Boris Kagarlitsky

Boris Kagarlitsky and the future of the Russian left

Patrick Bond — Boris Kagarlitsky has had a torrid time with Russia’s notorious carceral regime, most recently on February 13, 2024 when prosecutors allied with one Kremlin faction had him re-imprisoned for a five-year term.
Tatarstan and the War in Ukraine

Tatarstan and the war in Ukraine

How has the Ukraine war shaped ethnic policy in Tatarstan? How will the redistribution of military spending change the republic’s budget? And what do local elites think about it? Airat Arslanov answers these questions and more.
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G7 must suspend Ukraine’s debt repayments

Eric Toussaint — For more than a year, the leaders of the main powers allied against Russia have been unable to reach agreement on how to finance the war and reconstruction of Ukraine.
Finland

Opposing Finland’s Thatcherist turn

Li Andersson, leader of the Finnish Vasemmistoliitto (Left Alliance), talks about her party’s priorities in this super election year.
Demonstration on May 26, 2024. Photo taken by the author’s friends

Economy, politics and geopolitics behind Georgia’s ‘foreign agents law’

Giorgi Kartvelishvili outlines the background that put Georgia’s rulers in a position to pursue such assertive and aggressive steps as its ‘foreign agents law’, despite immense domestic and international pressure.
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There’s more at stake in the fight against the Foreign Agents Law than liberal NGOs: Why the left should show solidarity with the protests in Georgia

Lela Rekhviashvili, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, Konstantine Eristavi, Alexandra Aroshvili & Ia Eradze — Since early April, Tbilisi has been the scene of protests on a scale unprecedented in modern Georgian history.
imperialism and antiimperialism

Imperialism and anti-imperialism today

Ashley Smith — The United States remains the world’s most powerful state. But it faces imperial rivals in China and Russia and sub-imperial ones in every region of the globe.
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We live in a world of growing imperialist rivalries

Ilya Matveev — Vast shifts in the world economy are driving a new imperialist rivalry, for which a series of regional wars are creating dangerous flash points.
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Jammu Kashmir: Victory of masses against colonial oppression and neoliberal policies

Haris Qadeer — The ongoing people's rights movement in Pakistani-administered Jammu Kashmir has finally emerged victorious after a year-long struggle.
Mazibuko Jara

The ANC and South Africa’s radical left, 30 years after the first post-apartheid elections: An interview with Mazibuko Jara

Mazibuko Jara looks at the African National Congress’s (ANC) prospects of holding onto power after 30 years in office, and how some of the new right and left forces are likely to fare.
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On the eve of the elections, South Africans deserve better — and it exists

Shawn Hattingh — The people of South Africa deserve better and, in some places in the world, we can see glimpses of a better system being built by people themselves, without handing power to politicians.
Lenin

Paul Le Blanc: The essential and non-essential in Lenin

The hundredth anniversary year of Vladimir Lenin’s death has generated a remarkable outpouring of explorations and evaluations that are in dramatic contrast to the flat, two-dimensional dogmas that became dominant during the Cold War years of 1947-90.

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