Posts Tagged as ‘neoliberalism’

April 11, 2009

The Events in Moldova: Questions and Answers

The hot topic of discussion on our e-mail platform in recent days has been the bewildering events in Moldova after the recent disputed parliamentary elections there. Comrade V., a member of the Rezistenţa Populară group in Chişinău, kindly agreed to answer some of our questions.
1. What are the concrete contradictions between the pro-Voronin [...]

April 8, 2009

Rezistenţa Populară: On the Events in Moldova

A Communiqué from the Rezistenţa Populară Political Movement on the Situation in Moldova after the Parliamentary Elections of April 5, 2009
According to the official results of the parliamentary elections that took place on April 5, 2009, the ruling party in Moldova, the pseudo-communist PСRM (Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova), received 49.9% of [...]

April 24, 2008

Kirill Medvedev: Literature Will Be Scrutinised

Kirill Medvedev
“Literature Will Be Scrutinised”: The Individual Project and the New Emotionalism
In distant Soviet times, I found Bertolt Brecht’s statement that “for art, not being a party member means belonging to the ruling party” the height of absurdity. Nowadays, this line has a different ring to it. It sounds okay. In any case, it [...]

April 1, 2008

“We Are Westernizers Who Struggle Against the Local Westernizers”

The publication of our special issue BASTA! has generated a lot of interest in Russian leftist and liberal circles. Hard on the heels of the issue’s presentation, in late February, the Russian politics web portal Polit.Ru interviewed two Chto Delat co-founders, Dmitry Vilensky and Artemy Magun. They discussed the newspaper’s history, the current conjuncture in [...]