Re: Jail sentence for Ukrainian Trotskyist is an assault on free speech

John, this is really shameful! Of course we have been several times in 
Ukraine because we organsied 3 solidarity convoys. So, yes, I personally 
met Maksym and also my comrades in Ukraine know him. Despite his young 
age, he has been a political activist opposed to the Russian invasion 
for several years. "Russian symbols" simply means communist symbols. It 
is not only the RCIT but also other socialists who call for solidarity 
with Maksym - and I am talking about socialists who have been engaged in 
practical solidarity with Ukraine from the beginning of the invasion and 
who have been there several times (see. e.g. 
https://litci.org/es/solidaridad-con-maksym-shumakov-basta-de-persecucion-a-los-activistas-independientes-en-ucrania/)

Why do you believe the proaganda of the pro-Western, anti-communist 
Zelensky regime instead of socialists who side with Ukraine against 
Russian imperialism?!

Am 28.08.2026 um 23:05 schrieb John Reimann via groups.io:
> Why do non-campist socialists tend so strongly to ignore the 
> reactionary and in some cases outright fascist connections of the 
> Putinized "left", including those who call themselves socialist?
>
> Why, for example, did the non-campits socialists ignore the lefts' 
> collaboration with ethno nationalists and outright fascists at the 
> 2014 AGMR conference?
>
> Why does the non-campist socialist left ignore the fact that the 
> African People's Socialist Party takes money from the fascist 
> connected Aleksandr Ionov?
>
> Why does the majority - if not all - the non-campist left ignore the 
> support for the Iran regime by code Pink and Medea Benjamin?
>
> Why did Howie Hawkins and Bill Fletcher jr. ignore the right wing 
> connections of Margaret Kimberly and Medea Benjamin and why did the 
> rest of the non-campist left ignore that absence on the part of 
> Hawkins and Fletcher?
>
> Why did all the non-campist lefts, including some from Ukraine, 
> apparently ignore the fact that the Porto Alegre "anti fascist" 
> conference was nothing of the sort and that it in fact covered up for 
> Putin's central role in developing fascism in Europe and the US?
>
> As for the present issue: Contrary to Simon Pirani, I don't consider 
> it "beggars belief" that WSWS should be getting money from Russia 
> either directly or indirectly. How about others here? Do you, too, 
> think it "beggars belief"? And as for Syrotiuk: RKOB may know him 
> personally, but he ignores the apparent likelihood that he had 
> clothing with the Russian symbols on it. RKOB may "know him 
> personally", although I don't see how he can unless he's been in 
> Ukraine. But maybe RKOB has been there. That doesn't rule out the 
> possibility that he's been deceived. Given that RKOB seems to have 
> fallen into the same mistaken tendency that most others on the non 
> campist left have, I think that's more likely. So, if that is true, 
> why should it be ignored? Just because Syrotiuk calls himself a socialist?
>
> Or do you think we're all one big family, part of the same movement, 
> with other "socialists" who have links to Putin and to fascists?
> 


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