Preparing the left for Russia’s future crisis
Mikhail Lobanov outlines how radicals are organizing the infrastructure and consolidating the politics for tomorrow’s left in Russia.
Remaining true to socialism — and wrestling with its meaning
Paul Le Blanc reviews a first-hand recollection about how the 1917 Russian Revolution took a tragically dark turn and how some pushed against this terrible development.
Kseniia Kagarlitskaya discusses Putin’s incarceration of her father, Boris Kagarlitsky, and the political prisoner support organization she founded.
(Video) Try me for treason: Anti-war speeches in Russian courts
Produced by the Ukraine Information Group, this film features excerpts from four speeches given by anti-war protesters in Russian courts.
Nepal: Climate crisis capitalism and the political economy of the Himalayas
Floods do not affect everybody equally. Nepal’s recent ecological disaster is simultaneously a class disaster, writes Kunal Chattopadhyay.
The left and ecology: An increasingly necessary relationship
Historically, the left relegated environmental demands, prioritising the capital-labour conflict over the capital-nature conflict. Today this is unsustainable: class struggles can no longer be separated from ecological struggles, contends Maristella Svampa.
The irresistible rise and fall of Evo Morales
Against all the odds, Evo Morales built a political career that led to the pinnacle of power. Pablo Stefanoni looks at how did he did it, and the nature of his legacy.
August Bebel’s death and the revival of socialism in prewar Japan
Seiya Morita details how August Bebel’s death in distant Germany sparked an unlikely revival of socialism in pre-war Japan.
DSA’s Ella Teevan: ‘Socialism has broken containment in the United States’
Ella Teevan discusses the US midterms, how the Democratic Socialists of America can build on its successes, and challenging US imperialism and President Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
Germany’s Die Linke takes a stand
Die Linke surges past the Social Democratic Party of Germany in polls as it battles austerity and the far-right — and names the genocide in Gaza, writes Ruairi Casey.
Defeating Milei: Left strategy in times of reaction
A socialist policy that merely defines or denounces the far right falls short of the task, writes Martín Mosquera.
The real meaning of the Mecca Pact between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan lies not in what it is today, contends Michael Pröbsting, but in what it reflects and could become in the future.
