Russia

Boris Kagarlitsky

Anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky delivered this recorded message to the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, United States.

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Russian leftist and anti-war political prisoners are calling on politicians and the media around the world to work towards the release of political prisoners in Russia, reports Federico Fuentes.

Imagine a world where women were property, traded like livestock, silenced by veils and worked to death by the age of 30. Mary Merkenich looks at the context in which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution launched history’s most radical experiment for women’s emancipation. 

Boris Kagarlitsky Russia protest

Russian anti-war socialist and political prisoner, Boris Kagarlitsky, sent the following article from the penal colony in Torzhok, Russia, where he is serving a five-year sentence for “justification of terrorism”. It has been translated by Dmitry Pozhidaev.

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In the second part of our interview, Russian higher education trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov about the crackdown on universities and the campaign to free leftist academics and others jailed for their political views.

Pavel Kudyukin

Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov spoke to Kudyukin about the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia.

Boris Kagarlitsky

Supporters of imprisoned Russian sociologist, author and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky released the following message, recorded from his prison cell, reports Susan Price.

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An international alliance to defend academic freedom was launched at a global online conference held to honour the work of jailed Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky, reports Federico Fuentes.

Free Boris Kagarlitsky

A stellar roster of left publications are sponsoring the October 8 online conference in solidarity with jailed Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky, reports Kerry Smith.

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In the second part of our interview, Russian socialist and political economist Ilya Matveev sat down with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes to discuss how Putin’s Russia transformed from friend to foe of Western imperialism.

Ilya Yashin

Ilya Yashin is a Russian opposition politician who was released from prison on August 1 in the prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. Yashin spoke to Ara journalist Cristina Mas on September 30, where this interview was first published in Catalan.

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Russian socialist and political economist Ilya Matveev sat down with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes to discuss imperialism’s “two logics” and how they help us better understand the world today.