For Arms Manufacturers, the War in Ukraine Is a Profits Bonanza
By Gilbert Achcar. April 5, 2022 Not even 1 percent of NATO military hardware will actually be used to help Ukraine. But the Russian invasion has provided a pretext for…
Contemptuous Denial of Agency in the Name of Geopolitics and/or Peace
By: Gilbert Achcar. April 13, 2022 The antiwar anti-imperialist left worldwide has been deeply divided on the war in Ukraine along quite unusual lines, due to the novelty of the situation…
Against Mearsheimer
By Sorin Gog. April 14, 2022 Leftists with a preference for grand narratives and easy answers love the realist geopolitical explanations of Mearsheimer. So does much of the far right….
“Never Again” in thirty languages. Daria Serenko on why Russian feminists can’t stop protesting
By Daria Serenko. April 6, 2022. The day after the start of the “special operation”, the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS) appeared – a semi-partisan activist movement that launches anti-war actions…
Canada Is Happy to Provide Ukraine With Weapons — But Not Debt Relief
By Yves Engler. April 12, 2022 Although Ukraine is hobbled by the debt it owes its international creditors, Canada’s support for the country does not include any debt relief. It…
The Feminist Face of Russian Protests
By The Moscow Times. March 29, 2022 More and more women in Russia are taking to the streets in protests. On Feb. 23, Daria Serenko, a Moscow political activist, was…
Sri Lanka: #GoHomeGota, ‘the struggle’ and the rhetoric
By Erandika de Silva. April 12, 2022 I use the hashtag #GoHomeGota to mark this watershed moment in Sri Lanka’s postcolonial history. It is in honour of the people who…
Russia’s feminists are protesting the war and its propaganda with stickers, posters, performance and graffiti
By Maria Silina. April 7, 2022 After Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, President Vladimir Putin imposed drastic laws that impose prison sentences of up to 15 years for those who call out the…
Oksana Dutchak: Real Peace in Ukraine Will Only Come after Change in Russia
By Oksana Dutchak and Fabian Wisotzky. 10 April 2022 The Russian onslaught against Ukraine has dragged on for over six weeks, costing untold lives and throwing the entire region into chaos….
Trade Unions Stand With Ukraine
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…
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…