So, just what do EuroMaidan activists want from their compatriots? It wouldnt even occur to the likes of Stephen Cohen and fellow ideologues to ask, though its hardly such a difficult task to locate such folk. Take, for example, Denis Pilash, a post-graduate student at Kiev National University. In a recent e-mail, Pilash remarked, Its worrying that some Western leftists view Putin as anti-imperialist while he carries out an adventurous intervention in Crimea and our comrades from the Russian left (members of Russias Socialist Movement, Left Front, anarchists and anti-fascists) are being persecuted and jailed by his regime. Pilash, who has been working as an activist in a variety of different organizations including the socialist Left Opposition, a student labor union called Direct Action, and Commons/Spilne, a journal of social criticism, says its time for western activists to start organizing a peace movement which would mirror the earlier yet short-lived anti-Iraq war protests of 2003. This time, however, activists should advance a more nuanced critique as anti-war forces must oppose not only Washingtons foreign policy but also speak out forcefully against Russian aggression.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:07:46 +0000
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