RUSSIAN AND GERMAN NAZIS ARE BUILDING LINKS By MIKHAIL TSOVMA On the 27th of October "Inostranets" newspaper (a supplement to the biggest Russian business weekly) published an article about the growing co-operation between two Nazi organizations - the German group "National Offensive" (NO) and Russian National Unity (RNE). Representatives of both groups met last week in Moscow to discuss possible "solidarity actions." German NO was outlawed this summer and Russian National Unity faced the same problem after it's active participation in the defense of the Russian parliament in September-October this year. An agreement was made to organize a week of solidarity and hold protests in front of Russian offices (including embassies, consulates and Aeroflot air company) in Germany and German offices in Russia demanding legalization of these ultra-right fascist organizations. According to "Inostranets" these demonstrations will take place from December 4 to 11 this year. The press service of the Ministry of Security (the renamed KGB) confirmed this information and told Inostranets that they were aware the meeting was taking place. Of course, they couldn't do anything about it since the meeting looked "like an ordinary meeting of friends." These bastards are always saying that they act only according to the law when it comes to fighting fascists. The KGB spokesman assured the correspondent that they will take any steps possible to prevent Nazi demonstrations. Russian National Unity appears to be the strongest fascist group in this country which openly declares its loyalty to fascist ideas. Before Yeltsin's coup d'etat (after which it was formally outlawed) fascists from the RNE openly trained themselves in shooting and fighting. Stories about this appeared in the papers with frightening photos but none of the authorities seemed to care about that. The only protest against RNE of which I am aware took place in Moscow on August 7 when several young anarchists and communists attacked fascist literature sellers after one of the anarchists was beaten by the thugs from RNE. Of course, when the police interfered it arrested the leftists not the fascists. After Yeltsin's decision to disband the parliament at the end of September thugs from Russian National Unity appeared near the parliament. Since they were one of the most organized forces they easily got loads of AK-47s (Kalashnikov machine-guns). Trotskyists and anarchists that appeared near the parliament in these days were beaten up for the mere notion that they are internationalists. After the storm of the parliament, RNE was outlawed, but a lot of fascists managed to escape arrest. One can be sure that they did not leave machine guns on the battlefield. Alexander Barkashov, the leader of RNE, was not arrested. Reports on the activities of the RNE before the putsch described it as a 400 to 500 people strong battle detachment which had a number of sympathizers among the police. Unfortunately the left in Russia seems to be very disorganized and of course it poses no real danger to the fascists so far, but anti-fascist actions have to start sometime and the sooner it happens, the better. It will be very good if we can organize an international counter- campaign against RNE in Russia and NO in Germany. This will be a good start for building links among anti-fascist activists. The time is now because Nazis are already trying to build links among themselves. I will try to spread the information about the coming Nazi actions to activists in Russia so that we can organize counteractions. I will be very glad to send information to all the anti-fascist activists in Germany who want to do something about the coming actions of RNE in December. You can send your information, requests and contact addresses by e-mail (to: krazchenko@glas.apc.org) or by fax (to: 095-9210655). Mikhail Tsovma is an activist of an anarcho-syndicalist group in Moscow, currently working in the KAS-KOR Labour Information Centre. Please, address all messages concerning this to him.