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On February 4 all over Russia there was held an action "For Fair Elections". In Moscow there gathered about 50 000 participants, in spite of the severe frost and authorities' obstacles. There were many of those who took part in the action on December 10 and 24. Before the procession started, there were formed four columns - the common-civil, liberal, nationalist and left-wing ones.

On the 4 February 2012 there was held a procession of Nizhny Novgorod citizens under a united slogan "For Fair Elections". The city administration tried to disorientate people through its mass-media announcing a wrong place for the meeting, but they failed to do it. At 15.30 the column started to move. In it there were represented many political forces of the city, but red flags predominated. The slogans were: "Russia without Putin!", "Russia will be free!", "We will come as long as you don't go!", "Shame on "United Russia"!". At 16.00 the procession finished with a meeting at the Chkalov Memorial where the floor was given to civil activists and political movement leaders.

The brewery company of "Baltika", in spite of its outer image of a "socially oriented business", has been leading an anti-worker and anti-trade-union policies in its factories for many years. It suppresses any workers' attempts to form trade-union structures independent from the enterprises' administration for defending their interests.

On the 21st of January the Zelenograd communists honored the memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and put flowers at the pedestal near a scientific center where a memorial to the leader stood earlier. The memorial itself was dismantled about a year ago under the cover of "restoration". However, it was never returned to its place.

The speakers at the meeting were the heads of the local divisions of the CPRF and the ROT-Front V. Minkevich and A. Redin. The main motive for the speeches was the unswerving intention to obtain the restoration of the Lenin memorial. For this purpose communists have decided to establish a committee "For the Restoration of the Lenin Memorial" and to collect money for this affair. We are not quite sure right now whether it will be a fund or any other form, but there is no doubt that any person will be able to participate in the restoration of the memorial, which is our cultural heritage and the historical appearance of the town. In the nearest future the organizers are going to discuss the further plans. We call everybody to follow the campaign and not to keep aside.

On October the 27^th 2011 an action of protest was held in front of the Heineken Brewery LLC in Leningrad (Telmann st. 24) from 8.00 to 9.30 am by the local union organizations APK and "Solidarity" supported by class unions "Zaschita", New Trade Unions and the Interregional Union of Auto Plant Workers, as well as left-wing and social movements, such as the RCWP-RCP, the RCYL(b), the Workers’ Mutual Aid Center, the Federation of Socialist Youth, the Russian Socialist Movement, the "Proryv" and "Aurora" movements, about 40 people in total...

On October 22 the united forces of the Russian left (Left Front, ROT-Front, RCYL(b), RSD and some anarchists) conducted an action of solidarity with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the US. The activists marched through the streets of the capital to the building of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and left a funeral laurel with "Capitalism" written on it next to the entrance, thus symbolically burying the current system of economy that has obviously outlived its usefulness. They also burned a dollar sign, a symbol not only of the currency of the embattled county, but also the consumer society in general...

As it is already known from various left-wing sources, the strike of Zhanaozen oil workers enters its fourth month. Since the information on the subject was scarce and rather sketchy, and the situation seemed unclear at best, the Russian United Labor Front sent a group of comrades to get a more complete picture of the events unfolding in Kazakhstan. It would be prudent to tell this story in the correct order, from the very beginning:

On September the 26^th, our group, along with some Popular Front activists, went forth to conduct reconnaissance in the strikers’ camp in order to shed some light on the situation in the distant and god-forsaken city of Zhanaozen. During our approach to the city we were stopped by the police under the pretense of registration...

Industrial accident reports from Solombal paper factory remind the reader of wartime casualty lists: killed, wounded, evacuated to a hospital… These are accompanied by the Investigation Committee’s own reports telling that inquiry into cases involving article 143 part 2 (a breach of safety regulations or other rules leading to a mortal accident made by a person in charge of said rules’ enforcement) of the Criminal Code is underway. Non-lethal cases or any sort of serious punishment for the bosses are not even mentioned. Furthermore, the CEO Nikolay Lvov is a Senator in the Federal Council, another executive Pavel Shevelev is the chief (!) of the Labor and Employment Agency of the whole Archangelsk Oblast. All while the workers of the Solombal paper factory continue to be killed and maimed on their workplaces despite such "close" attention to safety...

On the 27th of September in Moscow there was held a meeting devoted to the destruction of the Moscow industry. As usual, the police carefully fenced the meeting place for the people returning home from work not to participate. This told on the number of participants greatly. There were not more than a hundred people, but some passers-by stopped behind the fence, so there were more listeners. It is necessary to say that among the participants there were many workers.

During the run-up to the State Duma elections competing groups from the bourgeoisie and their petty-bourgeois allies, despite all their differences, unite their efforts in the so-called "Popular Front", led by Vladimir Putin himself. This front is intended against the working people, whose political representatives - the RCWP-RCP and the ROT-Front, were not allowed by the authorities to participate in the elections, depriving the RCWP of its legal registration by a court ruling, and refusing to register the ROT-Front as a political entity by decision of the Ministry of Justice - six times in a row, no less.