In several districts, local councilors practically took on the role of city councilors while current deputies either hid from their voters or openly stood with the Moscow city government, as in the case of the planned property development at the enormous Bitsa park.
The Grassroots Insurgency in Moscow City Politics Read More »
For less conformist members of the Soviet intelligentsia, endless condemnations of racism were essential parts of the state ideology they so despised.
On the Peculiar Racism of Soviet Émigrés Read More »
They are forcing us to be criminals in order to survive. They have cut off forms of subsistence and legal access to reproduction so drastically that it is no longer possible to survive without falling into illegality.
The New “Outlaw” Proletariat Read More »
The responsibility of the institutions that You represent is to protect the citizens, according to conscience and the law. If such postulates of a society do not exist, then we ask – why do institutions exist?
Meanwhile in Montenegro Read More »
Are we involved enough yet? Are we making this our very own problem? We share a bit of the responsibility for their deaths, and those of thousands of others like them.
By the Side of the Road Read More »
“He was singled out as the only self-immolator who was driven by his ‘own moral consciousness,’ rather than, say, desperation or economic hardship.”
CINEMA UTOPIA: Flame Read More »
Teachers and students speak of organizing horizontally together against draconian state control measures in schools.
It Might Be Spring in Macedonia Read More »
The religious-conservative ideological imposition that women should behave according to their purpose of creation is the discourse that perpetuates violence against women.
Fighting the Violent Patriarchy in Turkey Read More »
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field.
The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop Read More »
The anniversary of World War One should be a time of deep reflection for the left. How was it possible that the vast majority of the socialist parties in Europe could drop their avowed internationalism and fall in behind the imperialist war adventures of their countries’ elites?
The Normality of War Read More »
