Angry Notes

On the birthday of Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist, Marxist and left-wing dissident, now in Putin's prison, the Arkady Kots band puts out a track on his recent manifesto and demands the immediate release of our comrade! Join the campaign! https://freeboris.info/ Download track https://arkadiy.bandcamp.com/track/bo... A Very Simple Request A plea to my Western progressive friends https://rus...

Schwabinggrad Ballett/Arrivati is a collective of migrants' and refugees' rights activists, musiciants, and performers from Hamurg This tune is from their Beyond Welcome LP recorded and published in 2016 by Buback Tonträger Line-up: Latoya Mainly Spain, Peter Ott, Asuquo Udo, Heike Nöth, Christine Schulz, Ted Gaier, Jeano Elong, Dodi Eboth, Christoph Twickel, Charanotis Ganotis, Liz Rech, Margarit...

Schwabinggrad Ballett/Arrivati is a collective of migrants' and refugees' rights activists, musiciants, and performers from Hamurg this is the tune from their LP called Beyond Welcome recorded and published in 2016 by Buback Tonträger Line-up: Latoya Mainly Spain, Peter Ott, Asuquo Udo, Heike Nöth, Christine Schulz, Ted Gaier, Jeano Elong, Dodi Eboth, Christoph Twickel, Charanotis Ganotis, Liz Rec...

In 2011 the Zhanaozen massacre in the South-West Kazakhstan took place. Dosens of the insurgent oil-industry tradeunionists were killed during the uprising, other hundreds severely injured, miriads imprisoned, procecuted, suppressed. Today in the begining of the 2022 we face the major neoliberal capitalist disaster in one of the largest post-soviet republics. This piece of the Moscow-based folk-pu...

On 18 January 1943, when another wave of deportations began, Jewish underground organisations decided to resist. There were perhaps only some 50,000 people left in the Ghetto by that point, and no more than a 1000 members of the underground combat organisations. The initial resistance, meagre as it was, was a shock that forced the Nazis to halt deportations until 19 April when they moved again in...

‘Zog nit keynmol...' is perhaps the best-known of the Yiddish songs created during the Holocaust. It was written by the young Vilna poet Hirsh Glik, and based on a pre-existing melody by the Soviet-Jewish composer Dimitri Pokrass. Inspired by the news of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the song was adopted as the official anthem of the Vilna partisans shortly after it was composed in 1943, and spread...

Arkadiy Kotz Band is a Russian combat-folk-punk collective. Trans-European Partisan Jam is a collection of historical resistance songs from Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, France, Roma and Jewish Peoples, Greece, and USSR. Arkadi Kots initiates this project as a new session of Free Home University in continuity with its ongoing collaboration with trade-unions, feminist, environmentalist, and migrant mov...