Thread by @mxmovement

Brittney Griner: Victim of Putin's white supremacist farright culture war / instrumentalised for the dirty war in Ukraine.
#FreeBritneyGriner

Our full statement here: facebook.com/39441104407259…

Brittney Griner is. 31yrs old Black / African (American) woman from Texas. While on a visit to do with her professional basketball career she was detained by Putin in Moscow on the 17 Feb this year (2022).

She was apparently said to be carrying some hash oil which is legal in the usa but illegal in Russia. She was 'legally' kidnapped and held in prison by Putin, the person and humanity of Brittney Griner has been used by Putin for his twisted racist culture war ..

..against his enemies in the usa in direct relation to his supremacist / zionist war and occupation against the nation and people of Ukraine.

This racist treatment of Brittney Griner has wider racist repercussions as not only is Putin using her to negotiate a prisoner swap for themselves, but also she wouldn't have been taken prisoner by Putin if 1, she wasnt Black, and 2, if she wasn't a woman and 3, gay. ..

These 3 things and of course that she is a citizen of the usa all plays into Putin's farright railing against the 'liberal globalists' etc. We have no time for the biggest alliance of imperialists in the world - nato n their own dirty instrumentalisation of Ukraine & it’s ppl

for their own greater-imperialist aims, & on the other hand We have no time for the manipulative n hollow neo-colonial liberal posture of colonially defined identity politics. But Putin and connected farright play •their own* identity politics too, & that too must be rejected…

We do not act politically to replace one big global alliance of racist capitalists for another group of smaller wannabe racist capitalists.

For anyone to ask Black and Brown people to peddle any of Putin's violent and hyper anti-migrant, anti-Black supremacist politics is asking Black n Brown people to act against their own direct self-interests of resistance and Black Power socialist resistance.

Putin and his leadership are working overtime especially on the African continent to lie and deceive people that they are some great friends of Black people. Putin and his state is in many ways the counter-opposite of the Soviet Socialist (USSR) state;

USSR despite problematics did assist the African liberation movements and liberated African states, Putin's Russia wants to and has in small part taken over the same framework of colonial-capitalist extraction of African people and land in the case of Libya, Mali, CAR and Sudan;

in all cases Putin's hyper-racist Wagner mercenaries are killing civilians while Putin is leaching gold (Sudan) and other wealth from Africa…

Yes, western imperialism is still number one enemy n we should never have any truck w it, but also it is totally correct that we also reject any non-western states behaving in the same and neo-colonial manner as which we have experienced by 'Western' imperialists for centuries.

Russia's pursuit of its dirty Ukraine war has collapsed a lot of support for Putin and his deceitful global fascist industry which has in-part united a ridiculous pro-nato liberal culture in the 'West', but…

it has also meant a lot of independent-minded people who oppose racism and capitalism to open up critical conversations about what Putin's global politics actually consists of…

the case of #BrittneyGriner in direct connection to this has allowed many to understand that while Putin & Co try n manipulate some Black communities its clear that really he is overwhelmingly vested in creating genocdical /anti-migrant /farright politics n movements against us..

we're just not having any of it rather we going after his agents that infiltrate Black left circles. Indeed the v political aesthetics of the caging of Griner by Putin says all that we need to know about Putin's sympathies for those who caged our ancestors in a similar fashion…

But like our ancestors, see the defiance and resistance in Griner's composure behind the bars. #FreeBrittneyGriner! [end statement]