As Russian President Vladimir Putin sends wave after wave of Russian conscripts against Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, they confront fierce resistance from Ukrainians determined to defeat the invasion. His regime also faces opposition at home to its war, protests from…
Moscow’s yearlong assault on Ukraine, the first major shooting war on European soil in more than 75 years, has caused deepening shocks to the “world order” put together by the U.S. ruling class after it emerged as top dog at…
Tens of thousands demonstrated in more than 100 cities around the world Feb. 24 opposing Moscow’s brutal war against Ukraine and marking one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. More than 10,000 people marched past the Brandenburg Gate in…
During the first year of the Russian rulers’ invasion of Ukraine the stark difference between the two countries’ armies has grown. The Ukrainian armed forces have fiercely resisted, strengthened by tens of thousands of volunteers, largely from the working class,…
Feb. 24 marks one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, expecting a rapid victory. Instead, he has run into battlefield reversals from Kyiv and Kharkiv to Kherson at the hands of working people in Ukraine…
My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Under V.I. Lenin, Trotsky was a central leader of the Russian Revolution, including as foreign minister of the young Soviet…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is launching a large-scale new assault in the east of Ukraine on the one-year anniversary of his regime’s invasion. Despite suffering multiple battlefield defeats at the hands of Ukraine’s military and its many working-class volunteer fighters,…
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, Feb. 15. A year ago on Feb. 24 Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine, expecting to rapidly conquer Kyiv, the capital, arrest and…
Russian occupation forces have stepped up arrests in Crimea over the last several months, especially targeting Crimean Tatars for “crimes” such as singing songs in Ukrainian at their weddings. The assaults are fueling resistance to Moscow’s rule and the decadeslong…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing forces in preparation for a deadly spring offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military, backed by volunteers, is preparing to repulse Moscow’s attacks and launch a counter-offensive. Putin claims his…
