Ukranian New Left

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The left in ukrane as across much of the pos soviet world, is rather small and marginal. The reason why yo octosadtatt thesutles left was generally marginal, it really depends on colbys the left. And there is a tendency to see the left in very narrow torms,. It's been that way since it first emerged during paristryca. Qe, over all, the new government's policies have not broken with the trap of dependent development of a capitalist periphery. Sooner or later, the search for a radically alternative project of national development will be back on the agenda yet., he says.

An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko. Read Volodymyr's work: truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-are-far-from-unified-on-nato-let-them-decide-for-themselves/ ponarseurasia.org/how-maidan-revolutions-reproduce-and-intensify-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-political-representation/ lefteast.org/ukraine-in-the-vicious-circle-of-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-hegemony/ lefteast.org/contradictions-post-soviet-ukraine-failure-ukraine-new-left/ Tony Wood on Russia: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig