media has set out to silence any leftist presence at the festival. They film anything except the left content. Meanwhile the discussion halls of the WFDY, our "ghetto,” is full of people.

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Getting Loose at the Wig DIY in Detroit

Photo: Kyle Dalton

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Anticapitalism March to be held without agreement of Moscow City Hall

On the eve of the World Festival of Youth and Students, the Anticapitalism 2017 March will be held in Moscow on Saturday, September 23. Notification was sent to the mayor's office, signed by the participants of the organizing committee of the action. The subsequent actions of the Moscow government, alas, frankly violate the law on rallies. For starters, the mayor's office missed the deadline, having spent more than three days on its response. Moreover, the Moscow government refused to agree to the action, without offering the organizers an alternative route for the march. Despite this apparent violation of the law by the Moscow government, the “Anticapitalism” Organizing Committee decided to compromise and offered City Hall an alternative route with fewer participants. The mayor ignored our goodwill. In this regard, we announce that the Anticapitalism March will be held in Moscow on September 23. At 13:00 we will gather at the beginning of Strastnoy Boulevard, near Chekhovskaya Metro station. The law is on our side, and we will assemble peacefully, without weapons, to express our rejection of the inhuman capitalist system that reigns in Russia. "Anticapitalism" March Organizing Committee September 20, 2017 #антикап #мэрия #наснезапретить #23сентяря #акция #Москва

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United Communist Party of Russia welcomed in Los Angeles

On August 10, 2017, Dina Gulyanitskaya, member of the Central Committee of the United Communist Party of Russia (OKP), took part in a meeting with communists from the U.S. Workers World Party in Los Angeles.

The participants of the meeting were actively interested in the attitude of Russian youth towards leftist ideas, and the cooperation between the OKP and various Komsomol organizations. Comrade Gulyanitskaya spoke about the struggle of the communists for the sympathy of young people. The problems of preparing for the forthcoming World Festival of Youth and Students were not ignored. A representative of the U.S. delegation to the festival, present at the meeting, noted the desire of the Russian authorities to obscure the anti-imperialist content of the festival movement. 

The communists of Los Angeles showed great interest in the relationship of Russia's left-wing forces to the events in Ukraine and Donbass. A heated discussion was prompted by the thesis of American social democrats present at the meeting that "Russian communists should support Vladimir Putin in the struggle against U.S. imperialism as the main world evil." Dina Gulyanitskaya spoke about the support of the communists of the OKP for progressive forces in the Donbass and declared that it was impossible to ignore the desire of Crimeans to join Russia, which, however, should not give rise to illusions about any adjustment by the Kremlin administration of its original anti-people course.

The internal political situation in Russia was also discussed. For example, the U.S. comrades asked the opinion of the OKP about Alexey Navalny, and about the reasons for the fragmentation of the Russian left wing. They asked, in particular, why the activists of the future United Communist Party left the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and began building the OKP. The description of Zyuganov's party as an organization built into the government system, flirting with big business and the church, was understood by the comrades. 

The participants in the meeting agreed that every national detachment of the communist movement has a major barricade of the class struggle in its own country, but international solidarity of the working people must not be ignored.

Press service of the Central Committee of the United Communist Party of Russia

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Simplicity

Kyle Dalton diving

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Martin Belsile 

Detroit, Michigan 

2/18/17