If they kill me it shows how powerful we are. Alexei Navalny

The only real threat to Russian President Putin’s political power, Alexei Navalny, was declared dead in an Arctic labour camp yesterday.

The struggle to maintain democratic freedom continues… the struggle to maintain an alternative culture to that of mysogeny, racism, bullying, institutional and domestic violence and all forms of oppression.

To that end, I re-release this song I wrote in 2014, on news of the formal outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine.