Sketches from Sochi: Harassment of left delegates by Russian officials continues

A series of reports from Sochi, Russia, by organizers and participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students, reflecting on the interference of Russian capitalist authorities in the festival. October 19, 2017 Alexander Batov, (Revolutionary Communist Youth League-RKSMb, Rot Front), member of the Festival organizing committee: Bulletin: About an hour ago the entire […]

Sketches from Sochi: Aleida Guevara speaks at panel on Che in Africa

A series of reports from Sochi, Russia, by organizers and participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students. October 18, 2017 Dr. Aleida Guevara of socialist Cuba at XIX World Festival of Youth and Students. The daughter of the great Che Guevara, Dr. Aleida Guevara, met with participants of the World Festival of Youth […]

A caged dove: What is happening at the World Youth Festival in Sochi?

By Nikita Popov, Daily Storm On Sunday, October 15, the anti-imperialist festival of left-wing youth was opened by two speeches — from the president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Nikolas Papadimitriou, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Previously, “Storm” reported that initially the format of the opening was planned differently. Papadimitriou’s speech was not […]

Sketches from Sochi: Protest hits Palestinian exclusion from youth festival

A series of reports from Sochi, Russia, by organizers and participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students, reflecting on the interference of Russian capitalist authorities in the festival. October 17, 2017 Russian Komsomol (RKSM): Today, representatives of the delegations of Arab countries held a protest action at the entrance to the media […]

Sketches from Sochi: Parade of leftist delegations

A series of reports from Sochi, Russia, by organizers and participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students. October 16, 2017 Delegation of the United Communist Party from St. Petersburg: The delegation of the St. Petersburg branch of the United Communist Party (OKP), participating in the World Festival of Youth and Students in […]

Appeal by Russian communist youth: No to privatization of the World Festival of Youth and Students

No to privatization of the festival! We publish the appeal of representatives of the regional organizations of the Russian Communist Youth League (RKSM) and other leftist activists of Russia in connection with the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi. The appeal is open for signatures; you can join it and subscribe to […]

Sketches from Sochi: How Russian authorities vulgarize World Festival of Youth and Students

A series of reports from Sochi, Russia, by organizers and participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students. October 15, 2017 Darya Mitina (United Communist Party-OKP, Russian Communist Youth League-RKSM), member of the Festival organizing committee: The first people we saw when we left the train in Adler were young, wretched Italian communists, […]

Donetsk Komsomol condemns detention of Ukrainian youth festival delegates

Today, October 13, 2017, at the checkpoint “Goptovka” on the Ukrainian-Russian border, the State Border Service of Ukraine detained a delegation of the Komsomol of Ukraine headed by First Secretary of the Leninist Komsomol of Ukraine (LKSMU) Central Committee Mikhail Kononovich. Komsomol members are traveling to the city of Sochi to participate in the XIX […]

‘Unity is our strength’: Donbass solidarity at New York anti-war protest

By Greg Butterfield, coordinator Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine / IAC Talk given at the Rally Against War and Racism in New York City, October 7, 2017. While Trump rattles his white supremacist saber at several countries … While the Democrats and establishment media try to convince us that Russia is responsible for […]

Bakhmutka burning: Special report from the land in which ‘there is no war’

Documentary film by News Front military correspondent Nikita Vozmitel August 23, 2017 People who care about the fate of Donbass often ask the question: why is there no war in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR)? Why do they [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] attack the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), while Lugansk lives in silence? We want […]