I for one am far more interested in what the Ukrainian left has to say, even if that means being shunned by the rest of the left. Long ago I came to the conclusion that the class struggle trumps the geopolitical chess game and as such I would rather be aligned with a dozen revolutionaries in Kyiv and Odessa than with Putin’s millions.
The Autonomous Workers Union (AWU) is a group of anarchists and independent Marxists whose analysis I have grown to rely on. Their statements are collected on Libcom, an anarchist archive.
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I have heard several people compare the miners and steelworkers to the construction workers who went on a rampage against student antiwar protesters in New York during the Vietnam War. This struck me as odd since there are no reports of violence. In fact, the spectacle of thousands of miners and steelworkers was probably enough to convince the separatists to take it on the lam.