Solidarity Collectives: 3 years into the Full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine

This week, we're featuring an interview with Anton, a longtime member of Solidarity Collectives, a group that supports anti-authoritarian and anarchist activists involved in the resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as funding mutual aid projects for civilians and domesticated animals suffering or displaced by the invasion, bolstering left libertarian social movements during wartime, making propaganda and manufacturing FPV drones as well as a few other projects.

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In this ranging conversation we spoke for 2 hours covering issues of anarchists participating in military structures, the state of the armed resistance, impacts of changes in the US administration and more.

Solidarity Collective Links:

• Website listing ways to support different sectors of work: https://solidaritycollectives.org/en/support/
• youtube and kolektiva channels, with interviews of comrades fighting and yearly reports of activity playlists:
  • https://www.youtube.com/@sol_col
  • https://kolektiva.media/c/solidarity.collectives
• Libcom blog: https://libcom.org/tags/solidarity-collectives

Sol Col socials:

• mastodon: https://social.edist.ro/@solidaritycollectives
• bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solcolua.bsky.social
• telegram :https://t.me/SolidarityCollectives
• instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solidaritycollectives/
• Twitter: https://x.com/SolidarityColl1
• FB: https://www.facebook.com/SolidarityCollectives

Anton's work related socials:

• bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/antonkolcol.bsky.social
• mastodon: https://social.edist.ro/@[email protected]

Other Links:

• Past interviews on Ukraine: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/ukraine/
• Timothy Snyder about Ukrainian history : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8&list=PLhTRXzDqRJxjwJVIddAFOF3Eg8OESGiSM
• Comrades reviewing far right violence activities in Ukraine since 2018: https://violence-marker.org.ua/en/

Media About the 3 Internationalist Anarchists Who Fell April 19, 2023:

• Dmitry Petrov was interviewed under a psuedonym on this episode of our show: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/02/25/anarchists-in-ukraine-against-war/
• Memorial page on Crimethinc for Dmitry: https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work
• Documentary on Finbar (English subtitles available): https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=6347744855112
• Remembering Cooper Andrews: https://itsgoingdown.org/remembering-cooper-andrews/

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Featured Track:

• Не забудем і не пробачим ("We Wont Forgive and We Won't Forget) - SKOFKA