RUSSIAN ANARCHISTS REPORT ON GAY PRIDE MARCH IN MOSCOW:
The Russian anarchist site Avtonom reports on this year's Gay pride marches in Moscow. The report they give can make depressing news, but it has the virtue of being utterly truthful. It also points out many things not reported in the general press whose reportage of the event was pretty well confined to spectacular word pictures of neo-fascists attacking participants in the main march, held on Saturday, May 26th. The comrades from Avtonom (autonomous action) were disappointed with a poor turnout for their own event staged separately, the day before the NGO sponsored march. The difficulties of actually holding a protest in today's Russia are explained. The report goes into more about the political divisions of the sponsors of the main march, including the very controversial sponsorship of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, an ultranationalist and almost fascist party that only supports gay rights because of the orientation of many of its members.
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