Monday, Feb 26, 2024, 6 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)

Hosted by Workers’ Aid to Ukraine

A recording of the event is now available on Youtube

Register here to attend this online forum (no charge): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrduygrTsjHdM5X3JI3AMX_TDQEVW488_N#/registration

Speakers:

• Olenka Gu, a researcher and activist based in Ukraine. Editor of the Commons Journal.
• Nidal Betare is a Syrian-Palestinian writer. He is Managing Director for People Demand Change.
• Inicjatywa Pracownicza, Workers’ Initiative union (Poland), participant in the Workers’ Aid to Ukraine campaign.
• Pavel Polska, veteran worker and international solidarity activist based in Mexico City.

Russian President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, signaled a dramatic shift with the return of war to the European continent. The war began as the emerging imperialist Russian power looked to assert its regional authority and expand on its land grab, begun with the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Ukrainian working people have fought bravely to defend their country and faced the harshest consequences of the war that has killed thousands on the front lines and regular bombing in cities around the country. It also includes resisting the anti-union neoliberal policies from their own government.

Workers’ Aid to Ukraine has been one way to build worker to worker solidarity in opposition to the Russian invasion. Today, the Israeli invasion of Gaza funded by the U.S., has now killed over 29,000 Palestinians in four months. There is a terrible humanitarian crisis that is compounded by decades of colonial occupation and oppression of Palestinians by the Israeli state. The massive outpouring of solidarity across the globe for the Palestinian struggle for self-determination has had a profound effect countering the repression of student and worker activists as well as mainstream media’s one sided narrative in support of Israel and U.S. expansion of bombing in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.

Join us for a discussion of these important struggles and learn about the different ways international solidarity is helping build the opposition to the imperialist wars on workers.

Photo: Ukrainians marched in solidarity through the streets of Kyiv on Feb. 24, 2022, as Russian troops massed on the border. (Byran Smith / ZUMA)