"The war not only united us all, but made it clear that we are Ukrainians first and foremost... part of the Roma, as soon as the enemy offensives from the Russian side began... voluntarily joined the ranks of the Armed Forces.
This is our home."
Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos - "Russian army out of Ukraine". Thousands of members of the EZLN demonstrated in six Chiapas cities, to protest against wars, and to show their solidarity with the people of Ukraine, who currently resist a Russian invasion.
Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch right-wing party Forum For Democracy, was attacked by a man wielding an umbrella as he arrived at Ghent University in Belgium to give a lecture.
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Why is the Portuguese population more supportive of Ukraine in EU? Maybe because we weren't as brainwashed by Putin fascist propaganda, we have the lowest percentage of alt-right and neonazi citizens and memory from a not so distant in time fascist dictatorship. Still left wing.
@Komrade5738
@RedBlackGuard
Another privileged Millionaire simping for Stalin, calling Cuban refugees "gusano", Holodomor denial, criticizing anarchists, Bernie etc. Spoiled elitist with victim complex doesn't agree with "tax the Rich", bullshit "ki*l the rich" and communism is when anti-USA exclusively.
This is what I call western imperialism. Comparing a guy, who has a record of racist xenophobic rethoric and supported war in Georgia and Crimea because it's what western liberals chose to be the next Russian leader, with Zelensky. Someone they think they can work with.
My communist dad telling me about Holodomor and the deliberate mass starvation. Tankies in the comments section: that's Nazi propaganda. Kind of explains why so many communists feel betrayed by these conspiracy nuts and abandoned communist parties. Something like QAnon cultists
The Holodomor was an act of deliberate mass starvation by Stalin's Russia that claimed the lives of 1 in 8 Ukrainians.
Yesterday I called for Parliament to officially recognise it as a genocide.
The international anarchist volunteer killed in the same action as Russian Dmitry Petrov and Irish Finbar Cafferkey. Sadly I haven't seen any US anarchists or leftists sharing this information.
There’s been very little information about Andrew ‘Harris’ Cooper, the American volunteer who was killed in the same action but I have just found this Instagram post /11
A thread on leftists and anarchists fighting in Ukraine that most mainstream media won't show and both tankies and fascists hate reading about. Also, please support
@SolidarityColl1
.
This is the last time I'm going over this topic because it's actually driving me insane how fucking stupid this discourse is especially when MLs try and pitch in
Ukrainian anarchists and why they've formed militias in the Ukrainian TDF to fight Russian imperialism:
My disenchantment with Western leftists started when I first had contact with Syrian refugees. How tankies would spread hideous misinformation, call crisis actors to dead children, denying massacres, etc. Imagine having to live with privileged western leftists bullying you
I'll delete this b/cos this isn't a viable platform for progressive politics, but I also want to let off steam: my disenchantment with the "Western Left" has been profound since Feb 24. I remain a socialist (ofc), but I increasingly feel isolated from the broader Left re: Ukraine
Germany won't send Taurus to Ukraine because they don't want them used on the Kerch bridge and "escalate the conflict". It's a freaking bridge, not a hospital. Ukraine doesn't target civilian infrastructure full of citizens. But ok sending weapons to Israel used against civilians
Some idiots don't consider this imperialism because their definition of imperialism is whatever they decide from their very privileged safe elitist western homes. Eastern Europe treated like second class countries since Berlin wall fell. This is the conversation we need to have.
August 2008, Russia illegally invades Georgia.
August 2023, Russia illegally occupies 20% of Georgia.
15 years on, the Kremlin is now repeating these very same tactics in Ukraine, with the sole goal of preventing 🇺🇦Ukraine and 🇬🇪Georgia from determining their own future.
I really wish the same western media which constantly calls for Navalny release would pay more attention to Maksym Butkevych, an Ukrainian activist with a much less problematic/controversial background. But we're talking about an anarchist and a real human rights activist.
Maksym Butkevych, human rights activist with 20 years of experience, co-founder of
@zminaUkraine
from
@ukraine5am
coalition &
@HromadskeRadio
, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Russia. The appeal in his case is currently being heard by the court of appeals in Moscow. The
Redbull founded by an alt-right, pro-Putin, Austrian multimillionaire who also founded a TV channel famous for conspiracy theories and a magazine popular to far-right dummies. Not surprised.
BREAKING:
@RedBull
doesn’t want anyone talking about how they’re still operating in Putin’s Russia (other companies like Pepsi and Coca-Cola have pulled their drinks). So we came to their HQ in Austria to launch a new, honest Red Bull advertising campaign for them 😉
Yanis getting is ass kicked on comments by the crazy "whatabout Azov" "all Ukrainian are Nazis" crowd is absolutely beautiful. Guy spent so much time talking sh*t about Ukraine it's hilarious.
Not sure why the need to compare apples and oranges but this comes up so regularly among people comparing unrelated themes. Aside the military collaboration between Russia and Israel for years, aside the fact that EU is the biggest donor of Palestinian aid, the fact that Russia
@JayinKyiv
Don't forget the anarchists and socialists as well. It's not just the tankies who completely ignore them. There's several leftist groups fighting in Ukraine against Russian fascists.
Not surprised. I've seen tankies calling the Romani flag Nazi because of the wheel, anarchist Punk tattoos because of skulls or spiders or whatever. Tankies are a personality cult for macho strong leader leading a dictatorship over the proletariat (not by the proletariat).
Since Sunday UK trade unionists and socialists supporting Ukraine have - because we won huge majority support at TUC Congress
#TUC23
- been subjected to appalling online abuse.
Of many shocking things, this is the worst: claims the Ukrainian miners' union flag is a Nazi flag. 🧵
Another video of Ukrainian soldier beheading. This isn't ISIS style, this is neonazi style. I remember not so long ago Russian neonazis beheading immigrants and LGBTQ and posting it online. Just Google Tesak and other Russian neonazis. White christian psychopaths always excited.
Something Visegrad24 won't show. Neonazis and Alt-right celebrating an Antisemitic act. The whole comment section shows just how awful this app became. A lot of Alt-right extremists, pro-Putin, antivax, racists. A feast for degenerates.
Hard-right Polish MP Grzegorz Braun, from the Monarchist wing of the Confederation party, puts out Hanukkah menorah in parliament with a fire extinguisher.
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@YevYevhenii
This is the same reasoning fascists, Alt-right and racist colonial nostalgics in my country use with Angola, Moçambique, Brazil etc. They believe that building a church or school would compensate for exploiting other countries and murdering civilians.
Kudos to the many Ukrainian and Syrian profiles I follow who been criticizing the recent Gaza bombing blood bath and Hamas terrorist attack, despite the fact they been called Ukronazis or ISIS terrorists from the same people now supporting one of the sides. They know better.
Repression of antiwar voices in Canada? Lol. The left is watching the repression of the whole leftist spectrum in Russia including anarchists, activists or LGBTQ but you choose to make it all about poor privileged western tankies. Fucking self-centered joke.This shit is hilarious
The historical repression of antiwar voices in Canada, often twinned with red-baiting, is resurfacing amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. This resurgence marks a worrying return to stifling dissent and limiting freedom of expression.
I would be careful making such statements. There's no need to compromise NATO's most valuable agents. Hopefully you don't do this with Eva Bartlett, Graham Phillips or Sonja van den Ende.
It's not a coincidence that lately I see these folks advocating for Chinese colonialism. It has the same flavor as Portuguese justifying colonialism and slavery, Spanish justifying the conquest of Aztec, etc except Taiwan again is under serious threat and propaganda is high.
Aight.
Here's a quick tutorial on how Tibet was a fuedal slave-owning society (practices China was pushing them to abolish) and how the CIA worked with the Dalai Lama and other slaveowners to keep those practices
I remember how a lot of European made fun of the Roma fighting in Ukraine in the first days of the Russian invasion. Didn't see any Ukrainian making fun though. Saw quite some of my country's usual racists making fun too.
@Komrade5738
@RedBlackGuard
Another privileged Millionaire simping for Stalin, calling Cuban refugees "gusano", Holodomor denial, criticizing anarchists, Bernie etc. Spoiled elitist with victim complex doesn't agree with "tax the Rich", bullshit "ki*l the rich" and communism is when anti-USA exclusively.
@richimedhurst
@No2NatoNo2War
I marched against the invasion of Iraq too, same way I march against the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. NATO didn't invade Ukraine. And the left in Europe is fed up with Putin's meddling and dividing us. We remember well how he helps far right growth.
Back in 2016/17 I was getting warnings from Moroccon socialist comrades in exile about MintPress and Grayzone racism, colonialist rhetoric, misogyny, etc. Wikipedia describes both as far-left US news websites. Completely out of touch with the rest of the world far-left struggles.
We all knew that. We were too busy doing business with Putin, too busy with Israel conflict (worsened with Netanyahu)... Look into 2014 International events.
Goodnight
#Ukraine
. Remember Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. 1st
#Crimea
, then here in eastern 🇺🇦. Town of Ilovaisk, close to Russian border - young captured Russian soldiers pretended to be Ukrainian "separatists" (white arm bands). Listen to what the 🇺🇦 soldier says at the end.
@iysse_nyu
@nyunews
Gringo tankies westplaining other countries why their struggles aren't real (even though Ukraine is being bombed out of the map by a right wing fascist regime) unless it's USA doing oppression otherwise it's just proxy. Freaking disgusting class traitors and xenophobic.
CodePink founder deleted this post when she found out the anti-immigrant, racist, pro-Putin, nationalist, populist nature of the party as “a win for a left-leaning party in Europe”. What kind of left supports anti-migrant and racism you nazbal?
Nina Byzantina, Russian alt-right ex wife of the white supremacist Richard Spencer sharing info of a Conference here in my City Lisbon with some communist party members and some other Christofascists. Freaking disgusting. But please do tell how these people are not free in EU.
revolutions, false flag etc are often claims used by authoritarian regimes or dumb privileged western tankies talking over legit indigenous struggles like they knew better than locals.
Oh, and tankies aren't far left.
Stalinoids having a break down in the comments.
Camus speech at the time:"I hope that Hungary’s resistance will endure until the counterrevolutionary state collapses everywhere in the East under the weight of its lies and contradictions.”
#OtD
23 Oct 1956 a spontaneous nationwide revolt broke out across Hungary which saw thousands organise themselves into workers' councils and militias demanding not a transition to capitalism but rather a socialism controlled by the working class itself
doesn't give shit about Palestinian and there's some suspicious that they were involved in poisoning Arafat, the fact that some EU members recognize both Israel and Palestine etc, can people please stop obsessing with stupid whataboutism? Should we start making a comparison
@UkraineCampaign
Code pink isn't feminist. Just gross pro authoritarian regimes. Looking into their posts and you get an idea. Using same tactics with the Iranian women protests or Kurds is just an example. Disgusting. It's all CIA psyop or color revolution to them. privileged western feminists
The more you look into the tragedy of the people slaughtered and hostage by Hamas in the kibbutz you realize they were Labor affiliated, leftists. And the kids in the rave pro Peace movement. These were the people Netanyahu or Hamas had no interest in.
Zapatistas know better. Sharing this again to piss of the red/brown authoritarian fascists spreading lies about indigenous legit struggles weather in Iran, West Papua, Myanmar, Tigray, Chiapas or Ukraine, etc. Protest the war by condemning Russia invasion.
@codepink
No words for Russian defense contractors and Russian neo-colonialism? Your disregard and talking over other countries leftists struggles says a lot about your privileged bourgeois pretentious elitism. Not one word of sympathy for feminists fighting against authoritarian regimes
I look forward to seeing Congress provide, in the very near future, financial support for Ukraine which is valiantly struggling against Russian aggression.
My daughter's best friends group: 3 girls from China, India and Cape vert, 2 boys from Ukraine. At the beginning they started communicating in English and now developed their own Esperanto, a mix of Punjabi and Ukrainian so they can make jokes no one else understands. 😏😏
One of my favorite dress shops- a modest old fashioned linen company- featured a man modeling their dresses. They’re down 1,000 followers and the comments are a dumpster fire for them. I truly do not understand what they expected. Who do they think their audience is?
🇺🇦's Revolution of Dignity 2013/2014 began with TWO Facebook posts by Mustafa Nayem on 21st Nov 2013 - see photo & "We meet at 22:30 under the Independence Monument. Dress warmly, take umbrellas, tea, coffee, good mood & friends. Repost is welcome in every possible way!” 1/3
The irony of an anti migrant racist fascist calling all Ukrainian Nazis is hilarious. It's so wild to see the worst fascist scum calling other people Nazi when they're the neonazis themselves. And obviously there's always some Russian fascists sharing this.
The Imperial right wing Russian fascist flags along with Russian, USA flag and LGBTQ flags? The hell is wrong with these people? So disconnected with the left they'll side with literal fascists. Not to mention disrespect for Russian LGBTQ persecuted, censured and imprisoned.
Bingo. I usually focus on the tankies because I'm a leftist myself (and hate how much damage they do to left) but people should be more worried about the whole majority of neonazis and Alt-right fascists who support Russian invasions.
As a Ukrainian, I’ve been wondering for some time, if Ukraine is full of nazis and has a serious nazi problem, why there are no nazi movements from other countries that support us? Why all those far-right powers from all across the world almost unanimously support Russia?
@yurapalyanytsia
Check this one. It's being shared by tankies and right wing. Girls with balloons edited in order to make them look nazi salute. I did the 2 blue circles to show the balloon strings attached to their hands. Absolutely sickening that they edit kids in pics.
Most likely not even Kiyv or pre war. The amount of racist quote tweets because black men dancing with white women, misogynist comments, crazy religious fanatics calling it satanic, antisemitic. No source for the videos. So many idiots fall for this fascist propaganda.
Not allowing crowdfunding campaigns for hate speech, fake news, conspiracy crap theories is actually good. Same way suspending payments for Daily Stormer. Both shit and insulting to real journalism.
We've long condemned payment processors and banks that help censor controversial journalists by cutting off their access to funds.
At the very least,
@gofundme
needs to explain why it’s doing this and if any government actors are influencing its decisions.
Some people say it's because of distance. No, our second biggest migrant population is Ukranian (the biggest is Brazilian) since before the Russian invasion. We are also less brainwashed by antivax and anti-masks propaganda on social media and prefer trustworthy news.
@T_Krawchenko
Really don't get why anyone would take the invader flag to a protest for peace. Might as well just call it a rally for invasion or something.
when you flee war, loose everything, lost family and friends or watched them die. Right wing fascists do it for blatant xenophobia, tankies and nazbals do it for cult of Putin thinking he's still somehow a leftist.
Yes we are. We can have socialism, freedom and democracy. We can have many flavors of socialism without falling into a dictatorship of socialism for an elite of bootlickers which is no different from fascism benefiting a privileged elite.
Guys please stop using the extremist Neturei Karta religious group as some kind of proof that even Jewish support Palestine. You really don't want to have Jewish Holocaust revisionists on your side. Netanyahu blames Holocaust on Muslims and these guys blame it on Jews.
Western tankies will talk shit about Zapatistas or any indigenous radical leftist because it doesn't fit their Western geopolitical vision of foreign affairs. They will side with racists, homophobes, misogynists... because of their Western imperialism supremacy over all others.
@UkraineSol
Same Stalinists calling the Romani flag Nazi because of the wheel 🛞. It's a cult digging on QAnon conspiracy theories. Not surprised. They have been attacking Kurdish comrades or zapatistas before. Totally disconnected from leftist values.
@medeabenjamin
People all over Europe are fed up with Putin support for right wing extremists and neonazis. The left in Europe knows damn well who Putin is. A homophobic misogynist xenophobic narcissist. We don't support dictators and will defend Europe from fascism again. No peace for fascists
Teddy boy Greg on Twitter. The neonazi American fighting for Putin is allowed on this platform but Crimethink got banned among other Antifascist profiles. Hilarious
Everything is imperialism. Today I also read the french protests are CIA Psyop and because some far right elements were found rioting it's also a far right coup. Tankies going demented.
Azerbaijan doing an ethnic cleansing/genocide using the same manual the Russians been using for years in Ukraine. And dumb EU officials calling it military operation, ffs.
In the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan has launched a new military offensive and declared an “evacuation” of ethnic Armenians in “the dangerous area."
@YSokyruk
These are the same hypocrites who never stood up for Ukraine, Syrian being bombed out of the map by Russia and Assad, Kurds, Iranian women, etc. Many only care about Palestinian when it suits them. Ukraine has 243 Ukrainian citizens trapped in Gaza and fights a Russian invasion.
I hate these comparisons and they really don't help anyone. I get it it's usually young people with little memory but I'm not young and not interested in a good/bad Hollywoodesque dichotomous view of the world.
Here's my very leftist personal perspective. When Russia invaded
Okay to be a bit controversial…
I’ve spoken to so many other Bosniaks who also feel extremely triggered at the scenes & horrors coming out of Gaza & many, myself included, have said “actually this feels way worse than it did when it was the start of the war in Ukraine”.
Não entendo como esta malta ainda não percebeu que os Ucranianos têm personalidade própria. Nunca se deram ao trabalho de falar com a esquerda Ucraniana mas passam a vida a berrar que ela foi banida. Admiram-se que há um problema de supremacia na esquerda Europeia e EUA?
The only accounts worth following right now are the ones condemning Islamophobia and antisemitism at the same time. There are plenty of islamophobic and antisemitic attacks and victims already outside Israel or Gaza Strip and West Bank. Even Sikh community is targeted.
Sincerely hope this Nazi pedo misogynist gets beaten by women younger than 25, in every country he sets his feet, for all the rapist fucked up shit he spent years spreading. Piece of shit should spend years in jail. And I'm not even talking about spying for Kremlin, which he did.
Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban at 15 for demanding girls' right to education, went on to study at Oxford.
Now she has backed a movie about a man who identifies as a woman, and says we need "other ways" to challenge "the social norms that deny women their basic rights."