The young hunger strikers started their hunger strike in Moscow on August 5, 2004 on the Theatrical Square in Moscow. They were apprehended by the police and OMON security detail who tried to move them off the square, but the young comrades were determined and fended off the police and remained in their place.

The determination of the members of the communist youth is to stay and protest against the decision of the government to stop social guarantees and services to the people. These young patriots chose this method of struggle.

The group represents different young leftwing, Communist and Komsomol organizations, banded together as one in this struggle against Putin government’s drastic actions against the working class.

Amongst the hunger strikers, is Viktor Bourenkov, Vice Chairman of the Russian Society of Friendship, who was a delegate at the First World Congress.

Greeting of support was sent to these young patriots on behalf of the International Council and Northstar Compass.

The Soviet Mother of political prisoner Igor Gubkin is asking readers of Northstar Compass to help raise $3,000 to cover lawyer expenses for a new trial to free Igor Gubkin, who was jailed on trumped up charges for defending his socialist principles and fighting for the cause of socialism.

Justice should prevail not only in his case but in all the scores of cases of other young political prisoners who are patriots in the cause for the resurrection of the USSR and of Socialism. These political prisoners are held in the dungeons of President Putin.

In the last issue of NSC you have read about Igor Gubkin and his Mother in an article by Felix Gorelik.

Please donate generously.

Send your donations in care of Northstar Compass and the sum collected will be forwarded to the Russian bank account that was established by the Committee to defend political prisoners.

US Attacks Lukashenko

Byelorussian President Lukashenko said that he is not afraid of statements made by US Senators which are calling for a change of regime in Byelorussia. "We have people in Belarus, who can overthrow or appoint and only our people have this right", he said.

US Senator John McCain lashed out at Byelorussian President, calling him a dictator and pledging to help fight tyranny in former USSR, by officially supporting the Byelorussian opposition groups.

One of the Byelorussian spokesmen of the business community and its newspaper "Komersant" said that in two years they will get rid of President Lukashenko.

Georgian President Warns of War With Russia

Georgian President Mikhail Saaskashvili has said that war with Russia is close and it is necessary to prepare the people of Georgia for such an eventuality. He said: "We are very close to war, the population must be prepared", he told the Liberation newspaper.

He denounced the Russian aid to South Ossetia which declared its independence from Georgia. Georgia massed its troops on the border with Russia, which infuriated Russia and worried Washington. South Ossetia is inhabited mostly by ethnic Ossetians.

Monument to Brezhnev to be Erected in Russia

A monument to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, will be erected in the south Russian city of Novorossiisk.

The city mayor, Vladimir Sinyagovsky supported the idea of a Krasnodar territory member of parliament, Dmitry Shishov, and it was decided to erect the 2 meters high monument in the center of the city to mark the city’s anniversary on September 11 and the liberation of the city from the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War.

It was agreed that it is necessary to retain the memory and deliver it t other generations.

Leonid Brezhnev took an active military part as a Commander in the battles for Novorossiisk and the city’s postwar restoration after the war. In 1960 he became head of the CPSU. He died in 1982. Brezhnev became the symbol of Soviet life during the second half of the 20th century.

Brezhnev’s book, "The Lesser Land" was dedicated to the battles for Novorossiisk, and the book was republished in 2002 in the Krasnodar territory.

On August 15, 2004 in Kiev there took place the IV All-Ukraine Conference of the "Front of Help for the Revolutionary Prisoners". At this Conference there took part many delegates from different Regional Organizations of this Front.

The Conference decisions were as follows:

1: Protest the anti-democratic processes in Ukraine, republics of former USSR and the Baltics.

2: Protest the tendency towards the growing number of political prisoners.

3: Change the use of psychiatric hospitals as a method of fighting against the present state opponents.

4: Demand the elimination of Special Forces using psychiatric and physical methods against the political prisoners in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Baltic countries.

5: Protest the formation of special "Death Squads" from the police apparatus in the struggle against the political opponents of the present regimes in the above mentioned states.

The Conference also decided to nominate during year 2004 in Ukraine candidates as "Sadist of the Year" and " Pocket Judge of the Year".

The Conference adopted a new Constitution, elected a Coordinating Council and the many resolutions were adopted.

News Flashes

Russia has developed a unit that uses water stream pressure to cut specifically hard materials, including Tank armor. The unit’s unique pump can create a fantastic pressure of 5,000 atmospheres. The water speed almost reaches 3 Mach. But more importantly, the stream contains tiny sand grits that follow each other closely, and this is what actually cuts any material. Researchers have established that by passing through the unit, the water gains curative qualities that also help heel skin diseases.

The winners of the pop-song performer competition have been announced at the International Art Festival, called "Slavic Bazaar" held in the Byelorussian city of Vitebsk. The grand prize-a golden lyre- had gone to Pyotor Yelfimov of Byelorussia. The first prize went to Yevgeny Gor of Russia, the second the third prize went to Marzhan Arapayeva of Kazakhstan and Rodik Novak of Moldavia.

Mikhail Shvidkoi, who heads Russia’s agency for filmmaking and culture, feels that the recently held Slavic Bazaar Art Festival has consolidated the unity and friendship of the Slavs. This year’s Vitebsk Art Festival brought together more than 6,000 Slavic representatives of 27 nations. For the first time this year, classical and folk music, film and stage shows, as well as pop art, delighted its audiences. This year’s gala festival closed with a gala concert and impressive fireworks.

Georgian officers trained in the US plus US Officers will head the Georgian Defense Ministry in the preparations for the war with Russia. President Saakashvili said that this joint team is necessary to show that US is in solidarity with Georgia.

British Territorial Army trains with former Soviet Army!

The British TA soldiers are working alongside the Kazakhstan Army. Nearly 200 TA soldiers from the 3^rd Battalion of the Princes of Wales Royal Regiment have already completed many moths in Iraq and now are in Kazakhstan.

Now the challenging sandy terrain and hot weather in Kazakhstan is being seen as a good place to train for Central Asia and the Gulf region for future duty.

Kazakhstan became an autonomous republic of the USSR in 1920 and then became a full union republic of the USSR in 1936.

Lt. Colonel Tony Guthrie of the TA, the battalion’s commanding officer, said that he finds it hard to believe that they are working alongside the former enemy USSR’s troops. "I spent my formative years in the British Army, learning tactics and learning how to fight these people, " he told the BBS South East Today. "You have to pinch yourself and remember that these are your friends now, not the Communists we were trained to fight."

The British troops are learning all about the Soviet weapons and using Soviet-built helicopters, rockets, missiles and other weapons.

Japan Trying To Revise the Outcome of 2nd World War

Uzbekistan – Suicide Bombing

Explosions struck the US and Israeli Embassies in Tashkent on July 30 and the Prosecutor’s office, causing a number of casualties. Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a US official at the US Embassy as saying that the blast had been caused by a suicide bomber with explosives attached to his waist.

Fifteen people are on trial for trying to overthrow the present pro-Western government in connection with the attacks last February that killed 50 people.

Uzbekistan was and is a staging area for the US operation that ousted the former Taliban government in Afghanistan and has allowed US air space and airfields in this regards.

The administration of President Karimov, who unabashedly uses tough and horrific methods to crush any opposition, stands accused by all the human rights groups in the West and in the East of widespread human rights violations.