News and Analysis: Former Soviet bloc

Not one step back!

70th anniversary of the people’s victory at Stalingrad

February 5, 2013

On Feb. 2, the people of the former Soviet Union—now dismantled by capitalist counter-revolution—celebrated the 70th anniversary of the victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Pussy Riot and the NGO “human rights” hypocrites

Manipulating the unjust sentence to further Western imperialist agenda

August 24, 2012

One cannot discuss the unjust Pussy Riot verdict without looking at the case in the greater global context.

International workers' solidarity is not a crime

Remembering the Rosenbergs

March 29, 2011

March 29 2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Read this article previously published in 2008 by Liberation.

Re-open investigation of secret CIA prisons in Lithuania!

In brief

February 3, 2011

Human rights groups are urging the Lithuanian government to reopen a criminal investigation into secret prisons run by the CIA, which was closed in mid-January due to a “lack of evidence.”

Thousands protest government in Albania

In brief

January 28, 2011

Over 20,000 anti-government protesters clashed with police Jan. 21 in the Albanian capital of Tirana. The protest left at least three people dead from police bullets, at least 130 protesters injured and 15 police vehicles destroyed.

IMF austerity measures spur anti-worker laws in Hungary

In brief

November 4, 2010

The Hungarian Constitutional Court has struck down as unconstitutional a proposed bill that would cap severance pay to all public-sector workers. The proposed legislation would have taxed all severance income over 2 million forints ($10,190) at 98 percent; this would have been applied retroactively from Jan.

Sixty-one percent of Romanians want communism

In brief

October 24, 2010

The Romanian market research company CSOP and the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exiles conducted a poll in recent months that discovered that 61 percent of Romanians consider communism to be a good idea at present.

Romania's health care system near collapse

In brief

September 1, 2010

A complete lack of basic medical supplies and trained staff in Romanian hospitals point to dire problems in the country's health care system.

French racist expulsion of Roma people

Government seeks to divert attention from weak economy and cuts in social services

August 29, 2010

France recently expelled nearly 100 Roma people back to their native Romania, claiming to be fighting trafficking, exploitation of children and prostitution—racist arguments to detract from the real motives.

Kyrgyzstan: The national question and imperialism

The reality behind the ethnic conflict

June 21, 2010

The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has been the scene of a bloody conflict since June 10. Estimates of the casualties vary widely, with the country's interim president estimating up to 2,000 deaths.

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