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Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Elly Leary - Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis —and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Our understanding of what is happening now in the former SovietUnion is distorted by our misunderstanding of its history. If we donot study the history of the Gulag, some of what we know aboutmankind itself will be distorted. The more we know of the specificcircumstances which led to each episode of mass murder, the betterwe will understand the darker side of our own human nature.
Tara Bilous is a Ukrainian socialist, editor of the left-wing publication Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, and an activist with the organization Sotsyalnyi Rukh (“Social Movement”). After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, Bilous signed up for the Territorial Defense Forces.
The powerlessness in which one finds oneself at a given moment, a powerlessness which must never be considered as definitive, cannot dispense one (...)
Carolina Barrero has shared her testimony and condemned the repression in Cuba before her peers in Latin America, who have responded with silence.