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During 2011, the RABM movement continued to grow and already became a force that can be reckoned with (yet still small... but it only means we have potential to grow even more). Wouldn't speak about other countries, but here we already have at least one RABM-friendly circle ("Old Roots New Shoots), zines and gigs. In the next two weeks, I plan to finally sort out things with our forum, and to answer all my mail (just be a little patient...)
Speaking of my blog: I plan to further expand the spectrum of musical genres presented here, but still keeping it at least 50% dedicated to black metal, blackened crust, and other BM-related genres. Looks like a lot of my readers wish to see more post-metal here, but right now I don't have much of such stuff. But I can promise there will be a lot of anarchist industrial/neofolk/other experimental music in my blog in the next couple of months. Hope you're into such music (I know at least some of you are...)
Politically, 2011 was a quite interesting year. Looks like the crisis of global financial and political system is near, and we already have seen very massive opposition movements in various parts of the world (Arab Spring, OWS, "snow protests" in the ex-USSR). However, don't delude yourself thinking that it'll automatically lead to the triumph of libertarian socialist ideas. Both Arab Spring and OWS have achieved very little positive so far, and the "snow revolution" is quickly turning into liberal farce. Moreover, economical crises often lead to the rise of various authoritarian bullshit, some of which we can already see (quick radicalization of "mainstream" political right in USA and Europe; Nour and Muslim Brotherhood threatening the anarchists and socialists in Egypt; an alliance of liberals and nationalists here in Russia, which seemed to be completely impossible even 5 years ago...). Along with continuing Israel/NATO's saber-rattling against Syria and Iran, it all doesn't bode well. Don't want to sound too alarmist, but I think we all should be prepared for a war - not only here in Russia, but in a lot of much more stable countries as well.
Well... at least we here finally have small, but steadily growing non-authoritarian leftist movement - first because of the influence of Greek anarchist movement, second - because of all that recent protest stuff and rising political awareness of the masses. It's also becoming more and more militant, which is clearly evident from the recent chronicles of resistance against the oligarchic regime. Don't know about other countries, but at least in the USA it seems like we can have a lot of potential allies among OWS people, and maybe even Ron Paul supporters (as controversial as it may sound... but many of whom seem to be very anti-government, anti-authority, and open to any ideas that go against the oppressive system of big financial capital - so they just need to be introduced to our ideology).
Unfortunately I'm not good with drawing or CG, so there won't be any new year art in the RABM style. But instead you can have this 2012 calendar in "pin-up meets anarchist art" style, made by some supporter of Autonomous Action:
