Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Posle/После
On March 22, one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of modern Russia was carried out in Moscow Crocus City Hall: several armed men stormed the building and shot a crowd of civilians at point-blank. As of 4 p.m. March 23, Russian authorities reported that 133 people were killed and (…)
, by Assembly.org.ua, LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
For the first time, Ukraine went through the winter entirely on its own gas, says the CEO at the state gas company Oleksiy Chernyshov. “We did this and plan to maintain the trend of Ukraine’s energy independence in the future,” he states on his Facebook. But without specifying that the reason (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, Vpered
Vpered [Forward] is a Ukrainian publishing house which is dedicated "to the study of the history and current state of the theory and practice of social transformations, to the analysis of Ukrainian and world reality from the positions class, to the development of Marxist theory as a particular (…)
, by SABUROVA Daria
In the absence of conditions for negotiations, talk of an immediate ceasefire as an alternative to military support is just empty words aimed at the French public in the electoral campaign. In the absence of other realistic options, concrete solidarity requires continued military aid to Ukraine. (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, LOBANOV Mikhaïl
Mikhail Lobanov is no stranger to the rigged nature of Russian elections under President Vladimir Putin.
Running in the 2021 parliamentary elections as a 37-year old independent socialist on the Communist Party of the Russian Federation’s ticket, Lobanov was ahead of Putin’s United Russia (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, LOBANOV Mikhaïl
Mikhail Lobanov is no stranger to the rigged nature of Russian elections under President Vladimir Putin. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, the then-37-year old ran as an independent socialist on the ticket of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. After the votes cast on election day (…)
, by Справедливый мир (Just World/Just Peace)
The following manifesto has been drafted by the Справедливый мир campaign, which can be translated as both Just World or Just Peace given the double meaning of мир. The campaign is a new left-wing initiative seeking to disrupt the staged presidential elections that will take place between March (…)
, by ROWLEY Thomas
The story of Nadezhda Rossinskaya exposes the sheer variety of experiences surrounding the war in Ukraine. Having set out to help Ukrainians fleeing to Russia from her home in Belgorod, she was eventually arrested by the Russian authorities suspicious of her actions.
Since the beginning of (…)
, by Meduza.io
In February 2024, the Russian authorities launched a series of cyberattacks against Meduza more intense than any we’ve ever faced. The assault began around the time of Alexey Navalny’s death — about a month before Russia’s upcoming presidential election. Meduza has faced similar attacks before, (…)
, by SAPUNKOV Daniil
Putin is expected to easily win reelection in a rigged contest this weekend. The war will continue. But Russia’s workers are organizing.
Between March 15 and 17, Russia will conduct its next presidential election. Vladimir Putin is the overwhelming favorite to win, and his victory would mean (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, STARODUBTSEV Vladyslav, YAKOVYSHYN Les
Despite the war and all the difficulties it causes, a new website has just appeared in Ukraine, that of the Mazepa institute. It bears the name of Isaac Mazepa (1884-1952), “leader of the Ukrainian left, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and fighter for the independence of (…)
We have received information from private sources and public media that the Office of the Russian Federation Prosecutor General has declared IndustriALL Global Union as ‘undesirable organisation’. The reasons for this announcement have not been made public.
IndustriALL Global Union (…)
, by DUBOVYK Anatolii, SHOPIN Pavlo
It went largely unnoticed that this year marked the 170th anniversary of a woman whose name was once known to many: revolutionaries and police officers in various European countries, medical specialists and labor lawyers, labor movement activists and parliamentary politicians, anarchists and (…)
, by MURPHY Kevin
A century after Lenin’s death, scholars and leftists continue to discuss the life and legacy of the leader of the Russian Revolution. But a fundamental question remains largely unanswered. What did Soviet citizens themselves think of Lenin?
We get some sense of an answer to this question in (…)
, by FEINBERG Joseph Grim
At a conference in Prague this past spring (May 2023), a prominent theorist of colonialism and coloniality spoke to us via video chat from his office in the Americas. He was asked what he thought about the claim that Russia’s relationship to Ukraine is colonial. I was looking forward to hearing (…)
, by LATYPOVA Leyla
“At the outset of my activism, ‘decolonization’ to me was just about learning the history of my people and bringing the soldiers back [from the frontlines in Ukraine]. Now it is much more than that,” says Buryat activist Viktoria Maladaeva.
“Now it is about giving a voice to Indigenous (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
Chris Hann’s essay serves as a valuable intervention against the tendency to normalize primordial ethnonationalism following the full-scale Russian invasion. It is not immune to the common pitfalls and omissions in the writings of many authors whose point of criticism is aimed primarily at the (…)
, by SHAKIROV Stanislav
Whether Russia will ban access to VPNs from March 1 has been troubling experts and ordinary users for months, with lawmakers and the head of the Kremlin-linked Safe Internet League hinting it could happen. On the one hand, it would be the logical extension of Russia’s trajectory in recent years, (…)
, by CANNELL Pete
Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pete Cannell discusses the shifting ground of economic and geopolitical rivalry and the need for international solidarity in building resistance to imperialism and militarism.
It’s two years now since Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, MEDVEDEV Kirill
Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist Kirill Medvedev, from the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD), spoke with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the significance of opposition leader Alexei Navalny death in prison and the recent jailing of anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky.
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