Sex work: Solidarity not salvation

An article by an Australian Wobbly sex worker advocating solidarity and syndicalism. Orginally published in the Autumn issue of Direct Action, the newspaper of the Australian IWW. Reprinted in issue #1745, May 2012, of the IWW’s newspaper Industrial Worker. An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex […]
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 […]