Russia

Putin has only strengthened NATO
Chris Slee — Some rightly denounce NATO’s military build-up, but refuse to do the same with Russia’s military build-up and invasion of Ukraine. In reality, both Russia and NATO are diverting resources to war, while neglecting their people and the environment.

Wartime protest across Russia’s internal borders
What legal means of protest remain in Russia today? Where do its environmental, human-rights, and Indigenous movements overlap? Kirill Medvedev discusses new forms of struggle across Russia’s internal borders.

Capital, power and war: The crisis of Russia’s peripheral accumulation regime
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Russia’s war in Ukraine is not simply a geopolitical miscalculation or ideological excess, but a structurally embedded feature of its capitalist accumulation regime.

Ukraine between empire and revolution: Lev Yurkevych’s anti-colonial Marxism
Lev Yurkevych ‘Ukraine and the War’ is the earliest concise Marxist analysis of the Ukrainian question to be presented to international socialists.

The wheels are falling off the system
Dave Holmes — Instead of an all-out emergency mobilisation to deal with global warming, NATO countries are boosting military spending.

‘Atlanticist liberalism can never recover from its present agony’
Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.

From US hegemony to a ‘war of all against all’: Boris Kagarlitsky on Trump’s first 100 days
Despite severe restrictions on political prisoners, Boris Kagarlitsky continues to analyse global developments. Here, he offers a sharp and often ironic reflection on the dynamics behind Trump’s return to power.

The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right
Ilya Budraitskis on the rise of the far right and anti-fascist strategies.