Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya
Ilya Budraitskis writes that in Putin’s Russia, the mass media has completely gone from being a function of society to a form of power over it. In alliance with the authoritarian regime, it has made the country a real “society of the spectacle,” the totality of which would horrify even the (...)
, by SLOBODIAN Olena
Recent statements by Social Policy Minister Oksana Zholnovich about “destroying everything social” and “taking Ukrainians out of their comfort zone” have provoked a major outcry and a wave of criticism. However, this is far from the first time that officials directly involved in social policy (...)
, by FUENTES Federico, JAN Ammar Ali
Ammar Ali Jan is general secretary of the anti-capitalist Haqooq-e-Khalq Party in Pakistan, author of Rule By Fear: Eight Theses Authoritarianism in Pakistan and a historian whose research focuses on Communist thought in colonial Asia. He spoke with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International (...)
, by LEE Eric
As I walked around Kyiv on a beautiful, sunny morning in early September, I noticed the scaffolding in the city’s squares. Statues had been covered up to protect them from bomb damage. Later, I saw a statue with no protection around it– a graffiti-covered memorial to a Red Army general whose (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick
Vitaliy is a young Ukrainian revolutionary activist. The war on February 24 took him by surprise in Kherson. There, he experienced Russian aggression at close quarters. For refusing a Russian passport, a negation of his Ukrainian identity, he was deported to central Russia, where he lives in (...)
, by BERNABE Rafael
Seeking to navigate in an increasingly unstable and complex international situation, the left should keep three fundamental principles in mind:
-# Consistent anti-imperialism Recognition of the right of peoples to self-determination Support of the struggles of the exploited and the (...)
, by SEETHI K.M.
A prominent figure in the Russian Leftist intellectual sphere, a distinguished social scientist and prolific political writer, Kagarlitsky was arrested on July 25 for ’acts of terrorism’ by the Vladimir Putin’s government.
In the complex realm of contemporary Russia, social life has become (...)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya, PEREKHODA Hanna, SHAIKH Nermeen
On the same day U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kyiv to announce $1 billion in new U.S. aid to Ukraine, 17 Ukrainians were killed in a Russian missile attack on a Donetsk market. “It’s very painful for me to see all the streets and cities that I spent my childhood in to be (...)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya, PEREKHODA Hanna, SMITH Ashley
Russia’s war in Ukraine is at the heart of world politics. Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda and Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis, who are currently on a national speaking tour in the United States sponsored by the Ukraine Solidarity Network, talk about the war, the resistance, and (...)
, by BOSCO Fabio, BRIAZGUNOVA Olesia, FLETCHER Bill Jr., LAWRENCE Liz
An international panel of labor activists discusses what support for Ukraine’s workers should look like.
What is the role labor unions should play in the Russia-Ukraine War? In a special conversation moderated by Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of the TransAfrica Forum, panelists make (...)
, by MEDVEDEV Kirill
Russian anarchist Azat Miftakhov is spending his fifth year in jail for “hooliganism” — and now faces being framed on fake terrorism charges. His persecution is part of the Russian state’s campaign to intimidate the Left and silence opposition to the war.
On July 12, news arrived that (...)
, by VITKINE Benoît
Released from prison on Monday, the anarchist activist sentenced in 2021 for the attack on a premises in United Russia was arrested again.Investigators accuse him of remarks “justifying terrorism” made in detention.
Azat Miftakhov only tasted freedom for a handful of minutes, the time to (...)
, by STREET Dale
Workers’ Liberty members met with members of Sotsialny Rukh (SR — Social Movement) in Lviv and Kyiv during our visit to Ukraine in August 2023.
SR emerged from the regrouping of (and splits from) the left which took place around the Maidan Revolution of Dignity in late 2013 and early 2014. (...)
, by HARRIS Jerry
Independence and self-determination have been a guiding socialist principle for more than 100 years. It marks a fundamental dividing line between Marxism and various schools of imperialist thought, including the realist, neoconservatives, and liberal interventionists. Perhaps its most (...)
, by VANDEVERT John
John David Vandevert describes how the Russian authorities are turning down the volume on a once vibrant music scene well known for its rampant free expression
In the 1990s, groups like Bachelor Party (Malchishnik) shocked a newly liberated post-Soviet Russia with funky displays of sexual (...)
, par LE TREHONDAT Patrick, Trudova Halychyna
Trudova Halychyna (Laborious Galicia) sets itself the objective “to shed light on a subject that is today ignored by Ukrainians : the economic, social and cultural situation of Galician workers. So we have to see workers in factories and workshops, construction companies, communal enterprises, (...)
, by Commons, Direct Action/Pryama Diya
Interview with the Direct Action student union
To mark Knowledge Day, Common spoke to activists from the Direct Action student union about the right to education in a country at war. They explain why they decided to relaunch the union, what the obstacles are to protecting students’ rights, (...)
We publish the contribution of Vladyslav Starodoubtsev which appeared on his page Facebook.
Olena Stepaniv was the first female officer in the history of modern armies. She was a member of the Ukrainian Radical Party, a co-operator and a feminist.
Born into a family of progressive priests, (...)
, by ARTIUKH Volodymyr
Last week, two labour activists from Naftan oil refinery were detained by Belarusian security service KGB on charges of undermining national security. The detained Volha Britikava and Aliaksandr Kukharonak have already spent short stints in jail for criticising Lukashenka’s government and (...)
, by COOPER Luke
Luke Cooper reports on networks of civicness from the frontline of Ukraine’s resistance.
During my recent visit to Kyiv, I finished reading Irmgard Keun’s 1937 novel, After Midnight. The book follows a day in the life of a group of young friends whose attempt to live ‘normal’ lives are (...)
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