Almost 3 years of full-scale war in Ukraine have not brought the collapse of the “russian world” and the destruction of the Russian empire. The indecisiveness of Western countries in supplying arms has created an opportunity for a gradual build-up of the military capacity of the occupation army. And all this alongside the growth of a far-right movement across Europe and in the United States sympathetic to the authoritarianism of Putin’s regime. The US election in favor of the pro-Russian Trump opens a new chapter in the militarization and future of war in Europe and Asia. Instead of a possible peace, we are looking to a future in which the ceasefire in Ukraine is only a preparation for more conflict on the continent.
In search of answers to the challenges of the future, the anarchist movement today is in a difficult situation. But despite all the problems, we believe it is our duty to continue to stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Moreover, with a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, a new front of struggle is opening up in which anti-fascists and anarchists will have to fight fascists and the neoliberal state while preparing for a new Russian invasion. In such an atmosphere, international solidarity becomes a key factor in the survival of ideas of equality and freedom in the region.
That is why we call on anarchists, anti-fascists and anti-authoritarian leftists to join the marches of the Ukrainian diaspora or organize their own events on February 24, 2025 in support of progressive forces in Ukraine and for a world without authoritarianism.
Only in struggle will we get our rights!
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Like seriously, is someone…
Like seriously, is someone from within the Ukrainian government posting this war-mongering, ahistorical nonsense on here?
You want to see the "collapse" and "destruction" of Russia?? You're also just regurgitating the completely unsubstantiated idea that Russia wants to resurrect the Russian Empire and conquer all of Ukraine before moving on to the rest of Western Europe. You don't for a moment consider that the Russian annexation of places like Crimea, for example, was motivated more by strategic interests and a desire to maintain their only major warm-water sea port in Sevastopol, especially in light of the rise of an ultra-nationalist and openly Russophobic government in Kiev following the 2014 Maidan coup. Contrary to Western fear-mongering, Moscow doesn't have imperial (as in empire) ambitions.
It's also worth pointing out that this same sort of fear-mongering was employed during the American War in Vietnam. American war hawks attempted to draw comparisons between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam—a peasant/agricultural country—and Nazi Germany, as well as American inaction towards the supposed "Vietnamese threat" with the Western appeasement of Hitler. Suffice it to say, Vietnam was hardly "some expansionist Nazi regime." Meanwhile, it was actually the US's allies in Saigon, notably South Vietnamese prime minister and later vice president Nguyen Cao Ky, who openly expressed their admiration for Hitler.
The American arming of Ukraine and the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia, when the US had in fact promised not to do so following the collapse of the Soviet Union,[1] is what has actually contributed the most to the potential escalation of conflict and the possibility of nuclear war. You seriously think that Russia, which is a nuclear power, can be beaten into submission and will just acquiesce to giving up their naval base in Sevastopol, which they have maintained since the days of the Russian Empire?? (Crimea itself was also originally Russian territory before Khrushchev transferred it over to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954.) It's just incredible that you think Western anarchists/socialists should encourage their governments to continue arming the Kievan regime as some so-called path to deescalation.
1. It's also worth mentioning that NATO was originally aimed at the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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It's also not "peoples"—it's people—i.e. Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians who subscribe to the post-Maidan regime's Ukrainizing, ultra-nationalist, and discriminatory agenda. The Ukrainian government isn't interested in creating a pluralistic society that encompasses peoples of different ethnicities or language backgrounds, otherwise we likely wouldn't be in the situation we're in.
Like seriously, is someone…
What are the admins up to? This article is accepted for publication but the written words of a working class Scotsmen are censored and removed. Starting to wonder whether the "lib" of libcom might well abbreviate liberal.
They're a Belarusian…
They're a Belarusian anarchist group, in name at least, so it will probably stay up on the basis of that alone. The fact that they're Belarusian, and so have greater access to information/sources compared to Western observers, and yet still call for the Western arming of Ukraine and the Ukrainian recapturing of Russophilic territories currently held by Russia, just makes it all the more frustrating.