by Chris Blankenhorn | Feb 1, 2025 | Dispatches from Europe
On Saturday, November 9, I met with members of the democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh in Kyiv. I gave a talk about U.S. politics, followed by discussion. I used the same notes for my talk in Kyiv that I would use for later meetings with the Kryvyi Rih...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Jan 30, 2025 | Dispatches from Europe
Solidarity Members’ and Friends’ Discussion with Howie Hawkins, member of Solidarity, Green Party and Ukraine Solidarity Network Ilya Budraitskis, Russian activist and analyst now at University of California – Berkeley With...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Jan 28, 2025 | Dispatches from Europe
On November 6, my hosts in Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), a democratic socialist organization in Ukraine, arranged for me to meet with Yuriy Samoilov, a co-founder of Sotsialnyi Rukh, President of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, and President of...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Dec 3, 2024 | Dispatches from Europe
Dispatches After the Election of Trump My last dispatch was almost a month ago, on November 6, the day after Trump won the American presidential election. The main reason for the pause in dispatches is that my hosts in Ukraine, and then Poland, Germany, Czechia, and...
