Russia turns Ukraine's occupied areas into an armed camp
Simon Pirani writes on ten years of war, and two years of all-out invasion in Ukraine
- IV589 - February 2024 / Russia, UkraineSimon Pirani writes on ten years of war, and two years of all-out invasion in Ukraine
- IV589 - February 2024 / Russia, UkraineThe statement of the Russian Socialist Movement about the means of achieving peace in Ukraine
- IV589 - February 2024 / Russia, Ukraine“What anti-capitalist alternative, what vision of another Europe and another (ecosocialist) world can the left claim to offer if it accepts the Russian invasion and does not help popular resistance?“
- IV589 - February 2024 / UkraineThe forthcoming European elections must be an opportunity to express popular anger against Macronism and contribute to the fightback against the danger of the Rassemblement National (National Rally - far-right). That's why for several months now, the NPA has been proposing that, on this occasion, a common list should be formed by all those - political currents, personalities, etc. - who have who have not given up the fight against the current liberal, inegalitarian, authoritarian and racist Europe, in order to defend a programme that defends such a perspective.
- News from around the world / France, European UnionWhat's happening in Italy? This is the question that many are asking after the shocking images filmed in Rome, at the rally on Acca Larenzia street, on 7 January 2024, with hundreds of arms of Casa Pound activists outstretched for the Roman salute and the collective fascist cry “Present”!
- IV589 - February 2024 / Italy, Far Right, FascismAlexei Navalny's movement attempted a kind of mass mobilization rare among earlier liberal dissidents. He resisted the effort to stifle Russian society — an act of defiance for which he was killed.
- IV589 - February 2024 / Russia“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. [1]"
- IV589 - February 2024 / Marxism, Ecology and the Environment, Ecosocialism“The Social Movement stands for a just peace in the Middle East, which requires the elimination of structural oppression of Palestinians and systemic violence against the civilian population.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / Palestine, Ukraine“With the modest but determined intention of contributing to laying a stone on that long road, on February 3, Anticapitalists and the CUP (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular or Popular Unity Candidacy) convened and co-organised in Barcelona a European meeting of anti-capitalist and alternative left organisations to reflect together on the current moment and debate about the alternatives that we can implement to change Europe at its core.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / Spanish state, European UnionUnable to win the next elections, the incumbent president of Senegal is attempting yet another manoeuvre to ensure that the radical opposition does not win the presidential election.
- IV589 - February 2024 / Senegal“Putin was afraid of Navalny. His assassination is a clear political signal that Putinism is entering a new phase, which allows for physical elimination of political opponents and, maybe, anyone who is considered a threat to survival of the regime.”
- News from around the world / Russia“Fight Israel's campaign of annihilation in Gaza with boycotts and sanctions by civil society“
- IV589 - February 2024 / Palestine, Germany“Over the past two years, Ukrainian society has undergone dramatic changes in its lifestyle and visions. This transformation is also evident among feminist activists and women in general.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / Women, Ukraine“We need to ask who decides about our food, talk about rights, raise food sovereignty, the right to decide about our food with criteria of social and environmental justice, as an umbrella under which to walk. The solutions to climate change will not come from unsustainable energy technologies, but from looking to the Earth and building coexistence between its needs and ours.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / Europe, European Union, Peasants“After two years of war, the situation is both the same and different. The war continues, but there are changes due to the context – both internal and external. All of these changes were foreseeable from the outset in a very likely scenario of a protracted war (which is not to say that many, me included, were not hoping for more positive but less likely scenarios).”
- IV589 - February 2024 / Ukraine“With the measures adopted by the Argentine government, the country is heading towards stagflation, as President Milei anticipated. With the aggravating factor that it does so in the context of a very weak global economy.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / Argentina“The American reaction to Israel's continuing crimes against humanity and to the United States' continuing to support Israel militarily and politically has been enormous. There have been repeated rallies and marches for both Israel and Palestine involving two million people since October 7, 2023, but the pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been twice as large as those for Israel.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / United States (USA)“Although the left-wing participated to some extent, their influence was limited, with fewer than 40 candidates contesting. Despite this setback, parties like Haqooq Khalq vow to continue strengthening their base among the working class through parliamentary intervention.”
- IV589 - February 2024 / PakistanVictims of ECOWAS economic sanctions, the three Sahelian countries are leaving this economic union, criticising its harmful role for their populations.
- IV589 - February 2024 / Mali, Niger, Burkina FasoIn Russia, the wives of men mobilized to the Ukrainian front are increasingly demanding that they be returned home. While the movement is not mainly directed at opposing Vladimir Putin, it offers hope of breaking the war machine from within.
In fall 2022, Russia began a partial mobilization of civilians for the war in Ukraine. By October 2023, at least four thousand of them had been killed (Russia's total nonrecoverable losses amount to four hundred thousand men, but these are mostly (...)