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From the Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair panel on the War in Ukraine.

There are some effective refutations of those arguing that support for people in Ukraine to fight the genocidal Russian invasion somehow equates to pro-war, nationalist, or pro-NATO positions.

Wayne Price makes a good analogy. When a union with corrupt, bureaucratic leadership goes on strike, you support the strike against the bosses. Even if you to oust that union's leadership, or believe unions should be organized on entirely different terms, you don't revoke support for the workers and tell them to make peace with management.

Yet "anti-militarist" anarchists demand that Ukrainians under constant bombing and war crimes make peace with Putin. As if that somehow translates into resisting NATO or the Ukrainian capitalist class. It's just removing support for people resisting brutality.

50 minutes long. https://youtu.be/1qBMRMV4q4E