Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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.

This review is being simultaneously published on LINKS and Communis.

First published at Against The Current. After her father, the Marxist philosopher and political activist Boris Kagarlitsky, was arrested and sentenced to five years in a Russian penal colony for making a political joke, Kseniia Kagarlitskaya founded the Russian political prisoner support organization, Freedom Zone.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, thousands of people have been arrested for protesting against the war. Many appear in court, facing years of imprisonment. What do they say to the judges? What would any of us say? This 50-minute film, in English, features some of those speeches. Try me for treason features excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov, read by John Graham Davies, Leila Mimmack, Gareth Brierley, Maya Willcocks and Nick Evans.