Ari Shapiro, Oksana Litvinenko, Justyna Wydrzynska, Krystyna Kacpura, Zuzanna Dziuban. May 20, 2022 Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered…
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Why The Son Of A Hated Dictator Won The Philippine Elections
By Walden Bello | May 18, 2022 The failures of liberalism made illiberalism popular. But the inevitable crises of the Marcos-Duterte regime offer opportunities for progressive organizing. As a progressive activist, I…
Ukrainian leftists fight the Russian invasion
By Pete Brown. May 13, 2022 Some leftist groups in Western Europe and the U.S. overlook the basic facts on the ground: the capitalist, imperialist power of Russia has invaded…
Olivier Besancenot: “A form of political paralysis is affecting the French left over the war in Ukraine”
Olivier Besancenot. Laurent Geslin. Mathilde Goanec. May 11, 2022 How should one approach the conflict as an anti-capitalist activist? Back from Ukraine, Olivier Besancenot believes that the progressive forces of the…
FAS (#voices_ukkrain_ok)–The problem of feminist international politics. A view from Ukraine
Tamara Zlobina. May 9, 2022 What do Ukrainian women themselves think about helping them? What kind of support do they want to see in the first place? And what do…
Philippines: Social Democracy or “Dutertismo”?
Josua Mata, Liliane Danso-Dahmen. May 10, 2022 Josua Mata on the Philippine workers’ movement before and after President Duterte Although the official vote count only began today, the results of the…
How Can Feminist Solidarity Help Ukraine? (Podcast)
Yuliya Yurchenko. Oksana Dutchak. Wonda Powell. Sasha Talaver. Frieda Afary. May 10, 2022 Since Russia’s full-scale imperialist invasion of Ukraine was launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, Putin’s speeches,…
Sri Lanka: Experts and expertise amid crisis
By Pasan Jayasinghe. May 7, 2022 “Whose expertise counts?” is the question that underruns current discourse on addressing Sri Lanka’s ever spiralling economic crisis. For much of the country’s intellectual…
Historian Timothy Snyder: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is a Colonial War
By Amy Goodman, Timothy Snyder, Nermeen Shaikh. May 5, 2022 We speak to Yale University historian Timothy Snyder about his latest article for The New Yorker, “The War in Ukraine…
Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine
By Taras Bilous. May 4, 2022 We cannot know how Ukraine will develop after the war. But we know there will be horrible consequences if Russia wins. Two months ago,…