To Help Ukraine, Cancel Its Foreign Debt
In recent days, numerous governments have announced financial as well as military support for Ukraine, as it faces a devastating Russian invasion and an exodus of refugees already counting well over 1.5 million. Such reliance on outside help is not new. Since the 1990s Ukraine’s economy has lagged badly behind other former Eastern bloc countries, […]
Moscow and Washington should not determine Ukraine’s future
When the U.S. media began writing again in the fall of 2021 about the threat of a Russian invasion in Ukraine, the first reaction of many Ukrainians was a surprise. Until mid-December, it seemed that the Western media paid more attention to the issue and took it more seriously than the Ukrainian ones. Especially since […]
Oleksiy Burkovsky: “Land reform leads Ukraine not to Europe but to Latin America”
What will be the dynamics of soil erosion and desertification in Ukraine after the launch of the agricultural land market? How will these processes affect the environment? And what should the Ukrainian authorities do in order to regain control over the ecological condition of the land? We discussed these questions with Oleksiy Burkovsky, Ukrainian ecologist, […]
The left group GUE/NGL will not split: MEP Helmut Scholz on elections in the EU and Ukraine
In previous materials we’ve already generally informed our readers about how the European Parliament functions and which parliamentary groups are represented in it. In our interview with you we whould like first of all to focus on the radical left in the European Parliament and their group GUE/NGL. What do the radical left parties of […]
Democracy or the power of experts? A Review on “The New Authoritarianism” by Salvatore Babones
This provocative book is full of straightforward critical statements and fresh ideas, supported by logical argument and historical excursus. Those, who seek a sharp analysis and a clear diagnosis of the contemporary state of American democracy, will find those answers in this thrilling read. Adversely, those, who prefer a more global intellectual exercise, will find […]
New issue of “Commons” – get involved!
Dear readers of “Commons”, We would like to remind you that the next, eleventh issue of our journal (fall 2017) will be dedicated to reflections on theory, history and strategy of leftist movement, as 2017 marks 100 years since October Revolution and 150 years since first edition of Marx’s Capital. In particular, the issue will […]
“We were not trying to ‘hide’ Marxism”: interview with Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of the Jacobin magazine
Jacobin is one of the most successful radical left-wing publications in the contemporary world and, for sure, the most successful one in the United States. Though the project was only started in September 2010, their online audience has reached 700 000 visitors a month for the online version and 15 000 subscribers of the printed […]
The Ukrainian Government as the Point of Balance between Domestic and Foreign Capital
This article was written a couple of months ago while the future of Ukrainian government was still unsure. I am happy to report that the ensuing events mostly confirmed my predictions: Groisman did take the seat of Prime Minister, Avakov and Petrenko entered the Cabinet and Yatsenyuk gained one more victory over the Parliament, forcing […]
Peer to peer production as the altarnative to capitalism: a new communist horizont
Jacob Rigi The current crisis of capitalism has provoked protests, revolts and revolutions in major parts of the planet that include 3 billions of inhabitants. Even the mainstream Time Magazine made “The Protester” the person of the year. The caption on Time’s cover reads: From the Arab Spring To Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to […]
Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked
Patrick Iber In May of 1967, a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in the Saturday Evening Post under the headline, «I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’». Braden confirmed what journalists had begun to uncover over the previous year or so: The CIA had been responsible for secretly financing a large number of “civil […]
