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Geopolitics, The Imperial System and Socialist Anti-Imperialism
Claudio Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a member of Economists of the Left. He is also the author of various articles and books on contemporary...
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Europe Agonizes In Gaza
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent with a very rich history. In that small corner, what we call the Iberian...
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As War In Ukraine Grinds On, U.S. Officials Focus On Black Sea
U.S. officials view the war in Ukraine as a way of achieving geopolitical objectives in the Black Sea, an energy-rich region that connects Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. At two recent...
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Free Agents?
‘Agency’ might be the word of the decade so far. When applied to the Ukraine war, the term is usually taken to mean that we must follow the lead of Ukrainians themselves – keeping mum about peace...
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How the U.S. Has Darkened the Nuclear Cloud Over Humanity
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both...
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On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza Are Orders of Magnitude Worse Than Those...
The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling the world to punish the Russian Federation, to boycott its petroleum...
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Finland vs. Stalin and a Possible Endgame for Ukraine
As public support for Ukraine has waned over time, and Washington’s policy elites are shifting their focus more toward the conflict in Gaza, an endgame for Ukraine is desperately needed. U.S. and...
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My Trip to Syktyvkar
I was going to the airport to meet my wife, who was returning from abroad on July 25 last year. But the meeting did not take place. Two polite young men approached me and, presenting their FSB officer...
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The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
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The Nadezhdin Phenomenon
It has long been the consensus of the political scientists that elections in Russia solve nothing. And in fact, no matter how free and competitive any one election might be, throughout Russian history...
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Russia: “The Fatigue of Society From the War and From Old People in...
Citizens in Russia saw a measurable chance for change — and immediately mobilized. Yes, this chance is measured in millionths of a percent — but it is intelligible. Had there been a little bigger...
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Two Years Into the Ukraine War, Europe Has No Strategy
After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from...
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Anti-War Socialist Boris Kagarlitsky Sentenced To Five Years’ Jail
A Russian military court of appeals has ordered socialist and anti-war dissident Boris Kagarlitsky spend five years in jail, after prosecutors succeeded in overturning his original sentence of a...
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Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; “No Doubt” He Was...
More than 400 people have reportedly been detained in Russia for publicly mourning the death of Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on Friday at age 47. He was the most prominent critic...
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After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in...
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Navalny and Assange: in the Shadows of Eagles
In the late evening of February 16, I was standing on the other side of the iron fence that surrounds the imposing white building of the Russian embassy in The Hague. Abundantly illuminated by the...
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After 2 Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR, in...
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Ukraine War and the Ghost of Clausewitz
This week, February 24, 2024 marks the beginning of the third year of the war in Ukraine. Hundreds, if not thousands, of assessments of the first two years of the war will be published, heard, or...
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Russian Socialist Movement’s Kirill Medvedev on why Putin killed Alexei...
Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist Kirill Medvedev, of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD), talks to LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s Federico Fuentes about the significance...
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Russian Leftists Are Planning to Disrupt Putin’s Fake Presidential Election...
Mikhail Lobanov is no stranger to the rigged nature of Russian elections under President Vladimir Putin. Running in the 2021 parliamentary elections as a 37-year old independent socialist on the...
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Putin’s Plebiscite, Russia’s “Left” & Russia’s Left
In the run-up to the upcoming presidential election in Russia, the Western media have focused on the capitalist contenders such as Vladimir Putin and the more West-friendly Boris Nadezhdin and...
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Failed ICJ Case Against Russia Backfires, Paves Way for Genocide Charges...
As January became February, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a pair of legal body blows to Ukraine and its Western backers. First, on January 31, it ruled on a case brought by Kiev...
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Left Leaders, Intellectuals Demand: ‘Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war...
An international campaign for the freeing from prison of well-known Russian intellectual, writer and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky, along with all other jailed opponents of the war in Ukraine,...
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Unjust Wars and a Just Peace
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenance of...
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Russia: Moscow Terror Attack Met With Repression, Racism
At least 139 people have been confirmed dead, with many more injured or still unaccounted for, following the horrific terrorist attack carried out at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22. But Russian...
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Boris Kagarlitsky’s Open Letter From Russian Prison
Writing from a Russian prison, sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky has penned the following open letter in support of a broad solidarity campaign with left-wing Russian political prisoners. Kagarlitsky...
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Terrorists Before the Moscow Court: The Moral Antinomy of Punishing Violence...
On March 24, the Russian authorities presented to the media four individuals accused of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which resulted in the loss of more than 130 lives. However, a not...
View ArticleArmenia’s Escape From Isolation Lies Through Georgia
For the second time this year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with his Georgian counterpart on March 24. The meeting, held in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, saw both leaders reaffirming...
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Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”
In today’s Russian prisons, a sign of a prosperous and materially well-off cell is the presence of a television set, usually provided together with a refrigerator. For me, the television is less a...
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Ukraine War Funding & Failed Russian Sanctions
This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. The measure will quickly pass the Senate and be signed into law by...
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