Everything Is Destroyed, It’s Simply Unthinkable: A Conversation with Anton Yaremchuk About the Humanitarian Mission to Palestine
Anton Yaremchuk is a cinematographer. In 2022, he co-founded the volunteer platform Base UA, an initiative to counter Russian aggression by providing humanitarian aid and support to civilians. Currently, the initiative operates in the Donetsk region. It covers a wide range of work, from a mobile clinic in a truck to evacuating the local population […]
“We Could Not Provide Any Credible Alternatives to NATO”: Interview With Finnish Leftist Henrik Jaakkola
Initially, Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto/Vänsterförbundet) was fiercely against Finland joining NATO to the point of making it a condition of your participation in the government. What was the reasoning behind V’s security policy back then? Not only was our party Vasemmistoliitto against Finland joining NATO, but so was also the overwhelming majority of both Finnish citizens […]
Palestine, Ukraine and the Crisis of Empires
On the Easter weekend, on the latest gigantic march in London against UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza, a group of us took a banner that said “From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime”. We were welcomed by marchers around us, and people took up our slogan. But beyond a slogan, what can […]
“I stand on the side of the oppressed, whoever they are”. Interview with the Palestinian-Ukrainian activist Adib Shaheen
"The point of view depends on where you stand," – says Adib Shaheen, an activist and writer of Palestinian-Ukrainian origin who was forced to settle in England since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops. With these words, he criticizes the limited views of people who are influenced by propaganda. Adib […]
Notes of the Ukrainian conscripted civilian about the painful things
By the end of March, it was a year since I chose to leave my teaching and library work for the service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Therefore, I find it worthwhile to reflect a little bit on my personal "betrayals" and "victories", advantages and disadvantages, in other words to sum up the year. […]
Solidarity Is Our Weapon. What Do Left-Wing Activists in the Army Think
Two years ago on February 24 Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Ahead of this anniversary, we spoke with left-wing activists from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus who decided to join the ranks of the Ukrainian army. In these frank monologues, they shared personal stories about how they made decisions, how their understanding of Russian […]
“Selectivity in International Criminal Law Has Always Been a Major Problem”: Interview With Patryk Labuda
Patryk Labuda has a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He currently works on the ‘Memocracy’ project at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where his research focuses on shifts in the global legal order and relations between the 'Global South' and 'Global East', especially Eastern Europe […]
Nobody Could Prepare You for the War: Interview with Croatian Feminist Biljana Kasic
Biljana Kašić is a feminist theorist as well as peace and civil activist from Croatia. She is one of the leaders of the Centre for Women’s Studies (Zagreb), the co-founder of many feminist initiatives since the eighties of the twentieth century and engaged feminist at the international level. As a professor at the Department of […]
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 […]
