{"id":22955,"date":"2023-01-11T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=22955"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:39:12","slug":"ukraine-voices-of-resistance-and-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/ukraine-voices-of-resistance-and-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong>UKRAINE: VOICES OF RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lighthouse Books, 43-5 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, 21st<\/sup> January, 7.00 \u2013 8.00 pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speakers –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Ford, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and co-editor of the book<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taras Fedirko, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/lighthousebookshop.com\/events\/ukraine-voices-of-resistance-and-solidarity<\/a><\/p>\n

The world is becoming an ever more violent and oppressive place. Competing imperialisms, some growing in influence, others declining, are jockeying for place in an increasingly unstable global order. \u00a0Whole nations and peoples have been repressed or invaded, either directly by imperial powers or by their local allies.\u00a0 We have seen this in Iraq, Syria, Kurdistan, Palestine, Yemen and Xinjiang.\u00a0 Most recently, we have witnessed the bloody invasion of Ukraine, launched by Putin\u2019s Russian empire on February 24th<\/sup>, 2022.<\/p>\n

Putin thought that this invasion would be walk over, and the USA and leading European powers initially thought so too.\u00a0 However, Putin\u2019s invasion was met by the resistance of ordinary Ukrainians.\u00a0 Initially they were often unarmed, or only lightly armed.\u00a0 This in the face of Russian heavy artillery, air strikes and then tank-led troops.\u00a0 Women have been to the forefront of these communities of resistance and have been some of the main victims of the continuing occupation. The Donbas miners, with their history of opposition to exploitation and oppression by Ukrainian oligarchs, are also now in the front line of resistance against Putin and his kleptocrat backers.\u00a0 Women and the Donbas miners have already won widespread international solidarity.<\/p>\n

This meeting, organised by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Scotland), invites people to hear \u00a0the arguments presented in the book, Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity.<\/em>\u00a0USC(S)\u2019s New Year resolution is to help organise the solidarity necessary to support the people of Ukraine and end the Russian occupation.\u00a0 Self-determination whether, national, social or individual, needs to be defended wherever it is threatened.\u00a0 Please come to this meeting and bring others along too.<\/p>\n

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also see:<\/p>\n

Why has Putin invaded Ukraine, part 1 : An examination of contending views<\/a><\/p>\n

Why has Putin \u00a0invaded Ukraine, Part 2: A socialist republican analysis\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UKRAINE: VOICES OF RESISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY Lighthouse Books, 43-5 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB Saturday, 21st January, 7.00 \u2013 8.00 pm. Speakers – Chris Ford, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and co-editor of the book Taras Fedirko, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, Edinburgh https:\/\/lighthousebookshop.com\/events\/ukraine-voices-of-resistance-and-solidarity The world is becoming an ever more violent and oppressive place. Competing imperialisms, some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1858,1861,1867,1848,8829],"tags":[9160],"class_list":["post-22955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oppression-liberation","category-alienation-self-determination","category-emancipation-liberation-and-self-determination","category-ex-ussr","category-national-liberation","tag-author-ukraine-solidarity-campaign-scotland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/@rcfscotland\/109670459056769426","error":""},"views":1932,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22961,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955\/revisions\/22961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}