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While it might seem that the neoliberal consensus has broken in some Western countries, in the post-socialist space discourses of privatization and individualization are so strong that we can hardly speak about a crisis of the neoliberal order. It is even harder to imagine some radical change (...)
Almost a year into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the state is cracking down ever harder on all signs of dissent. Today exiled or jailed, the Russians who spoke out against the war are key to rebuilding a peaceful, democratic society.
It can be confidently said that in the year since (...)
Russian activists have called for international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023 against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia. Thousands of Russian progressives, socialists, anarchists, and feminists have been arrested, hundreds jailed with long (...)
Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist Kirill Medvedev, of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD), speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and anti-war resistance at home.
Could you tell us a bit about the Russian Socialist Movement? (...)
To remember is to fight!
Against imperial aggression in Ukraine and political terror in Russia!
For over a decade, Russian antifascists have commemorated January 19 as their day of solidarity. This is the date when in 2009, in the center of Moscow, the human rights and leftist activist (...)
“Commons” spoke to three editors of DOXA. The initiative was founded six years ago as an activist student media. Besides the topics relating to educational justice, the collective focused on fighting propaganda and repression. Of course, such activism did not escape the regime’s attention, and (...)
Nine months have now passed since Russian army invaded Ukraine. Vladimir Putin wanted a quick and victorious war – but his soldiers were met with fierce Ukrainian resistance. The Ukrainians are still defending their country, with significant help of the West which stood in solidarity with them. (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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