In a dramatic twist to the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv ordered its armed forces into the Kursk region of Russia on the 6th of August. This marks the first serious incursion into Russian territory since the […]
The horrific terror attacks on the outskirts of Moscow on 22 March shocked and repulsed Russians and people everywhere. At the time of writing, the death toll is officially 139 and rising. Over 180 people […]
Just days after news from Russia of the imprisonment of Boris Kagarlitsky (https://www.socialistworld.net/2024/02/16/veteran-socialist-academic-condemned-to-five-years-in-russian-prison/) comes the report of the death in custody of Russia’s most famous political prisoner – 47-year-old Alexei Navalny, reportedly after taking exercise […]
Boris Kagarlitsky – the Russian sociologist, political scientist, self-declared Marxist, and socialist – is in jail after a court decided to change a “too soft” sentence to fine him into a five-year prison sentence. In […]
The death of the Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin and other leaders of the Wagner group in an aircraft crash has intensified the tensions inside Vladimir Putin’s regime and the Russian state. So far, it is […]
On Tuesday, July 25, Boris Kagarlitsky, a well-known left-wing university teacher in Moscow, was arrested. It appears as if a political purge is going on in the country. This arrest came only a few days […]
In a dramatic turn of events last weekend, the Russian mercenary leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged an armed uprising only to turn his fighters back from a march on Moscow after a truce was struck with […]
It is a hundred years since the establishment of the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia – later known as the USSR – at the end of 1922. The first signatories represented the […]
The following is a statement by the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) on the new phase in the Ukraine war; a conflict that is partly a result of the intense […]
The desperate, dramatic turn by Russian president Putin – writes Tony Saunois (CWI) – announcing the mobilisation of 300,000 military reserves, coupled with his renewed threat to use nuclear weapons, indicates the seriousness of what […]
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