International appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Russia

This urgent appeal was written in collaboration with activists and intellectuals living in Russia.

Would you be willing to sign it? Please send to the address given, with the information requested. (After the list of signatures.)
 

At the end of January 2021, a wave of mass protests swept through all of Russia’s major cities. The occasion for these protests was the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but the genuine cause was the enormous social inequality and political disenfranchisement prevailing in the country. Not all of those who took to the streets were supporters of Navalny, but they were all united by a desire for social and political change and a fatigue with the corrupt, authoritarian regime ruling Russia today.

Peaceful protesters faced unprecedented (even for Putin’s Russia) police brutality: in a few days, over 10,000 people were arrested, many of them beaten on arrest. A climate of fear was created in the country: students who participated in the rallies have been expelled from universities, teachers who sympathized with them have lost their jobs, and school students have been intimidated for voicing their political stance.

While we disagree with Navalny’s pro-capitalist orientation, which on this point is not different from that of Putin’s regime and represents no real social and democratic alternative, we demand the immediate release of Alexei Navalny and all political prisoners, and stand in solidarity with all those in Russia who are fighting for social and environmental justice and fundamental democratic rights.
 

Russia Appeal – Updated list of signatures 17 February 2021 12H30 (GMT +1)

Argentina

Nicolás del Caño, Deputy PTS/FIT

Myriam Bregman, Deputy PTS/FIT

Martín Mosquera, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires & editor, Jacobin Latin America https://jacobinlat.com/

Nora Ciapponi, militante, candidate in 1973 as vice president of the Nation for el Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores.

Eduardo Lucita, Economistas de Izquierda (EDI)

Australia

Federico Fuentes, journalist

Mick Armstrong, Socialist Alternative

Susan Engel, Associate Professor, Politics & International Studies

Austria

Helmut Dahmer, sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University in Darmstadt

Belgium

Yannis Thanassekos, ex-director of Fondation Auschwitz (1983-2010)

Eric Toussaint, PhD University Liège and Paris VIII, spokesperson CADTM international

Mateo Alaluf, Sociologue, professeur émérite de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB

Corinne Gobin, Professeure à l’Université libre de Bruxelles

Lucien Perpette, ex shop steward FGTB metal, militant IV International

Christine Pagnoulle, Université de Liège, ATTAC Liège

Jean-Marie Chauvier, journalist, ex permanent correspondant Drapeau Rouge (Red Flag) in Moscow

Jean Delval, Editions du Cerisier

Danièle Ricaille, Editions du Cerisier

Mauro Gasparini, Gauche anticapitaliste – SAP

Bernard Duterme, director CETRI - Centre tricontinental

Willy Estersohn, ex-journalist

Marianne Rathmès, member of Attac Liège

Brazil

Fernanda Melchionna, Federal Deputy of the PSOL Rio Grande do Sul

Roberto Robaina, Member of Municipal Council/Vereador of Porto Alegre/Brazil, National Direction of PSOL

Gustavo Seferian, Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Director of ANDES-SN

Israel Dutra, responsible for international relations of the PSOL

Sâmia Bomfim - federal diputada PSOL São Paulo

Vivi Reis - federal diputated PSOL Pará

David Miranda - federal diputate PSOL Rio de Janeiro

Luciana Genro - PSOL state diputada Rio Grande do Sul

Mônica Seixas - PSOL São Paulo state owned company

Sandro Pimentel - PSOL Rio Grande do Norte state diputado

Fábio Félix - PSOL district diputado Distrito Federal

Luana Alves - concejala PSOL São Paulo/SP

Mariana Conti - concejala PSOL Campinas SP

Josemar Carvalho - concejal PSOL Saint Gonçalo/RJ

Jurandir Silva - concejal PSOL Pelotas/RS

Max Costa - Secretary of Human Rights of Belém/PA

Mariana Riscali - National Secretariat of Finance of PSOL

Zeneide Lima - National PSOL Executive

Leandro Recife - National PSOL Executive

Pedro Fuentes - International PSOL Observatory

Bruno Magalhães - International PSOL Observatory

Danilo Serafim - Union of Educators and Professionals of Education of Rio de Janeiro (SEPE/RJ)

Paulo Neves - State Union of Teachers of São Paulo (APEOESP)

Ana Borguin - Union of Metroviarios of São Paulo

Luan Badia - Federation of University Workers (FASUBRA)

Camila Souza - Youth Movement Together!

Maurício Costa - Red Emancipa de Educación Popular

Nathalie Drumond - Movimiento de Mujeres Juntas!

Paula Kaufmann -Movimiento de Mujeres Juntas!

Tiago Aguiar - Editor of the Movement Magazine

Britain

Julie Ward, National Committee member Another Europe Is Possible & Former Labour Member of European Parliament

Costas Lapavitsas, University of London

Tariq Ali, writer

Gilbert Achcar, Professor, SOAS, University of London

Michael Roberts, marxist economist, https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/

Alex Callinicos, Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London

Dr Neil Faulkner FSA, Archaeologist and Historian

Simon Pearson, Anti-capitalist Resistance

Mike Phipps, member of the editorial board of labourbriefing.org

Andrew Kilmister, Editor, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

Ian Parker, Emeritus Professor of Management, University of Leicester

Erica Burman, Professor, University of Manchester

Mark Findlay, Anti-Capitalist Resistence

Richard Abernethy, International Marxist-Humanist Organization

Canada

Michael A. Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Simon Fraser University

David Mandel, professor, Université du Québec à Montréal

M V Ramana, Professor, University of British Columbia.

Haideh Moghissi, Emerita Professor of Sociology, York University, Toronto

Saeed Rahnema, Professor (retired) Political Science and Public Policy, York University

Ronald Cameron, Plateforme altermondialiste

Ken Hiebert, retired trade unionist, Palestine solidarity activist

Todd Gordon, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

David Camfield, Associate Professor, Labour Studies & Sociology, University of Manitoba

Earl Turcotte, former diplomat

Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste

China

Wang Zhikun

Croatia

Srecko Horvat, Diem25

Dimitrije Birac, Subversive Festival, Zagreb

Denmark

Søren Søndergaard, Member of Parliament, Spokesperson on International Affairs, Red-Green Alliance

Ecuador

Fernando López Romero, Movimiento Revolucionario de los Trabajadores -Ecuador –MRT

Carlos Rojas, MRT

Alberto Acosta, ex-president of the Constituant Assemblee in 2008, ex-minister of Energy in 2007

France

Gérard Chaouat, immunologist, Ensemble

Patrick Silberstein, Éditeur, Editions Syllepse

Pierre Cours-Salies, Sociologue. Professeur émérite, membre d’Ensemble !

Pierre Rousset, Europe solidaire sans frontières (ESSF)

Franck Gaudichaud, Professeur des universités, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès

Christine Poupin, porte-parole du Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste

Karine Clément, Sociologue, CNRS

Catherine Samary, économiste altermondialiste, IV Internationale

Serle Le Quéau, syndicaliste

Olivier Besancenot, NPA

Jan Malewski, Responsable de la rédaction d’Inprecor, http://www.inprecor.fr

Josette Trat, Sociologue féministe

Claude Calame, Directeur d’études Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Penelope Duggan, International Viewpoint, IV Internationale, https://internationalviewpoint.org/

Michèle Leclerc-Olive, chercheure CNRS (retraitée) et Présidente de CIBELE

Bruno Della Sudda, autogestionnaire et altermondialiste, ex-conseiller municipal de Nice – Ensemble!

Didier Epsztajn, animateur du blog « entre les lignes entre les mots »

Stefan Bekier, interprète de conférence, membre de la Commission internationale d’Ensemble!

Christian Mahieux, syndicaliste SUD-Rail |Union syndicale Solidaires], éditeur (Syllepse)

Henri Mermé, coordinateur de la commission internationale d’Ensemble !

Nicole Abravanel, historienne

Gustave Massiah, fondateur du CEDETIM

Christophe Aguiton, militant altermondialiste, ex secrétaire général d’ATTAC

Gilles Manceron, historien

Martine Boudet didacticienne, membre du Conseil scientifique d’Attac France

Daniel Guerrier, éditeur des Editions Spartacus

Pedro Vianna, poète, homme de théâtre, enseignant universitaire

Marie-Claude Herboux, Militante d’Ensemble!

Ugo Palheta, membre de la rédaction de la revue Contretemps, membre IV internationale

Léon Crémieux, IV Internationale

Patrick Farbiaz, PEPS - Pour une Ecologie Populaire et Sociale

Bénédicte Monville, PEPS - Conseillere régionale

Sergio Coronado, PEPS, ancien député

Jean Malifaud, Syndicaliste SNESUP-FSU

Hubert Krivine, physicien

Monique Dental, Présidente Réseau Féministe « Ruptures »

Alexis Cukier, Philosophe, Attac, CGT Ferc Sup

Nicole Fouché, Vice-présidente de REFH

Jef Pellissier, Porte-parole d’Ensemble!

Pierre Khalfa, Fondation Copernic

Evelyne Perrin, syndicaliste

Gérard Filoche, porte-parole de la Gauche démocratique et sociale

Eric Thouzeau, conseiller régional GDS des Pays de la Loire

Frank Mintz, anarchosyndicaliste, CNT-Solidarité ouvrière

André Rosevègue, Militant girondin multicarte

Yves Quintal, associatif enseignant membre d’Ensemble

Antoine Pécard

Roland Mérieux, Commission internationale d’Ensemble!

J-F Pellissier, Porte-parole d’ENSEMBLE!

Vincent Buard, Président de la C.I.S.E.

Myriam Martin, conseillère régionale Ensemble France Insoumise Occitanie

Lucky Thiphaine, journaliste, ancienne Secrétaire nationale du MRAP, Ensemble, Attac

Françoise Kiefe, militante féministe altermondialiste

Nouzarede Pierre, Retraité et syndicaliste CGT

Jean Lafont, PEPS - Pour une écologie populaire et sociale

Paquito Schmidt, retraité, syndicaliste et associatif

Théo Roumier, syndicaliste et libertaire

Jacques Simon, Ensemble! Perpignan

Pascal Boissel, vice-président de l Union syndicale de la psychiatrie

Benoit Derijard, ColsolCat Collectif des Alpes Maritimes de solidarité avec le peuple catalan

Roselyne Rollier, Maison des Femmes Therese Clerc Montreuil

Christian Delarue, Amitié entre les peuples

Hélène Gallis, Citoyenne insoumise

Angélique Sapolin, militante de la société civile

Samy Johsua, professeur émérite Aix Marseille Université

John Barzman, professeur émérite d’histoire contemporaine, Université Le Havre Normandie

Germany

Loren Balhorn, Editor, Jacobin.DE

Jakob Schäfer, ISO, Fourth International

Wolfgang Alles, Trade unionist

Angela Klein, ISO and editor of Sozialistische Zeitung, https://www.sozonline.de/

Christian Boissevain, ISO

Wolfgang Alles, ISO

Greece

Antonis Ntavanelos, DEA

Yorgos Mitralias, Journalist

Tassos Anastassiadis, journalist, Magazine “4” & Synantissi (for an Anticapitalist Internationalist Left) https://tpt4.org/

Italy

Roberto Savio, Othernews

Giuseppe Ponsetti, retired history teacher

India

Achin Vanaik, Retired Professor, University of Delhi

Kunal Chattopadhyay, Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian/ Soviet History specialist, Jadavpur University

Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South

Sushovan Dhar, CADTM-India

Soumya Sahin, Associate Professor of Economics, The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata

Pratip Nag, Radical Socialist, IV International

Manoj Bhattacharya, General Secretary, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), former member of parliament

Ireland

Paul Murphy, TD, Member of the Irish parliament, RISE, www.letusrise.ie

Japan

Tsutomu Teramoto, ATTAC Japan

Kenya

David Otieno, Kenyan Peasants League

Luxemburg

Justin Turpel, ancien député Dei Lenk-La Gauche

David Wagner, Député de déi Lénk - La Gauche

Martinique

Philippe Pierre Charles, Groupe Révolution Socialiste, IV internationale

Rita Bonheur présidente de l’union des femmes de la Martinique

Gilbert Pago, historien

Morocco

Aziz Rhali, Forum Social Mondial de la santé et de la sécurité sociale

Omar Aziki, ATTAC-CADTM Maroc, membre du Secrétariat international partagé du CADTM

Fatima Zahra EL Belghiti, Secrétaire générale d’Attac-Cadtm Maroc, membre du Secrétariat international partagé du CADTM

Netherlands

Alex de Jong, co-director IIRE www.iire.org

Fiona Dove, director, Transnational Institute http://www.tni.org/

México

Edgard Sánchez, Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT)

Pedro Manuel Acosta Granado, Investigador de Ciencias Médicas, PRT, Ciencia para el Pueblo

José Luis Hernández Ayala, Coordinadora Socialista Revolucionaria de México

Manuel Aguilar Mora, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

Jorge Bojalil, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

Ismael Contreras Plata, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

Jaime González, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

José Juan Grijalva, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

Román Munguía Huato, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

Álavaro Vázquez, Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)

Poland

Stefan Zgliczyński, director,"Le Monde diplomatique (Poland)

Roland Zarzycki, profesor university

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski, researcher and editor

Philippines

Walden Bello, PhD Adjunct Professor of Sociology State University of New York at Binghamton

Puerto Rico

Rafael Bernabe, Senador en el gobierno de Puerto Rico

Antonio Garcia Padilla, former president of University of Puerto Rico

Jorge E Lefevre Tavárez, Democracia Socialista

Manuel A Rodriguez Banchs, abogado

Serbia

Aleksandar Matković, Institute for Economic Sciences, Belgrade

Senegal

Mamadou Mignane Diouf, Coordonnateur du Forum social sénégalais Dakar

South Africa

Brian Ashley, AIDC & editor Amandla magazine

Patrick Bond, Professor, University of the Western Cape School of Government

Charles Abrahams, Lawyer

Spanish State
Miguel Urban, Member of the European Parliament, member of Anticapitalistas in the Spanish State, Fourth International
Manuel Gari, Economist Ecosocialist
Raúl Camargo, Anticapitalistas
Jesus Uzkudun Illarramendi, Sindicalista y miembro de ASVIAMIE (Asociación de victimas del Amianto) País Vasco
Alfons Bech, sindicalista de Comisiones Obreras, CCOO
Jordi Armadans, director FundiPau
Teresa Rodríguez Rubio, diputada en el Parlamento de Andalucía
José Ignacio García Sánchez, diputado en el Parlamento de Andalucía
Ángela Aguilera Clavija, diputada en el Parlamento de Andalucía
Concejales:
Leonor Rodríguez Salcedo, concejala Adelante Algeciras
David Rodríguez Alhambra, concejal de Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Fátima Martín, CADTM
Juan Manuel López Nadal, diplomático jubilado

Sri Lanka
Dharmasiri Lankapeli, Federation of Media Employees’ Trade Unions
Linus Jayatilake, United Federation of Labour
Niel Wijethilake, Left Voice, Fourth International

Sweden
Andreas Malm, Associate professor in human ecology
Kjell Östberg, Professor in Contemporary History, Södertörn University
Lars Henriksson, Auto worker and trade unionist
Eva Nikell, specialist in human rights
Marco Jamil Espvall, Editor in Chief Internationalen

Switzerland
Stéfanie Prezioso, Conseillère nationale (MP), Ensemble à Gauche
Sébastien Bertrand, SolidaritéS
Paolo Gilardi, historien & militant
Charles-André Udry, https://alencontre.org/
Jocelyne Haller, députée au Grand conseil genevois, Ensemble à Gauche- solidaritéS)
Juan Tortosa, CADTM Suisse

Tunisia
Ahlem Belhadj, pédopsychiatre & féministe
Olfa Lamloum, chercheur

USA
Noam Chomsky, Professor (emeritus) MIT; Professor U. of Arizona
Suzi Weissman, Professor of Politics Saint Mary’s College of California
Robert Brenner, professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA (California)
Vivek Chibber, Professor of sociology at New York University & Editor, Catalyst : A Journal of Theory and Strategy
Enzo Traverso, historian & Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University.
Jeff Mackler National Secretary Socialist Action; Steering Committee Assangedefense.org
Todd Chretien, editor, No Borders News
Paul Le Blanc, Professor of History, La Roche University, Pittsburgh, PA
David Adler, Progressive International
John Leslie, National Committee, Socialist Resurgence US
Dan Piper Socialist Resurgence US Candidate for State Representative, Connecticut)
Dianne Feeley, labor activist (UAW Local 235)
Ashley Smith, member of The Democratic Socialists of America and National Writers Union
Dan La Botz, writer
Frieda Afary, Producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation
Nancy Holmstrom, Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Rutgers University - Newark
Peter Hudis, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College
Kevin Anderson, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Danny Postel, Member, Internationalism from Below
Howie Hawkins, Presidential candidate for Green Party, 2020
Margaret Guttshall, National Writers Union (NWU)
Wayne Heimbach, Retired Trade Union Representative
Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Brooklyn College of CUNY.
Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Danny Postel, United States Member, Internationalism from Below
Purnima Bose, Professor, English and International Studies, Indiana University
Kit Wainer, Movement of Rank and File Educators, United Federation of Teachers, New York City Ansar Fayyazuddin, physicist active in Solidarity and Science for the People. He is an associate editor of Against the Current.
Barry Sheppard, long time socialist activist and journalist
Tom Twiss, Faculty Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
Tony Smith, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Iowa State University
Al Kagan, African Studies Bibliographer at the UIUC library
David McNally, NEH Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston
Tithi Bhattacharya, Director, Global Studies, Associate Professor, History, Purdue University

Venezuela
Stalin Pérez Borges, Liga Unitaria Chavista Socialista (LUCHAS)

Organizations

Brazil
Secretaria de Relações Internacionais do PSOL,
Comuna - PSOL
Insurgência - PSOL
Movimento Esquerda Socialista - MES/PSOL
Subverta - PSOL

Britain
Anti*Capitalist Resistance https://www.anticapitalistresistance.org/

France
Le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA)
Europe solidaire sans frontières (ESSF)
Union syndicale Solidaires
ENSEMBLE! (Mouvement pour une Alternative de Gauche, Ecologiste et Solidaire)

Germany
Internationale Sozialistische Organisation (ISO), section of the FI

Morocco
Courant Al Mounadil-a

Mexico
Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT
Coordinadora Socialista Revolucionaria de México, CSR

Portugal
Toupeira Vermelha

Spanish state
Anticapitalistas, IV Internacional

Switzerland
SolidaritéS

USA
Socialist Action socialistaction.org
Solidarity https://solidarity-us.org/

Venezuela
Liga Unitaria Chavista Socialista (LUCHAS)

International
Fourth International https://fourth.international/…;
Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT)
International Marxist-Humanist Organization www.imhjojournal.org

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