Produit en 2021 ou 2022 par le Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa–Pilipinas (RPM-P, Parti révolutionnaire des travailleurs des Philippines), ce document constitue l'un des textes clés dans l'articulation du cadre théorique du courant réjectionniste qui a rompu avec le Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PCP, Parti communiste des Philippines) maoïste en 1992-1993. Aux côtés des Counter Theses de Popoy Lagman et des écrits d'autres dirigeants réjectionnistes, il expose les positions qui (…)

Produced in 2021 or 2022 by the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa–Pilipinas (RPM-P, Revolutionary Workers' Party of the Philippines), this document stands as one of the key texts in the articulation of the theoretical framework of the rejectionist current which split from the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in 1992–93. Alongside Popoy Lagman's Counter Theses and the writings of other rejectionist leaders, it elaborates the positions that distinguish this current from (…)

Alexander Etkind's compact analytical essay on Russia and modernity — reviewed here by Yurii Colombo — argues that the Putin regime's project cannot be reduced to kleptocracy or Putin's personal pathology. Russia's fossil-fuel rent economy and nuclear inheritance have produced an overconfident, untested elite with material interests in defeating the climate transition and the digital economy that would render its wealth obsolete. The war against Ukraine is also.a war against a future in (…)

La Russie de Poutine a développé une catégorie particulière de personnages publics sans équivalent dans les démocraties concurrentielles : le troll médiatique — un provocateur auquel on accorde du temps d'antenne et des plateformes en ligne non pas malgré son excentricité et son style inflammatoire, mais précisément à cause d'eux. Evgueni Kazakov, qui écrit pour la publication indépendante russe en exil Posle (После, « Après »), analyse le fonctionnement de ces figures au sein du système (…)

Putin's Russia has developed a distinctive category of public figure with no real equivalent in competitive democracies: the media troll --- a provocateur granted television airtime and online platforms not despite, but because of, their eccentricity and inflammatory style. Evgeny Kazakov, writing for the Russian independent exile publication Posle, analyses how these figures function within the Putinist political system and what structural role they serve. The figures Kazakov examines (…)

The Battle of the Sutjeska (the Nazi “Operation Schwarz”) in June 1943 was the closest the Axis came to destroying the Yugoslav partisan main force, and its outcome marked a turning point in the war in Yugoslavia. By mid-1943 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had transformed a 5,000-member underground into a movement fielding four divisions, with political authority across liberated territories and two years of accumulated mountain warfare experience. The Germans had also adapted. (…)