Russia
International Worker / Issue 02 Saturday 1 Jan 2005
The Ukraine: Crisis of the mafias and the fight among the imperialist powersThe convulsive process of restoration of capitalism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe found a new manifestation in the huge political crisis that Ukraine has just experienced. Two pro-restoration gangs From the internal point of view, the crisis has its basis in the mafioso distribution of State property which was carried out by the administrations which followed one another following the country's Declaration of Indep… Read more
International Worker / Issue 03 Tuesday 2 Aug 2005
Russia: the transition to capitalism, in crisisT he apparent stabilization of the restorationist regime in Russia under Putin and the wide spread legend about the “popularity” of its President have received an all powerful blow by the Russian popular masses themselves in a first major social confrontation, early in 2005. Symbolically it occurred in the 100 th anniversary of “Blood Sunday”, the beginning of the first Russian revolution in January 1905. Three hundred thousands … Read more