This is an information about events in Russia and RCYL(b) activities.

On the 9th of March in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Organizational Secretary of the CC of RCYL(B) Comrade Illarionova there was held a Plenum of the CC of RCYL(B). In the Plenum there participated RCYL(B)'s activists from Moscow and the CC of RCWP-RPC's Youth Secretary Comrade Batov.

In the first place the Plenum broadly considered the situation in the structural divisions of the CC and made some orders to their heads. The key problems of the Plenum were the re-organization of the structural divisions and the preparation for the summer events - the 4th Training Session and the Military-Sports RCYL(B)'s camp. While discussing the first question, it was decided to dismiss all the structural divisions and to create efficient groups, which will make the work of the Apparatus of the CC more flexible.

We, the delegates of a meeting of the communist youth organizations from former Socialist countries held in Kiev, February 18th and 19th 2012, express our solidarity with and support to the brave current struggles of the Greek popular strata, working class, communists and militant trade-unionists.

The recent agreement between the Greek government and the EU under the leadership of German imperialism ensures the interests of the creditors and other capitalists, attacks further the labor law and rights, reduces the minimum salary and leads the working people, especially the youth to unemployment and a life of misery and poverty. The drastic decrease of people’s incomes, destruction of elementary rights, growing absolute exploitation, loosing of any security by EU "memoranda" - this all is a test of procedures which will be imposed on another peoples of Europe.

We, the young Communists from former Socialist countries, gathered in Kiev under the slogan "And the struggle goes on - Even 20 years later the youth fights for socialism!" to adopt this declaration of cooperation.

After 20-year period of capitalist domination it is paramount that the forces of youth in the countries united by a shared historical experience of socialist construction pool their efforts. 20 years ago our peoples lost their hopes for the future, for a dignified life, for tomorrow. All this has been taken away from the people by capitalism.

The new round of the crisis of capitalism exposes its baneful traits even further. During the crisis, capitalism strives to bolster its sagging positions, transfer all expenses and hardships onto the working masses and solve its problems by waging new wars. It also utilizes various methods of propaganda, enforces political reaction, censorship and repressions. This propaganda is aimed first and foremost at the youth, which is the least socially protected part of society. The youth, having no experience of life in a socialist system, is very vulnerable to this propaganda...

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...

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.

Communists and all the progressive forces of Russia are the inseparable part of the international proletarian movement, thus they have no right to be apart from the struggle of the working class, wherever it takes place, especially in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The RCWP-RPC, the RCYL(B), the ROT-Front carefully observe the heroic struggle of the Kazakh oil-workers which has been waged until now. It is necessary to mention that the RCYL(B) has held actions of class solidarity supporting the struggling workers of Kazakhstan and their just demands in Moscow, Leningrad, Voronezh and has organized a collection of signatures supporting the striking workers. But no distant support can replace close cooperation and help.

Committing their international duty, several days ago representatives of the Russian United Labor Front (ROT-Front) which is the wide coalition of communist, the most progressive workers' and left-wing forces, were given a task to go to the Manfistau Region.

In the evening of the 15 September in Leningrad in the Pionerskaya Square there was held a meeting devoted to the problems of the educational field. The action was organized by the Center of Workers' Mutual Help and the organization called "The St.-Petersburg Parents" . The RCYL(B), the RCWP-RPC, the ROT-Front and trade unions also took part in it.

The meeting consisted of two parts. The first was presented in the form of a theatrical performance. There were organized "classrooms" in which the guests of the meeting had to pass exams in four obligatory subjects (according to the new school reform conducted by the bourgeois government) - labor training, physical training, patriotism, the basis of the Orthodox religion.

On September the 7th a meeting of solidarity with the workers of Kazakhstan’s oil industry was organized in Voronezh, similar to those that have already taken place in Moscow, St.-Petersburg and Vladivostok. A massive protest in front of the Embassy of Kazakhstan was organized in Athens by the Communist Party of Greece, and the Communist Party of Poland expressed their support for the striking workers.

September the 1st of 2011 the Revolutionary Communist Youth organized an action against the ongoing military aggression in Libya. Due to the fact that the authorities of St.-Petersburg have once again refused to give permission for a mass picket, it was deemed appropriate to conduct individual picketing near the British Consulate-General located at 5 Proletarian Dictatorship Square. About a score activists arrived to support the picket, including representatives of the DSPA, the Left Front, and concerned citizens.

On the 1st of September, the Knowledge Day, collaborators of the ROT-Front and the RCWP-RPC in Chita held a rally in the framework of struggling for free-of-charge education, social sphere, against establishing the Federal Law N 83. The rally gathered school students, high-school and technical-school students, workers, pensioners and just passers-by. There were present also representatives of the CPRF and journalists.

It should be pointed out that the main participants of the meeting were mainly young people of about 16-20 years old, especially among those who made speeches. In the speeches it was told about the harm which the state laws in the sphere of education will bring. The speakers called for uniting in the struggle for the rights and free-of-charge education in the framework of the students' trade-union "Zaschita" ("The Defense"), the ROT-Front, the RCYL(B). The participants held banners with such slogans as: "Knowledge is not a commodity, school is not market!"; "FL-83: education is becoming the privilege of the rich".

On August 27-28th the Bryansk Section of the RCYL(B) organized the annual regional summer camp - the Bryansk Camp of the RCYL(B), named after Ignat Fokin, a great revolutionary. As was the case with the previous years’ camps (this is the fifth summer camp of the RCYL(B) organized in Bryansk), local Communist Youth was joined by their comrades from other regions of our country, and also by the Youth Interaction Secretary of the CC of the RCWP-RCP Comrade Batov and a representative of the Moscow LCY (League of Communist Youth).

On August 31 the action called "Strategy-31" took place in Voronezh. Activists of RCYL(B) took part in it, and adherents of the Communist Youth disputed a legislative initiative of Alexander Torshin - a senator of the Council of the Federation.

For the last 12 years of the "United Russia's" rule the only effective instance for Russians remained the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). But this last opportunity of self-defense has been wished to be annulled. Under the bill developed by Torshin the Constitutional Court of Russia will determine to apply or not apply each of the ECHR decision.

Last Saturday in Voronezh there was held a picket dedicated to collecting signatures, as a symbol of solidarity with the workers of Kazakhstan’s oil industry, who are on strike. The picket met an unusually lively response: most of the passers-by had no idea about the events in Kazakhstan, but we did our best to explain the situation and encouraged them to support the strikers with their signatures. The people reacted to this problem with solidarity and even stated the necessity and desirability of strikes in Russia as well!

The picket gathered about forty signatures in support of the workers. The organizers were very pleased that a significant number of activists attended the picket, as well as the fact that the people were not indifferent to this issue and contributed their signatures to the workers’ cause.

Due to the anniversary of the State Committee of Emergency the picket was also supplied with posters on the subject, and the participants addressed this historical event as well.

We did not limit ourselves to purely historical remembrances about the USSR, but connected the picket’s subject to modern struggle instead: the slogan "Our homeland is the USSR!" was imbued with the most practical meaning.

A summer camp was held from the 11th to the 14th of August on the bank of the Pastorskoye Lake in the Leningrad Region, named "Social Protest 2011" and organized by the Workers’ Mutual Aid Center and the Federation of Socialist Youth. The camp brought together the activists of various communist (RCYL(B)), left-wing (RSD, DSPA, Autonomous Action), unionist (MPRA, "Defense", "NovoProf") and social (Initiative Russian Citizens’ Comradeship, Parents of Petersburg) movements. It is worth mentioning that last summer our organization also participated in such an event.

On the 12^th of August 2011 the activists of the RCP-CPSU, the Left Front, the RCWP-RPC and the RCYL(B) held a picket for secular and free education in the center of Voronezh, on the Revolution Avenue next to the already former Officers' House. (This year, as a result of Defense Ministry's reforms, the military men have lost both their Houses of culture in Voronezh)

There were symbols and means of agitation prepared especially for the picket, among them a banner which reminded that teaching religion at schools is against the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Newspapers were distributed.

The Russian Orthodox Church is one of the main sources of social problems in the region.

The 1^st Meeting of Left-wing Youth Organizations was held in Voronezh on July 26-31. Its basic purpose was the convergence and closer acquaintance among members of this organizations.

Initially this event was supposed to be a transregional meeting of the SKM (The League of Communist Youth). The idea of such meeting came from rank-and-file members. It was a logical wish to unite the disjointed SKM organizations from different regions. But the Moscow administration of the SKM rejected this idea, and initiative comrades, mostly from the SKM (NE district of Moscow) and a Left-Front representative in Voronezh, decided to change the form of event and make it open to friendly organizations.

August the 4^th saw a major event in the cultural life of the Russian capital: an exhibition of the Korean applied art was opened in the building of the International Centre of Scientific and Technical Information in the vicinity of the Polezhaevskaya Metro station. A large crowd gathered to watch the opening ceremony and the hall was full to the point of bursting. The opening ceremony was conducted in a suitably respectful manner, the stage was decorated with portraits of both Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, and several officials were in attendance, including the PDRK Ambassador in Russia Kim Young-je, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Culture, etc. Obviously, a large number of various left-wing organizations, which sympathize with Korea’s plight and the heroic struggle of the Korean people, were also represented, among them RCWP-RPC and RCYL(b). After all ceremonial speeches came to the end, the Ambassador cut the red tape and the public was admitted into the exhibition proper to enjoy the Korean arts and crafts.

In the second half of July, after the 3d RCYL(B)'s Training Session, there was held a regular RCYL(B)'s military-sports camp as its continuation. The year 2011 is marked with the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic war outbreak and the battle for Moscow. That was one of the reasons for choosing the place of the camp: it was held in the area where the Kalinin army group forces waged their battle. It was the army group that on the 5th of December 1941 started the counter-offensive stage of the battle for Moscow that ended with the first considerable defeat of the Hitlerites in the Second World war and with wrecking of their "Blitzkrieg" plan. Therefore RCYL(B) decided to continue the fine military-patriotic tradition and, after the example of the last year, to name the camp after the army group commander, at that moment Colonel General Ivan Konev.

In the network of the 3d Training Session of RCYL(B) its participants conducted a training public opinion poll on the streets of Moscow. Several teams questioned residents of Moscow what problems and ways of their solution exist in Russia. One of the questions concerned attitude to the Soviet past.

All the teams chose creative approach to the task, subdivided themselves into groups and distributed duties among m embers of the team. Some were making photos and a video survey of the polling...

From July 16 to 20, the Communist Youth members, the young members of the RCWP-RPC, RCYL(b)'s supporters from various regions of Russia, ROT-Front activists, representatives of the allied League of Communist Youth organization and foreign guests took part in the 3d Training Session of RCYL(b) to gain new knowledge and skills in different facets and directions of class struggle, and exchange experiences, opinions and ideas.

The Training Session lasted five days and had a very tight schedule. As usual, the Communist Youth tried to abstain from the traditional form of education by lectures and instead made most of the Training’s curriculum an interactive and sometimes even hands-on experience. Unlike the previous two instances, this year the Training Session was declared an open event, thus allowing representatives of allied organizations and non-party supporters of the left-wing ideals to participate along with the members of the Party and the Youth League. By doing so, RCYL(b) had decided to make the Party School not only interregional, but also an inter-organizational event.

On the 7^th of June the Moscow organization of RCWP-RPC organized a picket at the Lithuanian Embassy. The aim of the event was to protest against the false trial of the Chairman of the Socialist People's Front Algirdas Paleckis which was going to start on this day. In the event there took part the representatives of CPSU, RCYL(B), the "Venceremos" society, the "Communists of Russia" organization and others. Under the flags of RCWP-RPC and RCYL(B) and the flag of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic the participants of the event held banners with our slogans and demands to the Lithuanian government in the Russian and Lithuanian languages...

On the 7^th of June at 3 pm there was held a meeting at the General Embassy of Lithuania organized by the Leningrad Committee of RCWP-RPC due to the reprisals against the Chairman of the Socialist People's Front of Lithuania Algirdas Paleckis.

On this very day in Vilnyus there started a trial against Comrade Paleckis who is being tried for the intention to study the events on the 13^th January 1991. Again, when something threatens the power of the ruling capital (among these an attempt to discover the essence of its "noble" coming to power) any democracy, the freedom of speech and the other declared values move to the background. Is it hypocrisy? It is a cold calculation of class interests...

On the 16^th of May the Moscow organization of RCYL(B) together with the Moscow League of Communist Youth (SKM) held a protest action at the Ukrainian embassy. The aim of the action was to show our protest against the nationalist prank in Lvov.

The action was held in the form of a single-man picket and an unofficial meeting of people. This form was used due to the fact that the local authorities forbade the action because there allegedly was "no embassy" in that place. Of course, that was a perfect lie which showed the political essence of forbidding the action. It is important that the official document forbidding the action was given to us in the evening the day before the action, when it was already impossible to ask for permission once again. According to the law, the local authorities must have agreed with the organizers about the place of the action, but it was not done...

The Mayday in Leningrad is one of the most prominent moments in the political and social life of the city. At the same time the approach of different parties, political organizations and movements to this date is absolutely different. It is so even among those forces which seemingly have the same "color" of policy.

The demonstration was moving down Nevsky Avenue. The first to come was the ruling party called "The United Russia" together with its pocket pro-government trade-unions. All they did was to trumpet about their "great achievements in improving the people's life" and to criticize the "evil" opposition. The characteristic feature of the "The United Russia's" public actions is that now they do not even try to hide the fact that one part of the people coming to their meetings and demonstrations is those who are paid a certain sum of money; and the other part is workers and students who are forced to come by the administrations of their enterprises and institutions.

On the 1^st of May in Moscow there was held an event of the workers' solidarity of the organization called "The Revolutionary Communists of Moscow". Several hundreds of people gathered there, the whole area was bright with red flags and banners. In the joint action there participated communist parties and movements, workers of the Moscow enterprises, different forces struggling for the interests of the working people. The forces of ROT-Front (The United Labor Front of Russia) gathered under one banner. They included the Russian Communist Workers' Party - The Revolutionary Party of Communist (RCWP-RPC), the Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevik) (RCYL(B)), the Left Front, CRSU and others. Our column included also the Moscow workers of a number of factories with the banner "The League of the Moscow Workers". As a result of our work we were joined by comrades from other left organizations and social movements, such as, for example, "The Pirate Party" (a party against the copyright)...

As it has become known to our correspondent, supposedly at night or in the morning on the 24th of October a group of young people penetrated the territory of the Czech Embassy in the Russian Federation. There they threw about some leaflets of the Communist Youth League of Czechia (KSM). The leaflets were devoted to the banning of this organization by the government of Czechia several years ago. Also on several poles and buildings there appeared the stickers of KSM. It seems to have been no material harm to the Embassy.

At the moment KSM is legal, but the conflicts between it and the government still continue to exist. We cannot say that there is no possibility of trying to ban KSM again.

Supposedly, this was an act of solidarity of the Russian radically left youth with their Czech comrades.

On the 12th of October in the office of the Russian Communist Workers' Party - the Revolutionary Party of Communist (RCWP-RPC) in Moscow there was held a meeting of the heads of RCYL(B), RCYL and CYL (headed by K. Zhukov). The session was conducted by the First Secretary of the CC of RCYL(B) Alexandr Batov. The First Secretary of the CC of RCYL Darya Mitina, the Chairman of the CC of CYL Konstantin Zhukov and the First Secretary of the CC of CYL Maxim Suraikin were present. The main issue of the meeting was preparation for the 17th Festival of Youth and Students, which is being organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) and will be held in December in the South-African Republic...

On June 22nd at half past 1 AM a bus specially rented by the Federation of Socialist Youth departed from the Baltic railway station in Leningrad. This was the start of the annual Rememberance Watch where representatives from the RCWP and RCYL(b) (a party flag was also present) took part.

Recently the State Duma, at the suggestion of the United Russia, for the third time passed a law which abolishes free primary school education. This reform was popularly tagged as the "commercialization of school".

On may 9 - Victory Day over Nazi Germany - left wing and patriotic organizations held a traditional march and rally headed by the CPRF (the official "communist party" in Russia). Similar demonstrations took place all over Russia, but were, as usual, overlooked by the mainstream mass media. The gathering point was on Pushkin Square and the march took place along Tverskaya street, on to Okhotniy Ryad past the Manezhnaya and Teatralnaya squares and ended with a rally on Lubianskaya square. The police, as usual, didn't allow people who were crowding in the side streets to join the march...

On December 16 in Izhevsk a round table discussion was held to discuss the problems connected with education reforms. Some activists of the local trade-unions, members of RCYL(b) and RKRP-RPK, as well as some students of local universities took place in the discussion. The student trade-union chairman and his vice-chairman, who is a member of RCYL(b), gave reports.

The first speaker pointed out that the real goal of education reform is to make our country a part of the world economic system where the role of our country is to be a source of raw materials, and the social and scientific achievements of the USSR are of no value for the world market. He also talked about the consequences of the reforms - the loss of school’s pedagogical functions, loss of teaching staff, destruction of country schools and the appearance of homeless children and so on. The conclusions are not reassuring: these 15 years of reforms led to nothing but the loss of school’s soviet virtues such as its fundamental character and solidness.

On the so called International Day of Copyright Protection, the Revolutionary Youth League has held a picket at the office of the Russian Author’s Association. Not many people could participate, because the authorities set a quota at only 5 people! The aim of the picket was to draw society’s attention to the issue of freedom of information.

The Revolutionary Youth League’s calls were: Information should be accessible to all! and the Arts should belong to the people!. We do not support the battle against the so called pirating.

In its development level, our country has lowered to level of third world countries. Such fruits of civilization as free libraries, inexpensive admission to museums, inexpensive tickets to the theater and other cultural events, which used to be accessible to an average person, are today only a vague memory. The "democratic" regime doesn’t like the idea of the arts belonging to the people - this doesn’t bring in profit. First, they closed down a lot of the movie theaters...

On January 18 (2007) the incident with Proskurin Park in Bryansk came to an end. On the one hand it has a happy ending, on the other hand it was disappointing. Happy because we (group of activists and members of RCYL(b), SKM and CPRF) have saved the park.

In the morning 13th December at the doors of Czech Consulate by RCYL(B) and FSM there was held another protest picket against illegal prohibition of Czech Komsomol. It was held in the framework of the single day of supporting KSM fixed by the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

On Wednesday 13 December at the Estonian Consulate in Saint Petersburg there was held a meeting of RCYL(B) and RCLP-RPC against the fascist bill of "prohibition of the Soviet symbolic" and pulling down of the memorial to the Liberating Warrior. In the speeches of the orators it was underlined that there is no and there should not be any misunderstanding between the Russian and the Estonian peoples and all what is taking place today is the policy of bourgeois authorities of Estonia. In the hands of the meeting participants there were placard "Yes to the Friendship of Russians and Estonians, No to Fascist Revenge!"

On the 13th of December the activists of the Moscow Branch of RCYL(B) held a short meeting near the Embassy of the Czech Republic. The meeting was devoted to the political repressions against KSM which has been officially forbidden by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of this country recently.

On the 12th of December — Yeltsin’s Constitution Day — Moscow district section of Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolshevist) — RKSM(b) took part in three actions. First, we had a picket outside the Council of Federation (Upper Chamber of Russian parliament). Putin’s regime now refuses to observe even those rudimentary bourgeois-democratic rights that the 1993 Constitution declares. That’s why our main slogan was: "We will force you to abide by the Constitution!"