Writing in Solidaritet, the Danish left media outlet, Mikael Hertoft takes issue with the claim that a Ukraine Russia ceasefire agreement was almost reached at Istanbul in spring 2022, debunks the Boris Johnson sabotage myth circulated by Russian propaganda, and argues that it is Russia's negotiating demands — not Western intransigence — that prevent a settlement. He defends military support for Ukraine and insists that a just, durable peace requires security guarantees for Ukraine, not (…)

In contemporary Central and East European cities, speculative development and surveillance infrastructure are erasing the interstices; the abandoned quarries, overgrown stairways and neglected cemeteries that once made urban life both bearable and surprising. New developer districts produce marble-paved spaces that simulate public life while excluding its possibility: surveilled, owned, optimised, incapable of being appropriated. Against this background, the question of what urban (…)

The massive demonstrations of popular solidarity following the earthquakes that shook the country on June 24 have once again shown us that no hardship can destroy the moral and spiritual foundation that defines us as a nation. We have responded to the destructive and deadly seismic energy with the restorative energy of humanity. With the same unyielding spirit that our Liberator Simón Bolívar displayed in the face of the earthquake of March 26, 1812, we will overcome this painful situation, (…)