by Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kolganov
Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov are economists and political scientists at Moscow State University who are associated with the social and political journal Alternativy.
By Aleksandr Buzgalin
The tent city on Independence Square
Popular enthusiasm or political manipulation and big money?
By Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kolganov, translated by Renfrey Clarke for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
March 23, 2009 -- The period at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was notable for a whole range of developments. Two of them, however, seem to the authors to be not only closely interconnected, but also of symbolic importance: a genuinely profound economic crisis broke out, and along with it, sharply increased interest came to be shown in the works of Karl Marx.
Bolotnaya Square, Moscow, December 10, 2011. Photo by Andrey Kolganov.
More than 15,000 protesters marched from Pushkin Square to the Chistye Prudy metro station in Moscow on May 13, in support Occupy Abay. Photograph: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images.
By Aleksandr Buzgalin in Moscow, translated by Renfrey Clarke
Translation and introductory note by Renfrey Clarke
November 18, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Many members of the international left who have lived in Moscow or visited it during the past few decades will be saddened to learn that Nina Ivanovna Buzgalina, mother of Aleksandr Buzgalin, died on November 9, 2012. Aleksandr has now written this tribute to her.
By Aleksandr Buzgalin
The following interview was conducted on May 13, 2014, by the Real News Network.
For more analysis on developments in Ukraine, click HERE.
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