Green Socialist Notes, Episode 323 with Special Guest Andriy Movchan

This week Howie will be joined by Ukrainian socialist Andriy Movchan for a discussion about his participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and the importance of international Left support for both the Ukrainian and Palestinian struggles for national liberation.Links Shared During the Stream:Andriy Movchan, “The Russian Idée Fixe,” CounterPunch, January 1, 2026, https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/01/the-russian-idee-fixe/Andriy Movchan, “Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion,” CounterPunch, February 24, 2023, https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/24/liquidating-the-legacy-of-revolution-ideology-of-the-russian-invasion/Andriy Movchan, “Socialists and the national question in Ukraine, yesterday and today,” Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, May 31, 2025, https://links.org.au/socialists-and-national-question-ukraine-yesterday-and-todayAndriy Movchan, “From the Global Sumud Flotilla: An interview with Ukrainian organizer Andriy Movchan,” International Workers League, April 28, 2026, https://litci.org/en/from-the-global-sumud-flotilla-an-interview-with-ukrainian-organizer-andriy-movchan/Andriy Movchan, “‘No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin’,” Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, June 1, 2025, https://links.org.au/no-one-has-strengthened-ukrainian-far-right-more-putinAndriy Movchan, “For an Anti-Imperialist Leftist movement,” Osservatorio balcani caucaso transeuropa, June 24, 2026, https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/en/cp_article/for-an-anti-imperialist-leftist-movement-an-interview-with-andriy-movchan/“Interview with Andriy Movchan, who sailed to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla,” Transnational Institute for Social Ecology, May 27, 2026, https://www.trise.net/2026/05/27/interview-with-andriy-movchan-who-sailed-to-gaza-with-the-global-sumud-flotilla/Andriy Movchan, “An Interview on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza,” CounterPunch, June 25, 2026, https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/25/an-interview-on-the-global-sumud-flotilla-to-gaza/

Streamed on 8/8/26

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Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

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