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alanjjohnstone
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Arundhati Roy, the Indian novelist, comments on the Ukrainian war.

Full speech
https://thewire.in/rights/arundhati-roy-stuart-hall-memorial-lecture

extracts
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/11/arundhati-roy-on-ukraine-war.html

Arundhati Roy summed up the Left’s dilemma as “tortuous yoga asanas – some pretty drastic seeing and unseeing – depending on where you have decided to place yourself.”

She added: “Many on the Left cannot find it in themselves to call out Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. They believe that Ukrainian outrage against Russia has been entirely confected and cultivated by Western imperialism.”

A view of the Indian left-wing attitude to the war here.

https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/leftist-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine/