Voina group storms Russia’s parliament on Revolution Day

VOINA group
Training session on the anniversary of the October Revolution

November 7, 2008
Parliament of Russia,
White House,
Moscow

See the course of the training session on Indymedia.

At 4.30 am on November 7 activists of the Voina group hijacked the seat of Russia's parliament, Moscow's White House.

A skull and crossbones appearing on the facade of the White House was the signal for the start of the parliament's siege by a battalion of Voina activists. Urban militants scaled the 7-meter high main gate to take control of the territory surrounding the White House. After holding ground and destroying pieces of video surveillance, Voina militants left the territory unharmed, with stunned troopers from the Federal Security Service appearing only minutes later.

91 years before, in 1917, a revolutionary mob in St. Petersburg put the residence of the Russian Emperor, the Winter palace, under siege, following a blank shot from the "Avrora" battleship - the historical start of the October Revolution.

The Jolly Roger is the symbol for piracy and Anarchism. Piracy is seen by the group as the definite economic technique for survival while battling capitalism. Anarchism is accepted as the political method for self-organization of the rebellious and independent collective.

In the 17-18th centuries pirates used to fly the Jolly Roger before their attacks on vessels and ports. Voina fired it's laser gun to signal across river Moscow for the siege of the White House to begin.

Watch the video of the anarchist siege.