Ukraine has long been a victim of Russian imperialism, pre-capitalist, capitalist, Soviet, and then state-capitalist.
Place: Eastern Europe
Voices of the Ukrainian Resistance
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a highly commendable work that gives a needed platform to Ukrainian socialists and trade unionists.
Our Slogan Is “War Against War”
Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists”
The Jewish Labor Bund’s Medem Sanatorium: 1926-1942
Children at the Medem Sanatorium reading the Bund’s daily newspaper, the Folkstsaytung
Secularism and enlightenment swept through the insular world of East European Jewry, starting in the middle of the 19th century, and ending in the 20th with the . . .
The Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions: Challenging False Narratives
The claim that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up by U.S. special forces, made by Seymour Hersh, is being used to reinforce false narratives about Russia’s culpability for the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine: Those who choose not to see, those who choose not to hear, those who choose to forg
Those who speak of “peace” by not supporting the legitimate right of Ukrainian peoples to self-determination and to live, those who break with support for national liberation struggles are mistaken and contribute to undermining the rights of all citizens, in Ukraine and around the world.
The East Is Not Red
When one surveys the history of American interventionism in other countries—from Brazil to Guatemala, from Cuba to Chile, from Mossadegh’s Iran to Grenada and Nicaragua—and when we contemplate . . .
Antisemitism in Ukraine
An Interview with Historian Serhiy Hirik
Patrick Le Tréhondat interviews Seriy Hirik, a Ukrainian scholar of Jewish studies, on antisemitism in Ukraine.
Letter from an American to Russian Soldiers as Christmas Approaches
Putin could end this war today if he wanted. So could you and your comrades in arms if you refuse to fight or simply begin to go home.
Ukraine: “Which Peace Are We Talking About?” An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Achcar clarifies and expands his argument on the position the left should take on peace in Ukraine
A brief response about my purported “change of position”
A response to Jean Vogel’s critique of Achcar’s “For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine.”
For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine
Some basic principles for avoiding the twin dangers of favoring the aggressor and extreme nationalism.
Statement by Ukrainian Feminists in Solidarity with Iranian Women
Ukrainian feminists see themselves as part of the same struggle as that of Iranian women
Deconstructing Campist Narratives on Ukraine
Campism does not know how to separate states from nations, nations from populations, and populations from communities. Its social understanding starts and ends at states and organizations. One must separate the Ukrainian state from the Ukrainian people, and one must separate the Ukrainian people from the ethnic minorities of the region.
The Ukraine Discourse and Its Consequences
The Russo-Ukrainian War is a conflict that exposes the deep chasms on what self-proclaimed internationalists perceive as internationalism, what self-proclaimed anti-imperialists perceive as anti-imperialism, and even what self-proclaimed socialists perceive as socialism. Many organizations of the “anti-war left” in the West have taken a route of intellectual laziness, frequently regurgitating Russian state narratives directly from the Kremlin as they are most convenient to counter Western state narratives.
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