Today’s program of the Socialism 2024 conference, an annual event that takes place in Chicago, will feature an award ceremony of the Daniel Singer Prize for the best article devoted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LeftEast is proud that two of the awardees, the runners-up Volodymyr Ischenko and Olena Lyubchenko, are our editors. If you haven’t already, you can read their articles here:
Olena Lyubchenko, “On the Frontier of Whiteness? Expropriation, War and Social Reproduction in Ukraine,” published in LeftEast.
Volodymyr Ishchenko, “Ukrainian Voices,” published in New Left Review No. 138.
The first prize went to Taras Bilous, for “The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left,” published in Commons. All three authors will speak today, September 1, 2024 at 3 pm CDT, at a panel titled “Between Two Fires: Left Perspectives on the War on Ukraine.” Come by if you are in downtown Chicago.
The Daniel Singer Foundation was formed in 2000 to further the socialist and democratic ideals of Daniel Singer through progressive journalism and activism, and earlier this year awarded a Prisoner of Conscience prize to Boris Kagarlitsky, a socialist author and activist recently sentenced by the Russian government to five years in prison for opposing the invasion of Ukraine.
The Socialism conference is a major annual event held in Chicago bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the United States to take part in discussions about social movements, abolition, Marxism, decolonization, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.