Against the Russian invasion of Ukraine!

Solidarity with the Ukrainian struggle!



Some historical background -

about Ukraine and about Russia


Support the working people of Ukraine against Russian intervention, Western austerity, & local oligarchs:

  • The looming economic crisis
  • From the "Orange Revolution" to Euromaidan
  • The central government in Kyiv
  • Antimaidan
  • Russian imperialism
  • The annexation of Crimea
  • Russia and the far right
  • The secessionist movement in East Ukraine
  • Program of the secessionists
  • Western imperialism
  • Solidarity with Ukrainian working people!
    by Joseph Green, (CV issue #49, vol. 20, #1, August 1, 2014)



The struggle against fascism in World War 2 and the Russian war of choice on Ukraine today: on Victory Day.  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, May 9, 2022)


The lessons of World War II and the fake anti-fascism of the present Russian government: (DWV email list, May 10, 2015)


The Russian government and the French KKK: Putin backs Marine Le Pen and the neo-fascist National Front of France (DWV email list, December 12, 2014)


About Putin's war against the Chechen people and their right to self-determination:
* Vladimir Putin's two wars: against both Chechnya and Russian workers, by Joseph Green (39K)
* Russian activists denounce the war, excerpts from two leaflets by the Chelovechnost group in Moscow (10K)
Reviews by Joseph Green of 3 books about the Russo-Chechen wars:
* Introducing the reviews: The Chechen wars through the Western bourgeois prism (14K)
* Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal) is a journalistic account that wishes the national question would go away. The review contrasts the revolutionary Leninist stand to the national question with its betrayal by the Stalinist state-capitalist regime, as well as dealing with current Russian policy towards Chechnya. (35K)
* Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict (John Dunlop) is an example of Cold War-style scholarship as it is still being written although we are now in the era of free-market Russia. This review deals with the Soviet period as well as the 1990s. (23K)
* Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (Anatol Lieven) is Anatol Lieven's apology for Russian imperialism. (73K)
(Issue #24, vol. 6, #2, June 14, 2000)

Chechnya: Not another war for oil! Articles against the Russian invasion of Chechnya
* Down with the Russian war against the Chechen people by Joseph Green (52K)
* Historical origins of the Chechen revolt: important dates in Russian-Chechen relations, by Joseph Green (54K) This chronology includes tsarism, the Soviet period (the revolutionary period as well as the period of Stalin's rule and of Stalin's successors), and the free-market period of the 90s.
* Chechnya must have the right to self-determination! (CV leaflet of 23 October 1999, 6K)
(Issue #23, vol. 6, #1, February 4, 2000)

For more on Russia see the section Russia today; USSR yesterday


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