Elephant in the room #48 – Anti-authoritarian left in Ukraine before and during the war

The full scale war continues in Europe for 446 days. And even though Putin’s plans to conquer Ukraine on a couple of days failed, Kremlin is not giving up their plans on taking over large parts of the country. In the struggle against invaders, a lot of different powers took to arms, including leftists and anarchists. With the anti-authoritarian unit gone, most of those people were scattered around different units on the front lines. But their politics are not lost and many still stick to their ideas despite different challenges.

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March 8 – Voices of Women and Queers fighting in Ukraine

For March 8 Solidarity Collectives gathered statements from women and Queers fighting and resisting the Russian invasion. We recorded those statements to give this perspectives a voice

March 8. A day symbolizing freedom, a day motivating to fight, a day when the voices of feminists can be heard by millions of protesters walking the common path of equality.

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Elephant in the Room #46 – Myth of 13 February and bombing of Dresden

In 1945 the city of Dresden was bombed by the allies. The story was used by multiple different political group in their attempt to appropriate this event. Starting from the crumbling Nazi regime and ending up with GDR’s so-called socialists. From 90th, neonazis are also using this day to rewrite the history and make Dresden as one of the biggest victims of the second world war.

For many years, anarchists and antifascists are resisting both the liberal narrative of victim city and nazi marches that are still happening despite the struggle.

In this episode we are talking about the history of the city prior to bombing, the reasons for it in the first place and how different political regimes approached it. With details of antifascists resistance to nazis in the city from the 90th till today.

Elephant in the room #45 – Medical Self-Defense Network in Ukraine and beyond

In the last episode of this year we are talking with Alexis from Medical Self Defense Network – left and anarchists aiming to build up grassroot organizing of the health care as well as providing medical aid to the people in the war zones. MSDN is currently active in Ukraine and in the region of Northern Syria.

The website of the project is https://msdnetwork.org/. You can also follow them on twitter in case it survives Elon Musk – twitter.com/msd_network

Don’t forget to donate to the projects that are living mainly from donations of the communities.

Elephant in the Room #44 – No Borders Team about the developement at the polish-belarusian border

In this interview we are talking with people of the No Borders Team, an anarchist collective from Polans, about the situation at the polish-belarusian border in the past year.
The north-eastern European migration route experienced a devastating renaissance late summer of 2021. The monster of EU has in turn showed its ugly face yet again too. Politicians feeding the narrative of danger through migration, lining up with right-wing and conservative forces. Europe defends its wealth with all possible means and accepts the death of people without hesitation.

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