by Howie Hawkins | Feb 6, 2025 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe |
On Saturday, November 9, I met with members of the democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh in Kyiv. I gave a talk about U.S. politics, followed by discussion. I used the same notes for my talk in Kyiv that I would use for later meetings with the Kryvyi Rih...
by Howie Hawkins | Feb 2, 2025 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe |
Solidarity Members’ and Friends’ Discussion with: Howie Hawkins, member of Solidarity, Green Party and Ukraine Solidarity Network Ilya Budraitskis, Russian activist and analyst now at University of California – Berkeley Click here for an audio-only version. With...
by Howie Hawkins | Jan 29, 2025 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe |
On November 6, my hosts in Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), a democratic socialist organization in Ukraine, arranged for me to meet with Yuriy Samoilov, a co-founder of Sotsialnyi Rukh, President of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, and President of...
by Howie Hawkins | Dec 4, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe, International Politics |
Dispatches After the Election of Trump My last dispatch was almost a month ago, on November 6, the day after Trump won the American presidential election. The main reason for the pause in dispatches is that my hosts in Ukraine, and then Poland, Germany, Czechia, and...
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 15, 2024 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe |
Socialists and Anarchists in Ukraine The nonsense coming from Russian propaganda and its campist echo chambers online in the West claiming that all opposition to the Zelensky government in Ukraine is banned and persecuted is belied by the very active anti-capitalist...
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 12, 2024 | Elections, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe |
Election Reflections People in Ukraine were following the U.S. presidential election more intensely than most Americans. The future of their country might be at stake. Would Harris continue Biden’s miserly drip feed of ammunition and weapons to defend against Russia’s...