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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.
US antiwar protest

Russia's war on Ukraine: The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance (plus response: The surprising pervasiveness of pro-war propaganda)

John Feffer — Advocates of "peace now" in Ukraine would do well to listen to what Ukrainian and Russian progressives have to say.
nuke energy

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

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.
Erdogan

Turkey: Erdoğan’s resilience

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

Jeremy Corbyn in Budapest: 'There has to be a cease fire followed by serious negotiations about what the relationship is going to be like between Russia and Ukraine'

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.
Egypt

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.
Crimea

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.
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Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual

An interview with the editorial board of Ukraine’s leading left journal.
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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
Russian airforce

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.
Putin meeting workers

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.