Russian imperialism
Russia’s peripheral imperialism: Class, ideology and war
Dmitry Pozhidaev contends that a state subordinately integrated into global capitalism can exercise imperial power over weaker neighbours, with Russia exemplifying this combination as an empire of the periphery.
‘With the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine, we are rebuilding internationalism’
Alfons Bech discusses the goals and organisation of the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine.
Russia’s bloody shift from subimperialism to new old imperialism
Simon Pirani reviews a new book that analyses 21st century Russian imperialism through a Marxist framework.
‘People, not generals, win wars’: Independent student organising in Ukraine
Dzvinka and Aistra discuss Priama Diia’s (Direct Action) powerful example of organising for social and economic justice in wartime Ukraine.
Marxism, Russian imperialism and social forces
Replying to Alex Callinicos, Simon Pirani looks at what the Ukraine war tells us about imperialism today and the need to incorporate class struggle and other forms of social change into our analysis.
Drawing on more than a century of Marxist thought from Lenin to David Harvey, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev reveal the specificity of Russian imperialism, as well as its global implications.
NATO and the North Atlantic left: A road to nowhere
Jana Silverman and Jaime Caro look at alternatives socialists on both sides of the Atlantic can propose to promote geopolitical stability in the face of the global polycrisis.
Russian socialist: ‘Solidarity means accepting Ukrainians’ pain and suffering as our own’
A Russian socialist from the Left For Peace Without Annexations explains why the left should support the resistance by Ukrainians and Russia’s anti-war opposition.
Anticolonial fraud: The Kremlin in Africa
The Kremlin is exploiting anti-imperialist sentiment in Africa to advance its own imperial ambitions, contends Sasha Fokina.
The US and Israel have waged war on Iran. Russia has reaped the benefits, using fossil fuel profits to bankroll its war on Ukraine. Frieda Afary, Denys Pilash, Alexandra Zapolskaya and Ashley Smith discuss the impacts on Iranians and Ukrainians.
Manuel Rodriguez Banchs, Penelope Duggan, Israel Dutra, Antoine Larrache, João Machado, Reymund de Silva and Eric Toussaint reflect on the 1st Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples. Plus statements from Fourth International and European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine.
Trump, Putin and Ukraine: Towards a division of spheres of influence at the expense of the people
Eric Toussaint — Trump’s policy follows the classic logic of great-power rivalry: curb the Moscow-China rapprochement, keep the US at the centre of the diplomatic arena, and make Europe bear the cost of the war in Ukraine.