Ukraine
Polish left-wing party Razem (Together) International Office member Zofia Malisz speaks to Federico Fuentes about the party’s history, Polish politics and Razem’s views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
War and resistance under Putin: An interview with Russian Socialist Movement's Kirill Medvedev
Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist Kirill Medvedev, of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD), discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and anti-war resistance at home.
Ukraine: We need to talk about Volodymyr
Des Derwin - The international solidarity movement with Ukraine, together with the left within Ukraine, needs to begin having a conversation about Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine: a response to Renfrey Clarke
Chris Slee - Tsarist Russia was a "relatively poor and backward state", but Lenin still considered it imperialist, because of its military power, its robbery of national minorities, and other factors.
Imperialism and the invasion of Ukraine
Sam Wainwright - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had profound consequences for world and domestic politics that we need to grapple with if we are to chart a way forward.
Supporting Ukraine's right to self-determination: The historical example of ‘poor little Belgium’
Richard Fidler - Historical analogies can indeed be useful in assessing the issues posed in contemporary events, provided of course that careful attention is paid to the particular circumstances and to what degree the differing situations and protagonists are comparable.
Ukraine, Russia, imperialism and national self-determination
Renfrey Clarke - The war in Ukraine has presented left-wing theorists and commentators with a difficult analytical challenge. How are we to resolve this conundrum? As well as needing to answer the question of where Russia stands within the capitalist world-system we also need to decide how the right to national self-determination plays out within this context.
Did Lenin create Ukraine? On the right of nations to self-determination and Marxism
Grusha Gilaeva analyzes the positions of Marx and Lenin on the national question and explains why the left movement must support the anti-colonial struggle of Ukraine
To rebuild, Ukraine needs just social policy
Natalia Lomonosova - Ukrainian society must stick together, but neoliberalism will drive it further apart.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, progressive Russian media outlet DOXA has taken a consistent position of supporting Ukrainian resistance. Commons spoke to three editors of DOXA.
Belarus: The Belarusian Green Party on from street protests to circle activism
How has Russia's war on Ukraine been received in Belarus? What organizational methods are Belarusian left-wingers using under conditions of total control? In this report activists from the Belarusian Green party analyse the situation in the country.
The gigantic destruction of Ukrainian society
Michael Pröbsting - Russia’s war against Ukraine has had devastating consequences for the country’s economy and society.