By Mykhailo Volynets and Grygorii Osovyi. 10 April 2022 On Saturday 9 April a demonstration took place in London called by UK trade unions and supported by both trade union…
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Sri Lanka’s popular revolt and the culture of shaming
By Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena. April 20, 2022 Minister of Foreign Affairs GL Peiris’s badly argued brief to Colombo based diplomats this week, describing peoples’ protests in Sri Lanka targeting the Rajapaksa…
The Discourse Of Privilege: Western Europe And The Russian War Against Ukraine
By Elżbieta Kwiecińska and Pavel Skigin. 7th April 2022 As Jan Smoleński and Jan Dutkiewicz recently wrote in The New Republic, some Western experts and politicians are ‘Westplaining’ the war to Ukrainians: instead…
Against Russian Imperialism
By Russian Socialist Movement & Sotsialnyi Rukh. April 7, 2022 Although the majority of the left has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the left camp’s unity is still lacking. We…
Why are people protesting in Sri Lanka?
By The Guardian. 6 Apr 2022 Explainer: Anger over the economic crisis and the government’s handling of the situation has led to unrest Unprecedented shortages of food and fuel along…
Sri Lanka: The Ides of March: Protests, Discontent and Disconnects
By Ruki Fernando. 03/23/2022 The month of March has seen widespread discontent expressed by many Sri Lankans from all walks of life on new and old social, economic and political…
We know Russia funds Europe’s far Right. But what does it get in return?
By Neil Datta. 6 April 2022 Many influential European ultra-conservatives share an ideological alignment with Moscow – particularly on the rights of women and LGBTIQ people That Russia serves as…
Ukrainian socialist: ‘The future of demilitarisation lies in stopping Russia’s war machine now’
Federico Fuentes. Vitaliy Dudin. April 6, 2022 Vitaliy Dudin, head of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Sotsyalnyi Rukh (Social Movement), spoke from Cherkasy, Ukraine, on April 6, to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the current…
Urgent plea by Sri Lankan feminists to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by the economic collapse in Sri Lanka
By Collective. April 6, 2022 Sri Lanka is facing the worst economic crisis in its post-independence history. Widespread food and fuel shortages are crippling the lives of people. Such a…
Putin Is Not Only Waging War On Ukraine, He Is Also Destroying Russian Society
By Karine Clément. 04 Apr 2022 Karine Clément writes that working people can be the agents of change in Putin’s Russia. Everywhere I hear only terrified exclamations against “those people”, this…