We (the Russian Maoists) have been long enough ignoring quarrels waging in the world communist movement around the history of “peace talks” of the Peruvian Maoists with the Fujimori’s regime. However recently we have been directly faced with, firstly, rather rigid accusations of our fraternal organization in USA – Maoist Internationalist Movement – in this context and,… Read More »
There in Russia the masters are big gas, transport and energy corporations, closely concerned with the state, and more independent oil, engineering and metallurgy companies. Banking, insurance and mass media are highly overridden by the state too. Foreign capital has some positions in oil industry, but especially in pulp & paper, confectionery, brewing and tobacco sectors, and also in retailing. Recently… Read More »
There are six oil and gas enterprises among the first ten companies (according sales in 2001) – Gazprom, LUKoil, YuKOS, Surgutneftegaz, TNK and Sibneft. Moreover there are: RAO EES, Rusal and Norilskiy nikel, AvtoVAZ. Total sales of this ten enterprises make 63% of all top-100 companies’ sales. The most of the top-100 are machine-building companies – 22… Read More »
“…USSR was the greatest anti-empire, the global center of the good, which the destruction of colonial system, getting of national independence, general social progress would be impossible without, and, in general, all the best, progressive and advanced was in our world, which guarantor was just USSR. Now without USSR nobody can stop imperialist reaction longer,… Read More »
MIM is happy to report that revolutionaries in Russia are picking up the theories of Mao Zedong, both in order to better understand the treachery of the Soviet revisionist and social-imperialist clique which took power after Stalin’s death, and in order to guide them in making a correct assessment of their friends and enemies in… Read More »
Approved on June 9, 2000. Updated on January 3-4 and May 21, 2004. Ideology and Method We are Marxists. We believe that the heritage of classical Marxism, in all its fundamental features, adequately reflects the social processes taking place in today’s world. The oblivion into which Marxism has fallen in the Russian public consciousness today… Read More »
The list of totalitarian sects, punk get-togethers and gatherings of psychos that compose the sector of the Russian political arena quite presumptuously calling itself Communist reminds one of the ancient Jewish Cabbala or Umberto Eco’s post-modern excursions. We’ve got the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), the Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RCWP), the Russian Party of… Read More »
Ol’ Uncle Joe Stalin had a piano-player,And he would hammer rock’n’roll songs on it all night long.Not giving a fuck for the foul infamies of Freudianism,He really did dig the core essence of Zen Buddhism.From a song by ITAL Rost’n’Roll Band END, a Moscow lumpen underground blues band In this issue1 we are reprinting the… Read More »
Here are some of the most recent examples of how today’s Russian Federation plays the role of a semi-/sub-empire: “The minority shareholders of the largest oil refinery in Bulgaria, Lukoil Neftokhim, have voiced their concern over the actions of the the Russian oil company Lukoil, owner of a controlling stake in the Bulgarian firm… The… Read More »
Generally speaking, the following data are very approximate, as they don’t take into account either the military pressure of the Ru$$ian Federation in Central Asia and the Caucasus, or debts and the appetites generated by them (like in the case of Mongolia), or investments and the profits from them (as in the case of Vietnam).… Read More »