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War of drones or war of nerves

Catherine Samary — 2025-09-25T16:07:00Z

Russian president Vladimir Putin is increasing incursions and threats while intensifying his attacks on Ukraine. The use of “low-cost” drones, marked by rapid innovations, has its origins in Ukrainian popular resistance. It is now also a central part of the Russian war economy.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Russia, Ukraine

Putin's new weapon

Catherine Samary — 2024-12-07T20:07:19Z

On Thursday 21 November, Russian president Vladimir Putin ‘unveiled' a new weapon in his arsenal by ordering the launch of the hypersonic ‘Oreshnik' (hazelnut) intermediate-range missile. Was this a successful ‘test' or a demonstration of the impasse in his ‘special military operation'?

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine, North Korea

“Progressing by Grassroot Networks”

Catherine Samary — 2024-11-25T16:49:58Z

How does the left in France confront the global "right-wing" turn? Can leftist organizations supporting Ukraine develop a common strategy? Researcher and longtime activist Catherine Samary discusses the role of the left in today's French politics for Posle Media.

- IV598 - November 2024 / France

Ukraine under Russian occupation

Catherine Samary — 2024-09-28T06:43:55Z

Since the fall of President Yanukovych in 2014, all Russian interventions in Ukraine - from the annexation of Crimea and the hybrid war in the Donbass to the February 2022 invasion - have been presented by Putin as responses to an ‘anti-Russian, NATO-backed fascist coup'. A part of the international left has embraced this narrative, unlike the small Ukrainian left in the making.

- IV596-September 2024 / Russia, Ukraine

The Ukrainian left is building on several fronts

Catherine Samary — 2024-09-27T21:11:49Z

“The aim here is to shed light on the specific profile of this young left, based on its activist practice at the heart of Ukrainian society and breaking with the dominant contradictory interpretations of the ‘Euro-Maidan' (2013-2014) that divide the left and are exploited by Putin.”

- Features / Ukraine

Resistance Work” of Women Workers

Catherine Samary — 2024-07-26T13:43:25Z

Daria Saburova has written a fascinating three-month wartime field study of the Ukrainian mining town of Krivih Rih (which happens to be the home town of president Zelensky). It focuses on the voluntary “resistance work” of working-class women in this town. (For now, “Resistance Work” of Women Workers. The Ukrainian working classes in the face of war is in French only.)
This is a “situated” investigation: it breaks with the “geo-political” approaches that dominate a section of the left (…)

- Reviews section / Women, Ukraine, Reviews

Arguments for a “left agenda” faced with the war in Ukraine

Catherine Samary — 2024-02-23T22:48:00Z

“What anti-capitalist alternative, what vision of another Europe and another (ecosocialist) world can the left claim to offer if it accepts the Russian invasion and does not help popular resistance?“

- IV589 - February 2024 / Ukraine

Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left

Catherine Samary — 2022-12-22T18:38:43Z

This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.

- 2022 - Ukraine / Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Debate section, Ukraine debate

Sotsialnyi Rukh in conference

Catherine Samary, Collective — 2022-10-04T06:25:13Z

“All four of us were very convinced of the importance of this conference—as a step in building a left, social and political organisation/movement so essential for Ukraine's future.”

- IV573 - October 2022 / New parties of the left, Ukraine

Comments on the “Feminist Manifesto Against War”

Catherine Samary — 2022-03-25T18:01:04Z

Catherine Samary explains why she did not sign the Feminist Manifesto Against War.

- 2022 - Ukraine / Women, Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements, Ukraine debate