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XII International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow '85

"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)

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.

Photo: Kyle Dalton

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

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

Kyle Dalton diving

2/18/17