January, 26 is the Global Day of
Mobilisation and Action

Russian social movements are in the process of
preparation to take part in Global Day of Mobilisation and Action for
civil rights and social justice.

Actions will be organized by social, trade-union and
human rights movements.

Analysis
of the meeting in the 3^rd
of November 2007 of alterglobalist, civil and social movements and
tendencies of the CIS countries

At
present time Russian internet is discussing of the meeting. We
present your enlightened attention several opinions of the
participants:

Stanislav
Markelov, president of the Institute of Superioroty of Law.

An
October for us, for Russia and for the Whole World

(Appeal of
17 Russian Intellectuals and Artists)

It is no
surprise that the imminent ninetieth anniversary of the October
Revolution in Russia has become the object of widespread attention.
The events of October 1917 were, indeed, an earthquake that shook the
world, altering its economic, social and cultural foundations.

Many media
sources depict this world-historic phenomenon as a mere coup d’?tat,
carried out by a handful of conspirators and adventurists with the
help of Western security services. All sorts of things are circulated
 — outright lies, distortion of the facts, and malicious slanders
about the participants in and leaders of this mighty event. The old
fables to the effect that the “October coup” was provoked by the
“German agent” Lenin and the “Anglo-American spy” Trotsky are
still being repeated, despite having been rejected by distinguished
scholars from various countries. Meanwhile, the Russian people are
portrayed as unwitting toys in the hands of “revolutionary
extremists”, even though the revolution could neither have begun
nor triumphed without the population playing a decisive role.

We say No to neo-liberal policy in Russia and in the world!

Russian social movements and organizations address to the people of Russia and the world in view of the G8 summit in St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kolganov

Ludmila Bulavka

The Next Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialectic of Dialogue versus the Metaphysic of Post-Modernism

By Lyudmila Bulavka and Aleksandr Buzgalin

(In response to the book by Caryl Emerson “The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin”. Princeton, 1997).

Mikhail Voeykov,
Professor at the Institute of Economics in Russian Academy of Sciences