By: Dan La BotzNovember 9, 2023
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.
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.
An inappropriate award to Jeffrey Sachs
Further reply to Gilbert Achcar
Further reply to Achcar on Ukrainian arms and alliances
Notes from Kyiv: Which side are we on?
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
Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg’s writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.
An Interview with Kavita Krishnan
The ties between India and Russia, and a call for the Indian left to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
review
Making Sense of a Senseless Book
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.”
The left-wing Russian theorist, who has gone from pro-war hawk to anti-war political prisoner, deserves solidarity
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.
May Day is not only International Workers’ Day but also a day of solidarity with the oppressed peoples and civil disobedience against war.
The war in Ukraine is about national self-determination—and we need to support the resistance in Ukraine because it is the right thing to do in the face of injustice.
In the month of the first anniversary of Russia’s illegal and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky held a speech at the European Parliament, where he declared Russia to be “the biggest anti-European force of the modern world”[1]. By . . .
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An op-ed calling for solidarity with the Ukrainian struggle for self-defense
Ukraine has long been a victim of Russian imperialism, pre-capitalist, capitalist, Soviet, and then state-capitalist.
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a highly commendable work that gives a needed platform to Ukrainian socialists and trade unionists.
Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists”
Russia’s socialist movement supports Ukraine’s just war of self-defense
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.
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.
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.