Mexico y America Latina en el Sur Global
Invited to UNAM in the winter of 2019, I arrived in Mexico on the same day as Evo Morales. Deposed and threatened with assassination in the Bolivian coup, he escaped to Mexico with the valiant [...]
Did Bolsonaro Win?
The election of a Brazilian president committed to a range of openly fascist policies sent shockwaves through the Western body politic. But did Brazilians actually endorsed this man and his [...]
Making the Crime Fit the Punishment – Internet censorship and the ‘Russiagate’ campaign
In 2018 the campaign to blame Russia for Trump’s victory was in full swing. It was not until 2022 that it was finally shown that the so-called ‘Steele Dossier’ on which the campaign was based, [...]
Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism.
This special issue of International Critical Thought, edited by Radhika Desai, myself and Boris Kagarlitsky, was devoted to the conflict in Ukraine, its origins, and its geopolitical [...]
Calgary Conference of the Humanities: the Structure of Modern Imperialism
This post contains the slides of my talk in the New Cold War (NCW) panel, for the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) stream at the 2016 Conference of the Humanities, on ‘Russia, Ukraine and [...]
Calgary Conference of the Humanities: GERG panels on Ukraine and Russia
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG), together with the editors of New Cold War (NCW), organised three panels for the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS). The first was on ‘Russia, [...]
Ukraine’s Far Right and the Rising Threat of Antisemitism
The United Jewish Federation (UJF), concerned at the rise of antisemitism, organised a joint meeting with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC), in Winnipeg’s Ukrainian Labour [...]
Maidan, the Odessa Massacre, and the Yalta Declaration
The overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych in the Maidan Square events of February 2014 unleashed a period of civil conflict which pitched Ukraine nationalists against the large Russian-speaking [...]