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The liberation of the southern port city of Kherson in mid-November represented an important victory in Ukraine’s just war of resistance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion.
The recapture of the only major city seized by Russian forces since February 24 followed the (...)
Do you still remember Article 31 of the Constitution, according to which “citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to assemble peacefully, without weapons, to hold meetings, rallies and demonstrations, marches and picketing”? Forget it.
Yesterday Putin signed a law banning rallies and (...)
On December 2, 2022, we published Jean Vogel’s text entitled “The strange change of position of Gilbert Achcar”. We received a text from Gilbert Achcar: “A brief response about my puported ’change of position’,” and from Jean Vogel: “A sober response to Gilbert Achcar”. We are republishing this page (...)
For several days, the Lviv feminist group has been campaigning against the liquor brand Drunk Cherry, which displays a nude woman on its bottle labels. They have received threats from Katarsis, a neo-Nazi group with a strong street presence that also ’exposes’ left wing activists by publishing (...)
Social advertising in Russia has reached a new low. A banner on the fence of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Novosibirsk simultaneously agitates against abortion and for war. A similar image had already appeared on billboards in 2017, but now it has been accompanied by an actual Z-wastika and a (...)
Faced with the invasion of Ukraine by the regime of Vladimir Putin, the antiwar movement has seen the development of very contrasting positions. They all have in common that they all claim peace, a word behind which very diverse, even opposing attitudes can be placed.
There are, on the one (...)
Key workers told openDemocracy they are being paid months late or not in full due to a controversial healthcare reform
Ukraine’s healthcare workers are going unpaid as the effects of pre-war healthcare reform hit wages and job security in an economy ravaged by Russian invasion.
Medical staff (...)
Nine months have now passed since Russian army invaded Ukraine. Vladimir Putin wanted a quick and victorious war – but his soldiers were met with fierce Ukrainian resistance. The Ukrainians are still defending their country, with significant help of the West which stood in solidarity with them. (...)
As millions of Ukrainians suffer power cuts, Alena Ivanova reports on a recent visit to Kyiv where, despite an imbalance between military and workers’ rights, the need for financial and moral support remains vital
The war in Ukraine continues to dominate headlines, with Ukraine’s (...)
The war bitterly hit the whole population of Ukraine. Many people lost their jobs and left their homes. According to the September survey of the sociological group Rating, only 61% of Ukrainians remained at their job positions, 36% of whom worked full-time. According to World Bank estimates, as (...)
Alexander Dugin’s fraudulent ‘fourth way’
Much has been written about Alexander Dugin, the Russian firebrand often called “Putin’s Brain” by both his defenders and his critics. Dugin was born into a well-off Soviet family in 1962, and spent much of his youth rebelling against communism, flirting (...)
This second article in the Labor Rights series addresses retail sector in a time of war
The current situation
Commerce occupies a very important place within the Russian economy, accounting for 15 percent of GDP and 10 percent of tax revenues in the treasury and with about 13 million people (...)
Nostalgia for the Soviet era is out of fashion in Azerbaijan, just as it is in the rest of the post-Soviet countries. Looking back at the old days with sympathy is rarely encouraged, if not shunned upon, yet there are still those that do. The authors of this article tried to find out what makes (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has so far failed to weaken US and European support for Ukraine. Meanwhile, despite punishing Russian air strikes, Ukraine is successfully ejecting the invading army.
Vladimir Putin is playing the long game. The Russian leader believes that he can outwait all (...)
Nataliya Levytska is deputy chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine. She is in Australia as a Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) delegate to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress, where she is seeking support for Ukrainian (...)
Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue born of the strength of the soul. Spinoza
The best of the West is outside the West, in young Iranian women who let their hair down and are murdered because of it. The best of Europe is outside Europe, in the young Ukrainians who unfurl their flags. (...)
What lessons can we learn from the history of the Chechen wars? How did people fight for their freedom and independence? Activist and researcher Lilia Yuldasheva on colonization of the Northern Caucasus and resistance in the Chechen Republic
The terrifying military aggression that Ukraine (...)
Russia urged international cooperation while ignoring its own role in making the climate crisis worse
Although the main topic at COP27 in Egypt was how richer nations could provide financial support for the poorer countries worst hit by climate change, Russia’s war against Ukraine was on (...)
Safeguarding the rights of journalists, trade unionists, and captured soldiers will strengthen Ukraine’s war effort.
It is critical to support Ukraine’s just war of self-defense against Russian aggression. Russia’s invasion was morally horrendous and blatantly illegal, resulting in ongoing war (...)
We continue the “Labor Rights” series with an article on the condition of medical workers
In the eyes of many healthcare workers, the war is yet another stage in the disastrous reform known as the policy of “optimization.”
Mobilization and a new wave of austerity might provoke the mass exodus of (...)
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