European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine
Russia out of Ukraine!
Solidarity with left and social movements in Ukraine and anti-war activists in Russia
Cant help, wont help. Varoufakis drove East Europeans out of his 'Progressive International'. Ejected Ukrainians & anti war Rusians from his public meetings. Demanded Ukraine surrender & called it peace... Greek and German voters gave Varoufakis the answer he deserves. Goodbye!
You mean like the 2022 bombing of the Mariupol theatre with "Дети” (children) written in huge letters on roof? That didnt change the way RU sympathisers in the west think? They kept talking about how everything is NATO's fault. They think peace = RU keeping the land it stole.
We all know that if Russian forces had burned alive dozens of refugees, including little kids, there would be justified screams of outrage and disgust from Western leaders and media outlets.
It would be used as key evidence that Putin is one of the great monsters of our age.
Red brown convergence is the shape of things to come. Ukraine is the wedge issue that separates Europe's democratic right from the fascists and separates the democratic and internationalist left from the anti-west 'campists'.
Irish voters rejected 'campist' Mick Wallace's EU Parliament re-election bid. Wallace recieved many far right transfer votes & massive Russian support to his social media campaign. But Irish voters rejected his anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, his tax fraud & his support for dictators
I am quite willing to take the point that the UN's casualty figures for Ukraine are an undercount. Even if 100,000 Ukrainian civilians have died, though, this appalling genocide would still not be more "actual" than what is happening in Gaza.
Most Palestinians sympathise with Ukrainian resistance. Here's a selection of articles by activists in both countries as well as Palestinians living in Ukraine.
@SarahAshtonLV
Comparing Ukraine with criminal Israel, which is committing genocide, is spitting in the face of Ukrainians. You are a disgusting person.
Finland's Left Alliance Chairperson Li Andersson says The Left group in the new European Parliament, should clean out members who oppose support for Ukraine and show sympathy for Russia. Hyvä Suomi! Heja Finland!
Jeremy Corbyn offered 40m Ukrainians national extinction and a life in a fascist regime run from Moscow. Ukrainians are workers too. Peace at any price (but only if you live in a nice part of London).
Jeremy Corbyn offered a genuine new deal for workers
Standing with workers in dispute
Standing on picket lines
Speaking for collective strength
Directing young people to Trade Unions for a better future
Offering hope.
Trade Unions- back him now.
When Ukrainian-British activist Natalie Kopytko met left leader Jeremy Corbyn she had some polite questions for him. Since he was unable or unwilling to answer, she followed up by email. After months without a reply, she decided to make her email public.
The country has a Jewish president. The governor of one of the regions is Korean. There is a black MP in parliament. Representatives of the Jewish and Muslim communities, but also Nigerians, Afghans or Moroccans fight in their army.
1. Left and green politicians from 11 countries in Europe and the Americas today launched "Elected Left for Ukraine" (ELU). This network will lobby for political and material support for Ukraine, in solidarity with working people and civil society.
Russia is Europe's most right-wing authoritarian regime, annexing & destroying Europe's poorest country. But NOT ONE SPEAKER, NOT ONE PANEL at this event. This is a festival of narcisistic self congratulation, distracting the European left. Today's NO PASARAN fight is in Ukraine
Ready for the 'NO PASARAN: Defeating the Far Right, Building the Alternative' international conference in Lisbon, co-organised by
@europeanleft
,
@BlocoDeEsquerda
and
@transform_ntwrk
The event tomorrow will be livestreamed
All information 👇
We should build bridges beetwen all the opressed and attacked in the whole world by various imperialisms - Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kurds, Palestinians, Iranians, Yemenis, Baloch, Hazaras, Tigrayans, Burmese, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, Hongkongers, ethnic minorities in Russia, ect.
Corbyn refused to meet with Ukrainian labour and left reps. He agitated to end sanctions on Russia and arms supply to Ukraine. Appeasing Russian fascism isnt a traditional labour value, it's a personal disgrace and a political dead end for leftists.
@RMTunion
endorses
@jeremycorbyn
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said:
"We are backing Jeremy Corbyn because his track record of supporting RMT members, being a friend of our union and having strong traditional Labour values is second to none."
#GeneralElection
#GE2024
Julian Assange should never have been jailed and tortured for helping Chelsea Manning expose United States war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their freedom means the West is failing to silence dissent.
Clare Daly failed to keep her seat in the European Parliament. Despite significant transfer votes from the far right candidates, she was eliminated. She will continue to lobby for Putin. But not paid by the Irish and European taxpayer.
Some photos from the Paris demonstration in support of Ukraine organised by various left groups, trade unions and Ukrainian, Georgian, Syrian diasporas, ect.
The LGBT+ community is openly and actively fighting for its rights. If such a state is 'Nazi', as campists claim, then the term probably means absolutely nothing to those who use it in this contect.
Towards the end of his long engagement as a public intellectual, Noam Chomsky pandered to the Putin-sympathising part of his fan base & repeated Russian propaganda about Ukraine.
Like everyone, he is entitled to a peaceful retirement. It is a pity he did not retire earlier.
Hearing Noam Chomsky's health has deteriorated to the point it now prevents him from writing, commenting or participating in the public domain. As an educator he has been without equal. An intellectual giant in an age of confusion, misinformation & soundbites. Thank you, Noam. ❤️
Forced russification of Ukrainians is genocide, as is the removal of tens of thousands of children for adoption in Russia, & forcing millions of mostly women and children into exile. We dont compare genocides, but unlike Owen Jones, we recognize all genocides when we see them.
Why does Russia systematically torture POWs? Why deport and russify Ukrainian children? Genocide. Fascist expansion by killing part of the nation and brutally remaking the survivors as 'little Russians' of 'New Russia."
Some reactionary narcisists thrive on this stuff. Last year Chinese singer Wang Fang decided Mariupol theatre would be a cool venue to perform Russian song Katyushka. More than 800 children burned to death or crushed. But great acoustics.
The left's unconditionaly supporting Ukrainian resistance (armed and non-armed) needs to gain visibility. Please, if you support our work, tell your friends and networks about us, retweet and follow and support us in other possible ways (meetings, demonstrations, debates, ect.).
Wallace's former profession is as a millionaire building contractor with multiple convictions for tax and VAT fraud. How anyone thought he cared for or represented poor people is a mystery.
Mick Wallace once took a break from defaming Syrians to tweet:
“Zelensky was probably better suited to his former profession”
Well who’s laughing now Mick?
"The mass slaughter in Srebrenica, for example, is certainly a horror story and major crime, but to call it 'genocide' so cheapens the word."
Noam Chomsky on the Srebrenica Massacre, which left 8,000+ Bosniak Muslims dead.
Your quoted 10,000+ civilian deaths in Ukraine is ONLY the UN confirmed deaths in Ukraine-controlled territory. It doesnt include deaths in Russian occupied Ukraine, because Russia doesnt allow the UN to monitor deaths or visit Ukrainian POWs.
"An actual genocide." In Ukraine 10,000+ civilians have been killed by the Russian invasion: 0.025% of the population. In Gaza 25,000+ civilians have been killed by the Israeli invasion (conservative figure): over 1% of the population. You tell 'em, John.
"If a Ukrainian Marxist allows himself to be swayed by his *quite legitimate and natural* hatred of the Great Russian oppressors to such a degree that he transfers even a particle of this hatred, even if it be only estrangement, to the proletarian culture (...)
We want to thank all our 2,303 followers, but still ask for more. The left supporting the armed and unarmed Ukrainian resistance needs to be more visible in the public sphere.
Russia is more fascist than any other European country. The only way to stop fascism today is to support Ukrainian armed resistance & the Russian anti-war movement
*In WWII, Ukrainians proportionally contributed more red army and civilian deaths than any other Soviet republic.
Never forget Russia suffered more casualties in the war against fascism than any other country on the planet. The freedom the West takes for granted was secured largely on the backs of & through the spilled blood of millions of Russian soldiers. They are not my enemy. Far from it
Clare Daly, the far left Irish MEP candidate who corresponds with Russian spies, goes on regime-financed trips to Syria &, on election night, relies on transfer votes from the far right.
Most Irish anticapitalists think this is normal/not relevant/CIA propaganda.
What the f**k?
Biggest war in Europe since WWII but this event is planned as 100% free of Ukrainian left and social movements and antiwar Russians. No debate here and no solidarity with victims of imperialism unless its western imperialism.
Marxism Festival 2024 🔥
Four days of radical debate & culture with:
Jeremy Corbyn · Yanis Varoufakis · Ghada Karmi · Ghassan Abu Sitta · Marcia Rigg · Jason Hickel · Sophia Beach · Tariq Ali · Alex Callinicos
📍4-7 July
Tickets:
#marxism24
First meeting of the Global Left Network for Ukraine Solidarity took place on 10 November. The aim of the initiative is to create a forum for the exchange of information and the organisation of joint activities between left groups in solidarity with Ukraine from around the world.
This is precisely what Russian military spokesmen say about Ukraine. Can Mehdi Hassan show an example of Russians investigating their own crimes? Russia doesnt even allow the Red Cross to visit occupied Ukraine.
Yes, the anti-war left is starting to rise! Here we are in Detroit calling for negotiations in Ukraine. We are holding teach-ins, marching, lobbying Congress. Join us.
#peaceinUkraine
Left groups or individuals, who unconditional support armed and unarmed Ukrainian resistance and their right to receive weapons from wherever they can get them and want to take part in the meeting of the Ukraine Global Solidarity Network contact us via private message.
Ukrainian labour and left activists call on west to stop all arms deliverie to Israel and redirect to Ukraine.
Read in various languages and sign petition.
Two of the major data dumps that Wikileaks has refused to publish are a hack of the Russian Interior Ministry [FSB] and data from a mobile phone linked to a Trump and Yanukovich campaign manager.
No mention of Russia in this condemnation of 'global' far right. The most authoritarian and violent state in Europe is mentioned only as a victim of western aggression.
Trade unionists in Ukraine are literaly fighting a fascist invasion. Unionists in Belarus have been imprisoned for sabotaging transport of RU military trains. Meanwhile the 'international network of antifascist trade unions' talks only about other places and right wing threats.
@voiceinwild
We will do everything we can to not let you spread your lies in any country. You can be sure. You are not the left, you are not the peace movement, you are not anti-imperialists, you just people spreading Kremlin fakes.
Crimea is not part of Russia. Civilian deaths there - mostly Ukrainian civilian deaths - are a tragic consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Any Russians who moved to Crimea after the invasion are part of the occupation and should leave.
US weapons & intel used to kill Russian children. Russia, which has the world’s largest stockpile of nukes, vows to respond. No one here finds it newsworthy—showing concern about fucking with nuclear war makes you suspicious, perhaps treasonous. We’re all with stupid.
Western government, elite & mainstream media response to the Israeli offensive in Gaza is exploited by campists to argue that the west (not Russia) is genocidal, that the west is as authoritarian or worse than Russia, & Russia is a friend of Palestinians & the global south.
Stop the War, Socialist Workers Party, NLR and the rest dont focus on UkrainoNazis so much nowadays. Their main effort is to argue that Russia is not descending into fascism/that the west is just as authoritarian or worse. So the enemy is still at home.
There is no reason to think Assange was "forced" to block the leaks that discredited Russia and Russian allies inside Ukraine. Or that he had any desire that this material ever be published. Assange sympathised with Kremlin geopolitics. Full stop.
@Ilovecandies92
@EuropeanWith
A
@CityUniLondon
journalism prof: “It’s naive to believe there’s never a ‘trade off’ of being forced to omit a pressing news against the ‘prioritized other’ hence selectivity—SO long as the unreported is later reported once prioritized news is done OR instead reported by others.”
Congratulations to the 500 participants in Kyiv pride this weekend. The march was led by LGBT+ soldiers, serving with pride. This banner reads "Together for equality and for victory."
German fascists raise funds for Russian occupants & collaborators in occupied Ukrainian Donbas. Meanwhile much of the radical left calls for an "antifascist" end to sanctions & western arms supply to Ukraine. They ignore the real fascists right in front of them, & in Moscow.
German fascists and hard campist 'anti-fascists' are raising funds and supplying to the Russian army and mercinaries: The German charity “Bridge of Peace - Assistance to War Victims,” which claims to be against fascism, is providing supplies to the…
Ukraine's growing LGBT+ movement includes the armed forces-oriented Union of LGBT Military, Veterans, and Volunteers. Something that many western countries still dont have.
Many LGBT+ soldiers serve openly and chose to wear a unicorn patch.
For Pride Month, I decided to take a look at the European Social Survey data for Ukraine. One of the questions asked whether respondents agree that gays and lesbians should be free to live the life they wish. In 2022, just before the invasion, opinions were divided. About 40% of
Most of the Ukrainian partisans in occupied regions speak Russian at home. So do most soldiers of the Azov Regiment. Ukraine's 'ethnic civil war' is Russian propaganda.
Not bad. Ukrainian media are able to criticise policy & practice of state, government & private sector. No journalists in prison. True, oligarchs control too many TV stations. RU troops target UA journalists. Ukraine's RSF index rating improved this year.
Most gay marriages, just like straight marriages, are among the "poor and lower classes," & between two "working people." Ukrainian public is increasingly open to marriage for all, recognising LGBT+ participation in armed forces, and in reaction to Russian anti-LGBT+ obsession.
So we should not support Palestinians or Vietnamese? Should we expect Iraqis or Afghans to give up? Should we condemn the Paris Commune, the Republicans who fought in the Spanish Civil War, the fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Kurds of Rojava?
“The relentless stream of funding announcements, in the absence of any public discussion of what the U.S. is doing to seek an end to the conflict, has signaled to critics a recognition that there is no end in sight to the war”
@alicesperi
Tankies don't care about people in the 'DNR' and 'LNR' but they still mythologise these fascist statelets as a justification for Russian intervention. Important to let them know that tankie internationalists are still dying in Donbas torture chambers.
Stop pretending to be interested in the labor rights of Ukrainians. Most that has been done on this issue is the work of the trade unions there and organizations like
@SocRuch
, which, it is worth recalling, support armed resistance against Russian imperialist aggression.
Zelensky rings New York Stock Exchange bell, launching campaign to entice foreign investors while crushing labor rights of Ukrainians.
His appearance coincided with the Euro's collapse and economic crisis fueled by the Ukraine proxy war
By
@RealAlexRubi
This poster distributed in Tel Aviv neighbourhoods with lots of Russian speakers by Russian- and Ukrainian Israeli peace activists against both occupations.
her parents own business in russia, she’s been to crimea after illegal russian annexation, she collaborated with russian who are pro-state and pro-genocide.
In neutral Ireland the government had the excellent idea to support mine clearance in Ukraine. Wide popular support for this. The fake pacifists of People before Profits and the various independent left groups and personalities said this was an attempt to pull Ireland into NATO.
There are a few genuine pacifists in western Europe, helping refugees, or lobbying for non military support to Ukraine. The rest are fake pacifists: they oppose Ukrainian resistance, but cheer amyone who resists western aggression.
Similarly, the Great-Russian Marxists will be bogged down, not only in bourgeois, but also in Black-Hundred nationalism, if he loses sight, even for a moment, of the demand for complete equality for the Ukrainians, or of their *RIGHT* to form an independent state."
We offer a signed photo of Chomsky to anyone unable to access the authentic statements of Russia's leaders on the internet using the simplest search commands.
Ukrainian antifascist Maksim Butkevych, who have been captured by Russian armed forces, is alive and imprisoned in the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic", according to a relased video.
More about our campaign about POW`s in the link.
Ukrainians sacrificed more than most to defeat fascism, but the freedom won was not for them. Today they resist Europe's most reactionary, authoritarian regime. Stand with Ukraine! Give no place to 'antifasists' who use USSR losses in WWII to make excuses for Russian imperialism!
Reminder: Branko Marketic was against supplying Ukraine with the arms that already prevent many Buchas and mini Buchas. If he had his way, Russia would be free to Bucha whole regions of Ukraine.
More than 400 were killed in Bucha. There have now been several comparable massacres carried out by Israel, and many more smaller ones - a war full of Buchas and mini-Buchas - and still the US hands Israel more weapons & political support to commit more of them.
The International Criminal Court has acted quicker on Palestine than on Ukraine. It seeks prosecution of higher level officials, for a greater # of crimes of greater severity. And it has ordered Israel but not Russia to stop. Happy to see justice in Middle East, of course.
We all know that if Russian forces had burned alive dozens of refugees, including little kids, there would be justified screams of outrage and disgust from Western leaders and media outlets.
It would be used as key evidence that Putin is one of the great monsters of our age.
Putin demands 5 Ukrainian regions? Offer him less! Test him! Don't shout that annexation is unacceptable! From the guru of Britain's SWP we expected a demand for Russian troops to leave Ukraine & some peace proposal that centers working people. Down with imperialism, Alex?
Alex?
Just imagine that the world doesn't end at US, that American imperialism is not the only one and that internationalists should listen to people on the ground, those who fight national liberation struggle, the opressed, local left/trade unions/social movements. Simple as that.
Other difference is that Zuckerberg censors truth about Palestine and Assange systematically chose not to publish documents that discredited Russia. Not such a big difference when you think about it.
"What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year."
~ Julian Assange
Rifondazione Comunista's obsession with 'Ukrainian nazis' made them pawns in a Kremlin orchestrated fake news campaign to facilitate the gradual annexation of Ukraine. Leading to the torture & murder of real Ukrainian & Russian antifascists by Elena Forenza's comrades in Donbas.
Keynote speaker at the European Left's No Pasaran event today is Elenora Forenza (Rifondazione Comunista). Famous for her 2017 "antifascist caravan" to the ultrareactionary Russian-backed "Peoples Republics" in Donbas & her ongoing praise for their leaders.
Trade union and human rights activist Pavel Lisyansky explains why Russia's presence in the Donbas has proved a disaster for the labor movement, and why defending human and labor rights sometimes goes hand in hand
The Red Green Alliance (DK) is a good example of being pro Ukraine without being pro NATO. They support arms supply, debt cancellation, EU entry, and sanctions and boycot of Russia. Would be good if other anti Nato parties took inspiration from them.
The programme of the French left's New Popular Front for the July elections is good news for friends of Ukraine. The radical left LFI party, previously sympathetic to Russia's regional demands, has committed to the pro-Ukraine priorities of the other parties in the Front. 3/3
@ZeodrakeV
by the supply of the required armaments, the abolition of the foreign debt, within the bounds of international law, seizure of assets of the oligarchs who ontribute to the Russian war effort, deploy UN peacekeepers to secure nuclear facilities, in a context of tension and war 2/3
Ukrainians are fighting for a better Europe and a better world. A world where non-alligned countries arent invaded by genocidal imperialists. Russia is an expanding fascist power. Corbyn suggests to stop providing arms and ammo to Ukraine and cancel the sanctions against Russia.
This is exactly the first point of the Kryvyi Rih appeal of Ukrainian labour and social activists. Stop arming Israel, send the guns and ammo to Ukraine. UK should also stop Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs hide their wealth.
RSF denounces new police pressure against independent journalist
@zudiyeva
by Russian occupation authorities in
#Crimea
in recent days, threatening her with arrest. The harassment of independent journalists must stop. 👉
Support for Russian anti-war activists is Mélenchon's only good war-related policy. Unfortunately he prefers those few Russian left dissidents who blame NATO, rather than those calling for Russia's defeat in Ukraine as necessary step towards political revolution in Russia.
I am surprised they do not call for support for political prisoners in Russia, considering Melenchon personally helped evacuate Russian leftist dissidents to France
Finland's Left Alliance (VAS) strongly supports Ukraine. It also calls for the internationalist left at EU level to part ways with the Putin-sympathisers.
1. "Justice for Nahel"
@SocRuch
statement on the situation in France mentions that the killing of the 17-year old is just one in a long list of crimes committed by the police which particularly affect young people whose parents come from former or current French colonies.
1. On 22 June (19.00 CET) we organise a meeting "Left-wing solidarity with Ukraine in the Middle East" with activists from Syria, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Tunisia and Algeria. For those who wish to attend, please send DM.
The other short answer is that Ukrainians suffer attack from the west's enemy so solidarity is easy, but Palestinians suffer atrack from the west itself so solidarity is hard. Here is what Ukrainian leftists say about Palestine.
@AnandWrites
: "Could you break down why you think what happened to people in Ukraine caused such a surge of empathy... & why what has happened to Palestinians has not?"
Me: "The short answer is Ukrainians are white and Palestinians are not."
"If we were to forget [the right of nations to self-determination] or hesitate to advance it for fear of offending the national prejudices of our fellow countrymen of Great-Russian nationality, the call 'workers of all countries, unite!' would be a shameful lie on our lips."
Legal residents can vote in Irish local and European elections, but not the Irish parliamentary election. Accepting immigrants into the national community. No corruption here, just Ireland's great democratic tradition.
Dont forget to vote in European elections this week!
Just under 600 Ukrainians were added to the voting registration here in one day alone last week orchestrated by one local council candidate.
This is absolute voting corruption and a national scandal. How in the name of god is this allowed
How was there no referendum for this.
Extract from concluding speech by
@MaryLouMcDonald
from
@sinnfeinireland
: "We stand with Ukraine. We will support you until that day when your beloved homeland is free from Russia’s war. Russia must end its war. The journey to peace must start now."