On Wednesday, 26 July 2023 the news broke of the arrest of Boris Kagarlitsky by Russia's federal security service, the FSB, which quickly transferred him from Moscow to Syktyvkar, in the far north, charged with “apology for terrorism”, with a trial announced for September, where he faces seven years in prison.
Catherine Samary - Ukrainian socialist NGO Sotsialny Rukh (SR - Social Movement), held a national conference in Kyiv. Far from a simple factual and make-shift report, the aim here is to shed light on the specific profile of this young left, based on how it operates at the heart of Ukrainian society and at odds with the dominant contradictory interpretations of the “Euro-Maidan” (2013-2014) which divide the left and are exploited by Putin.
Former president of the TransAfrica Forum Bill Fletcher interviews Vladyslav Starodubtsev, historian of Central and Eastern Europe, and a member of Sotsyalnyi Rukh, for his thoughts on the war in Ukraine and the response from the Western left.
Most of the left in France - we'll leave aside the sectors that openly support Putin - condemns this war of aggression by Russian imperialism, and demands the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. At the same time, however, it remains paralysed and voiceless, abandoning the field of Ukraine defence to Macron, to the bourgeoisie.