Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by RIDDELL John
Genossinnen und Genossen! That is how Clara Zetkin began her speeches. It is German for “women comrades and men comrades.” Few socialists used that salutation in her time, and there were few women at their meetings. But that was beginning to change, and Zetkin was part of those changes.
Clara (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Review of:
The Marxism of Leon Trotsky. By Kunal Chattopadhyay. Kolkata: Progress Publishers, 2006, 672 pages, including index, $25 paperback.
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union. By Marcel van der Linden. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009, 379 pages, including index, $20 paperback. (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Tariq Ali on Trotsky by Robert Service and Stalin’s Nemesis by Bertrand M Patenaude.
Trotsky: A Biography, by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan, £25
Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, by Bertrand M Patenaude 352pp, Faber, £20
For over half a century, Isaac Deutscher’s (…)
, by TORNAGO Mariella
Today, October 16, an action took place next in Moscow next to the monument to the heroes of Plevna. The goal of the action was to protest the falsifications perpetrated by the United Russia party during regional elections that took place across Russia on October 11.
Most of the protesters (…)
, by SHEIN Oleg
On October 11th, local elections were held in many regions of Russia. Voter fraud was so widespread, that for the first time voters took to the streets to express their anger. An appeal to support the “Astrakhan Maidan” tent camp.
Context: On October 11th, local elections were held in many (…)
, by KAGARLITSKY Boris
THE RESTORATION OF CAPITALISM on the territory of the former Soviet Union was accompanied not only by unprecedented attacks on the social rights of the population. (Not only rights characteristic of the Soviet system, e.g., the right to housing, were rescinded, but also many of those that in the (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We express our shock and indignation about the foul assassination of Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer and member of the movement Al’ternativy, untiring advocate for the rights of the homeless, on the streets of Moscow for the sole reason that he was about to give a press conference against (…)
, by SCHWIRTZ Michael
MOSCOW: A prominent Russian lawyer who spent the better part of a decade pursuing contentious human rights and social justice cases was killed on Monday in a brazen daylight assassination in central Moscow, officials said.
The lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, had just left a news conference where (…)
, by Chtodelat news, Dvizh
Stanislav Markelov, one of Russia’s most well-known human rights lawyers, was yesterday (January 19, 2009) gunned down by an unknown assassin in downtown Moscow. This is the latest in a series of attacks on the country’s human rights and social activists. Markelov was murdered along with (…)
, by AMSTERDAM Robert
Demanding Justice for Markelov
Several hundred Muscovites, a rather small number considering the gravity of the event, have come out today to lay roses, mourn, and demand justice for the brutal murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova. It seems that amidst all the (…)
, by MARKELOV Stanislav
A reflection on Russia’s “New Middle Ages” and the current crisis by Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov (1974-2009)
Ten years ago this January, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in downtown Moscow. As it became clear later, this was a (…)
, by MARKELOV Stanislav
Ten years ago, Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was shot dead in central Moscow. We republish the last article he wrote before his death.
January 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the murder of Stanislav Markelov and activist journalist Anastasia Baburova. On 19 January 2009, as (…)
, by BÖRÖCZ József
The main provisions of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement are available online . (I find it amusing that, in the big hullabaloo about the drama of the refusal to sign and the protests, it does not seem to have occurred to anybody to actually look at it–at least I haven’t found any analysis on (…)
, by KILMISTER Andy
November 21 2008 marked the fortieth anniversary of the end of the student strike in Czechoslovakia against the occupation of the country by Russian troops the preceding August.
The strike began in Prague and spread throughout Bohemia and Moravia, following the most dramatic year of post-war (…)
, by Vpered
Operation “Compulsion to Peace”, lasting five days, is finished. This military conflict will have, nevertheless, a continuation which will find an expression in the further increase of intensity in the Caucasian region, and on the international scene.
From the first hours of a confrontation, (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The Conference on the Legacy of Leon Trotsky and U.S. Trotskyism took place on July 25-27 at the Bronx campus of New York City’s Fordham University. As one of the people who helped plan and organize the conference, I would like to offer a few reflections. In what follows I will avoid critical (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
The “great capitalist transformation” in the East was characterized by general forced “privatisations” in a very opaque and unprecedented context. It had to radically transform the role of money and markets in the whole economy to permit capital accumulation while getting rid of the existing (…)
, by WERTH Nicolas
Over four million people starved to death between the fall of 1932 and the summer of 1933 in Ukraine and the Kuban, an administrative unit of the Russian Republic in the northern Caucasus populated largely by Ukrainians. Up until Gorbachev’s perestroika, this tragedy was never spoken of in the (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
This was the opening presentation at a lively session of the Left Forum, in New York City, March 14-17, 2008 whose overall title was “Lenin’s Return?” – other presentations being given by Lars Lih on “Lenin and Kautsky,” by Professor Helen C. Scott on “Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg,” and by Professor (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
History of the preparation
Institute for Collective Action appeals for a day of protest on January 26th On the 26th of January protest actions will take place all around the world under the initiative of the World Social Forum – under the traditional slogan “Another world is possible”. In the (…)
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