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The brewery company of "Baltika", in spite of its outer image of a "socially oriented business", has been leading an anti-worker and anti-trade-union policies in its factories for many years. It suppresses any workers' attempts to form trade-union structures independent from the enterprises' administration for defending their interests.

On the 21st of January the Zelenograd communists honored the memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and put flowers at the pedestal near a scientific center where a memorial to the leader stood earlier. The memorial itself was dismantled about a year ago under the cover of "restoration". However, it was never returned to its place.

The speakers at the meeting were the heads of the local divisions of the CPRF and the ROT-Front V. Minkevich and A. Redin. The main motive for the speeches was the unswerving intention to obtain the restoration of the Lenin memorial. For this purpose communists have decided to establish a committee "For the Restoration of the Lenin Memorial" and to collect money for this affair. We are not quite sure right now whether it will be a fund or any other form, but there is no doubt that any person will be able to participate in the restoration of the memorial, which is our cultural heritage and the historical appearance of the town. In the nearest future the organizers are going to discuss the further plans. We call everybody to follow the campaign and not to keep aside.

On October the 27^th 2011 an action of protest was held in front of the Heineken Brewery LLC in Leningrad (Telmann st. 24) from 8.00 to 9.30 am by the local union organizations APK and "Solidarity" supported by class unions "Zaschita", New Trade Unions and the Interregional Union of Auto Plant Workers, as well as left-wing and social movements, such as the RCWP-RCP, the RCYL(b), the Workers’ Mutual Aid Center, the Federation of Socialist Youth, the Russian Socialist Movement, the "Proryv" and "Aurora" movements, about 40 people in total...

On October 22 the united forces of the Russian left (Left Front, ROT-Front, RCYL(b), RSD and some anarchists) conducted an action of solidarity with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the US. The activists marched through the streets of the capital to the building of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and left a funeral laurel with "Capitalism" written on it next to the entrance, thus symbolically burying the current system of economy that has obviously outlived its usefulness. They also burned a dollar sign, a symbol not only of the currency of the embattled county, but also the consumer society in general...

As it is already known from various left-wing sources, the strike of Zhanaozen oil workers enters its fourth month. Since the information on the subject was scarce and rather sketchy, and the situation seemed unclear at best, the Russian United Labor Front sent a group of comrades to get a more complete picture of the events unfolding in Kazakhstan. It would be prudent to tell this story in the correct order, from the very beginning:

On September the 26^th, our group, along with some Popular Front activists, went forth to conduct reconnaissance in the strikers’ camp in order to shed some light on the situation in the distant and god-forsaken city of Zhanaozen. During our approach to the city we were stopped by the police under the pretense of registration...

Industrial accident reports from Solombal paper factory remind the reader of wartime casualty lists: killed, wounded, evacuated to a hospital… These are accompanied by the Investigation Committee’s own reports telling that inquiry into cases involving article 143 part 2 (a breach of safety regulations or other rules leading to a mortal accident made by a person in charge of said rules’ enforcement) of the Criminal Code is underway. Non-lethal cases or any sort of serious punishment for the bosses are not even mentioned. Furthermore, the CEO Nikolay Lvov is a Senator in the Federal Council, another executive Pavel Shevelev is the chief (!) of the Labor and Employment Agency of the whole Archangelsk Oblast. All while the workers of the Solombal paper factory continue to be killed and maimed on their workplaces despite such "close" attention to safety...

On the 27th of September in Moscow there was held a meeting devoted to the destruction of the Moscow industry. As usual, the police carefully fenced the meeting place for the people returning home from work not to participate. This told on the number of participants greatly. There were not more than a hundred people, but some passers-by stopped behind the fence, so there were more listeners. It is necessary to say that among the participants there were many workers.

During the run-up to the State Duma elections competing groups from the bourgeoisie and their petty-bourgeois allies, despite all their differences, unite their efforts in the so-called "Popular Front", led by Vladimir Putin himself. This front is intended against the working people, whose political representatives - the RCWP-RCP and the ROT-Front, were not allowed by the authorities to participate in the elections, depriving the RCWP of its legal registration by a court ruling, and refusing to register the ROT-Front as a political entity by decision of the Ministry of Justice - six times in a row, no less.

Communists and all the progressive forces of Russia are the inseparable part of the international proletarian movement, thus they have no right to be apart from the struggle of the working class, wherever it takes place, especially in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The RCWP-RPC, the RCYL(B), the ROT-Front carefully observe the heroic struggle of the Kazakh oil-workers which has been waged until now. It is necessary to mention that the RCYL(B) has held actions of class solidarity supporting the struggling workers of Kazakhstan and their just demands in Moscow, Leningrad, Voronezh and has organized a collection of signatures supporting the striking workers. But no distant support can replace close cooperation and help.

Committing their international duty, several days ago representatives of the Russian United Labor Front (ROT-Front) which is the wide coalition of communist, the most progressive workers' and left-wing forces, were given a task to go to the Manfistau Region.

The year 2011 has been rather outstanding because of the events which have occurred mainly in Africa, the Middle East and some other countries. Some of these events may be called popular uprisings.

First of all, we should mention that not all the events in the region are of the same nature. But all of them are caused by the contradictions of capitalism and imperialism, namely the contradiction between the labor and the capital which is represented in the fact that the bourgeoisie and its regimes of the region severely exploit and oppress the working class and the peoples. The second main contradiction is the contradiction between different groups of the world imperialists who are seeking to gain natural resources and spheres of domination in the region.

According to this there are several tendencies in the events which started in the beginning of this year and are still continuing in the countries of the region.

The first tendency is the protest revolutionary movement in such countries as Tunisia and Egypt. The anti-people regimes in these countries caused a certain kind of reaction among the masses of working people and the youth...