Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians
How can we look at images of Gaza and not see Mariupol or Bakhmut? As Israel’s assault on Palestine continues, apparent similarities with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grow. Israel’s “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip – cutting off water, electricity and food to more than two million inhabitants – echoes Russia’s intentional destruction of […]
Spicy political soup of post-Soviet Moldova. Interview with Alexandru Lesanu
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The anti-social ferocity of Ukrainian neo-liberals
The recent statements of Minister of Social Policy Oksana Zholnovych about "destroying everything social" and "taking Ukrainians out of their comfort zone" have caused significant public outcry and a wave of criticism. Yet this is not the first time that officials directly involved in social policy have publicly taken anti-social stances. What does the presence […]
Transnational feminist solidarity with the Woman Life Freedom uprising in Iran
Sign the manifesto Following a year of struggles and war, and to mark the one-year anniversary of the feminist uprising in Iran, a group of feminists united in the Transnational Feminist Assembly located in France initiated the following manifesto, published in several languages. The Transnational Feminist Assembly is a feminist self-education network that aims to […]
Connected by fate: West Asian Grassroots Solidarity with Ukraine and the intricacies of Russian imperialism in the region
This article is based on the materials of the West Asian left activists’ conference, which was organized by the Global and the European network in solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU). The activists were representing various grassroots initiatives, organizations, and parties. They were sharing the experience of Russian imperialism in their respective regions, their government’s politics, as […]
Estonia’s losses on the way out of the periphery: lessons for Ukraine
A development plan organized around capital can never be just. Similarly, the creation of democratic institutions can only be meaningful if grave inequalities don’t sabotage them. In Estonia, the process of democratization began at the same time as capitalist economic reorganization, a large-scale neoliberal experiment. Exactly this path of economic change poses a danger to […]
Unraveling the tangle of Iranian history with Frieda Afary: women rights, class contradictions, Islamic fundamentalism, and leftists mistakes
Frieda Afary is an Iranian American socialist feminist activist, translator and writer. She is a public librarian in Los Angeles. In 2022 her book “Socialist Feminism: A New Approach” was published by Pluto Press. In this work, she critically evaluates various articulations of socialist feminism and why it is needed to fight the global rise […]
Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on
Last week, two labour activists from Naftan oil refinery were detained by Belarusian security service KGB on charges of undermining national security. The detained Volha Britikava and Aliaksandr Kukharonak have already spent short stints in jail for criticising Lukashenka’s government and participating in anti-government protests. They are among the latest victims of the ongoing repressions […]
“The road of life”: how the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh live under the blockade
July 29. The 229th day of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). 68-year-old Vagif Khachatryan was evacuated by a Red Cross vehicle to Yerevan for a vital heart operation. He was detained at the Azerbaijani checkpoint near the Hakari Bridge. The Azerbaijani military took away Vagif’s passport and ordered him to enter the ward for a […]
Dana El Kurd: “Palestinians are tied to this particular place, like Ukrainians are tied to theirs”
Struggle of the people of Palestine for their freedom and independence is probably one of the ‘don’t ask – don’t tell’ topics for many Ukrainians covered under such a generalisation as the ‘Near East’, and is associated with wars in the first place. At the same time Israel is often presented as a role model […]
