Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KISHCHUK Yuliia, SMITH Ashley
Leftists in Ukraine are insisting on the urgent need to build solidarity without exception among oppressed peoples.
Part of the series: Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation
Our world is being torn asunder by two horrific wars. Israel is carrying out a genocidal (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick, SLOBODIANA Oksana
On 31 October, around 150 medical workers at the Oleksandriya hospital were made redundant and received nothing at the time of their dismissal, i.e. they were not paid for the last few months of work and received no compensation for unused leave. “We are outraged by the fact that salaries have (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick, ReSew coop - Швейний Кооператив
From the first days of the large-scale war, the capacity for self-organization of Ukrainian society was crucial. Where the State could not fulfill its tasks, society organized itself to respond. A gigantic social, humanitarian and solidarity activity has developed. Even in the military domain (...)
, by SUKHANOV Nikolay
How much money is the Russian state willing to spend on war at the expense of medicine and education? How will Russian public officials be spending budget money in the coming years? Should pensioners or low-income groups look forward to “giveaways” from Vladimir Putin before the upcoming (...)
, by BORRIELLO Arthur, PEREKHODA Hanna
“Activists will say ‘you are not left-wing enough, I don’t want to support you’ to people who are fighting arms in hand to defend fundamental rights and political sovereignty,” says Hanna Perekhoda.
Historian, Ukrainian and left-wing activist, Hanna Perekhoda has been a doctoral student in (...)
, by Commons
On November 6, our friend and editor of the Commons journal Sasha Kravchuk would have turned 38.
On this day, despite the weather, Sasha would usually gather dozens of his very different friends around a campfire in a Kyiv urban forest. These were the people with whom he went hiking and (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land (...)
, by Univesity Platform
When it comes to Russian anti-war resistance, political dissent in Russian universities is often overlooked. It is eclipsed by the remarkable unity of the rectors of the universities who signed a letter in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine the week after it began, which resulted in (...)
, by PIRANI Simon
Here I will, first, comment on the wars in Palestine and Ukraine, and what I think they tell us about 21st century empires. Second, I will offer a view about the causes of these and other wars, and the causes of climate change, all of which can be understood as manifestations of the crisis of (...)
, by ROTH Andrew
Airport in Russia’s Muslim southern region closed after hundreds storm tarmac and climb on to planes
A mob in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan has stormed the airport in Makhachkala in search of Jewish passengers arriving from Israel.
In the past day, local people have besieged a (...)
, by METELKIN Vladimir
How has the Russian media covered the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East? And what’s been going on with social media? Why did the proponents of liberal democracy forget about human rights at a most critical moment? Historian and journalist Vladimir Metelkin talks about the first (...)
, by ISHCHENKO Serhii
The latest round of horrific bloodshed in Israel/Palestine prompts us to recall not only the sad fate of this troubled region, but also Jewish history. Today, everything related to Jewry and its past is “monopolized” by the State of Israel. But this was not always the case. In Eastern Europe, (...)
, by COALSON Robert
Linguistics professor Svetlana Drugoveiko-Dolzhanskaya’s 41-year career teaching at St. Petersburg State University (SPGU) came to an end on October 13 — a Friday, as ill luck would have it. The esteemed educator, who created and headed the university’s master’s degree program in editing and (...)
, by IVANOVA Tatyana
The Russian president is seeking to take advantage of the outbreak of violence.
On October 13, in Bishkek, Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced his thoughts about Hamas’s attack and the Israeli retaliation operation in the Gaza Strip. He recognized the right of Israel to self-defense but (...)
, by FALDIN Serge
Three years have passed since the fateful presidential vote that prompted the biggest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus. Incumbent President Aleksandr Lukashenko responded with a brutal crackdown and heading into 2021, the massive street protests faded into underground (...)
, by SABUROVA Daria
How can we look at images of Gaza and not see Mariupol or Bakhmut?
As Israel’s assault on Palestine continues, apparent similarities with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grow. Israel’s “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip – cutting off water, electricity and food to more than two million (...)
, by SAMARY Catherine
Ukraine was not an “artificial creation” of Lenin, as Putin claimed. And Palestine was not “a land without a people for a people without a land” - or even a “Promised Land”. The occultation of “Great Russian” colonization was the result of ideologies and contexts other than those organically (...)
, by PHIPPS Mike
Mike Phipps reviews Communist Dissidents in Early Soviet Russia: Five documents translated and introduced by Simon Pirani, published by Matador
The Russian Revolution has probably been more analysed, discussed and argued about than any other social revolution in history. Leon Trotsky’s (...)
, by Commons, LEŞANU Alexandru
Moldova and Ukraine have been following similar trends after the end of the Soviet Union. The countries share such issues as the dominance of oligarchic groups in the economic and political life; Russian imperialism’s attempts to establish its rule; high dependence on the Western imperialist (...)
, by PEREKHODA Hanna
Let’s imagine the following story. A country is occupied, its people systemically oppressed. The policies of the occupying state encourage the installation of new permanent colonizers — settlers. The struggle for emancipation by this oppressed people receives insufficient support from (...)
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