From: stachkom ICQ#42743890 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: PDP Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:03:09 +0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pttp] Why are we Worse than Grisha Isaev? Why are we Worse than Grisha Isaev? - http://internetelite.ru/so/so2000/second_page.phtml?04-2.DOC: so/so2000/so051 Samara Observer 11th December 2000 Pensioners and communists are promising to repeat a winter of strikes. The number of pickets organized by the communists and the unions is continuing to increase. In the past week pickets closed Moscow Avenue and paralyzed the City Transport System for a short period. The authorities paid no attention. Perhaps they were mistaken: the pickets are promising to close another street, Novo-Sadovaya, repeating the well known ZIM strike of 1998. These pickets have been going on in Samara since mid-November. First on the streets were the pensioners, justly demanding, from their point of view, the upholding of the law on pensions. The Oblast authorities showed no interest in them. Then the communists demanded permission from the high court to block one of the arterial roads, Moscow Avenue, but this was banned by the authorities. All the same, the pickets, on their own initiative, decided to take this step. The picket's leaders didn't restrain them, hoping that the militia would not be ready to use force against the elderly. As it turned out the militia made way for the pensioners, and, on the morning of the 4th of December, Moscow Avenue was closed for 17 minutes. At that moment, the crowd of picketers numbered around 500. There was no follow-up to this protest action. By mid-week the initiative had been seized from the pensioners by the unions. Each morning, on Slava Square, opposite the Oblast administration building there was a picket. The unions organizing it were protesting in this way against the new KZoT (Labour Code) which they consider encroaches on the workers interests. The communists supported the union activists and joined the picket, showing the same readiness for further pickets and strikes. The growing activism of the communists, unsurprisingly, worried nobody. It would appear that the authorities consider these as routine actions which will not lead to a serious cataclysm. Meanwhile, the pickets themselves are convinced that no one will hinder them, and intend to go on to more energetic actions. As several of the participating pensioners declared to the Samara Observer correspondent, they intend to close another of Samaras main streets. "We didn't get what we want at Moscow Avenue, so we'll close Novo-Sadovaya or Molodogvardieckii near the 'White House.' Grisha (diminutive of Grigorii) got what he wanted, why are we worse than him?" they declared gloomily. So it is not impossible that, in the near term, the city will be paralyzed as it was in the winter of 1998. Then the situation of a partitioned city was, for a while, not taken seriously. For just so long as the movement had not arisen in the whole city. Olga Popov SPAM IS BAD. DO NOT SEND IT Knowledge is Power! Elimination of the exploitation of man by man http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change Delivery Options: http://www.egroups.com/mygroups _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
