Place: Europe

The author (right) on Kyiv’s IndependenceSquare. December 2013.
In early December 2013, I found myself on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), holding a sign reading “Don’t Believe Politicians—Self-Organize!” as part of a protest with a small group of student activists. Weeks

An editor of the leftwing Ukrainian journal Commons discusses the dual enemies of Russian aggression and Ukrainian neoliberalism

By itself, revolutionary consciousness cannot create wealth and material well-being for most of the population except in the mind of hyper voluntarists such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Ernesto (Che) Guevara.

We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid.

How the right as defeated in Poland

As I write (and you read) these lines, two intellectuals, two friends, are persecuted by the respective governments of their countries. Alina Barbara López Hernández in Cuba, and Boris Kagarlitsky in Rusia.

What happens when the right takes over a nationalist movement?

An inappropriate award to Jeffrey Sachs

Further reply to Achcar on Ukrainian arms and alliances

You cannot understand the war in Ukraine without knowing its history.

In this classic work, Rosa Luxemburg situates mass strikes at the center of revolutionary political dynamics.

Review of a Netflix series on the efforts to get refugees out of Marseilles in 1940-41

Poems on the Warsaw Ghetto and its resistance.

Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg’s writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.

The ties between India and Russia, and a call for the Indian left to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Drawing in part on his own experiences in Ukraine, Carl Mirra criticizes the factual background and interpretations in Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies’ “The War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.”

An assessment of Kargalitsky’s political evolution

We express our solidarity with Boris Kagarlitsky and demand his immediate release, as well as that of all those detained on political grounds.

Achcar responds to Dale on arms to Ukraine and NATO.

A critique of Achcar and Chomsky on arms to Ukraine and NATO.

I say he was a French boy, because in official circles in France and in society at large race does not exist and so therefore neither does racism.