On the birthday of Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist, Marxist and left-wing dissident, now in Putin's prison, the Arkady Kots band puts out a track on his recent manifesto and demands the immediate release of our comrade! Join the campaign! https://freeboris.info/
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A Very Simple Request A plea to my Western progressive friends https://russiandissent.substack.com/p...

Idea - Arkadiy Kots band
Voice - Nikolay Oleynikov
Prod. - Mikhail Griboedov

Schwabinggrad Ballett/Arrivati is a collective of migrants' and refugees' rights activists, musiciants, and performers from Hamurg

This tune is from their Beyond Welcome LP recorded and published in 2016 by Buback Tonträger

Line-up: Latoya Mainly Spain, Peter Ott, Asuquo Udo, Heike Nöth, Christine Schulz, Ted Gaier, Jeano Elong, Dodi Eboth, Christoph Twickel, Charanotis Ganotis, Liz Rech, Margarita Tsumo, Oumar Traoré, Sylvi Kretschmar. Heiko Marn

Schwabinggrad Ballett/Arrivati is a collective of migrants' and refugees' rights activists, musiciants, and performers from Hamurg this is the tune from their LP called Beyond Welcome recorded and published in 2016 by Buback Tonträger

Line-up: Latoya Mainly Spain, Peter Ott, Asuquo Udo, Heike Nöth, Christine Schulz, Ted Gaier, Jeano Elong, Dodi Eboth, Christoph Twickel, Charanotis Ganotis, Liz Rech, Margarita Tsumo, Oumar Traoré, Sylvi Kretschmar. Heiko Marn

In 2011 the Zhanaozen massacre in the South-West Kazakhstan took place. Dosens of the insurgent oil-industry tradeunionists were killed during the uprising, other hundreds severely injured, miriads imprisoned, procecuted, suppressed. Today in the begining of the 2022 we face the major neoliberal capitalist disaster in one of the largest post-soviet republics.
This piece of the Moscow-based folk-punks was dediated to the Zhanaozen Massacre tragedy (rec 2015) unfortunately is still more than relevant today.
The recording includes Adrian Mitchell's poem translated in Russian by Kirill Medvedev

On 18 January 1943, when another wave of deportations began, Jewish underground organisations decided to resist. There were perhaps only some 50,000 people left in the Ghetto by that point, and no more than a 1000 members of the underground combat organisations. The initial resistance, meagre as it was, was a shock that forced the Nazis to halt deportations until 19 April when they moved again in full force. Between January and April the resistance organisations, among them many members of the socialist Bund, established a degree of authority in the Ghetto, building bunkers, smuggling weapons and executing collaborationists. They were preparing for an inevitable confrontation in which they stood no chance.
The people regained their agency and when they died, they died as fighters not victims. Nobody expressed the power of resistance to restore humanity to the downtrodden better than Wladyslaw Szlengel in his poem Counterattack. Szlengel, born in 1914, wrote it in reaction to the first clashes in the Ghetto in January and it was probably one of the last poems written before his death in the Ghetto Uprising.
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For more on the song's story and a video art piece by Haim Sokol check here:
https://partisan-jam.fhu.art/songs/counterattack--song
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This tune is a part of the Partizan Jam project meant to learn with Antifascism was initiated by Free Home University together with Arkadiy Kots Band.