Europe

Discussion: Murray Smith on what Russia is doing in Ukraine

Russian troops in Crimea.

Scotland: Tariq Ali on independence

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – On March 1

Ukraine: Positions of the European left

See also "France: Parti de Gauche leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Ukraine".

Britain: People's Assembly conference a step forward in anti-austerity struggle

By Dave Kellaway

Discussion: What stand for socialists on events in Crimea and Ukraine?

Crimeans vote in the referendum on the region's political future.

An Irish republican perspective on Tony Benn

Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness in conversation wit

Madrid’s Basque stance absurd and untenable

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Tony Benn (1925-2014): A great communicator of the socialist cause

By Phil Hearse

Germany: Union militant on how wind-power development is held to ransom for profit

Wind turbine towers at Bremerhaven port. Photo by Lucy Alcorn.

Boris Kagarlitsky: ‘Polite intervention’ and the Ukrainian uprising

Unarmed Ukrainian troops march on the Belbek airfield in Crimea

Against infantile realpolitik: Richard Seymour on some left reactions to Ukraine

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By Richard Seymour

Ukraine: 'If the left movements don’t unite, only the far right will benefit from social anger'

Volodymyr Ishchenko.