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The mass media, both inside Russia and beyond its borders, hasn’t much noticed — but young Russian leftists have been at the forefront of opposing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Only the blind can claim that Vladimir Putin wants to revive the Soviet Union. On the contrary, he has built one (...)
How has the war (once again) made the Russian Communist Party a conservative force? Why should the left in Russia participate in municipal elections? Will mass political movements appear in Russia? Activist and professor of sociology Aleksandra Zapolski and co-founder of the “Nomination” platform (...)
An Interview with a Clandestine Anarchist Group
When the Russian military invaded Ukraine at the end of February 2022, anarchists and other anti-war demonstrators defied draconian anti-protest measures to take the streets to express opposition. Over the months since those protests were (...)
What was a grassroots anti-fascist movement like? What can today’s anti-war resistance learn from its members? Antifa-activists on anti-fascism in Russia, Ukraine, and the USA
Having unleashed a war on Ukraine under the pretext of “denazification,” the Russian state stakes its claim on yet (...)
Who is being jailed in Russia following the war’s outbreak, and why? How can we help those who find themselves standing “alone” against the repressive state? Sasha Starost explains the idea behind the Black February project and discusses attitudes toward political prisoners in Russia
Before (...)
An interview with BOAK, the Anarchist Communist Combat Organization, a Russia-based group advocating sabotage and guerrilla struggle and the development of a social revolution against authoritarian regimes in eastern Europe. This interview was first broadcast on the Final Straw Radio Show. (...)
Why is participation in municipal elections especially important in the face of increasing political repression? How are urban politics and the struggle for democratic change connected? Municipal deputy Alexander Zamyatin answers questions by “Posle”
Alexander, only recently a detention report (...)
In Russia, after the start of a full-scale war with Ukraine, the number of railroad accidents has increased sharply, and military enlistment offices are being set on fire all over the country. Underground groups opposed to the invasion of Ukraine have claimed responsibility for derailing (...)
The guerrilla anti-war movement in Russia is gaining strength: every day there are news of military recruitment centers being set on fire, of goods trains derailing, of warehouses catching fire.
The underground movements always act with extreme caution and anonymity, and it won’t be long before (...)
Ilya Matveev and Ilya Budraitskis are socialist activists from Russia. They fled the country weeks after the February 24 invasion of Ukraine. For the good of Ukraine — and Russia — they argue that Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to win.
Over coffee in a bustling Eurasian neighborhood full of (...)
Student protest is one of the most visible forms of opposition to Russian aggression in Ukraine. Now when public protests are banned, activists are forced to create new modes of resistance and organization. We publish a conversation between activists about their protest activities, tactical (...)
A conversation with Ilya Budraitskis on how the invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian society.
Ilya Budraitskis’s collection of essays Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia (2017) won praise in the Russophone literary world for carving a new (...)
Ilya Budraitskis on the “После/Posle” (“After”) project and socialist attitudes to war
Russian journalist and philosopher Ilya Budraitskis announced earlier this week the launch of a new anti-war media, После/Posle (After) His team will explore and make sense of Russia and the post-February 24 world from (...)
Upon attacking Ukraine, Vladimir Putin announced its so-called “denazification” as one of his main goals. While the Kremlin is looking for imaginary Nazis, around 200 Russian anti-fascists and anarchists, who have a broad experience of countering the ultra-right in real life, have sided with (...)
The brutal war of aggression against Ukraine also changes Russian society permanently. Western media report the Russian media law, which successfully establishes the official narratives about the war as the only public discourse position. But how should we interpret the censorship and the (...)
This power was based on the promises of peace and stability, and eventually led the country to war and economic catastrophe.
Like any other war in history, the current one divides everyone into two parties: pros and cons. Kremlin propaganda is trying to convince us that the whole nation has (...)
Yesterday morning, reports appeared on the Russian social network VKontakte (VK) that a number of left-wing pages had been blocked by order of the Prosecutor General’s Office. And indeed, if you try to open such pages as Levoradikal (Left Radical), LKSD (The Left Wing of Social Democracy) or (...)
Appeal to members of the CPRF and LKSM, deputies and candidates for deputies at various levels from the CPRF, political and trade union activists, and citizens who voted for the CPRF, to members of the CPRF and deputies from the CPRF at all levels.
Comrades, members of the Communist Party of (...)
A new anti-war movement is brewing across the Russian Federation
Even before Russian troops invaded, left-wing organizations and other anti-war activists in Russia and Ukraine had consistently demanded a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the region. After the attack, the protests (...)
[Moscow:] We, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Revolutionary Workers’ Party, the Russian Socialist Movement, the Left Socialist Action, citizens of Russia who adhere to leftist and democratic views, declare the following in view of the outbreak of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine:
• We condemn the decision taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, as this will lead to the death of thousands of people on both sides. The economic (...)
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