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ANARCHIST CONGRESSES AND CONFERENCES On the 25. and 26. of May (1994) took place the 6th congress of the "Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists" (KAS) in Moscow. Participants came from Moscow, Omsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk and Donetsk (the Sewersk-branch delegated their votes to Omsk). Guests were the "Group of revolutionary Anarcho-syndicalists" (GRAS), one anarcho-populist and German and French anarchists. The congress voted for the expulsion of the groups in Petersburg, Twer and Tula (At least one of them cooperating with fascists-DA). The participants heared the reports about the local groups activities. The Moscow delegate statet that from the the organisation in the capital "Only survived a redaction collective". There are no real forces for founding a 'Confederation of Labour'". The Omsk and Tomsk delegates reported about their local syndicalist activities, the Donetsk group about their local activities. The information about the founding of a syndicalist initiative "Wolja" (initiated by GRAS) and about an ecological action in Tscherepowets, about the activities of a inpedent medical health care group during the coup-de-etat in October 1993 have been heard. Questions of information-exchange have been discussed. Concerning the discussion about the future perspectives the differences between the leftists (GRAS, Donetsk), the "centrists" (Moscow, Omsk) and the "rightists" (Irkutsk, Tomsk) became obvious. The "centrists" propagated their concept of "exploiting- less market economy" and rejected libertarian communism, on the other hand made a call for the cooperation of all anarchists (among them GRAS and IREAN) in order to publish a common magazine; the "rightest" were strictly against this idea. The "Confederation of Labour" was proclaimed, real syndicalist initiatives only exist in Siberia - in Omsk and Tomsk-Sewersk. The "Donbass Federation of Anarchists" (FAD), supported by GRAS tried to set up a new, revolutionary programm of the KAS, this discussion about this topic beeing rejected by the "centrists" and the "rightists". The same occured in respect to an orientation along the IWA. ON THE WAY TOWARDS FOUNDING A SECTION OF THE IWA IN THE EX-USSR In May 1994 there was a fusion of the "friends of the IWA" in Moscow (the anarcho-syndicalist wing of IREAN and the "group of revolutionary anarcho-syndicalists - friends of the IWA" (GRAS)). GRAS started systematic propaganda work in favour of anarcho- syndicalism. It published two issues of "Pryamoye Deystivye" (Direct Action) paper (circulation between 1.000 and 1.500 copies). GRAS distributed leaflets calling for the revolutionary syndicalist self-organization of workers, against nationalism and fascism. It acquaints workers with experiences and methods of direct action. Members of the GRAS participated in an ecological protest camp in Cherepovets (summer 94) and in the activities of the society for defense of human rights "Memorial". In October 94 GRAS organizes systematic information pickets in front of Moscow factories. It also organized actions within the trade union protest days (10-27 and 11-7). Members of the GRAS work in an independent syndicalist iniciative in the sphere of information, culture and science "Wolya" (Liberty). Beeing initiated by members of GRAS it works as an agitation group and as society for mutual aid. In autumn 94 Volya put forward its 8-point-program (it includes such social-economic demands as full compensation for price rising since march 91, establishment of the sliding scale of wages and social payments, garanties against unemployment, protection of workers right etc.) Now Volya propagates these demands among trade-union members, workers organizations and collectives. The GRAS aims to create a new revolutionary anarco-syndicalist organisation as section of the IWA in the Ex-USSR. It is negotiating with several local anarchits, syndicalist and workers groups in the preparation of a founding congress of the future "Confederation of the revolutionary anarcho- syndicalists" (CRAS) in 1995. The GRAS and the Gomel group of the "Federation of anarchits in Bjelorussia" created the organisational comitee of CRAS in september 94. It continues the contacts with the "Federation of Anarchists of Donbass" (FAD), which left the KAS in october 94 and created the Ukrainian RCAS. The "AS-INFO" is published as "bulletin of anarcho-syndicalists in eastern and central Europe". There is a Russian and English/German edition. Contact: Vadim Damier Pereleuk Alymova 13 KV. 24 107258 Moscow (Please dont mention organisation or bulletins name on the envelope). An e-mail edition is planned starting in autumn 95.