The following text is based on a lecture delivered in Arabic on 22 January 2016, at the symposium on “Five Years Since the Arab Revolutions: The Difficulties and Consequences of Democratic Transition”, held at the American University of Beirut and convened by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. The Arabic text was first published in the now-defunct Marxist journal Bidayat, n° 16, 2017. Undoubtedly, the (…)

Bohdan Krawchenko, vétéran de la gauche ukrainienne de la diaspora, retrace dans cet entretien avec Spilne (Commons) la généalogie de la gauche anti-stalinienne ukrainienne, des camps de personnes déplacées d'après-guerre jusqu'à la gauche ukrainienne d'aujourd'hui. Co-fondateur du journal marxiste Critique et de la revue Dii͡aloh, il a consacré quinze ans à bâtir les institutions d'administration publique de l'Ukraine indépendante. Il avance que la tradition sociale ukrainienne est (…)

Marc Bonhomme argues that Ukraine has become the decisive front of the global struggle against imperialism. He traces how the decline of US hegemony and the rise of plural imperialism have created a fluid world order in which Russia's militarist attempt to recolonise Ukraine stands out as the clearest test case. Dismissing both campist anti-Americanism and flat-footed pacifism on the left, Bonhomme insists that genuine anti-imperialism today requires unconditional solidarity with the (…)