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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 (...)
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 (...)
The events in Ukraine have upturned our expectations. We should be honest: our prognoses did not prove accurate. A war started, and on a much bigger scale than we expected possible. However, we’re not ashamed that we spoke out against war even back then. On the other hand, we don’t want to look (...)
After the demise of the USSR on December 26, 1991, the Russian left had to find its place in a society transformed beyond recognition. In the face of huge challenges, its activists have led important struggles against the system established by Yeltsin and Putin.
The story of the modern left (...)
The big winner in Russia’s recent election was the Communist Party, which jumped to almost 20 percent support. The party is today being transformed by a new wave of democratic socialist activists opposed to Vladimir Putin’s rule.
The parliamentary elections in Russia held on September 17–19 (...)
Note of LeftEast editors: On the eve of this fall’s parliamentary elections, the room for political manoeuvre before our Russian comrades (and all other opposition forces) has shrunk to a bare minimum. In these circumstances, engagement with other opposition forces in a broad front against the (...)
These days, a renewed war in the Donbass could become a frightening reality.
Since the beginning of March, clashes have increased, and information about the concentration of Russian troops on the border has already been indirectly confirmed by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The (...)
Defend Socialists and Environmental Activists in Izhevsk:
Demand the politically motivated charges against Dmitriy Tsarenko be dropped!
Since late April, Dmitriy Tsarenko (aka Morozov), one of the leaders of the Russian Socialist Movement’s branch in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, has been under (...)
Rights activists criticise trial, saying members of the Network were tortured
A Russian court has issued harsh sentences to seven antifascist and anarchist activists in a controversial domestic terrorism case marred by claims that investigators tortured the defendants to elicit confessions. (...)
The presidential announcement and the change of government that immediately followed it on January 15th officially inaugurate the much-awaited succession operation, establishing the mechanisms whereby power will be preserved in the hands of the ruling elite.
The key element in this operation (...)
The events of the past month in Moscow have led to a political crisis on a national scale. Its distinguishing feature is the inability of the authorities to govern as usual, combining political methods and repression for maintaining stability. The mechanism of maintaining legitimate power (...)
Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime claims to offer order in place of post-Soviet chaos. Yet the crude repression of opposition demonstrations shows the regime’s fear of the rising popular discontent.
On August 3, the gentrified streets of central Moscow were filled with angry youth protesting (...)
A response by GABRIEL LEVY to Dissidents Among Dissidents, by Ilya Budraitskis – and Budraitskis’s response to that response.
The “new cold war” is the subject of the most politically compelling of the essays in this book by the Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis. He wrote it in the summer of (...)
Ten years ago, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. His legacy tells us why anti-fascism remains vitally important in Russia today.
Ten years ago, Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. He defended anti-fascists and ecologists, mothers trying to defend their sons (...)
[LeftEast] The latest wave of confrontation between Russia and the West—from the Skripal affair and the following diplomat expulsions and sanctions on Russia to the gassing of Douma residents most likely perpetrated by the Assad regime and the resulting US-UK-French bombing raids on Syria–rarely (...)
The Russian left doesn’t just belong to the past. It can use the surge around Alexey Navalny to grow a new independent movement.
This year, the Russian anti-corruption and opposition politician Alexey Navalny initiated nationwide protest rallies in eighty cities on March 26 and more than one (...)
Who are today’s leftists? What’s the problem with liberals and patriots? What are the political goals of the left and how to achieve them? Do leftists want to bring back the USSR?/ dekulakize everybody?/ abolish the difference between the smart and the stupid? What does one need to read/ watch to (...)
A person of influence on the thinking the western left on Ukraine has been the Russian writer Boris Kagarlitsky Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements. Whilst the pro-war views of the Moscow based Kagarlitsky have been accepted without criticism in some quarters – in (...)
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