Streiks, Gewerkschaften und Arbeiterrate. Die Ratebewegung in Deutschland am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges
Der Begriff der Räte oder Räterepublik ist in der globalen Erinnerung untrennbar verbunden mit der Russländischen Revolution von 1917. Räte oder Arbeiterräte sind mitunter ein Synonym für den kommunistischen Einparteienstaat. Ihre Ursprünge liegen jedoch woanders: die europäische Bewegung der Arbeiterräte entstand gegen Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges aus Streikversammlungen. Räte ersetzten in einer Krise Parteivorstand und […]
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 […]
Socialism, Yidishkeyt, Doykeyt: A Brief History of the Jewish Bund
The latest round of horrific bloodshed in Israel/Palestine prompts us to recall not only the sad fate of this troubled region, but also Jewish history. Today, everything related to Jewry and its past is “monopolized” by the State of Israel. But this was not always the case. In Eastern Europe, there were alternatives to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Iranian rebellion, the role of Russia and the responsibility of intellectuals. Interview with Frieda Afary
In this part of the interview the Iranian American socialist and feminist, translator and writer Frieda Afary speaks about the most recent feminist and anti-authoritarian uprising in the country as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the challenges for the global progressive movements. In the first part of this interview, published earlier, Frieda […]
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 […]
