Nuclear war: more real than it seems
Recently, the American magazine “Vox” has published a lengthy article about the military conflict possible scenarios between the US and Russia. Interviewing a number of both Russian and Western military experts, the publication came up to a very disappointing conclusion – the conflict node will keep on lasting, which means that at some point the […]
The origins of Ukraine’s debt dependence
The global economic system is increasingly characterized by the dependence on financial capital, which has been becoming dominant and determinant in the global resource distribution system. At the same time, global financial flows are based on disproportionate economic development and uneven balances of payment. Within this framework, the development of indebted Third World countries is […]
A shelter in the tempest of history
Terry Eaglton Far from being dead, socialism is as relevant as it’s ever been – its task being to resist the fascism, mayhem and savagery resulting from the inevitable crises of the inherently unstable and self-destructive system of global capitalism. The soothsayer seeks to predict the future in order to control it. He peers […]
Ukraine’s Fractures
First published in: Ukraine’s Fractures. An interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko. In: New Left Review 87, May-June 2014 Since the start of the Maidan protests six months ago, Ukraine has been at the centre of a crisis which has exposed and deepened the fault-lines—geopolitical, historical, linguistic, cultural—that traverse the country. These divisions have grown through the […]
BON TON У СПЕКОТНОМУ КЛІМАТІ
Переклала Галина Герасим Пан Вольду — загублена людина. Він чотири рази тікав із Конго, а потім вертався. «Чому пан так боїться?» — спитав я. Стенає плечима, наче не знає. Але він знає, і я знаю. Масове переселення набрало розмаху в липні, першому місяці незалежності Конго. В аеропортах був страшний тлум. У газетах — багато фотографій […]
MADE IN DAGENHAM
Вперше опубліковано в: Спільне, №6, 2013: Гендер і праця 7 червня 1968 року 187 швачок-машиністок з автомобілебудівного заводу «Форд» у Дагенхемі (передмістя у Східному Лондоні) оголосили страйк проти дискримінації за гендерною ознакою в оплаті праці на виробництві. Робітниці вимагали дорівняти їхню роботу (пошиття чохлів для автомобільних сидінь) до категорії С (напівкваліфікована праця), яку мали чоловіки, […]
Support Ukrainians, but do not legitimize the far-right and discredited politicians!
Volodymyr Ishchenko Recently a number of internationally recognized scholars and public intellectuals signed a letter in full support of Euromaidan protests, backing ‘Ukrainian society’ against ‘Ukrainian government’. Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Craig Calhoun, Claus Offe, Saskia Sassen, Charles Taylor, Michel Wieviorka, Slavoj Zizek and many others celebrated the ‘legal’ and ‘peaceful’ protests embodying, as they claimed, ‘the […]
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, […]
LA COMMUNE (DE PARIS, 1871) [Статья режиссёра фильма]
Парижская Коммуна 1871 года — краткий исторический обзор Март 1871 года: Адольф Тьер, глава Временного национального правительства, встревожен революционной активностью Парижской Национальной гвардии — вооружённых ополченцев (прим. 260 батальонов), организованных предыдущим правительством для защиты Парижа от пруссаков в последние дни провальной Франко-прусской войны. Социальные проблемы Парижа ужасают. К ним добавляется массовая безработица и то, что […]
