Between Drahomanov and Marx: The Political Life of Lesya Ukrainka

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, socialist views were more the norm than the exception among the younger generation of Ukrainian cultural and political figures. Many Ukrainian activists of the first half of the 20th century gained their first experiences in political participation, journalistic writing, and encounters with police repression within the […]

Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

Patrick Iber In May of 1967, a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in the Saturday Evening Post under the headline, «I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’». Braden confirmed what journalists had begun to uncover over the previous year or so: The CIA had been responsible for secretly financing a large number of “civil […]

Twenty years after the wall fell

One of our editors, Volodymyr Ishchenko, interviewed by British newspaper “The Commune” What was the society that existed before 1989-91, and was its collapse the historic victory of capitalism over communism? There are a lot of rather boring discussions in the left-wing movement on “class nature” of USSR, whether it was “state capitalism”, a “degenerated […]