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This episode is an audio version, read by myself, of an article I recently wrote for Meduza: "Builders in Solidarity - A rambunctious Russian-speaking union shakes up Sweden’s labor movement". It was published earlier in the summer, as part of Meduza's excellent English-language newsletter, The Beet.
Here is a link to the article.
And here is a link to a longer article I wrote for Jacobin in the spring, where I look more closely at the minutia of the so-called Swedish model of labor relations, and how Builders in Solidarity fits into the current crisis it is experiencing.
Ivan Semenov’s channel “Sweden for Dummies” on YouTube and TikTok.
Builders in Solidarity’s homepage.
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This is the second half of my conversation with Georgy Mamedov.
Georgy is a Bishkek-based activist, curator, author and academic. He is currently assistant professor in the Television, Cinema, and Media Arts department, at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. His writing has been published in Jacobin, OpenDemocracy, and elsewhere.
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In this episode I speak to Georgy Mamedov, an old acquaintance of mine in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, about how to reject the false choices of our time.
Georgy is a Bishkek-based activist, curator, author and academic. He is currently assistant professor in the Television, Cinema, and Media Arts department, at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. His writing has been published in Jacobin, OpenDemocracy, and elsewhere.
The anti-war statement of the Kyrgyz anti-war committee, of which Georgy was a co-author, can be found (in Russian) here.
Here is an article I wrote in 2016, about the ShTAB-collective, of which Georgy was a co-founder and driving force.
Audre Lorde’s “Notes from a trip to Russia”, which Georgy refers to, can be found here.
Here is an analysis I wrote on the latest uprising in Kazakhstan, from January 2022.
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One of Ukraine’s most prominent leftist organizations is Sotsialnyi rukh, the "social movement". In the early days of the invasion, it was members of Sotsialnyi rukh, like Taras Bilous, Volodymyr Artiukh, and others, who engaged most actively in international leftist debates about how to understand what was happening, and how to respond.
On a trip to Kyiv in December 2023, I visited Kateryna Kostrova, who was chairperson of Sotsialnyi rukh at the time. Over a cup of tea, she told me about her own way into politics and into Sotsialnyi rukh, about some of the challenges of organizing during wartime, and about the highs and lows of interacting with left movements in other countries. Kateryna has since left the organization and moved on to other projects.
My article for Jacobin on the Ukrainian government's neoliberal reform program, which I mention in the show.
My interview for Novara Media, with Sotsialnyi rukh's previous chairperson, Vitaliy Dudin, on the March 2022 decree banning 11 political parties.
An interview I did for Novara with Sergey Movchan, of Solidarity Collectives, about their work equipping comrades at the front with crowd-funded gear.
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Interkom is a podcast about politics and society in post-socialist Eurasia. On this show I look at rebellion and resistance, and the struggle against the politics of reaction and repression, in a region where the past weighs heavily and often complicates attempts at formulating leftist analyses of contemporary sociopolitical processes.
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