The left in Russia (English texts)

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‘Even silence is viewed as dissent’: An interview with Russian trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin

 Pavel KudyukinFederico Fuentes & Serhii Shlyapnikov

16/03/2025
links.org.au
Russian left statements: ‘The Putin-Trump “peace talks” will bring nothing but new imperialist wars’

Russian Socialists for Peace Without Annexations & Posle Editorial Collective

26/02/2025
links.org.au
Ukraine: A People's Peace, not an Imperial Peace

Collective

04/06/2024
To Not Die as Slaves: Solidarity Zone’s Mission to Aid Russia’s Radical Anti-War Protesters

Ivan Astashin, hecksinductionhour, Alexander Leonidovich, Translated by Thomas Campbell. Thanks to Simon Pirani for the heads-up.

02/06/2024
therussianreader.com
Socialism outlawed?

Posle-Editorial

01/05/2024
posle.media
Russia: Moscow terror attack met with repression, racism

Federico Fuentes

27/03/2024
www.greenleft.org.au
Azat Miftakhov: the end of the court and the birthday

avtonom.org Editorial

16/03/2024
www.facebook.com
Russia: For a Just World/Just Peace Manifesto

Справедливый мир campaign

15/03/2024
links.org.au
Russian socialist Mikhail Lobanov: ‘We are sure that at this “election”, millions will cast a protest vote’

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

15/03/2024
links.org.au
Russian leftists are planning to disrupt Putin’s fake presidential election this weekend

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

15/03/2024
www.greenleft.org.au
A Russian socialist explains why Putin killed Alexei Navalny and jailed Boris Kagarlitsky

Kirill Medvedev Federico Fuentes

27/02/2024
www.greenleft.org.au
Manifesto for Sustainable Peace

Collective

24/02/2024
platforma.international
Russia: Navalny and Us

Grusha Gilayeva

21/02/2024
posle.media
Russian General Consul Vladimir Sosnov is personally insisting on the deportation of the rock band "Bi-2" from Phuket, Thailand, in coordination with Moscow.

Sota News

27/01/2024
twitter.com
Inquiry: Anarchists and the War in Ukraine

Ondřej Slačálek, Grzegorz Piotrowski, and Miroslav Tomek

17/01/2024
kontradikce.flu.cas.cz
‘My prisons and the future of Russia’

Yurii Colombo, Boris Kagarlitsky

05/01/2024
naufraghi.ch
Ekaterina Duntsova and Russian electoral dictatorship. A Thread

Ilya Matveev

24/12/2023
threadreaderapp.com
Putin is illegitimate

Declaration Russian Democratic Forces, Collective

21/12/2023
www.change.org
Thaw in Russia?

Russian Socialist Movement

13/12/2023
Russian Socialist Movement Telegram channel
Help Aikhal Ammosov

Russian Socialist Movement

23/11/2023
www.facebook.com
Anarchist Lev Skoryakin kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan

Autonomous Action (Автономное Действие)

20/10/2023
avtonom.org
Vladimir Putin’s Russia Claims to Be Fighting Nazism, but It’s Persecuting Anti-Fascists

DAN STORYEV

26/09/2023
jacobin.com
I, Vitalyi, Ukrainian socialist activist deported to Russia

Patrick Le Tréhondat Vitaliy

20/09/2023
Patrick Le Tréhondat
'Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky': Activists Globally Extend Support to Jailed Russian Intellectual

K.M. Seethi

16/09/2023
thewire.in
Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens “Authoritarian Forces” Around the World

Hanna Perekhoda Ilya Budraitskis Nermeen Shaikh

07/09/2023
www.democracynow.org
Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination

Hanna Perekhoda Ilya Budraitskis Ashley Smith

07/09/2023
www.thenation.com
In Russia, the mathematician Azat Miftakhov released then immediately targets new charges

Benoît Vitkine

06/09/2023
caseazatmiftakhov.org
FAR statement at the Aachen Peace Prize ceremony

Feminist Anti-War Resistance

01/09/2023
teletype.in
“If we want to understand the far right in the 21st century, we have to look at Russia”

Radar Internacional Ilya Budraitskis

20/08/2023
www.esquerda.net
Interview with Mikhail Lobanov: “Soon the moment will come when we will change everything”.

September.media Mikhail Lobanov

07/08/2023
lefteast.org
The Persecution of Azat Miftakhov Is Designed to Silence Russia’s Left

Kirill Medvedev

02/08/2023
jacobin.com
Russia: I’m a Ukrainian leftist. This is why I support Boris Kagarlitsky

Andriy Movchan

01/08/2023
www.opendemocracy.net
‘Nobody in Russia believes that he or she can influence any events’

Greg Yudin Julika Luisa Enbergs

01/08/2023
www.ips-journal.eu
Russia: Why is it important to express solidarity with Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Socialist Movement

31/07/2023
www.facebook.com
Aleksandr Cherkasov: The defeat of the Putin regime is necessary for Russia itself

Danila Galperovich Aleksandr Cherkasov

31/07/2023
www.rightsinrussia.org
"A simple choice"  Andriy Movtxan

Andriy Movchan

30/07/2023
www.facebook.com
Statement by Russian Socialists Against War

Russian Socialists Against War

29/07/2023
t.me
Why (and how) to campaign for the liberation of Boris Kagarlitsky

Vincent Présumey

28/07/2023
RSD: We are calling for an international campaign to support Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Socialist Movement (RSD)

28/07/2023
Russia: Kagarlitsky and Girkin

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

26/07/2023
threadreaderapp.com
Criminal case initiated against Russian leftist Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Socialist Movement

26/07/2023
Desertion and political protest

Konstantin Pakhalyuk

22/07/2023
posle.media
Leftist Activist, Kremlin Critic Flees Russia After University Firing

The Moscow Times

10/07/2023
www.themoscowtimes.com
'Weapons of the Weak': Why Does the Russian Opposition Need a Feminist Lens?

Alexandra Talaver

06/07/2023
www.themoscowtimes.com
Russian Progressives and Antiwar Forces May Find Opening in Wake of Failed Coup

Ashley Smith Ilya Budraitskis

02/07/2023
truthout.org
Time to Leave the Shadows: #NoToWar Statement On the Prigozhin Coup

Left East

24/06/2023
lefteast.org
Russian Anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny

Collective

24/06/2023
crimethinc.com
Free Russian internationalist Igor Kuznetsov!

Sacha Ismail

21/06/2023
www.workersliberty.org
Russian prisoner of Conscience : Igor Kuznetsov

Andrij Zdorov

17/06/2023
“What did each of us do to stop this nightmare?”

Igor Paskar

08/06/2023
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
Russian ‘left’ split over Ukraine war

Ilya Budraitkis

06/06/2023
mondediplo.com
From fights with Nazis to a split due to the war. The story of antifa in Russia

Yana Sakhipova

29/05/2023
avtonom.org
Boris Kagarlitsky (Russia): A plea to my Western progressive friends — Stop helping Putin with your conciliatory and ambiguous statements

Boris Kagarlitsky

24/05/2023
links.org.au
DOXA: Russians against dictatorship, inequalities and unjustice

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

24/05/2023
www.crossbordertalks.eu
Ultra left-wing Russian activist who fought on the side of Ukraine killed in Bakhmut

Veniamin Volin

20/05/2023
novayagazeta.eu
It is wrong to say Russians don’t protest

Dan Storyev

19/05/2023
What Russian Socialists Did On The Anniversary Of The Invasion?

The Russian Socialist Movement (RSD)

01/03/2023
anticapitalistresistance.org
Happy birthday, Kirill Butylin

Simon Pirani

27/02/2023
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
Full-scale freedom to Ukraine: A statement from Russian anti-war activists and their allies on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Collective

26/02/2023
links.org.au
Webinar with Ukrainian, Russian, Indian and US socialists. “Russia out”!

Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)

25/02/2023
Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

Andriy Movchan

21/02/2023
www.counterpunch.org
We Say: War on War!

Russian Socialist Movement (immigrant section)

15/02/2023
www.europe-solidaire.org
We Say: War on War! Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists”

Anonymous

15/02/2023
Russia: Muted anti-fascism in the shadow of the invasion

Volodya Vagner

02/02/2023
flamman.se
Dark Night – Against Anarcho-Putinism

Theanarchistlibrary.org

02/02/2023
www.anarchistfederation.net
Russia: ‘I sacrificed myself to the regime, but I am not a terrorist’

Solidarity Zone

31/01/2023
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
It is always darkest before the dawn: how Russian anarchists today struggle for revolution

Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (BOAK)

25/01/2023
lefteast.org
Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

Ashley Smith Ivan Ovsyannikov

22/01/2023
www.tempestmag.org
Remember the Russians Who Fought Against Putin’s War

Ilya Budraitskis

22/01/2023
jacobin.com
Russian Socialist Movement: War and resistance under Putin

Kirill Medvedev Federico Fuentes

20/01/2023
www.greenleft.org.au
You’re Not Invited to Our Molotov Cocktail Party

Vesna Movement Ivan Astashin Armen Aramyan George Losev

19/01/2023
therussianreader.com
Russia: the time for protest has gone, it’s time for resistance

Armen Aramyan

17/01/2023
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
Russia: What Mobilization Has Done to the Sverdlovsk Region

Alexei Rozhkov

16/01/2023
therussianreader.com
Russia: Mikhail Lobanov: Why Police Raided My Home

Mikhail Lobanov

09/01/2023
therussianreader.com
Call for solidarity actions with anti-war activists in Russia

Russian Socialist Movement (RSD)

04/01/2023
Russian society after nine months of war: from indifference to resistance [video]

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Felix Levin

29/11/2022
www.crossbordertalks.eu
“In Russia, we are experiencing shame, voicelessness, and the collapse of all the values”

Ilya Budraitskis Dmitry Vilensky

16/10/2022
posle.media
Strategies of anti-war movements in Russia

Masha Ivasenko

06/10/2022
cultures-of-remembrance.com
On words that do not save lives

Nikita Kadan

03/10/2022
arterritory.com
War and resistance in Putin’s Russia

Ilya Budraitskis Ashley Smith

29/09/2022
www.tempestmag.org
‘I won’t go and kill my brothers!’: Russians set fire to draft centres

Olya Romashova

29/09/2022
www.opendemocracy.net
Russia: List of national anti-war initiatives

FAS

29/09/2022
Russia: Editorial (Posle) Not a single soldier for Putin's criminal war!

Posle

22/09/2022
posle.media
Russia: “Putin Doesn’t Know Any War Except Class War”

Posle Mikhail Lobanov Aleksandra Zapolski

02/09/2022
posle.media
“Don’t exaggerate the influence of Russian propaganda” Ukrainian socialist Taras Bilous serves in the military - and right from there he fights the stereotypes of the Western left about Ukraine (and Russia). We spoke to him

Taras Bilous

24/08/2022
meduza.io
Russia: The Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization

CrimethInc. Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization

22/08/2022
crimethinc.com
Russia: Being an Antifa: On Anti-Fascist Activism and Its Fate

Posle

07/08/2022
posle.media
Why? Because!”: how an Russian anti-war exhibition was turned into a pro-war event

FAS

20/07/2022
Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Putin’s war on Ukraine is not about security, it is about imperialist interests’

Ilya Matveev Federico Fuentes

17/07/2022
links.org.au
Russia intimidates indigenous activists at UN meeting

FAS

11/07/2022
Russian feminists in solidarity

FAS

07/07/2022
This train is on fire: how Russian partisans set fire to military registration and enlistment offices and derail trains

Alisa Zemlyanskaya

06/07/2022
theins.ru
'Russia needs to be defeated': Russian socialists in exile say Putin has to be defeated in Ukraine

Charles R. Davis

28/06/2022
news.yahoo.com
Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin’s War

Ashley Smith

23/06/2022
spectrejournal.com
Russia: Students against the War. Part One

Posle All-Russia Initiative PhysTech Against War Viatka Whispers Groza Media Tyumen State University Initiative Group

14/06/2022
posle.media
The Fractured Russian Opposition

Naomi Cohen Ilya Budraitskis

08/06/2022
www.dissentmagazine.org
Interview with the Russian Socialist Movement: The Revolutionary Left in Russia on the Resistance behind Putin's Front

RSD João Woyzeck

02/06/2022
Opposition current in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Activists

03/03/2022
Russian White Guards in the Donbass

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

29/06/2014
internationalviewpoint.org
Russia: “Stop the War” Means “Death to the Dictatorship”

Russian Socialist Movement