On the 2nd of October while at the Congress of democratic forces the Belarusian opposition was arguing, electing its united candidate for the forthcoming president election campaign of 2006, Belarusian anarchists carried out their Congress to discuss questions really important for Belarusian society.

More than 50 delegates from Minsk, Homel, Lida, Vitebsk, Ivatsevitchi and other Belarusian regions took participation in the XIIth Congress of FAB. Activists from the following initiatives participated: Belarusian social movement “Razam!” (“Together!), Autonomous Action (Belarus), Antifascist Resistance, members of Belarus Indymedia team, the radical unemployed of the Navinki newspaper, and other anarchist and anti-authoritarian initiatives acting in the country.

The participants of the Congress discussed pressing issues of Belarusian reality, determined tasks of Belarusian anarchists in the current social and political situation in the country, as well as planned some concrete steps to the subsequent development of the anarchist movement in Belarus.

One of the most important results of the Congress was the decision about FAB’s joining IFA approved by consensus of all participants. Representation of Belarusian anarchists in the International will allow to attract more attention to Belarusian problems. Moreover it will strengthen international solidarity and support from foreign comrades that is very important for Belarusian anarchists, especially after recent repressions of the officials against activists of the antifascist movement.