Today marks two years since Russia initiated the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine.
CrimethInc.
Russia: Waiting for the Wheel of History to Turn
Reflections on the first phase of the Russian anti-war movement: the stakes of the protests, why they hit a wall, and how to move forward from here.
The invasion would never have been possible if Putin’s regime had not spent the past decade crushing every social movement in Russia—using torture to extract false confessions from arrestees and imprisoning or assassinating countless people. But this is not limited to Russia alone.
Everywhere on earth, governments are relying on more and more repressive and invasive policing to control restless populations. The war in Ukraine is part of a story that is familiar in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sudan, Palestine, and elsewhere. It represents the same strategy that governments around the world are employing within their territories, expanded to the scale of geopolitics: the recourse to brute force to suppress resistance and extend control.
Wherever we fight against state repression, we are fighting against a future of war.
In this picture, anarchists march today in Vilnius.
