Russia

Oleg Shein discusses the social crisis that has engulfed the country in the fifth year of the war.

Replying to Alex Callinicos, Simon Pirani looks at what the Ukraine war tells us about imperialism today and the need to incorporate class struggle and other forms of social change into our analysis.

Mikhail Lobanov outlines how radicals are organizing the infrastructure and consolidating the politics for tomorrow’s left in Russia.

Kseniia Kagarlitskaya discusses Putin’s incarceration of her father, Boris Kagarlitsky, and the political prisoner support organization she founded.

Produced by the Ukraine Information Group, this film features excerpts from four speeches given by anti-war protesters in Russian courts.

Drawing on more than a century of Marxist thought from Lenin to David Harvey, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev reveal the specificity of Russian imperialism, as well as its global implications.

Alex Callinicos shows how the Marxist critique of imperialism can encompass aspects of the present conjuncture that liberalism and realism cannot account for, above all, the genocide in Gaza and fracturing of the ‘global West’.

Jana Silverman and Jaime Caro look at alternatives socialists on both sides of the Atlantic can propose to promote geopolitical stability in the face of the global polycrisis.

Russia says it is Cuba’s strategic ally. But Russian oil is not arriving. Eduardo Miguel Álvarez Estévez looks at why.

Why does Putin accuse Lenin of having “created Ukraine”? Behind this statement lies far more than a mere dispute amongst historians, writes Eric Toussaint.

Ana Cristina Carvalhaes argues for a non-dogmatic theory of imperialism, which incorporates ecology, understands Trump’s aggressive neo-colonialist shift and recognises sub-imperialist countries.

Can Armenia’s recent elections be reduced to a contest between a pro-Western Pashinyan and a pro-Russian opposition? Mikael Zolyan examines Armenia through a left-wing lens.