Three Sources of Ukraine’s “Freedom”: Nationalism, Xenophobia and the “Social Issue”
Vitaly Atanasov In the last three years, the popularity of Ukraine’s right-wing party Svoboda (Freedom) has seen an eightfold increase. At the moment, the party is supported by 6% of the country’s population, though it seems unlikely that anything might prevent the party overcoming the 3% level in the parliamentary election next year. Until 2004, […]
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 […]
About “Russian” trace in Odessa events
Andrey Ishchenko A tragic death, which took place on April 17 in Odessa, of Maksim Chaika, a right-wing football fan and one of the leaders of a radical nationalist organization “SICH”, has immediately lead to heated discussions on the Internet. Whereas everything is clear for the closest companions of the killed: “the white warrior” had […]
