Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

First published at Posle. In early August, the otherwise listless campaign for the State Duma began to attract some public attention. The reason was the registration of the Yabloko party’s candidate list and the controversy that followed. Yabloko, the only openly antiwar party in Russia, is entering the campaign organizationally weakened to the point of near-collapse.

[Editor’s note: Marty Hart-Landsberg will be speaking at Ecosocialism 2026, September 11-13, Magan-djin/Brisbane, Australia. For more information on the conference visit ecosocialism.org.au.] First published at Monthly Review. Silicon Valley tech billionaires hold fanciful ideas.

First published at The Next Recession. As the central bankers of the world met at Jackson Hole, Wyoming for their annual get together to discuss issues affecting the world financial sector and monetary policy, US statistics for corporate profits for the second quarter of 2026 were released. The figures were truly startling. US corporate profits surged by $401 billion in the second quarter of 2026 (see graph above on US corporate profits % yoy).

First published at Radio Zamaneh. The war in Gaza, and then the spread of fighting to Lebanon and Iran, has once again turned an old disagreement on the left into an urgent question. Is a political force’s relationship with the United States and Israel enough to define what it is? If an organisation fights Israel, should we call it progressive or anti-imperialist?

First published at People and Nature. What, really, have socialists learned from the Russian war on Ukraine? Has it changed our understanding of the way that imperialism works? Tell us we were right all along? Reflecting on the first four years since the invasion, Oleksandr Kyselov, a Ukrainian socialist based in Sweden, wrote in February that Ukrainians found themselves “trying to safeguard our future free from foreign dictates, and simultaneously sacrificing any chances to actually have one”.

First published at Tidningen Global. The Daily Jeddojehad (Struggle) website, jeddojehad.com, was banned in Pakistan on August 4. Launched in 2019, Jeddojehad was Pakistan’s first and only socialist (online) daily, posting reports in Urdu, Pashto and Persian. While there was no official notification or explanation, the ban has been imposed owing to Jeddojehad’s coverage of Pakistani-administered Jammu Kashmir (PaJK).

Romain Castellesi is an associate professor of contemporary history at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO), whose research focuses on the social and labour history of deindustrialisation in France and the Western world.

[Editor’s note: Filipino socialist activist Khyl Ramos, from the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Party of the Labouring Masses), will be speaking at Ecosocialism 2026, September 11-13, Magan-djin/Brisbane, Australia. For more information visit ecosocialism.org.au.] Nepal and the Philippines share a fundamental climate condition: both are low greenhouse-gas emitters yet highly exposed to climate risks and suffer from climate disasters created by the rich countries of the Global North.

Among analytical resources covering contemporary Russia, Re:Russia occupies a distinctive and important place. At a time when much commentary on Russia oscillates between ideological certainty and emotional reaction, Re:Russia has consistently provided substantive analysis grounded in data, historical context and serious engagement with political and economic developments.

First published at Against The Current. In 2018, Russian democratic socialist Mikhail Lobanov won a seat in Russia’s parliament, soundly defeating one of Putin’s most well-funded candidates in an upheaval reminiscent of some of the recent democratic socialist wins in U.S. races.