*As Chavez attempts to allow indefinite presidential reelections for himself by way of the approval of the Referendum for Constitutional amendment, anarchists publish this declaration, which is also the Editorial of El Libertario #55, January-February 2009 (now on line, in Spanish www.nodo50.org/ellibertario).

Until 2001, Russia was world leader on number of prisoners per capita, and since then it has been second only to USA. Prisons reflect the general trends in the society, and as Russia is heading for more control and stricter governance, prisoner population is again growing, after a short period of leniency in terms of probation and amnesties. Currently prison population in Russia is more than 700 000. Economic exploitation of the prisoner population is little developed, in contrary lack of meaningful work is more of a problem - so the current growth in the population is not due to pressure of capital but due to pressure of the state.

Yesterday started the first Queer Festival in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo
with a opening ceremony and an exhibition of Queer life and culture. The
festival and its organizers had already received opposition from various
sides, going so far as death threats along with the publication of names
and addresses in anti-queer internet forums. When the Festival opened in
the evening about fifty hooligans gathered on the other side of the river
screaming paroles (i will fuck your mother in the vagina and similar)
while at the art center about fifty religious radicals gathered close to
the entrance, discussing with and insulting the 150 supporters.

* During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas www.alasbarricadas.org posed several questions to the MLC www.mlc.acultura.org.ve, an affinity group of Cuban anarchism abroad. The complete text of this interview follows.

Hereby, we address our call to the civil society in democratic Europe, especially from the Czech republic, to the free mass-media to help us in the justified and lawful effort of autoexilation in order for us to be able to activate as free human beings and as a perfectly legal organization.

ººº With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists.

translations of some info posted earlier on the romanian newswire

After the sites contra-doxa.com and summitnato.ro, which have published anti-summit materials, were attacked for the first time in the middle of the day on April 2nd and were subsequently brought back online, during the evening of the same day they crashed for the second time as a consequence of a new online attack.

* The Collective Editorship of El Libertario, www.nodo50.org/ellibertario, expounds its vision of which path to follow in the current situation in Venezuela, summed up in the slogan, “Against the (B)oligarchy, demagoguery and corruption: Autonomous struggle of the underdogs!

A new photographs competition organised by
LibLab.

This competition will be a travelling exhibition and a show
Book.

Find out more.

Http://www.liblab.org/scatti-di-resistenza/

To cooperate

 Info@liblab.org

As I promised before (especialy in Polish version of Indymedia), I started today my protests in Warsawa, Poland.

* A member of the editorial collective of El Libertario (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario; in Spanish & English) prepared this article for the 6th edition of the Costa Rican (A) journal La Libertad [September 2007;  http://revistalalibertad.blogspot.com] in response to an inconsistent effort to establish impossible affinities between Chavism and Anarchism.

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Estonians set up new monuments to Hitler`s soldiers

* Interview by the Russian newspaper SITUATION from libertarian collective Autonomous Action www.avtonom.org regarding the current political picture in the island. A Spanish translation was published in El Libertario #50, Venezuela, 2007. For more info go to: www.mlc.contrapoder.org.ve -cuban anarchist website- and www.nodo50.org/ellibertario