Greens MPs Larissa Waters, Max Chandler-Mather and Jenny Leong, as well as National Tertiary Education Union general secretary Damien Cahill and Geelong Trades Hall Council president Zeta Henderson, are among those calling for anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky’s release from a Russian prison. Federico Fuentes reports.
Family members and supporters of renowned Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky have initiated two fronts in their campaign to free the 65-year-old political prisoner, reports Federico Fuentes.
Russian labour and anti-war activist Mikhail Lobanov is part of a new left-wing initiative, called Just World/Just Peace, which is seeking to disrupt Russia's staged presidential elections on March 15‒17. He spoke to 鶹ý’s Federico Fuentes about the campaign.
Critical theorist, feminist and author Nancy Fraser continues her conversation with 鶹ý’s Federico Fuentes, focussing on the role of expropriation and transnationals in modern imperialism, and the challenges facing anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists.
Federico Fuentes spoke to Pakistani socialist Ammar Ali Jan of the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (People’s Rights Party) about the volatile situation facing the country after the recent elections. Ammar will speak at Ecosocialism 2024, in Boorloo/Perth, June 28–30.
A new phase in the battle for real solutions to the housing crisis has opened up with the Greens saying Labor’s “help-to-buy” housing scheme is only tinkering around the edges. Stuart Munckton and Federico Fuentes spoke with Greens housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather about the battle for real solutions to the housing crisis.
Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist Kirill Medvedev, of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD), spoke with 鶹ý’s Federico Fuentes regarding the significance of opposition leader Alexei Navalny death in prison and the recent jailing of anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky.
Amid Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared on February 18 that Israel was carrying out “a genocide”. This drew condemnation from Israel and its far-right allies in Brazil, but also support from the left, reports Federico Fuentes.
Ukrainian community members and supporters rallied across Australia to commemorate the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion and Ukraine’s ongoing resistance. Federico Fuentes, Alex Salmon and Anne McMenamin report.
Nancy Fraser is the author of, among other works, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet — and What We Can Do About It. She spoke with 鶹ý’s Federico Fuentes about the need to incorporate natural wealth and care work within our understanding of modern imperialism.
鶹ý’s Federico Fuentes interviewed Viktoriia Pihul, a council member of Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Social Movement, regarding the situation in Ukraine two years after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky has been sentenced to five years’ jail on appeal, a harsh sentence his supporters say is due to his opposition to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, writes Federico Fuentes.
