Solidarity with the Belarusian and Ukrainian Peoples

On 29 May 2021, hundreds in Warsaw took part in a demonstration of solidarity with the oppressed people of Belarus. One year after the start of the 2020 anti-government protests in Belarus, the demonstration highlighted the Lukashenko regime's continued imprisonment of dissidents and the brutal repression of all political opposition to the regime's reign of terror.

On 24 February 2022, Putin's Russia shocked the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. That evening an anti-war demonstration was quickly organized in front of the Russian embassy in Warsaw.

Then on 3 March 2022, thousands of students marched through Warsaw during an international day of student climate strikes in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The demonstration, co-organized by the Polish branch of Greenpeace and the Polish youth climate movement, called for an immediate end to the war as well as an end to the use of fossil fuels as an energy source - highlighting that the sale of Russian gas and coal continued to generate massive profits for the Russian state and finance Putin's war machine. 

One month after the attack on Ukraine, on 24 March 2022, anti-fascist groups in Kraków organized an anti-war march in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

A large solidarity demonstration was held in Prague's Letná Park on 3 April 2022. Sometime after the invasion, a Ukrainian flag was hung from the park's famous metronome monument that in 1991 was constructed on the place of a1962 demolition of the park's once enormous monument to  Joseph Stalin. 

Back in Warsaw, on 24 February 2024, a large solidarity demonstration was once again held in front of the Russian embassy, on the 2nd anniversary of the invasion, during which a group of local and exiled anarchists from Belarus and Ukraine also participated, highlighting the intersectional nature of resisting Russian imperialism in addition to all other forms of imperialism, neocolonialism, and authoritarianism.