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Ukraine: The left and the movement to overthrow Yanukovich: two interviews

Mass protest in Maidan Square.

Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine: ‘A quadrille of monsters’ and ‘Smashing the feed trough’

Protesters occupy Independence Square, D

Ukraine: Behind the political earthquake and the far-right threat

A dense crowd of protesters fill the streets beyond a barricade in K

Political uprising shakes Ukraine to its foundation (updated March 2)

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Ukraine: Regime fall followed by fresh chaos

Police clash with Maidan protesters, January 19, 2014.

Ukraine: Russia or the European Union? Reject a choice between ‘lesser evils’

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United States, Iran, Russia, Syria and the geopolitical shift: Anything for the region’s oppressed?

Syria: War threat, the US-Russia deal and some left delusions

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(Updated Sept. 24) Syria: West's hypocritical war drive slowed

By Barry Sheppard

John Riddell: Five precedents for understanding Egypt’s July coup

General L.G. Kornilov, Moscow, August 1917.

By John Riddell

Michael Lebowitz: Some explanations of the fall of ‘real socialism’

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Russia: Moscow workers confront bosses over Metro safety

By activists of the Zashchita union, Moscow, translated by Renfrey Clarke