"Sulyandziga is one of among 260,000 people who are recognized as Indigenous and who are from Russia. Indigenous peoples living in Russia have long fought for recognition of their rights as native peoples and to protect their traditional territory, which is often located in areas that are used for natural resource extraction, such as mining.

But recent research shows that Indigenous activists are fleeing Russia because of growing repression. Sometimes, they are being charged with working on behalf of foreign governments, or they are facing false accusations of corruption."

https://theconversation.com/long-after-indigenous-activists-flee-russia-they-continue-to-face-government-pressure-to-remain-silent-220133

newsflash:

you don't need to organise as a state to fight a state.

you can instead organise as communists and fight the state, that is, horizontally, democratically, free associatively, consensually; without a hierarchical structure that the state or a corporation is.

statism is antithetical to communism, and obviously not a path towards communism but against it. authoritarianism won't help us get free of authoritarianism, slavery won't get us to freedom. a hierarchical organization won't magically transform into an egalitarian one in the future.

this idea is so ridiculously counterintuitive it shouldn't take "communists" 150 years to understand.

anarchists to tankies:

rathbone claims his understanding of communism is aided by having read david graeber of all people, but the lord knows something causes the brains of marxists to short circuit when it comes to understanding what anarchism is

it's been confounding them for over a 150 years even though their goal apparently is a stateless and classless society

looks like he really got the point 😂