The Western establishment led by the Biden administration defends the unjust status quo with increasing repression, best exemplified by its support of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Against it, Putin’s regime in Russia has positioned itself as part of a global far right, rallying support for its imperialist war in Ukraine, autocratic rule, and reactionary domestic social program. Join this panel on Putin, the global far right, and how to stop it.

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Speakers:

Ilya Budraitskis is political theorist and activist from Russia, a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley, and author of Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics, and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia. He is member of the editorial board of Russian socialist website Posle.media.

John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and is the author, most recently, of Right Around the World: The Global Networking of the Far Right and the Left Response.

Blanca Missé is an associate professor of French at San Francisco State University, a member of the executive board of the San Francisco State University Chapter of the California Faculty Association, a member of California Scholars for Academic Freedom, and a member of Workers’ Voice.

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