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The BRICS spall, fall and (try to) reconstitute

Early March 2022 provided a surprising reflection of the extent to which dominant Western norms of international finance could retain hegemony, even as the world’s North-South polarisation suddenly worsened. The Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) was set up by five countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) – at a 2014 Brazilian conference of presidents.

When the chickens came home to roost: Behind the assassination of Shinzo Abe

“The political meaning of Abe’s death, the consequences, I no longer have the luxury of thinking about” ― Final line in a letter the killer sent to a journalist the day before the incident.

Russian imperialism: Economically weak, militarily strong

There is a debate among socialists over whether Russia is an imperialist power or not.

The tragedy of the Ukrainian working class

At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or Russification?”. It argued that behind the facade of fraternal coexistence of peoples in the USSR, there lurked a Great Russian chauvinism that prevented the real development of national culture, suppressed the history of non-Russian peoples, promoted Russification and encouraged Ukrainophobia.

NATO expands – Kurds betrayed

By Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker

In Sri Lanka’s crisis, a new president and old problems

By B. Skanthakumar

Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the Japanese Communist Party's position

By Shii Kazuo

Thoughts on Malaysia’s most pressing challenges

Speech by Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj to Socialist Party of Malaysia's 24th National Congress

(Video) Ukrainian women’s voices from the warzone

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign recently hosted a Women’s Forum with a range of speakers from Ukraine. Speaking at the event was: Yuliya Yurchenko, Chairperson, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign; Ivanna Khrapko, Chair of the Youth Council of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine; Olesia Briazgunova, International Secretary of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine; Tetiana Pulia, Coordinator at Social Democratic Platform; and Viktoriia Pigul, Sotsialny Rukh (Social Movement) of Ukraine.

(Video) Boris Kagarlitsky: Russia, not NATO, started the war; capitalists on all sides fuel the fire

Boris Kagarlitsky responds to criticism he underestimates NATO provocations. He also analyzes the changing politics of Ukraine and growing anti-war feelings in Russia.