Russia

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.

Vladimir Plotnikov — Supporting Ukraine does not mean supporting NATO. It means being on the side of the oppressed people against the oppressor.

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

Simon Pirani — With militarism and authoritarianism on the rise, the anti-war protests in Russia have international significance.

Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.