{"id":616,"date":"2014-06-16T22:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=616"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:12:30","slug":"maidan-the-left-libertarian-in-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/06\/16\/maidan-the-left-libertarian-in-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Maidan &amp; the Left: &#8220;Libertarian in spirit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandnature.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/16\/libertarian-in-spirit-the-left-and-maidan\/\">report<\/a> on the recent\u00a0conference &#8220;The Left and the Maidan,&#8221; held in Kyiv in April, Russian trade unionist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilr.cornell.edu\/globallaborinstitute\/projects\/europe.html\">Kirill Buketov<\/a>\u00a0(of the <a href=\"http:\/\/global-labour.net\/\">Global Labour Institute<\/a> and the <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuf.ru\/\">International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers<\/a><\/span>) provides a detailed overview of the role of the political left in the Maidan movement.<\/p>\n<p>Buketov argues that while the Maidan cannot be adequately described as either left-wing or right-wing in its political character\u00a0&#8212; according to polls, &#8220;93% of the Maidan participants were distant from politics&#8221; and only 7% &#8220;had a political position and belonged to one political group or another&#8221; &#8212; <em>in spirit<\/em> it was &#8220;left-wing&#8221; and &#8220;libertarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Driven by protest against corruption and tyranny, against humiliation and oppression, by masses of people who felt their dignity had been offended by their rulers\u2019 lies,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->the movement, he argues, was both anti-authoritarian\u00a0in\u00a0its essence and in its &#8220;<em>modus operandi&#8221;:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;The Maidan used methods that we\u00a0<em>[the left]<\/em>\u00a0traditionally consider to be our own: direct participation, self-organisation, direct actions, rejection of leaders, and a resounding NO to the steering and pacesetting role of parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the Left Opposition (which has been mentioned several\u00a0times on this blog), the Women&#8217;s Squadron (with its feminist demands), the Students&#8217; Assembly (led by anarchists), the leftist Hospital Watch group, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Buketov\u00a0also discusses the failures of the Maidan left, including the\u00a0low representation within it of workers groups and trade unions (&#8220;the bulk of the protest movement was formed by students, pensioners, office clerks, civil servants, small entrepreneurs, etc.&#8221;) and a general lack of coordination among its groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandnature.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/16\/libertarian-in-spirit-the-left-and-maidan\/\">The full article can be read in English translation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0a report on the recent\u00a0conference &#8220;The Left and the Maidan,&#8221; held in Kyiv in April, Russian trade unionist Kirill Buketov\u00a0(of the Global Labour Institute and the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers) provides a detailed overview of the role of the political left in the Maidan movement. 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