>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:43:29 EST >Subject: First Reports of December Ist Actions in Russia >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >RUSSIA INFO-LIST >from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ISWoR web-site - http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html >****************************************************************************** > >***** > >Sent by ISWoR activist Graham Campbell in Moscow - 2nd December '00. > >Once again the resistence of the organised working class of Russia to the >draconian proposals represented by the new KZoT or Labour code has been >demonstrated beyond any doubt. > >In St Petersburg 1000 workers demonstrated >outside the regional assembly blocking the main road Voinova Street for >several hours with some minor clashes with police. Workers in >Nizhni-Novgorod factories Elektromash, MUP Wodokanakl and Red Sormovo staged >meetings and marches and were featured prominently on Moscow and local >regional television; as were protestors in Tambov where 100 workers blocked >the street forced local their Duma deputy to conduct a question and answer >session on TV about the KZoT. > >Most importantly the Russia dockers union staged a five minute warning >strike at all ports at 10 am Moscow time (GMT + 3Hrs) right across Russia to >protest the anti-union measure. The FITUR-affiliated trade union for October >railway (which runs from Moscow to St Petersburg) also took part, signalling >the broad trade union support for the anti-KZoT beyond the two sponsoring >unions Zashchita (Defence or Protection) or SOTSPROF (Central Council of >Trade Unions) whose regional committees and locals took action in numerous >locations. > >In Moscow - around 100 workers at the world famous ZIL automotive factory >staged a protest at the humpbacked bridge near the plant at lunchtime as >their contribution to actions across Russia against President Putin's new >Labour code (KZoT). Traffic was blocked for a hour. > >Across Russia the most impressive actions were in Astrakhan led by Duma >Deputy Oleg Shein where rallies and strikes were held and are ongoing in >tens of factories for a big day of action and rally on Dec 3rd. > >And in Tyumen Region where rallies were held by Sotsprof at factories in >Noyarbsk and an all out strike of educational workers, pre-school and >primary school teachers, and correctional school teachers, took place across >the region supported by the Tyumen Regional Committee fo Soviet Women, in >the Central and Lenin districts of Tyumen city and the following centres: >Baikalovsk (Tobolsk), Golismanovo, Kalinin, Lenin area, Medvedevskaya, >Yurginskaya region, Yumas village. > >In the Kuzbass mining region of Siberia, workers at Anzhero-Sudzhensk once >again blocked the Trans-Siberian railway in protest. >in Kirov a meeting of the regional duma took place accomplanied by rallies >and stoppages at two factories Bio-him-zavod and Aviteck as well as school >No 16 which was suppprted by Zaschita, local student unions, teachers and >the local Congress of Women, and left groups including the RKRP, the Kirov >Marxist Group. > >In Samara, a reception meeting for the two state duma deputies (one from the >liberal Yabloko party and one from the Union of Rightist Forces) became a >discussion of the KZoT which both deputies went on record in opposing! >Meanwhile in Siberia and the far east of Russia, workers from the Energomash >BOR Ltd led actrion in Primorye terroitory including the factory trade union >organisation at Vladivostok SRZ. > >In Irkutsk SOTSPROF regional committee also >took part along with the sewing factory 'Patterns'; and workers at the >Irkutsk State University scientific library. Workers at the Federal Nuclear >Centre at the formerly secret city of Arzamas-16 once again staged action >assemblies against the KZoT. Workers action also took place in Penza, >Sergiev Posad, Orenburg, Ufa, Voronezh, Bashkortorstan and Kazan > >- - - - - - - > >There are also other reports of serious events happening in Astrakhan. Info >as soon as possible. Or go to our website for latest. > >********************************************************** >The RUSSIA INFO-LIST >puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. >If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or >want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]< >Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England >********************************************************** > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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