Name: Ukraine Betrayed: Trump, Putin and the Struggle for Self-Determination
Start: 2025-07-03T16:30:00-0500
End: 2025-07-03T18:00:00-0500

Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

TBA

Trump’s political alignment with Russia’s Vladimir Putin is reshaping international politics while posing a serious threat to the Ukrainian people’s resistance to colonial domination and occupation. This panel will discuss how we can generate further solidarity with Ukraine and other ongoing struggles for self-determination given this global turning point.

Speakers

Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher Jr., bill is former president of TransAfrica Forum, Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author (with Peter Agard) of ‘The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the CIO'.

Denys Bondar

Denys Bondar, a native of Ukraine, is a professor of physics at Tulane University and is a member of Ukrainian socialist group, Sotsialnyi Rukh.

Elias Seidel

Elias Seidel is a translator, artist, and socialist with experience on both the US and Russian left. Most recently, he has translated for Posle, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, and The February Journal, and appeared on Rabkor and the online roundtable “Inside the Aggressor.”

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