Spanish state: A ‘pacifism’ that helps Putin
Alfons Bech — Discussions on peace in Ukraine are all very well, they are necessary. We must continue them. But we should know what the Ukrainians are saying.
John Feffer — Advocates of "peace now" in Ukraine would do well to listen to what Ukrainian and Russian progressives have to say.
Nuclear fusion: Eternal energy = eternal damnation
Don Fitz & Stan Cox — Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead.
Sudan’s revolutionary path against war
Muzan Alneel — While the generals lay waste to Khartoum, the Sudanese people are organizing a new way of life.
Cihan Tuğal — Turkey is headed for tough times. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was reelected for a third term in the runoff elections on 28 May, winning 52% of the popular vote, while the opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu came away with 48%.
Jeremy Corbyn — My support is for Lula, the Pope, the Chinese president, and the general secretary of the UN, who are trying to get a peace process going on.
The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of the Egyptian Left — Part 2
Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi interview Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left.
De-occupation of Crimea: Crimean Tatars and the Path toward Decolonization
Mariia Shynkarenko — The Ukrainian state and society need to clearly understand the nature of its relationship with Crimea and the basis for Ukraine’s rule there.
Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual
An interview with the editorial board of Ukraine’s leading left journal.
Pro-independence victories in French Polynesia
Léon Crémieux — On 30 April, the Polynesian pro-independence Tavini party won a solid majority in the Territorial Assembly for the first time. This confirms a real change in the political landscape in the archipelago
The war in Ukraine and Russian capital: From military-economic to full military imperialism
Ilya Matveev — Russian imperialism does have its own logic that is not reducible to the interests of the ruling class. The appearance of the non-economic roots of Russia’s aggressive expansionism since 2014 raises questions about the contemporary validity of classical theories of imperialism.
The class conflict behind Russia’s war
Volodymyr Ishchenko — By understanding the Russian ruling class' material interests, we can move beyond flimsy explanations that take rulers’ claims at face value, toward a more coherent picture of how the war is rooted in the economic and political vacuum opened up by the Soviet collapse in 1991.