
Dispatches from Europe is the archive of reports from Howie’s 2024 trip to Europe. Beginning in Georgia to observe national elections, then to Poland and Ukraine, before moving west to Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris, Howie will be meeting with Greens and socialists from across Europe to report back on their struggles and lessons we might learn.
Dispatches from Europe, No. 16, February 12, 2025 – The Class-Conscious Workers of Kryvyi Rih
Meeting and discussion in the Kyrvyi Rih storefront of Sotsialnky Rukh. Dionysii Vynohradiv is sitting in front with me providing translations between Ukrainian and English. The screen shows what was being broadcast online to viewers around Ukraine. The...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 15, January 31, 2025 – Talking about U.S. Politics with Ukrainian Leftists
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...
Dispatches from Europe No. 14, January 23, 2025 – Ukraine and Georgia Today: A Firsthand Report
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 Russia's annexationist...
Dispatches from Europe No. 13, January 27, 2025 – Yurii Samoilov, Miners Union Leader and Revolutionary Socialist
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...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 12, December 3, 2024 – Dispatches After the Election of Trump
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...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 11, November 6, 2024 – Socialists and Anarchists in Ukraine
Socialists and Anarchists in Ukraine The nonsense coming from Russian propaganda and its campist echo chambers online in the West claiming that all opposition to the Zelensky government in Ukraine is banned and persecuted is belied by the very active anti-capitalist...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 10, November 6, 2024 – Election Reflections
Election Reflections People in Ukraine were following the U.S. presidential election more intensely than most Americans. The future of their country might be at stake. Would Harris continue Biden’s miserly drip feed of ammunition and weapons to defend against Russia’s...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 9, November 7, 2024 – Svitlana Romanko on Defunding Russia’s Fossil-Fueled Military Machine
https://youtu.be/6fwzm2-m2zQ Svitlana Romanko is the Executive Director of Razom We Stand, a Ukrainian climate justice organization focused on ending fossil-fueled conflicts and climate chaos and driving the clean energy revolution in Ukraine and globally. Before...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 8, November 6, 2024 – European Left Alliance for People and the Planet
I arrived in Kyiv on the afternoon of November 2 to the sound of air raid sirens. The air raid warnings had been going on all day. They come by phone once you get the Air Alert app, which is one of the first things my hosts had me do. Now my phone screen is covered...
Dispatches from Europe, No. 7, October 31, 2024 – Alex Scrivener on the Georgia Election and What’s Next
https://youtu.be/tf0OyzG9oIM In this October 29 interview, Alex Scrivener explains the political background and the high stakes in the October 26 parliamentary election, the allegations of extensive election fraud, and what could come next in this ongoing political...