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 Tuesday March 04, 2003 01:25 by Voline
 A Cautionary Tale This is taken from ‘The Unknown Revolution’ by Voline, a Russian anarchist, who was about at these times, although not in Kronstadt when this was happening and later sent into exile (originally to be executed) by the Bolsheviks. Resolution of the General Meeting of the 1st and 2nd Squadrons of the Baltic Fleet, held on March 1st, 1921. “After having heard the reports of the delegates sent to Petrograd by the general meeting of the crews to examine the situation, the assembly decided that, since that it has been established that the present Soviets do not express the will of the workers and peasants, it is necessary: (1) to proceed immediately to the re-election of the Soviets by secret ballot, the electoral campaign among workers and peasants to be carried on with full freedom of speech and action. (2) To establish freedom of speech and press for all workers and peasants , for the Anarchists and Left Socialist parties. (3) To accord freedom of assembly to the workers and peasants organisations. (4) To convoke, outside of the political parties, a Conference of the workers, Red soldiers and sailors of Petrograd, Kronstadt, and the Petrograd province for March 10th, 1921, at the latest. (5) To liberate all Socialist political prisoners and also all workers, peasants, Red soldiers and sailors, imprisoned as a result of the workers and peasants movements. (6) To elect a commission for the purpose of examining the cases of those who are in prisons or concentration camps. (7) To abolish the ‘political offices’, since no political party should have privileges for propagating its ideas or receive money from the State for this purpose, and to replace them with educational and cultural commissions elected in each locality and financed by the government. (8) To abolish immediately all barriers. (9) To make uniform the rations of all workers, except for those engaged in occupations dangerous to their health. (10) To abolish Communist shock-troops in all units of the army and the Communist guards in the factories: in case of need, guard detachments could be supplied in the army by the companies and in the factories by the workers. (11) To give the peasants full freedom of action in regard to their land and also the right to possess cattle, on condition that they do their own work, that is to say, without hiring help. (12) To establish a travelling control commission. (13) To permit the free exercise of handicrafts, provided no hired help is used. (14) We ask all units of the army and the kursanti cadets to join our resolution. (15) We demand that all our resolutions be widely published in the press. This resolution was adopted unanimously by the meeting of the crews of the Squadrons. Two persons abstained. Signed: Petrichenko, president of the meeting: Perepelkin, secretary.”
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1This is really below the belt, after the cock-up last Saturday. The anarchists are now hitting us with Kronstadt. Please give it a rest for the time being. Incidentally, should the title of the post not be "The Unknown Counter-Revolution", sorry, I guess that's unfair. Who the hell has NOT heard of Kronstadt by now.
I'd be surprized if that article is posted by anyone in the WSM as we generally encourage people to stick to the indymedia guidelines when posting and the article above makes no attempt to be relevant to them. Such an article could perhaps be written but this is not it.
The Socialist Party should realise that criticism of Leninism not extends amoung a much broader layer of activists, based in part on the statments of SP members in the last week. It's not all that surprizing that some of these people have drawn the historical links with events like Kronstadt (see http://www.struggle.ws/russia/mett.html for what we talking about) and seek to inform others in this rather crude way. I'd encourage them though to do it in a manner more consistent with indymedia.ie's purpose, which is not, as I understand it, a discussion forum for the Russian revolution.
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