Russia

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Viktoriia Pihul (Social Movement, Ukraine): ‘The normalisation of full-scale war has seen the return of political confrontation’

Ukrainian feminist and socialist Viktoriia Pihul looks at the situation in Ukraine two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion. 

Filipino worker

Imperialist expropriation, global care chains and shifting core-periphery boundaries: An interview with Nancy Fraser

Nancy Fraser looks at how transfers of natural wealth and care fit within modern imperialism, the role expropriation continues to play in capital accumulation, and the increasingly blurred nature of core-periphery boundaries under financialised capitalism.

Oksana Dutchak

Commons (Ukraine): ‘Tensions are building in Ukrainian society as a result of neoliberal policies imposed by the government’

An interview with Oksana Dutchak, member of the Commons editorial team, as the two year anniversary of Russia’s invasion approaches.

Turkey Palestine

Turkey: ‘The absence of rules is the fundamental character of the regime’

Masis Kürkçügil explains how Erdoğan’s Turkey is seeking to carve out a path between the Western bloc and the West in order to build a second-rate imperialism. But this is not without difficulty in the context of exacerbated contradictions between the great powers.

Ukraine Palestine

Social Movement (Ukraine): From Ukraine to Palestine — Occupation is a crime

The Social Movement stands for a just peace in the Middle East, which requires the elimination of structural oppression of Palestinians and systemic violence against the civilian population.

Stop arming Israel protest

Israel’s war on Gaza: The West against the rest?

Harald Etzbach — While the states of the Global South publicly proclaim solidarity with Palestine, the reality is more complicated.

Lenin's legacy

Lenin’s legacy: Ordinary miracles and revolutionary ambition

Given the recent marking of the centenary of Lenin’s death, Lars T Lih looks at what his ‘intricate polemic’ in ‘What is to Be Done?’ might offer today’s left.

Russian imperialism

War, fascization, and resistance: Perspectives on Russian imperialism

Ilya Budraitskis — To accomplish his war aim’s, Putin regime is trying to stabilize Russian society, stoke political conflict within NATO countries, legitimate his rule through the presidential election in March and mobilize troops for a new offensive in the spring.
Boris Nadezhdin

Russia: Boris Kagarlitsky on the Nadezhdin phenomenon

Boris Kagarlitsky — Nadezhdin’s campaign represents a significant political challenge: if not for the system, then at least for its conservative faction. We will know in the very near future how serious this challenge will be.
Putin tanks

Russian military Keynesianism: Who benefits from the war in Ukraine?

Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ilya Matveev & Oleg Zhuravlev look at how the transformation of the Russian economy and society in response to the challenges posed by the invasion of Ukraine have affected popular support for the war.
Russian bombing Ukraine

Ukraine: Russian troops out — stop the genocide

Fred Leplat — While the Ukrainian people continue their courageous fight against occupation, the West has cynically used the conflict to rebrand itself as a guarantor of democracy while withholding weapons and aid from Ukraine.
Boris Kagarlitsky free

Boris Kagarlitsky: ‘My prisons and the future of Russia’

Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian sociologist, left-wing activist and a critic of Putin's intervention in Ukraine, on being freed after four months in jail on the unproven charge of "justifying of terrorism".