Voices Against Putin’s War: protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts, is published in October 2025 by Resistance Books.
□ Order the paperback from Resistance Books here.
□ Download a free PDF here.
Voices Against Putin’s War features speeches in court by ten people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were handed long jail sentences for doing so. It also includes statements by two accused made outside court; a summary of 17 other anti-war protesters’ speeches in Russian courts; letters and interviews; and a survey of political repression in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine’s occupied territories, of which these jailings are part.
□ “These speeches and statements bear witness to the determination of the human spirit not to be silenced” – John McDonnell MP, in the Foreword
□ “Could hardly be more timely” – Rights in Russia
□ “These individuals are just a fraction of the thousands detained by the Russian regime” – Labour Hub
□ “Unfortunately, the final courtroom speech has become something like a literary genre in its own right. This tells us a lot about the difficult and fearful times we are living through.” – Simon Pirani, who edited the book, on Posle.Media
□ Raging Against Vladimir Putin’s War Machine (Jacobin, October 2025)
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Organisations that support political prisoners in Russian prisons, monitor and disseminate information about them, and campaign for their release
Russia
Memorial: Support Political Prisoners
Ukraine
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
International
European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine
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TRY ME FOR TREASON: readings from anti-war protesters’ speeches in Russian courts
The information sheet that goes with the readings is downloadable here.
Film of our book launch event on Thursday 20 November in London:
The collections at this event, and at a second event at Birkbeck college in London on 5 February, were donated to Fires of Freedom (supporting Ruslan Siddiqi), Solidarity Zone (supporting Igor Paskar, Alexei Rozhkov, Kirill Butylin and others) and We Bohdan Ziza.
Any profits from sales of Voices Against Putin’s war will go to Memorial: Support Political Prisoners.
Ukraine Information Group 