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A new anti-war movement is gaining traction in Russia and Ukraine
While Putin hands out 15-year sentences and Zelensky hands out AK47s to civilians banned from leaving, thousands are protesting or resisting the military non-violently. The world needs to see them, writes SYMON HILL
Demonstrators shout slogans during an action against Russia's attack on Ukraine in St Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, February 27, 2022
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
THERE IS a new joke going round Russia: “What’s the easiest way to clear the snow from your street? Write No To War in the snow — and the police will clear it for you.”
Footage on social media shows police obliterating anti-war messages written in the snow. But the Russian peace movement will not be so easily stamped out.
The size of anti-war protests in Russia has taken everyone by surprise. Russian police have carried out over 13,000 arrests of peace protesters since the invasion of Ukraine began. Over a million people in Russia have signed petitions against the war.
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