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  1. The Accumulation of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  2. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  3. Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
  4. Already in Hell: Labor After Communism
    Against The Current vol. 118

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Factory workers in the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things can’t get any worse, we are already in hell.” David Mandel’s book Labour After Communism documents the realities of working-class life in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: factories with no central heating, where workers to maintain body heat build fires in metal drums or large metal toolboxes, the smoke of these fires rising up through holes in the roof.
  5. America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word — it isn't — if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
  6. Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    American political figures like to talk about "American Democracy". The truth is, there is no "American Democracy", it is something that our rulers like to foist upon the World stage much like parents like to tell their children about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It's fiction made in order to keep their "children" in line.
  7. Asian socialists condemn Russia's war on Ukraine, NATO expansionism
    Statements against the war

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  8. Betrayal of Trust
    The Collapse of Global Public Health

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
  9. Blood and Belonging
    Journey into the New Nationalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
    Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
  10. Bryant, Louise - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Louise Bryant (1885-1936).
  11. Das Capital, Volume 1 
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  12. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
  13. Chronicle of a War Foretold
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  14. CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."
  15. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
    Economic Writings 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
  16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  17. Connexions Library: Europe Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
  18. Connexions Library: Russia Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Russia.
  19. Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
  20. The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  21. The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
    Boyd-Barrett, Oliver

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    In the United States and its allies, Russia confronts an adversary which is the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons on another. This is also an adversary which has many times since considered using nuclear weapons again.
  22. The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  23. The Cultivation of Hate
    The Lies Grow More Audacious

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
  24. Daughter of a Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
  25. The Demonology School of Journalism
    Putin and the press

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
  26. The Destiny of A Revolution
    Review of Victor Serge, Russia Twenty Years After

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Victor Serge's more impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
  27. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  28. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  29. Experts Warned For Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead To This
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Analysts and diplomats have been saying since the 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually spark a conflict in Eastern Europe.
  30. "If you want peace, prepare for war" (Russia, Ukraine, NATO, EU)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    An explanatory article on the background and geo-political rivalries leading to the 2022 escalation of conflict in Ukraine. The text is a translation of "Si vis pacem para bellum – Wer Frieden will rüste sich zum Krieg (Platon, Cicero, Russland, Ukraine, NATO, EU)" by Gruppen Gegen Kapital Und Nation (Groups against Capital and Nation) which was published on February 21st, two days before the Russian invasion began.
  31. Facing Reality 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
  32. Facts Back Russia on Turkish Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Turkey claims its November 24, 2015 shoot-down of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border was justified -- and the Obama administration is publicly siding with its NATO ally -- but a review of the evidence supports Russian accusations of an "ambush." The evidence from the Turkish authorities themselves thus leaves little room for doubt that the decision to shoot down the Russian jet was made before the Russian jets even began their flight.
  33. Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
  34. February Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
  35. The Fire Each Time
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains' hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
  36. First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1881
  37. The First Legal Russian Strike in a Decade
    Against The Current vol. 132

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The almsot month-long strike at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk assembly plant, a small plant near St. Petersburg, ended December 16 with an agreement that negotiations would resume. The strike began on November 17, 2007, after four months of talks failed to produce any result. In fact, Ford management had initially refused to hold negotiations “during or under the threat of strike.”
  38. Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
  39. The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: "It takes a village to raise a Nazi"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Sanders uncovers Chrystia Freeland's, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, own personal and professional connection with fascist groups and publications.
  40. Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  41. From Lenin to Stalin 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1973
    A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
  42. From Yeltsin to Putin: Modern Democrat Gives Way to Modern Nationalist
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The power brokers in and around the Kremlin have orchestrated a transfer of power that could serve as a model for modern democratic rule—the kind of demonstration democracy (demonstrate the form, forget the content) practiced to a high art form in the United States.
  43. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  44. The Historical Moment That Produced Us 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
  45. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  46. How Can the US Accuse Russia of Violating International Law?
    Not Funny, But it's Still Hard Not to Laugh

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    If you want to make moral or legal pronouncements, or to condemn bad behaviour, you have to be a moral, law-abiding person yourself.
  47. How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
  48. How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    US nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he famously pledged to place nuclear disarmament at the center of his national-security strategy. Why, then, we must ask, is the Obama administration moving forward with an ambitious nuclear-weapons modernization program that could dramatically raise the threat of nuclear war?
  49. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906   Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
  50. In These Days of Great Tension
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Rather than allow this war to escalate and for positions to harden, it is important for the guns to go silent and the discussions to recommence. writes Vijay Prashad.
  51. In Ukraine, 'No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  52. Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
  53. Introducing the Year 1905: Centennial of Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 114

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The year 1905 stands out as the onset of an era of explosive anticapitalist struggle—all the more so 100 years later, when we feel stranded in a neoliberal ice age. Looking back at the events of that year helps give some perspective on how rapidly consciousness and levels of struggle can change.
  54. It's Nato that's empire-building, not Putin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Two sides are required for a New Cold War — and there is no obvious need for an adversarial system in post-Soviet Europe.
  55. It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  56. Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
  57. Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
  58. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  59. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
  60. Kengir uprising
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
  61. Kronstadt rebellion
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An uprising of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians against the Bolshevik government in 1921.
  62. Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups.
  63. 'Let's Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman' - Bombing Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    If you want to get close to the 'defence' establishment, you better be close to the 'defence' establishment: ideologically, sympathetically, 'patriotically'.
  64. Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
  65. Life after Communism West goes East
    New Internationalist April 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the effects of communist rule in the former Soviet Union and the post-communism transition.
  66. The main enemy is at home
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
  67. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
    Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883

    Resource Type: Book
    Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
  68. Marx at the Margins 
    On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2016
    Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
  69. Marxism and Freedom 
    From 1776 to Today

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 2000
    Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
  70. A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious.
  71. A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
  72. A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  73. A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
  74. Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
  75. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
  76. The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
  77. NATO Expands to Border of Russia, Then Blames Russia for Being On NATO's Doorstep
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Russia at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon grilled over NATO expansion. Watch the video or read the transcript: with clowns like these, it is no wonder that the USA has lost wars in Viet Nam, Afganistan, Iraq, etc.
  78. The Nature of Stalinist Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1948
    There is an unbridgeable antagonism between the definition of Russia as a degenerated workers' state and fundamental elements of Marxism, such as, to take one example, the self-mobilisation and self-conscious action of the masses as a necessary element for the socialist revolution.
  79. Notes on the Current Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
  80. NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    As if Americans didn't already have enough to worry about in regards to the recently resurrected Red Menace, we can now add the fear that those devious Russians are threatening to -- horror of horrors -- bring down the Internet.
  81. Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
  82. Obama's House of Cards
    Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Barak Obama's September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington's double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
  83. An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    This appeal from Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika. It has been abridged here for space reasons.
  84. October Revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The October Revolution, also known as the Soviet Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution.
  85. Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1904
    Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party.
  86. Ossetia-Russia-Georgia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky points out the hypocrisy of threatening Russia with exclusion from international society due to the violation of the international principle of respecting other nations' sovereignty. He further explores how to integrate and handle Russia in the context of the modern world order and the threat of a Cold War II.
  87. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
  88. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  89. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
  90. Our Generation
    Volume 24 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  91. 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
  92. Paul Levi: A Luxemburgist Alternative?
    A review of In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Among the adversaries of capitalism, some have argued that a revolution could have been achieved differently and better in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg, who wrote a critique of the Bolsheviks’ undemocratic policies as early as 1918. Paul Levi, Luxemburg’s lawyer, briefly her lover, her follower, and from 1919 to 1921 her successor at the head of German Communism, was the first to defend a Luxemburgist alternative to Bolshevism.
  93. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  94. Perspectives on Putin's Russia
    Against The Current vol. 158

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The demonstrations of December 10 and 24, 2012 in Moscow, in which tens of thousands of people took part, show clearly that the period of social passivity in Russia is nearing its end.
  95. Pity the Nation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of 'Putinism.
  96. Political Repression in Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    When someone in Russia today calls himself a Communist, in most cases it will turn out that what you have is a particular version of a National Socialist; all too many anarchists turn out to be “national anarchists.”
  97. Political Repression in Russia
    Against The Current vol. 150

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The full implications of the extraordinary drought that struck the European part of Russia this past summer became apparent only in the third quarter of 2010, when accurate statistics on the human casualties and economic losses became available. But from the outset a solid foundation on which to base projections emerged from amongst the potpourri of facts and expert opinions.
  98. The Politics of Nonviolent Action 
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
  99. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
  100. Postmodern Imperialism
    Geopolitics and the Great Games

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An analysis of the development of imperialism over the past century.
  101. The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
  102. A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
  103. Putin on the Ritz
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, I’ll go with Putin and Russia over Obama, the US, Rasmussen, Cameron, friends and allies everywhere. America has an unerring nose for smelling Fascism and quickly joining ranks. Today Putin used the political “F” word correctly, and for that I honor him.
  104. Putin's Question and the Ambassador's Answer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A fascinating, if brief, verbal exchange recently took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 – 1991), Jack Matlock.
  105. The Question of Stalin
    Resource Type: Article
    Colletti explores the contradictions of Bolshevism as the vanguard party which constructed a powerful state apparatus to manage the socialist relations of production while abandoning the development of socialist democracy.
  106. Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.
  107. Return of the Evil Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    You have to hand it to them. The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the bowels of the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media (MSM).
  108. Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  109. Rogue State 
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  110. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  111. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  112. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  113. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  114. Russia and the West: between sanctions and war
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    On sanctions as economic war.
  115. Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
  116. Russia Twenty Years After
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1996
    Serge's impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
  117. Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  118. Russia-Ukraine Resources: History, context and analysis of the crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Articles and interviews examining the context and background of the 2022 crisis.
  119. Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
  120. Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
  121. A Russian Diary
    Resource Type: Book
    The late Anna Politkovskaya's diary is less a personal history than a chronicle of what was happening politically in Russia over a period of three years. Her story is the story of her country from Putin's 2004 re-election to the tragedy of Beslan: observations on televised debates, overheard conversations, talking to war widows. Filling the pages with the voices of the people. The distinctive feature of her reporting was her verbatim stating of facts from from her witnesses. For that reason her version of history is read in the West but virtually ignored in Russia.
  122. The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
  123. The Russian-Georgian Clash
    Against The Current vol. 136

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
  124. The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
  125. Russian Revolution of 1905
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
  126. Russia's Chechnya Syndrome
    Against The Current vol. 84

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The near-genocidal war that Russia's Putin-Yeltsin government is waging in Chechnya is cynical on many counts. Some might compare it to U.S. efforts to end the “Vietnam syndrome” by engaging in small wars certain of victory without U.S. casualties.
  127. Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
  128. Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
  129. Russkies at the Doorstep
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In a year noted for crude political discourse, eagerly serialized in the mainstream media, the MSM are themselves bellowing anti-Russian rhetoric, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering.
  130. Sanctions & the Dollar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While in the short run American actions against Russia’s oil and gas industry will inflict economic pain on Moscow, in the long run the U.S. may lose some of its control over international finance.
  131. Scapegoating Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Book review of "The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" authored by labour and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik.
  132. Siberia's Heavenly Lake and 'small peoples' of the High North at risk from oil drilling
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A vital nature preserve in western Siberia, and the indigenous peoples that inhabit it, are at risk from oil development. Oil giant Surgutneftegas is already active in the Numto Park, but now they want to extend operations into its fragile wetlands, putting at risk snow cranes, the Heavenly Lake, and the survival of the Nenet and Khanty peoples.
  133. The Situation in Russia and Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  134. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
  135. Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
  136. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1995
  137. State Capitalism in Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1948   Published: 1974
  138. Striving to make sense of the Ukraine war
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  139. Twelve Thoughts On Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  140. Ukrainian Hangovers
    Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Russia’s incursion (invasion if you prefer) into Crimea, with prospects for movement into Eastern Ukraine, is the culmination of US/NATO policy since 1991.
  141. US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  142. The US Bubble of Pretend
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
  143. US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  144. Vladimir Putin Is the Only Leader the West Has
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A Reuters news report under the names of presstitutes Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.
  145. Vorkuta uprising
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July-August 1953.
  146. War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  147. War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
  148. Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
    One After Another After Another

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery.
  149. Western hypocrisy over convictions in Russia of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kol’chenko
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Shapinov advocates against the Western disregard for hundreds of criminal cases against oppositionists in Ukraine.
  150. The West's Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin's
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only "condemn" Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification.
  151. What Is the Difference Between Kosovo & Donbass?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014. A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces function as a front-line proxy of US foreign policy, public support for war might be reduced and military budgets called into greater question.
    As recent coverage demonstrates, one way of resolving this issue is by not mentioning the inconvenient matter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis altogether.
  152. Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
  153. Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
    Street, Paul

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
  154. Where's the Evidence?
    The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
  155. Why the Western Media Pushes for War on Russia
    Operation Get Putin

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Author discusses the reasons why the western 'mainstream' media have sharply increased their campaign against Russia and President Putin.
  156. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
    The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
  157. Year One of the Russian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1972
    The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the 'Commune-State' of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge's basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.

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