Russia

Chris Slee — Even if it were true that Putin was “worried about NATO’s intentions”, that still would not justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine is still resisting heroically Russia’s imperialist war of annexation, writes Fred Leplat.

Dave Holmes — The mainstream media has been full of relentless, wall-to-wall propaganda against Russia and China. As the US-NATO defeat in Ukraine becomes impossible to deny, the campaign against Russia and its ally China has intensified.

Eric Toussaint analyses the practical policies of the BRICS countries and the institutions they have established towards Israel and its genocide in Gaza.

Posle — Trump’s negotiations have evoked mixed emotions: hope for an end to the war, but also anxiety about its consequences and the terms of the potential deal.

Rahmane Idrissa dissects the myths and realities surrounding Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré.

Alexey Sakhnin & Liza Smirnova — To become the voice of millions of Russians weary of war, repression and inequality, the left needs a clear and compelling strategy.

William Jefferies explores the usefulness of long wave theory for understanding the current moment, how globalisation reshaped the world economy, and the coming period of crisis.

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. Yet both are diverting resources to war, while neglecting their people and the environment.

Where do Russia’s environmental, human-rights, and Indigenous movements overlap? Kirill Medvedev discusses new forms of struggle across Russia’s internal borders.

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.

Lev Yurkevych ‘Ukraine and the War’ is the earliest concise Marxist analysis of the Ukrainian question to be presented to international socialists.