Brief von Boris Kagarlitsky aus dem Gefängnis Unter Breschnew wurde ich eingesperrt, unter Jelzin geschlagen und mit dem Tod bedroht. Jetzt, unter Putin, hat man mich zum zweiten Mal verhaftet. Die Machthaber wechseln, doch die Tradition, politische Gegner hinter Gitter […]
This is not the first time in my life. I was locked up under Brezhnev, beaten and threatened with death under Yeltsin. And now it’s the second arrest under Putin. Those in power change, but the tradition of putting political
Union of Marxists (Russia) In Russia, a fabricated legal process has been launched against the prominent left-wing sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky. He is being accused of “justifying terrorism” based on his discussion about the motivations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in
War for peace”, “the cause of the weak against the strong”, “crimes against humanity perpetrated in the heart of Europe… a battle for civilisation”, “a genocide in progress in Ukraine”… The first quote is from Droit du Peuple, a socialist
Die vom Putin-Regime vorangetriebene imperiale Strategie der territorialen Expansion und der Kolonisierung von Ressourcen wird wahrscheinlich den Niedergang und die Erosion Russlands beschleunigen, hinter dessen Fassade sich eine große Zahl unbekannter, nicht untersuchter und nicht angegangener systemischer Probleme verbirgt, argumentiert
Vom Potemkinschen Dorf zum Potemkinschen Reich: Die Gespenster des Extraktivismus im Donbas
Big power rivalry is driven, in great part, by domestic economic and political factors. The US, Russia, Europe, and China all have internally driven tendencies towards external expansion. The same logic also illuminates another key feature of imperialism. That conflict
Ten Theses on the War in Ukraine and the Challenge for India
But it is different with the Ukrainian war, not the least because Russia is a nuclearpower. The Yugoslav wars, remaining of a limited regional outreach in spite of theunfortunate NATO intervention in 1999, did not look as a threat to
Post-socialist wars and the masculinist backlash
This power was based on the promises of peace and stability, and eventually led the country to war and economic catastrophe. Like any other war in history, the current one divides everyone into two parties: pros and cons. Kremlin propaganda
Manifesto of the coalition “Socialists against War”
Mike Davis From Side Car/New Left Review (07/03/2022). Does hegemony require a grand design? In a world where a thousand gilded oligarchs, billionaire sheiks, and Silicon deities rule the human future, we should not be surprised to discover that greed
. Viva el levantamiento obrero revolucionario de Kasajstán Казахстан: Нродное восстание сотрясает авторитарную систему Statement by the RCIT Russia and the International Bureau of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 5 January 2022, www.thecommunists.net 1. Kazakhstan – the politically and
Kazakhstan: Popular Uprisings Rocks the Authoritarian “Sistema”
Erklärung der Sozialistischen Bewegung Kasachstans zur Lage im Land In Kasachstan gibt es jetzt einen echten Volksaufstand und die Proteste waren von Anfang an sozialer und klassenbezogener Natur, denn die Verdoppelung des Flüssiggaspreises an der Börse war nur der letzte
Volksaufstand und Klassenkampf in Kasachstan