Webinar “The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives”

This webinar brings together voices from Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Ukraine to examine how campist frameworks within the global left have consistently misread — and at times actively harmed — popular struggles in South America, the Middle East and Europe’s East. Rather than offering solidarity, campism has too often provided ideological cover for authoritarian regimes by reducing complex political realities to a simple axis of anti-imperialism, erasing the agency of people fighting oppression on multiple fronts simultaneously. Our speakers will map the shared terrain of these struggles: the experience of being caught between neocolonial power interests and the bad faith of a left that mistakes the enemy of its enemy for a friend. The conversation aims to build a more honest, decolonial solidarity — one accountable to the people actually in struggle, not to geopolitical abstractions.

Speakers:

Ladan Rahbari — University of Amsterdam
Robin Yassin-Kassab — author of the Road to Damascus
Rafael Uzcategui — Laboratorio de Paz
Mariia Vorotilina — curator and activist

Moderator:
Tereza Hendl – Board Member of the RUTA Association, philosopher, University of Augsburg

This webinar is happening with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation. It’s content is the exclusive responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the International Renaissance Foundation.