In Episode 187 [11], the CounterVortex podcast [12] presents audio from the panel "Ukraine and Anarchist Internationalism [13]" at the Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair [14]. Bill Weinberg [15] urges solidarity with the Ukrainian anarchist units [16] fighting the Russians—and calls out the American left for essentially supporting the wrong side in the war. For instance, the perennially problematic [17] Democracy Now ignores the heroic Russian left-dissidents who have sacrificed their freedom or even lives to resist Putin's war effort, such as Darya Polyudova [18], Aleksandra Skochilenko [19] and Dmitry Petrov [20]. But it gives splashy coverage to Yurii Sheliazhenko [21], the Ukrainian pacifist just arrested in Kyiv for "justifying Russian aggression." Also: Yevgeny Lerner [22] speaks on the national liberation struggle [22] of the Crimean Tatars. Introduction by Javier Sethness [23], author of Eros & Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse [24] and the upcoming Queer Tolstoy [25]. Listen on SoundCloud [11] or via Patreon [26].
The final panelist, Wayne Price [28], author of The Abolition of the State: Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives [29], providing a theoretical framework for the question, may be seen on YouTube [13].
Production by Chris Rywalt [30]
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