Russia

A webinar marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. Plus statements by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine), Posle Editorial Collective (Russia) and Ukraine Solidarity Network (US).

Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre discuss imperialism’s multidimensional nature, Karl Marx’s value theory and why a value-theoretical framework for studying the global economy is urgently needed.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Like 85 years ago, under the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Communism is illegal in Czechia.

Daria Saburova looks at how volunteer labor has become a site of gender and class tensions, and the specific features of class relations in contemporary Ukraine.

Markela Panegyres — The only force capable of making meaningful cracks in the imperialist and capitalist armour is a mass movement of international ecosocialism.

Oleksandr Kyselov — Russia appears unwilling to compromise in Ukraine, a problem ignored by those calling for an end to support for Kyiv.

Florence Oppen — Russia's imperialist economy today is a case study in the principle of combined and uneven development.

Chris Slee — Lenin’s writings make clear that imperialism is not just an economic phenomenon. Political and military aspects also matter.

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski presents the historical characteristics of Russian imperialism.

Every aggressor — from Hitler to Netanyahu — has called their war forced, defensive, provoked from the outside, a response to danger facing the state and its citizens, writes Andriy Movchan.

Michael Pröbsting — Trump’s new National Security Strategy is not only a crucial document for understanding the current state of US imperialism; it closes a debate that began with the onset of a new historic period in 2008/09.

Boris Kagarlitsky — Assessing Russia’s economic situation, Ekaterina Shulman suggested that the country is running out of money and people. And indeed, by all indications, something is running out.