Joti Brar

https://www.youtube.com/live/srv7_mVgTNQ?feature=shared Today I talked with @GarlandNixon about the crisis of legitimacy. Why is it that more people than ever are waking up to the fact that media and politicians lie to them? How do our economic circumstances feed into our readiness to see the truth behind the lies we were brought up with? What do the local election results in England and Wales tell us about the British working class's view of the political establishment and parliamentary democracy generally?

Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar discuss the Victory over fascism: https://youtu.be/8ebgmAgh0tw?feature=shared

📷 German police violently dispersed and arrested pro-Palestine activists at the Free University of Berlin. @PressTV

VICTORY DAY IN DONETSK No mass celebrations or parades can take place in the DPR which remains vulnerable to Ukrainian attack. In fact the outskirts of the city was shelled in the morning with civilians wounded and a man was killed in Makeevka as his home was struck by Ukrainian forces, a sharp reminder that the battle against the ideological successors of the Nazis is still being fought today. But people want to remember the 27 million men, women, children, soldiers and partisans that lost their lives during the Great Patriotic War. Nowhere more so than in Donetsk which, then known as Stalino, was occupied by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943 before it was liberated by the Red Army. Statues and memorials across the city remember the heroes of that time, including Frank Gronkevich, whose T34 tank is on display at the Donbass Defenders memorial. He was killed in Zaporozhye region in October 1943 and his unit brought his body and tank back to Donetsk where he is buried. Many families, serving soldiers and veterans came to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame while a motorcycle cavalcade made its way across the city to pay their respects to those who sacrificed so much for the freedom of so many.

I expected much more of this sort of thing back in February and March 2022. I underestimated the extent to which the Banderites had cowed the wider Ukrainian population. The fact that these brave heroes of the Soviet Union are now showing their faces in public shows you how the mood has shifted and the people are pushing back against fascist domination as the Russian SMO edges ever closer to its complete victory and the Kiev junta collapses into in-fighting and recriminations.

Going live in a few minutes with Garland Nixon: https://www.youtube.com/live/srv7_mVgTNQ?feature=shared