What happened to Ukraine’s May 9, Victory Day? A discussion with Ukrainian historian Georgiy Kasianov
Since Ukraine's declaration of independence, there have been shifts in various policies concerning the observance of May 9, whether as Victory Day or Memorial Day. How was Victory Day marked during the tenures of the first two presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma? Was there ongoing discourse regarding the commemoration and celebration of this occasion? […]
The Fall and Ambivalent Rise of East European Anti-Colonialism
At a conference in Prague this past spring (May 2023), a prominent theorist of colonialism and coloniality spoke to us via video chat from his office in the Americas. He was asked what he thought about the claim that Russia’s relationship to Ukraine is colonial. I was looking forward to hearing how he applied his […]
The Maidan Shooting: Conspiracy Theories and Unanswered Questions
A decade ago, the Euromaidan protests successfully toppled the Yanukovych government. Paradoxically, nobody faced justice for the bloodiest attack against the protesters, the mass shootings of people who went up Instytutska Street on 20 February. All the killed supporters of Euromaidan became immortalized as the Heavenly Hundred, with their names and photos being publicly displayed […]
International (In)Security: How the Global System is Disintegrating and Why the Left Cannot Stop It
We live in the time of rapidly escalating “frozen” military conflicts. Ukraine, Palestine, Yemen, Armenia, Sudan: status quo seemed immovable in these places, but now the “red lines” are crumbling while the front lines are coming to life. Within a few days, as a result of aggression and occupation, entire nations are plunged into a […]
The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left
The situation on the military front is grim. Despite certain tactical achievements, high hopes for the counter-offensive were not fulfilled. Instead, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, has openly acknowledged a stalemate. The national polls indicate emerging exhaustion. The global community is losing interest, aid packages are stalled, truck haulage is blocked. Winter is here, and so […]
The Liquid Imperialism That Engulfed Syria
Syria is a country of only 71,498 square miles in area, with a population of less than 24 million, and yet two global superpowers (the United States and the Russian Federation) and three of the largest regional powers (Iran, Turkey and Israel) are present on its territory. Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since […]
Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression
The war in Nagorno-Karabakh initiated by Azerbaijan, Turkey’s involvement in Syria, the authoritarian rule in Iran, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — this incomplete yet indicative list of recent events underscores the escalating trend of imperialistic arbitrariness worldwide in the conditions of non-interference. As part of our “Dialogues of Peripheries” conference, one of the […]
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people
باللغة العربية | українською | en français | en español | auf Deutsch | in italiano | em português | στα ελληνικά | v češtině | na bosanskom | in het Nederlands We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land […]
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
Moldova and Ukraine have been following similar trends after the end of the Soviet Union. The countries share such issues as the dominance of oligarchic groups in the economic and political life; Russian imperialism’s attempts to establish its rule; high dependence on the Western imperialist partners. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine strongly affected Moldova’s […]
