Inside Die Linke

Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer , Sean Larson — 2025-06-07T18:59:36Z

After geopolitical upheaval and a snap election in February brought a new coalition to power, the political situation in Germany is rapidly changing. Even as the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the rise, Germany's left-wing party, Die Linke surged in the most recent election to over double its prior size. What are the implications?

- Features / Germany, New parties of the left

Contradictions of the Ruling Class ?in Ukraine: inter-imperialist competition and internal social upheavals

Sean Larson — 2014-07-30T10:11:25Z

Ukrainian capitalism today is distinguished by the most fortified oligarchy of the post-Soviet states. Politics in Ukraine have been subject to volatile lurches over the last decade, driven by the direct involvement of masses of Ukrainians. Meanwhile, shaping the economic, political, and ideological aspects of society and daily life in Ukraine is a ubiquitous inter-imperialist competition between Russia on the one side and the United States and the European Union on the other. Indeed, the accumulation of capital in this country is constantly conditioned and threatened both by these imperialisms and internal social upheavals. The actions and positions of the ruling class have been and will continue to be staked out upon the terrain delineated by their contradictions.

- IV474 - July 2014 / Ukraine

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Inside Die Linke

Contradictions of the Ruling Class ?in Ukraine: inter-imperialist competition and internal social upheavals