On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 04:39 AM, Duane Filan wrote: > > Pro-Palestine protests in Victoria get out about 100 people... Most are > from the "western" left and view Ukraine as the enemy. For these campists > Ukraine is a US proxy infested with Banderites and neonazis.
They are mostly younger, many with Middle Eastern backgrounds. They have little political experience and know next to nothing about Ukraine, its history, and the issues which have divided the Marxist left. I doubt 1 in 10 pro-Palestine protestors would know who Bandera was. But they know that the Ukrainian state is armed and fully aligned with the US and NATO and that Zelensky touts Israel as a model to emulate so it is understandable that they would reflexively and uncritically see the enemies of their enemies - Russia, China, and Iran - as their friends. The Palestine solidarity movement in Victoria and everywhere in the West is small in relation to the general population, but the same identification of Ukraine with the US/NATO/Israel "axis of evil" is made on a much larger scale by the multitudes in the global south who identify with the Palestinians as the most conspicuous modern victims of Western imperialism. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40718): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40718 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117833155/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
