Geopolitics

This new page offers progressive perspectives on the wider geopolitical implications of the resurgence of Russian imperialism. Lower down on this page is a selection of articles on issues specifically relating to the NATO alliance and western imperialism.

Eastern Europe’s Tragedy

Taras Bilous

Ukrainian 'de-oligarchization and de-corruptionization'

Events in Ukraine

EU: The Weaponization Of Food

John Feffer

Cinque mesi di guerra: insuccessi, successi e punti di domanda

Andrea Ferrario

PIERRE ROUSSET: Οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και η Ευρασία. Ορισμένες σκέψεις γεωπολιτικής σημασίας σε μια εποχή παγκόσμιας κρίσης,

Pierre Rousset

Ευρασία & ΗΠΑ: γεωπολιτική εν μέσω κρίσης

Pierre Rousset

Exacerbating the Contradictions: the impact of the Russian invasion on the Middle East and North Africa

Joseph Daher

War and Resistance Report No. 7

Marko Bojcun

Ucrânia: uma negação de autonomia em nome da geopolítica e/ou da paz

Gilbert Achcar

Norway left party Rødt MP: ‘We need to stop the war and bring Putin to justice’

Duroyan Fertl Tobias Lund

Ukraine’s Geopolitical Precarity

John-Paul Himka

The Wagnerverse: Pop culture and the heroization of Russian mercenaries

Marlene Laruelle Kelian Sanz Pascual

Le conflit russo-ukrainien divise la gauche anti-guerre

Fabien Escalona

NATO: de mal a pior

Gilbert Achcar

Ukraine candidate à l’UE : « Si le pays est partiellement occupé par la Russie, envisager l’adhésion sera impossible »

Daniel Tanuro Olivier Costa

Inside the Ukrainian Resistance

Alona Liasheva Denys Pilash

La OTAN, de mal en peor

Gilbert Achcar

Westasien und Russlands Krieg in der Ukraine

Harald Etzbach

Sur la nouvelle donne géopolitique à l’heure de la guerre en Ukraine

Pierre Rousset

Over de nieuwe geopolitieke deal ten tijde van de oorlog in Oekraïne

Pierre Rousset

Pierre Rousset: A nova ordem geopolítica em tempo de guerra na Ucrânia

Pierre Rousset

Sanctions against Russia: Here is Everything you Need to Know

Ilya Matveev

Санкции против России: все, что нужно знать

Илья Матвеев

Rovnaké otázky

Karmina.sk

The greatest source of misinformation on Ukraine

Theo Horesh

The American Pundits Who Can’t Resist “Westsplaining” Ukraine

Jan Smoleński Jan Dutkiewicz

No messing around with nation states

Karmina.sk

Ces entreprises françaises en Russie qui cherchent à maintenir leurs profits malgré les massacres

COMBES Maxime

The following section presents a discussion on the role of the NATO alliance from a military and strategic perspective.

Eastern Europe’s Tragedy

Taras Bilous

Soy un socialista ucraniano: he aquí por qué lucho contra la invasión rusa

Taras Bilous

Pierre Rousset

Ευρασία & ΗΠΑ: γεωπολιτική εν μέσω κρίσης

Pierre Rousset

Harald Etzbach

Harald Etzbach

Russian anti-war socialist: ‘Putin cannot tolerate an independent Ukraine’

Federico Fuentes, Ilya Matveev

NATO expansion in the East

Hanna Perekhoda

Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Putin’s war on Ukraine is not about security, it is about imperialist interests’

Ilya Matveev Federico Fuentes

Oorlog in Oekraïne geeft vredesbeweging geen nieuw elan

Frank Olbrechts

War and Resistance Report No. 7

Marko Bojcun

Ucrânia: uma negação de autonomia em nome da geopolítica e/ou da paz

Gilbert Achcar

Norway left party Rødt MP: ‘We need to stop the war and bring Putin to justice’

Duroyan Fertl Tobias Lund

L’urgence ukrainienne

Vincent Présumey

No a la OTAN, sí ¿a qué?

Santiago Alba Rico

Le conflit russo-ukrainien divise la gauche anti-guerre

Fabien Escalona

NATO: de mal a pior

Gilbert Achcar

Inside the Ukrainian Resistance

Alona Liasheva Denys Pilash

La OTAN, de mal en peor

Gilbert Achcar

Ukraine : un déni d’autonomie au nom de la géopolitique et/ou de la paix

Gilbert Achcar

Guerra in Ucraina, quale futuro per la memoria europea?

Francesco Brusa

Suwerenna, prospołeczna i wolna od długu. Taka ma być Ukraina

Paulina Januszewska

Pierre Rousset: A nova ordem geopolítica em tempo de guerra na Ucrânia

Pierre Rousset

Right To Weapons. How Can Leftists Support Ukraine?

Zakhar Popovych

For Czechs, War in Ukraine Feels Near Their Doorstep

Ondřej Bělíček

The greatest source of misinformation on Ukraine

Theo Horesh

INTERVIU. Cercetător ucrainean la Oxford, despre momentul în care Rusia s-a decis să acționeze: „Cu Trump, Occidentul părea în descompunere”

Volodimir Artiukh Vasile Ernu

The attitude of the western left towards the involvement of NATO and western imperialism is discussed below, and covered in more detail on our page The western left and Russian imperialism.

Eastern Europe’s Tragedy

Taras Bilous

Ukraine: Censorship and self-censorship in time of war

Matt Salusbury

Soy un socialista ucraniano: he aquí por qué lucho contra la invasión rusa

Taras Bilous

A lógica política do imperialismo russo

Ukrainian Feminist: We Need Western Solidarity in Fighting Russian Imperialism

Amy Goodman Oksana Dutchak Nermeen Shaikh

“Ons Hoofddoel Is Nu Deze Oorlog Te Winnen”

Viktoriia Pigul

"Den Betroffenen zuhören"

Moritz Krawinkel Radwa Khaled-Ibrahim Oksana Dutchak

Τσέχοι αντιφασίστες: Μήνυμα από τη σκιά της Κεντρικής και Ανατολικής Ευρώπης

Czech Antifascists

Bad Russia, but the West is to blame. The Polish left did not get into it

Dariusz Kałan

Zła Rosja, ale winny Zachód. Polska lewica w to nie weszła

Dariusz Kałan

10 Terríveis Argumentos de Esquerda contra a Resistência Ucraniana

Oksana Dutchak

10 terribili asserzioni della sinistra contro la resistenza ucraina

Oksana Dutchak

Ukraine, the feminist struggle does not stop with war

Viktoriia Pihul

Krieg Und Widerstand In Der Ukraine - Linke Perspektiven Und Fragen Der Solidarität

Daria Saburova

Harald Etzbach

Harald Etzbach

Ucraina, la lotta femminista non si ferma con la guerra

Francesco Brusa, Piero Maestri, Elisabetta Michielin

NATO expansion in the East

Hanna Perekhoda

Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Putin’s war on Ukraine is not about security, it is about imperialist interests’

Ilya Matveev Federico Fuentes

Le DSA doit changer de cap, s'opposer à la conquête russe et soutenir le droit de l'Ukraine à résister !

Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign et Réseau européen de solidarité avec l'Ukraine (RESU)

DSA must change course, oppose Russian conquest, and support Ukraine’s right to resist!

Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign and European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine

Putin’s Captives

Andrei Kolesnikov

Zrazující levice

Slavoj Žižek

Oorlog in Oekraïne geeft vredesbeweging geen nieuw elan

Frank Olbrechts

The hidden claims of some western left about the war in Ukraine

Oksana Dutchak

Ucrânia: uma negação de autonomia em nome da geopolítica e/ou da paz

Gilbert Achcar

Volodimir Artiuh: Rusia nu vrea să cucerească Ucraina ca pe o colonie pentru a o exploata. Pentru Rusia e un război de poziție – să cucerească Ucraina ca pe un post pentru o luptă imperialistă mai lungă…

Vasile Ernu Volodimir Artiuh

Украинские феминистки глазами Запада

Элиза Морос

Ποιους βλάπτει η αντίσταση του ουκρανικού λαού;

Sissy Vouvou

«Η ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια δεν αρκεί» Συνέντευξη του Τάρας Μπίλους για τη στάση της Δυτικής Αριστεράς

Τάρας Μπίλους

Ποιους βλάπτει η αντίσταση του ουκρανικού λαού;

Σίσσυς Βωβού

Ίλια Μπουντράιτσκις: «Στην προπαγάνδα του Κρεμλίνου “ναζί” χαρακτηρίζεται όποιος αντιτίθεται στη Ρωσία»

Θοδωρής Αντωνόπουλος

L’urgence ukrainienne

Vincent Présumey

Qu'est-ce qui fait que les poutinistes et les poutinisants perpétuent les traditions les plus abjectes de la gauche internationale ?

Yorgos Mitralias

USA: Diplomacy instead of resistance? Chomsky loses his bearings on Ukraine

Dick Nichols

'Russia needs to be defeated': Russian socialists in exile say Putin has to be defeated in Ukraine

Charles R. Davis

No a la OTAN, sí ¿a qué?

Santiago Alba Rico

Le conflit russo-ukrainien divise la gauche anti-guerre

Fabien Escalona

Why is Ukrainian resistance invisible to you?

Simon Pirani

Inside the Ukrainian Resistance

Alona Liasheva Denys Pilash

Σπάζοντας διαδεδομένους μύθους γύρω από την εισβολή

Yavor Tarinsky

La OTAN, de mal en peor

Gilbert Achcar

«Лише гуманітарної допомоги не достатньо» — інтерв'ю з Тарасом Білоусом

Білоус Тарас Георгієв Іво

Slavoj Žižek: Každý levičák musí bezpodmínečně podpořit Ukrajinu

Slavoj Žižek

Ukraine : un déni d’autonomie au nom de la géopolitique et/ou de la paix

Gilbert Achcar

Το βίντεο της εκδήλωσης: Αλληλεγγύη στην ουκρανική αντίσταση. Άμεση αποχώρηση όλων των ρώσικων στρατευμάτων από την Ουκρανία. Πάλη ενάντια σε όλους τους ιμπεριαλισμούς

LaLiberta.gr

Η άποψή μας: Αλληλεγγύη στην ουκρανική αντίσταση

LaLiberta.gr

Alfons Bech: «Nosaltres, el que volem és que guanyi el poble d’Ucraïna»

Bernardo Corrêa Alfons Bech

Guerra in Ucraina, quale futuro per la memoria europea?

Francesco Brusa

Un jeune camarade ukrainien nous éclaire : écoutons-le !

Vladyslav Starodubtsev Tom Harris

Que se passe-t-il dans la gauche italienne ?

Piero Maestri

Στρατηγικές παράμετροι της στήριξης στην ουκρανική αντίσταση

Daria Saburova

Support the Ukrainian people in their resistance against the war!

Tassos Anastassiadis

Entrevista a Ilya Budraitskis. "El derecho de autodeterminación es algo que la izquierda ha defendido siempre”

Dmitry Sidorov

Im Land der Besserwisser

Linn Vertein Paul Simon

Debate a partir de la Declaracion de solidaridad con Ucrania

Silvio Schachter

Suwerenna, prospołeczna i wolna od długu. Taka ma być Ukraina

Paulina Januszewska

Не бояться прослыть «национал-предателем»

Андрей Мовчан

Russia: Unafraid to Be Called a “National Traitor”

Andrei Movchan

Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!

Ashley Smith

Lewica o Ukrainie

Ekskursje W Dyskursie

Ukraine: making a war of liberation

Vladyslav Starodubtsev Tom Harris

Slavoj Žižek: Vi kan ikke lade Rusland bestemme, hvor de røde linjer går i Ukraine

Slavoj Žižek

O que estão a fazer os socialistas da Ucrânia

Denys Pilash Ruth Cashman

‘De flirt tussen “realisme” en onze moderne pacifisten zal dus altijd wat risqué blijven’

Alex Van Steenbergen

Our (mostly failed) predictions about this war

Volodia Artiukh

Las feministas ucranianas bajo la mirada de Occidente

Elisa Moros

Războiul din Ucraina și polarizarea din Bulgaria

Vladimir Mitev

Το DSA (ΗΠΑ) και ο ρωσικός πόλεμος κατά της Ουκρανίας: Παράλυση

Dan La Botz

Bylo by možné se vyhnout válce pomocí záruk, že Ukrajina nevstoupí do NATO?

Antonín Hořčica

Війна в Україні, міжнародна безпека та ліві

Taras Bilous

Che succede nella sinistra italiana?

Piero Maestri

CON LA RESISTENCIA DEL PUEBLO UCRANIANO. POR SU VICTORIA CONTRA LA AGRESIÓN

Collectivo

Η κατάκτηση της νοτιοανατολικής Ουκρανίας από τον Πούτιν: Ζοφερά ερωτήματα σχετικά με τις "διαπραγματεύσεις", στιγμές «αποκάλυψης» και τα αληθινά ιμπεριαλιστικά συμφέροντα.

Michael Karadjis

The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left

Taras Bilous

From Taiwan to Ukraine

Wen Liu Brian Hioe

Pierre Rousset: A nova ordem geopolítica em tempo de guerra na Ucrânia

Pierre Rousset

Putin’s conquest of southeast Ukraine: Vexed questions of ‘negotiations’, gotcha moments and real imperial interests

Michael Karadjis

Right To Weapons. How Can Leftists Support Ukraine?

Zakhar Popovych

Dopo una fase iniziale di russofobia (soprattutto istituzionale), a giudicare da quello che leggo su Facebook (e soprattutto a livello di gente comune, nei commenti alle varie testate), siamo nel pieno di una fase anti-Ucraina e anti-Zelensky.

Francesco Giulioli

Selvbestemmelse og krig i Ukraine: Derfor skal den europæiske venstrefløj støtte os!

Taras Bilous

Oekraïense Feministen Bekeken Door Een Westerse Bril

Elisa Moros

I falsi storici al tempo della guerra in Ucraina. I casi Canfora e D'Orsi

Luciano Capone

Les falsifications historiques au temps de la guerre en Ukraine. Les cas Canfora et D'Orsi

Luciano Capone

Autodeterminação e a Guerra na Ucrânia

Taras Bilous

Olivier Besancenot: "Sobre la guerra en Ucrania, en la izquierda opera una especie de parálisis política”

Olivier Besancenot Laurent Geslin Mathilde Goanec

Im Mahlwerk der Geopolitik

Jan Ole Arps, Sebastian Bähr, Nelli Tügel

A propos de l’appel du CCN de la CGT de ce 11 mai.

Arguments Pour La Lutte Sociale

Quindici tesi sull’attuale situazione internazionale

Ilario Salucci

Olivier Besancenot : « Une forme de paralysie politique travaille la gauche française sur la guerre en Ukraine »

Olivier Besancenot Laurent Geslin Mathilde Goanec

Συνέντευξη του Olivier Besancenot: Για την πολιτική παράλυση της αριστεράς στον πόλεμο στην Ουκρανία

Olivier Besancenot Laurent Geslin Mathilde Goanec

USA: When should we stop excusing the Russian invasion?

Bill Fletcher Jr. Bill Gallegos Jamala Rogers

Olivier Besancenot: “A form of political paralysis is affecting the French left over the war in Ukraine”

Olivier Besancenot Laurent Geslin Mathilde Goanec

Οι Ουκρανές φεμινίστριες κάτω από τα μάτια της Δύσης- Elisa Moros

Elisa Moros

Les féministes ukrainiennes sous les yeux de l'Occident

Elisa Moros

Ukrainian Feminists under Western Eyes

Elisa Moros

Frieden für uns, Besatzung für die Ukraine?

Christian Zeller

La Gauche Poutinisante, Ses Monstruosités Et La Question Nationale Ukrainienne

Yorgos Mitralias

The Putinist Left, its monstrosities and the Ukrainian national question

Yorgos Mitralias

Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine

Taras Bilous

The red-brown influencers now boosting the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

Dale Street

Moscova și Washingtonul nu trebuie să decidă asupra viitorului Ucrainei

Taras Bilous

El fracaso de un “antimperialismo unidireccional”

Pierre Dardot Christian Laval

Válka na Ukrajině a postoj zemí globálního Jihu

Taras Bilous

The greatest source of misinformation on Ukraine

Theo Horesh

"A esquerda não deve tolerar o imperialismo de Putin"

Vitaliy Dudin Frederico Fuentes

The American Pundits Who Can’t Resist “Westsplaining” Ukraine

Jan Smoleński Jan Dutkiewicz

¿Por qué la izquierda debe apoyar el derecho de Ucrania a defenderse?

Daria Saburova

Interview with the Russian Socialist Movement: The Revolutionary Left in Russia on the Resistance behind Putin's Front

RSD João Woyzeck

Qu'est ce que cette guerre étrange où on interdit à l’Ukraine que Poutine « soit humilié » ?

Yorgos Mitralias

« Campisme » et réaction impérialiste contemporaine

Vincent Présumey

Par-delà la ligne du front. À propos d'une déclaration commune des gauches russe et ukrainienne

SABUROVA Daria

« Non à l’OTAN » ou la crise identitaire de la gauche espagnole

Elisa Moros

Un mémorandum sur la position anti-impérialiste radicale concernant la guerre en Ukraine

Guerre contre l’Ukraine : quelle solidarité internationaliste ? Entretien avec Gilbert Achcar

Du bon usage du pacifisme de Jean Jaurès

Défaitisme révolutionnaire ou défaitisme contre-révolutionnaire ?

Débat. « Cohérence et incohérence au sujet de la guerre en Ukraine »

Open letter: Refusing to support Ukraine is grotesque

Christian Zeller

When Putin Refutes the “Theories” of His Western Leftist Fans!

Yorgos Mitralias

Meet the Sneakiest Defenders of Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Mathew Foresta

Evasions on the Left over Ukraine

Conor Kostick

NO to NATO, or the identity crisis of the Spanish left

Elisa Moros

The Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

Dale Street

Harsh Critique of Chomsky on Ukraine

HELLER Stanley

Offener Brief fordert von Scholz Stopp der Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine

Kollektiv

Ohne bewaffneten Widerstand ist der ukrainischen Lohnabhängigenklasse keine eigene Klassenposition möglich

João Woyzeck (BFS Zürich)

Offener Brief: Der Ukraine die Unterstützung zu verweigern, ist grotesk

Christian Zeller

OTAN no o la crisis de identidad de la izquierda española

Elisa Moros

El “Campismo” y mi posición sobre la guerra. Carta a amigxs y colegas brasileños a propósito de la invasión a Ucrania

François Chesnais

Negacionistas na guerra

Mário André Macedo

O “Campismo” e a minha posição sobre a guerra

François Chesnais

Immediate withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine. Stand up against all imperialisms

Elaliberta.gr

INTERVIU. Cercetător ucrainean la Oxford, despre momentul în care Rusia s-a decis să acționeze: „Cu Trump, Occidentul părea în descompunere”

Volodimir Artiukh Vasile Ernu