For the Russian working class, however, the election meant something entirely different. It marked the decisive consolidation of the capitalist counter-revolution that had begun with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In Moscow, the so-called new international socialist network, Sovintern, has been launched under the leadership of the Russian capital's own “left patriots.”
The initiative is presented with grand rhetoric about socialism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonial struggle, and international solidarity. Yet behind the red symbols, a different reality emerges: not proletarian internationalism, but bourgeois campism.
Various bourgeois media outlets in our country did not conceal their satisfaction, tinged with a dose of irony, at the recent provocative statement by Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who declared from the floor of the Russian parliament that a new 1917 —that is, a new revolution— must be avoided.
“If urgent financial and economic measures are not taken, by autumn we will face a repeat of what happened in 1917, We don't have the right to repeat that” (!!!). Zyuganov stated, raising the specter of revolutionary upheaval.
According to official figures, 78.52 percent of participants backed the initiative. Data released by the Public Chamber indicates that around 13,500 people took part in the discussions, with about 10,600 voting in favor, as reported by the Telegram-based outlet 7×7.
The talks are being framed as part of a broader effort to consolidate political cohesion and ensure institutional stability under current conditions, with contacts between senior figures of both parties said to have intensified in recent weeks.
At a time when the US and Israel have set in motion the “reshaping” of the Middle East, resorting to violent (military) means and causing the deaths of thousands of civilians in Iran, Lebanon, and other countries in the region;
The developments surrounding Greenland should not be treated as a diplomatic anomaly or as the product of individual political choices.
They are a concentrated expression of the contemporary phase of imperialism, in which the sharpening competition among capitalist powers drags strategic regions and smaller peoples into conflicts not of their own making.
The Central Military Court of the Yekaterinburg District in Russia has concluded the trial of five members of a Marxist study group from the city of Ufa. The defendants had been officially designated as “terrorists” and “extremists” even before the trial began and were placed on the registry of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring).
In its appeal on the occasion of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the party emphasized, among other things:
Across the left, there are currents — from communist parties to broader progressive forces — that elevate China and Russia as the “anti-imperialist” counterweight to U.S. hegemony. Within the ideological framework of so-called multipolarity, these states are portrayed as the alternative power bloc that will restrain imperialism and give oppressed nations breathing space.
Yet Palestine exposes this myth. As Gaza burns, Moscow and Beijing issue statements while preserving trade, diplomacy, and investment with Netanyahu Government. Their actions reveal not liberation, but complicity.
It is a continuing source of frustration that an important segment of the left holds the view that weakening the United States’ long-established grip on the top rungs of the hierarchical system of imperialism is– in itself– an attack on imperialism.
Many of our friends, including those who claim to aim at a socialist future, mistakenly see an erosion in the US position as the imperialist system’s hegemon as necessarily a step guaranteeing a just future, lasting peace, or a step towards socialism.
Recently, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of People's Republic of China's victory against Japan, the EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas proceeded to a new provocative statement. During a speech, she said: “Russia turned to China and said: 'Russia and China fought in World War II, we won World War II, we defeated Nazism' and I thought: 'Okay, that's something new'. If you know history, it raises a lot of questions. Nowadays, people don't read much and don't remember history. It's clear that they buy these narratives”.