Left Review Online July 10, 2025
Editor's Note: The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Sunday to Monday, resulting in a joint declaration signed by member countries. Entitled "Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance," the document seals the group's commitment to strengthening multilateralism, defending international...more
The growing BRICS group gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 17th BRICS Summit on Sunday, and signed a joint declaration encompassing 126 commitments covering global governance, finance, health, artificial intelligence, climate change, and other strategic areas. The document sealed the group's commitment to strengthening multilateralism, defending...more
More than ten years ago I wrote a book. It was a book about daily life of an ordinary family in a socialist society. I was born and grew up in the USSR and emigrated at the time of the destruction of our socialist country. Having lived for...more
The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many...more
SAFEGUARD HUMANKIND AGAINST FASCISM The document adopted at the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Minsk April 22, 2023 Minsk, Republic of Belarus, Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War We, the participants in the International Anti-Fascist Forum from the countries of Asia, America and Europe, have gathered...more
Today, as the military operation in Ukraine goes on, it is becoming increasingly evident that the ideological basis of the present Ukrainian government is extreme nationalism, or rather, overt Neo-Nazism. It is the continuation of the pro-Fascist Bandera movement which took the side of Hitler’s Germany during its...more
As the Ukraine conflict goes on, the US has escalated its censorship of speech. Among those censored is Chris Hedges (Hedges), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a former host for RT America. Coincidentally, he left the New York Times 17 years ago due to his vocal opposition to...more
There is a war in Ukraine. Outwardly, it looks like an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All political forces, including Left, have spoken out about these events. The range of assessments: from humanistic-emotional (“people are dying, stop the war”) to purely class (“The West is pushing two...more
Russia has strong capacity and resilience to withstand US and EU sanctions, as its economy - which has been buffering the impact of sanctions for years - is not outward-looking, and it has been diversifying its energy exports from Europe, a process that won't encounter difficulties amid global...more
The Ukraine crisis sees new change as Russia has decided to recognize two regions in eastern Ukraine as "independent and sovereign states," and the UN Security Council has met on the issue, with China calling on all parties to continue dialogue and consultations and seek reasonable solutions. The...more
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed two decrees recognizing "the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR)" and "the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)" as independent and sovereign states. Ukraine decided to recall its charge d'affairs in Russia and will reconsider its diplomatic relations with Russia. The sudden change in the...more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has "gladly accepted the invitation" to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the two countries are in close communication on Putin's trip, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Tuesday. Putin's acceptance of the invitation will further...more
Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry has denounced the US blockade against Cuba as an example of human rights violations committed by Washington, the website of this ministry posted on Saturday. According to its report, the US keeps on seriously violating human rights both in the country and abroad,...more
Editor's Note: Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, is paying a visit to Russia from Monday to Thursday to hold the 16th round...more
As the recent expulsions of Russian diplomats from the US, Poland, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic demonstrate, this measure is becoming a standard international practice of the West. For the Biden administration, a new manifestation of the "Russia's threat" is an additional tool to discipline its European allies...more