‘No war but class war!’ How a group of communists in Novosibirsk has leveraged Soviet nostalgia to speak out publicly against the invasion of Ukraine

‘No war but class war!’ How a group of communists in Novosibirsk has leveraged Soviet nostalgia to speak out publicly against the invasion of Ukraine

For the past three years, the Russian authorities have worked to purge the country’s political arena of anyone who opposes the full-scale war against Ukraine. Nonetheless, a small but determined group of leftist activists in Novosibirsk continues to speak out against the invasion and the system that enabled it. Breaking with Russia’s mainstream communist parties, which have largely sided with the Kremlin, these activists organize street protests…