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How will Putin’s shock tactics – mobilisation, annexation and nuclear threat – affect the course of the war?
Seven months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has ordered a mobilisation, carried out sham ‘referenda’ to justify the annexation of south-eastern regions of Ukraine, and (...)
It has been half a year since the Russo-Ukrainian full-scale war started. Apart from the events on the battlefield, there have been plenty of political discussions, particularly among the left. In this text, I try to summarize their main points and present arguments regarding the Russian (...)
Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state – says Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. – However, this war, depending on what (...)
Russia and Ukraine have come to an agreement on food exports. Will the deal hold?
When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new deal on grain exports. If anyone believed that this agreement between Moscow and Kyiv would have some positive (...)
The strangeness of this war of Mr. Putin in Ukraine is probably without historical precedent. Why? For a whole series of reasons, the first of which is that, for Mr. Putin, who conceived and launched it, it is not even a war but a simple... “special military operation”, and woe betide the Russian (...)
The Russo-Ukrainian war lasts for over three months. It has been not only a disaster for Ukrainian people, but also a failed test for many famous Ukraine and Russia experts and for progressive activists and thinkers. Here I make a note for myself regarding the failed and successful predictions. (...)
An interview with a classic of post-Soviet feminism, Irina Zherebkina, from front-line Kharkiv
We spoke with Irina Zherebkina, editor-in-chief of the Gender Studies journal and Professor of Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science at Kharkiv National University, who decided to stay in (...)
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine has no justification, but NATO…” It is difficult to describe the emotions I and other Ukrainian socialists feel about this “but” in the statements and articles of many Western leftists. Unfortunately, it is often followed by attempts to present the Russian invasion (...)
Belarusian theologian Natalie Vasilyevich published an important post on her channel the other day. It nicely complements a text by Ukrainian feminist and philosopher Tamara Zlobina which we shared (https://t.me/femagainstwar/2497) earlier.
If you look at the development of pacifism - where (...)
The following was transcribed from a multilingual online encounter of the Post-Extractive Futures series, co-produced by War on Want, Tipping Point UK, JunteGente, and The Fire These Times project. Printed with permission and encouragement to make this precious information freely available: (...)
Leftists with a preference for grand narratives and easy answers love the realist geopolitical explanations of Mearsheimer. So does much of the far right. It’s all about great nations, spheres of influence and chains of causal factors that seem to predetermine everything.
Have a quick look at this recent geopolitics debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hH3s7MRJkAI
Marlene Laruelle is the only one making a meaningful point in this panel. Mearsheimer and the rest remain in (...)
The antiwar anti-imperialist left worldwide has been deeply divided on the war in Ukraine along quite unusual lines, due to the novelty of the situation represented by Russia’s invasion of a weaker neighboring country with openly stated nationalistic expansionist ambitions, along with NATO’s (...)
Today the majority of socialists in the West argue that it is our duty to oppose “our” government’s sending arms to Ukraine. They equate the situation today with that at the start of WW I. At that time, almost all socialists supported their “own” capitalists in sending their workers to that (...)
The Russian onslaught against Ukraine has dragged on for over six weeks, costing untold lives and throwing the entire region into chaos. In recent days, the horrific images emerging from Bucha and other areas under Russian occupation have raised further questions about what Putin’s war aims (...)
As Jan Smoleński and Jan Dutkiewicz recently wrote in The New Republic, some Western experts and politicians are ‘Westplaining’ the war to Ukrainians: instead of showing solidarity with Ukraine and letting Ukrainians speak, they use their voices to try and impose their political agenda on (...)
Interview with Simon Pirani, socialist writer and editor of peoplenature.org by Sohrab Rezvani. This interview was conducted in the second week of March.
What is the current stage of development of the capitalist world economy? Are we still dealing with the financial crisis of 2008 and its (...)
From the Solidaires Union web site. These notes from the Solidaires Union bureau set out its approach to building solidarity with Ukrainian working-class resistance to Russian military aggression. They are a useful starting point for discussion. Please copy and circulate
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Denys Gorbach writes, on how the French-speaking left has reacted to the tragedy of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On February 24, the Russian army began its invasion of Ukraine. At the end of the third week of the invasion, thousands of civilian casualties were reported, and many hospitals (...)
I did not sign the Feminist Manifesto Against War, although I share (as I told the comrade who sent it to me) many aspects of this Manifesto, signed by women whom I hold in high esteem. I hope that my text will be interpreted as a contribution to a necessary dialogue.
My main disagreement (...)
We, collectives of social movements, trade unions, organisations and parties, from Eastern and Western Europe, oppose war and all neo-colonialism in the world, want to build a network from below, independent of any government.
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