Russian Socialist Movement: ‘Stop the war’ has to mean ‘death to the dictatorship’
Russian Socialist Movement — Two years ago, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This was not a response to any military threat posed by Ukraine or NATO: it was an attempt to subjugate a neighboring country that Putin simply believes should not exist.
[Updated] Solidarity statements on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Solidarity statements released by the Fourth International, Ukraine Solidarity Network (US), European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, and left elected representatives on the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero
Ilya Matveev — Alexei Navalny must be recognized for what he was: a giant of anti-authoritarian politics and nonviolent resistance.
Navalny and us: Three Russian leftists on the legacy of Alexei Navalny’s politics
How does the Russian left see the legacy of Alexei Navalny’s politics? What role has he played in the politicization of Russian society? What might his ultimate political legacy be? Three interventions from the left.
Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky! Solidarity is stronger than repression!
Suzi Weissman — Boris Kagarlitsky, the Marxist critic and thorn in the side of Putin’s regime, is now in their hands, and international solidarity is required.
Panamanian socialist: ‘Mineral extraction must be suspended immediately’
José Cambra recounts how popular mobilization defeated an anti-environmental policy in Panama.
Venezuelan trade union leader and political activist Stalin Pérez Borges is currently in intensive care in a hospital in Argentina due to pancreatitis.
The following statements have been issued by the Russian Socialist Movement in the wake of the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison and the jailing of socialist dissident Boris Kagarlitsky.
How to understand Russia’s imperialist attitude toward Ukraine
Hanna Perekhoda analyzes construction of Russian imperialist imagery of Ukraine, rooted in the Russian ruling elite’s drive to maintain its power.
It is dark before the dawn, but Israeli settler colonialism is at an end
Ilan Pappé discusses the need to understand that the genocide of Palestinians we are currently witnessing, as brutal as it is, is also the demise of the so-called Jewish state.
On the origins and development of Hamas
First published at Tempest.
A discussion about Hamas & October 7
Dave Holmes — We are constantly told by the Western corporate media that Hamas is a terrorist group. But the reality is very different.