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https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1499305019413258242
Any comment? If Stop the War don't want to be seen as Putin's useful idiots, can they stop Kremlin propaganda being disseminated at their events?
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If you've not read it already this is a good piece on the sharing of Russian Propaganda (whether unwittingly or otherwise) by segments of the British left: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/russian-propaganda-anti-imperialist-left-vladimir-putin.
It's pretty well balanced. Like the writer, I've been to plenty of STW and STW adjacent events and, while it is only a minority, there are still some people on the left who view imperialism as purely Western phenomenon. It's a weird outgrowth of the old school tanky left and the Iraq war.
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https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1499305019413258242
Any comment? If Stop the War don't want to be seen as Putin's useful idiots, can they stop Kremlin propaganda being disseminated at their events?
Of course they can't control what people hand out outside their events.
I didn't see that, no. But:
So Owen Jones is the person who you meant when you said the far left don't believe Ukraine has a right to self-determination and should be a vassal to Putin?
Cool. If that's his position he's wrong. Let's call him out on it. In fact, sounds like people did and he made his position clearer and apologised.