Is Russia imperialist?

Today, capitalist Russia’s GDP is smaller than that of South Korea or India. Russia’s economy is almost neocolonial, dependent on the exchange of raw materials such as oil and ores. This is the [...]

This piece is from the archive of the website A Socialist In Canada and was originally published in 2016. It is a long read at 8,000 words but the NCW editorial team consider it to be essential [...]

By Roger Annis, April 2, 2018. Annis reflects on the prospects for renewal of Marxist and socialist thought and argues that it requires requires a rethink of the past 100 years and some [...]

Responding to Bernie’s Promotion of the New Cold War By Caitlin Johnstone, Feb 1, 2018 In this op-ed, Originally published in Consortium News, Caitlin Johnstone responds to Bernie Sanders’ [...]

Published research paper by Aleksandr Buzgalin, Andrey Kolganov and Olga Barashkova, translated to English June 2016, 56 pages. Published in English on the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov [...]

By Renfrey Clarke and Roger Annis, published on Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, February 29, 2016 The following lengthy essay (8,200 words) expands on this earlier essay: [...]

By Renfrey Clarke and Roger Annis, February 7, 2016 Political phrasing on the left and on the right labels contemporary Russia an “imperialist” country. Is this accurate? Does having [...]

By Roger Annis, June 18, 2014, first published on Truthout The violent coming to power of a rightist regime in Kyiv, Ukraine in late February 2014 has opened an exceptionally dangerous political [...]