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A challenge to the left
New Realism, New Barbarism: Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization By Boris Kagarlitsky ... socialist project following the shocks of the period 1989-91". Boris Kagarlitsky will be well known to ... Tony Blair. It is also a direct challenge to modern reformism — which, Kagarlitsky argues and ...
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Socialism and the left in Russia today
BORIS KAGARLITSKY is a former deputy in the Moscow City Soviet, a leading member of Russian Party ... 1980s, he was jailed for 13 months for publishing an underground socialist journal. Kagarlitsky was ... REYNOLDS asked Kagarlitsky to discuss the challenges facing the re-emergent left in Russia today. The most ...
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Soviet Coup: "Yeltsin knew"
Interview by Boris Kagarlitsky VLADIMIR KONDRATOV is a Socialist Party deputy to the Moscow City ... in the coup. In this interview for һƷ̽»¨ Weekly by BORIS KAGARLITSKY, Kondratov advances ... compelling arguments indicating that Russian President Boris Yeltsin had prior knowledge of the August 19 ...
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US socialists to attend Easter conference
Marxist writer and political commentator, Boris Kagarlitsky; and representatives of the Portuguese Left ...
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The left in the New World Order
(under the current and previous regimes) Boris Kagarlitsky joins in the debate. He criticises those in ... writes Kagarlitsky. These serious reforms, according to Kagarlitsky, involve trying to unite the ...
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'Democracy' Yeltsin style
Soviet voted to support Koryagina's right to run", recounted Boris Kagarlitsky, a Socialist ... might well find it called "democracy" — to judge by the response of Boris Yeltsin's ... didn't respond." Yeltsin placed the threshold for ballot status so high, Kagarlitsky argued, because ...
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Postmodern socialism?
Nunez and Boris Kagarlitsky Pluto Press, London and Chicago, 1997, £12.99. Review by Paul Clarke It ... introduction, Boris Kagarlitsky doesn't agree with the book's main arguments. Indeed, the only chapter ... Italian workers. Russian experience So far, so bad. Boris Kagarlitsky has to be exempted, through, because ...
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'A mayor, not a dictator!'
rumoured to consider prison a vindication; Boris Kagarlitsky, the brilliant radical writer who served 13 ... administrative arbitrariness and the abuse of power." Boris Kagarlitsky voiced what must have been the ... their careers and their liberty on the line for democratic rights at a time when Boris Yeltsin was the ...
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Soviet coup fails; power to the people?
leftist Boris Kagarlitsky, hold harsher opinions. He argues that Gorbachev was never anything more than ... Gorbachev? If Kagarlitsky has a low opinion of Gorbachev, his view of Boris Yeltsin is no better: ... important shifts in the political situation. Initially, the advantage has shifted to Boris Yeltsin in his ...
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Sydney: youth are the majority
Friday night public meeting at Glebe Town Hall addressed by Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky, which ... was attended by more than 200 people. In his presentation, Kagarlitsky outlined the grim picture of ...
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60 speakers for Brisbane gathering
Carpio from the United Workers of the Philippines and Boris Kagarlitsky from the Russian Party of Labour. ... the Philippines. Kagarlitsky, a contributing editor to Links magazine, will deliver the Links Lecture ...
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Russia: new government no threat to neo-liberalism
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — On the morning of March 23, no-one in Moscow was expecting anything ... special to happen. But at 11 o'clock, radio and television reported that President Boris Yeltsin, ... whom vice-premier Boris Nemtsov had brought from Nizhny Novgorod a few months earlier, would form the ...
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Why the army wouldn't fight
are illegal. According to Socialist Party of the USSR leader Boris Kagarlitsky, officers are well ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
GLW #565 in which Boris Kagarlitsky discusses the Future of the Left conference held by Russian ... Kagarlitsky and GLW hold out hopes of "transforming" the Communist Party of the Russian Federation ... (KPRF) and of involving it in some new left coalition. This is an odd charge, since Kagarlitsky in his ...
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Socialists expand
House". Other articles are by the well-known socialist writers Boris Kagarlitsky and Anatoly Baranov. In ... the Socialist Party. These are to include such people as Andrei Kolganov, Boris Slavin and Vladimir ...
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RUSSIA: Congresses and a funeral
Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow The Communist Party's leaders have always been prone to optimism. ... is no need to worry: It will find new, much more capable, heirs. [Boris Kagarlitsky is director of ...
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RUSSIA: Communism, anti-Semitism and the Kremlin
Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow Nineteen State Duma deputies have petitioned the prosecutor-general to ... system altogether. [Boris Kagarlitsky is the director of the Institute for Globalization Studies.] From ...
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Chechnya: Yeltsin fulfils his promise
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Voters in Russia who doubted the integrity of President Boris ...
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New journal links the international left
revolutionary left; Boris Kagarlitsky from Russia; Matt McCarten from the NZ NewLabour Party; Carl Bloice, Peter ... World. Boris Kagarlitsky, an activist in the Russian Party of Labour, provides a scathing account of the ... Western world, nor a banana republic", Kagarlitsky says. "[A]ny attempt to force Russia into the ...
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Unpromising start to Yeltsin's second term
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — The dramatic worsening of President Boris Yeltsin's health has ...
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Yeltsin swings left to dodge electoral crash
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — In the parliamentary elections in December, six months before the ... President Boris Yeltsin declared publicly that a quick "manoeuvre" in social and economic policy ...
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Russian parliament threatened with dissolution
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — When Russian voters in December 1995 gave Communists and other ... President Boris Yeltsin were re-elected in mid-1996 we would be faced with early parliamentary elections. ...
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Problems in the Moscow princedom
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — In December, Moscow will elect its city duma. In essence, these will ... be the first real elections for the representative power in the Russian capital since President Boris ...
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Yeltsin forever
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Early in September, the main theme of political forecasts in Russia ... was the supposedly imminent resignation of President Boris Yeltsin. Anyone with even the slightest ...
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Yeltsin and the mausoleum
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Why should Yeltsin want to bury Lenin? Rhetoric aside, this question ... embalmed and on public display in a mausoleum on Red Square. Now Russian President Boris Yeltsin wants the ...