I was frustrated before I had even finished reading Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s warm publicized response letter to Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Partly because the message itself
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how the 1968 invasion of czechoslovakia destroyed an autonomous movement If you live outside of the Czech Republic (sorry, I just can’t bring myself to
no, this isn’t some weird rant about “reverse racism” In February 2022, millions of Ukrainians were forced from their homes almost overnight. Before many had
When ABC Belarus asked to take part in the Anarchist Bookfair in Bremgarten, Switzerland, they weren’t planning to recruit soldiers for the Ukrainian army or
If you solely look at policy, it’s pretty easy to see why the Soviet Union is often described at being at the vanguard of feminism.
how parts of the left continue to perpetuate soviet tokenization In July 1930, a Black toolmaker from Detroit stepped off a ship in Leningrad, believing
A concerningly large portion of the left have taken on the habit of telling themselves a fairytale about Russia. It goes something like this: somewhere
Alexander Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova are not names you usually see mentioned in general anti-war statements from leftist groups in the west. They were 19
For years, the Kremlin has cast itself as the patron of a besieged Global South and a defender of Palestinian statehood against Western-backed Israeli power.
The current and very public discourse between Poland and Ukraine over a military unit named after “heroes of the UPA” has produced the diplomatic equivalent
A note on Angela Davis before we begin. Her contributions to exposing racial and social injustice in the United States are significant and worth stating
A recognizable habit has metastasized across some segments of Western academic discourse and most of the terminally online Marxist-Leninist political culture: rather than examining conflicts
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
It’s hard to ignore the selective fixation on the Ukrainian far right and ‘Ukrainian nazis’. To be clear, I’m not interested in making excuses for
The claim that romanticizing the Soviet Union has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin, modern-day Russia, or the war in Ukraine has become a knee-jerk
On the Laziness of Parroting “No War but Class War” There’s nothing radical about flexing theory on people who are being bombed and there’s something