Solidarity with Ukraine: Building a new internationalism
When: 10:30 am, March 11, 2023 to 6:30 pm, March 11, 2023
Campaigns: General
Saturday 11 March, doors 10am for a 10.30 start
LSE Centre Building (CBG) Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE
The Russian war against Ukraine marks a major turning point in 21st century history. It concentrates in a single cataclysm some of the most reactionary forces threatening the future survival of the human species: crony capitalism, authoritarianism, extractivism, patriarchy, ethnonationalism, imperialism and the polluting industries destroying planet Earth.
Ukraine’s tremendous resistance to the Russian invasion is first and foremost about the protection of the country’s democracy, territorial integrity, political freedom and human rights. But in the context of a ‘century of cascading crises’, it raises issues and challenges that go far beyond Ukraine – indeed, that are truly global.
In the international solidarity and civil society movements which have emerged in solidarity with Ukraine there is a need to develop spaces that are able to connect these dots. Ukraine’s struggle for survival needs to become intertwined with campaigns and movements for socioeconomic and environmental justice.
By resisting the Russian invasion and asserting its political agency, Ukraine has moved into the centre of not only European but global politics. As a result of their resistance, Ukrainians have an opportunity – in dialogue with global civil society movements – to ‘make another world possible’. By bringing Ukrainian activists and academics into dialogue with other global civil society movements and creating a space for discussion and action, the Solidarity with Ukraine conferences project seeks to make a small contribution to taking this forward.
Speakers include
- Oleksandra Matviychuk (Centre for Civil Liberties, joint winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize)
- Volodymyr Artiukh (Oxford University)
- Natalia Lomonosova (CEDOS)
- Sharon Weill (The American University in Paris)
- Shukria Rezaei (Afghan human rights activist)
- Alena Ivanova (Another Europe Is Possible)
- Mary Kaldor (LSE)
- Taras Fedirko (Glasgow University)
- Maliek Banat (LSE Ukraine Society)
- Mazen Gharibah (LSE)
- Oksana Potapova (LSE)
- Nadia Whittome (MP for Nottingham East)
- Anna Ackermann (Ecodiya)
- Danylo Nikiforov (LSE Ukraine Society)
- Anne Le Huérou (Paris Nanterre University)
- Yulia Yurchenko (Greenwich University)
- John McDonnell MP (MP for Hayes and Harlington)
This event has been organised by the Ukraine team of the Conflict and Civicness Research Group (LSE CCRG), a research unit at the LSE exploring the changing nature of war and conflict in the 21st century.
Global Justice Now is supporting the conference along with:
Another Europe Is Possible (UK), CEDETIM (FR), Centre for Civil Liberties (UA), Commons / Spilne (UA), Democratic Security Institute (Georgia), European Alternatives (FR, IT, DE),European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, Institute for Policy Studies (US), International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP), LSE Ukraine Society, Ukrainian Students Union (UK), Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK).
