Patriarchy and the origins of women’s oppression
Sue Bull — To fight against patriarchy, we need to know where it comes from, how it developed and how it became so effective.
Sweden: Assessing Socialistisk Politik and Internationalen’s position on the Russo-Ukrainian war
Jan Czajkowski — The war against Ukraine is not just one more political issue among others, where it is possible to have different opinions within the left. Rather, it is a watershed moment.
Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European lefts
Murray Smith — The war in Ukraine has cast a harsh light on the radical left in Europe, revealing the best and the worst.
South Africa: Internationalism and the Russia-Ukraine war – the hypocrisy of (some of) the left
Dale T McKinley — It is unfortunately all too predictable that some on the left are consistently calling for imperial nations/the West to stop objectifying the people of the Global South, while refusing to apply the same to the majority of people and the left in Ukraine and Russia.
Planned degrowth: Ecosocialism and sustainable human development
John Bellamy Foster — The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress.
Canada: Tenants confront the housing crisis
Richard Fidler — How Ontario tenants fought for legal security of tenure, and won.
Europe: The far right is here to stay
David Broder — Figures like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni threaten to establish a new normal in European politics.
Hossam el-Hamalawy: A Decade of Counter-Revolution in Egypt
Hossam el-Hamalawy — The ten years since the coup have witnessed unprecedented repression and censorship
Nordic Green Left: Solidarity with Ukraine
The Nordic Green Left is a cooperation platform for Nordic left-wing parties. The network adopted this statement in support of Ukraine in Malmö on June 9.
Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Prigozhin’s coup attempt has exposed Putin’s vulnerability’
Ilya Matveev discusses the recent armed rebellion led by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, what it tells us about the realities of Putin’s regime and its possible impacts on the war in Ukraine.
Michael Pröbsting — Resistance Books, an Australian based non-profit, progressive book publisher, has published a new book dealing with the Ukraine War: the single most important event in the current conjuncture of world politics.
Farooq Tariq: Ecosocialism, Pakistan and countries of the South
Farooq Tariq — Ecosocialism offers a vision that transcends the false dichotomy between ecological sustainability and social justice. It recognizes that the climate crisis cannot be overcome without addressing the underlying structures of power and inequality.