Far-right Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has claimed that his refusal to help Ukraine is a “pro-peace position.” Yet Hungary is also the only EU state that openly backs an Israeli attack on Rafah — showing the hypocrisy of Orbán’s supposed pacifism.
The former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn explains why we should support antiwar activists in Russia against Vladimir Putin — and use our pressure to force a peaceful resolution in Ukraine.
As Vladimir Putin prosecutes his brutal war in Ukraine, Western governments and tech companies have apparently decided the best way to fight Putin is to join him — engaging in censorship and propagandizing reminiscent of the autocrat’s own repressive actions.
Anti-Russian boycotts in the West are hitting even outspoken opponents of Vladmir Putin’s war. Collective punishment is deeply unfair — and only hardens Putin’s grip over Russians.
The bipartisan urgency to spend billions of dollars on weapons for Ukraine and a military buildup in Europe stands in stark contrast to Congress's frugality when it comes to social spending.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed the new reality of great-power conflict, underwritten by nuclear weapons. Our task is to reject aligning with one of the great powers and to instead push for across-the-board nuclear disarmament.
Anti-communist campaigns in Eastern Europe aren’t about building a more democratic society — they’re about rehabilitating the far right.
The “populist” ruling party and the “liberal” opposition aren’t the only choices in Poland’s election this Sunday. Polling in third place, the Lewica coalition offers a left-wing alternative that could prove decisive in forming the next government.
In Georgia, rival bills on “foreign agents” sparked mutual accusations of US and Russian interference. With all politics turned into jockeying over the country’s geopolitical position, discussion of its bleak economic record is quietly suppressed.
Thousands of Russians have been arrested for opposing Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. A socialist detained by police during a protest in Saint Petersburg writes about her arrest and the antiwar movement’s defiance in the face of state repression.
If Vladimir Putin thought domestic support for his war on Ukraine would be universal, he seems to have miscalculated. From teachers and lawyers to artists, journalists, and the clergy, Russians have taken immense risks to speak out against the war.
Over the past week, PayPal canceled without explanation the accounts of two prominent independent news outlets. It escaped notice by the mainstream press, which spent the weekend congratulating itself over the freedom to criticize the powerful.
Russian liberals often claim Vladimir Putin has his base in the “vatniki,” the uneducated lower classes. But his rise didn’t owe to the “brainless masses” — it’s the result of the social Darwinism that gripped Russia in its shock transition to capitalism.
Rampant militarism in the wake of 9/11 did not tolerate dissent. A similar jingoistic fervor today insists that criticism of Western foreign policy and calls for diplomacy are tantamount to treason.
Despite Canada withdrawing funding from UNRWA, the country’s doctors have not criticized Israel’s actions strongly. As health care workers, they have a moral responsibility to defend the right to health care — they should do so now.
Germany is blocking billions of euros in investment domestically and across the EU because of the country’s commitment to low budget deficits. This “fiscal discipline” is undermining economic growth and decarbonization goals across the continent.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was one of the loudest cheerleaders for the war in Iraq. His condemnation of Putin’s “war of choice” in Ukraine — a horrific act of aggression, like Bush’s war — could be a word-for-word rebuke of what he wrote then.
We live in an era of major mass protest in nearly every single region in the world. Yet social revolutions as we knew them in the twentieth century are nowhere to be found. Why?
During the Cold War, Yugoslav socialist Tito tried to chart a course apart from the Soviets. But his actions enraged Stalin — putting Tito on the unlikely path of seeking Western support and revealing the difficulties of nonalignment amid great power politics.
With threats of sanctions and military aid, US saber-rattling over Ukraine is escalating an already tense confrontation with Russia. It's a dangerous game that the United States should stop playing.