The Democratic Centralists in Ukraine: Challenging Stalin and the Russian Leadership

The Democratic Centralists, or Decists, were a left-wing opposition group within the Bolsheviks who consistently fought against the rise of bureaucratism within the Party and Soviets.
“The Path to Reconciliation Is Only Possible After Condemning the Perpetrators”: A Conversation Between Friends on the 1943–1945 Mass Killings in Volyn

Ela Kwiecińska is a historian, a teacher with Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) at the Central European University in Budapest, and a docent at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation was dedicated to the idea of an Eastern European civilizing mission in the 19th and early 20th […]
Creative Crisis: Cultural Policy, Precarity, and European Integration

Critical analysis of the Culture Development Strategy 2030 and related European integration reforms
Masculinity, Guilt, and Citizenship: How Men of Conscription Age Make Sense of Leaving Ukraine

Research by Danish political scientist Sofie Rose
Breaking the Gaza Blockade: Ukrainians on the Sumud Flotilla

Ukrainian leftist activists Andrii Movchan and Nina Potarska have joined the Global Sumud Flotilla
Justice for the Middle East Is Also About Climate

Editor of Commons Denys Gorbach and British socialist Simon Pirani spoke with political economy researcher and author of Crude Capitalism Adam Hanieh
Surviving Genocide: The History of Resistance and Solidarity of the Rohingya People

A long interview with Noor Sadeque, a young Rohingya activist, about the crimes of the Myanmar regime
Laying the Foundations: Bohdan Krawchenko on Publishing and the Civil Service

Bohdan Krawchenko is a social scientist of Ukrainian origin whose academic and intellectual biography spans Canada, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan.
Review. A Socialist Activist in Industrial Workplaces under Ukrainian bourgeois democracy 1998-2003

In April 2000, Oleg Dubrovsky managed to sign on at the Dnepropetrovsk Rolled Products Works or DZPV (Днепропетровский завод прокатных валков). A month earlier he had quit his job at Dneprotyazhbummash before they could sack him for shop-floor organising; another two years before that he had instigated a protest strike over unpaid wages at the […]
“Drill, Baby, Drill”: How the Extraction and Export of Critical Raw Materials Can Exacerbate Ukraine’s Resource Trap

Interest in Ukraine’s mineral wealth has surged against the backdrop of global competition for critical raw materials needed for the transition to green energy and new technologies. This transition, presented as a path to sustainable development and the fight against climate change, is increasingly masking a fierce geopolitical struggle over resources, with various players striving […]