Ukraine: From Maidan to War with Volodymyr Ishchenko
Rudy joins Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, for a discussion on Ukraine and the broader post-Soviet sphere. We …
Russia
History of the “Russian World”: From Soft Power to Irredentism
Taking issue with economistic accounts of the Russian Special Military Operation, Maxim Lebsky looks at the role of the ideology of the “Russian world.” Translated …
Atom Bombs, National Security, and Empire: Year Seventy-Eight of the Cold War
Gil Schaeffer looks to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements as examples of how the modern left can best articulate its opposition to the …
The US Proxy War in Ukraine and Socialist Anti-War Strategy
Matthew Strupp argues that revolutionary defeatism, not capitulation to imperialist war aims, must guide the response of the US Left to the Ukraine War. The …
No End in Sight: On the War in Ukraine
Alexander Gallus pushes against the haze of propaganda to assess the current course of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Daily headlines over the past …
War in Ukraine: A Debate Organized by Cosmonaut Magazine
Cosmonaut Magazine is hosting a panel discussion and debate on the situation in Ukraine. About this event: Cosmonaut Magazine is hosting a panel discussion and …
Letter: Comments to Parkinson’s Reply
Parkinson has written a reply to me – I agree with a considerable portion of the political positions that Parkinson presents and he is convincing …
Letter: Fighting Imperialism Needs Clear Politics Not Abstract Platitudes
Hilgers “Specificity of Anti-Imperialism” urges its readers to “make war on war.” Who could disagree? Furthermore, they claim we need to overcome the negative dialectic …
Putin and the Project of a Big Russian Nation
Translation by Alex Andreev. The original article can be found here. Translator’s Introduction One of the arguments in favor of the initiation of the military …
The Specificity of Anti-Imperialism
S. Hilgers examines the arguments of the two sides which have emerged on the Left regarding how to conceptualize anti-imperialism in the case of the …
Letter: Thoughts on Anti-War Strategy and Feelings of Helplessness
Reading the emerging discourse around the war in the Ukraine in Cosmonaut’s Letters section, I can’t help but note a commonality between clashing interlocutors. Sure, …
Letter: Negotiations to End the War
Currently, the idea is being floated that Ukraine will accept EU membership in exchange for changing the part of its constitution that fixes its goal …
Letter: On Russia and Ukraine and Geopolitical Realpolitik
PREAMBLE Considering that it is a multipolar world, not a unipolar world of geopolitical hegemony, that has historically given class movements in multiple countries political …
Letter: The Hegemony of Humanitarian Intervention
Quick housekeeping: I’m not in DSA. I’ve been involved in other socialist organizations like Socialist Alternative in the past, and in this letter I speak …