BORIS KAGARLITSKY
and the challenges
of the left today

October 8, 2024 online conference
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE


Ever defiant in the face of repression and a five-year jail term, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia’s best-known socialist thinker, has just published his latest book, The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left.

This special online conference in Kagarlitsky’s honour addressed the double aspect of his contribution: his wide-ranging analysis of the left’s dilemmas
in the face of multiple global crises and the advance of the far right;
and his resistance — together with other persecuted anti-war activists in the Russian Federation — to the authoritarianism of the regime of Vladimir Putin.
SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS
  • Andrea Levy
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    Coordinating editor of Canadian Dimension
  • Alina Chetaeva
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    Master of Political Science, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
  • Nancy Fraser
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    American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, professor of philosophy at the New School in New York City. Fraser is widely known for her critique of identity politics and her work on the concept of justice.
  • David Castle
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    Editorial Director, Pluto Press
  • Alex Callinicos
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    Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London; editor of International Socialism 2009-20.; columnist for Socialist Worker (London). Books include The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983), Making History (1987), Against Postmodernism (1989), Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009), Deciphering Capital (2014), and The New Age of Catastrophe (2023). Editor, with Stathis Kouvelakis and Lucia Pradella),The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (2021).
  • Bill Fletcher Jr
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    Former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects.
  • Jayati Ghosh
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    Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (US) since January 2021. Her latest book is The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India.
  • Alexei Sakhnin
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    Journalist, historian and left activist
  • Greg Yudin
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    Russian philosopher, theorist of democracy. Research Fellow at Princeton University.
  • Ilya Budraitskis
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    Moscow-based historian and political writer. He is current member of editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine, Openleft.ru and LeftEast.
  • Speaker from Feminist Anti-War Resistance
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    Group of Russian feminists founded in February 2022 to protest against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • Suzi Weissman
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    Award-winning broadcast journalist Suzi Weissman is an editor of Against the Current and Critique.
  • Ksenia Kagarlitskaia
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    Daughter of Boris Kagarlitsky, organizer of the international festival in support of political prisoners "Freedom Zone".
  • Robert Brenner
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    American economic historian. He is a professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and editorial committee member of New Left Review.
  • Adam Novak
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    Coordinator of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine
  • Hanna Perekhoda
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    Member of solidaritéS in Vaud Canton, Switzerland, and a PhD candidate in Political Science (University of Lausanne).
  • Ilya Matveev
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    Political scientist formerly based in St Petersburg, Russia. Currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
  • Fiona Dove
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    Executive Director, Transnational Institute
  • Patrick Bond
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    Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, where he directs the Centre for Social Change.
  • Pavel Kudyukin
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    Co-chair of the University Solidarity Trade Union, a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia, and was the Deputy Minister of Labour of Russia (1991-1993)
  • Anna Ochkina
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    Russian sociologist, is Associate Professor and head of the Department of the Methodology of Science, Social Theories and Technologies at the Penza State University (Russia). She is Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Research and Social Movements (IGSO) and deputy editor of the journal Levaya politika (Left Politics).
  • Trevor Ngwane
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    South African socialist, anti-apartheid activist, author and teacher at the University of Johannesburg.
  • Dmitri Glinski
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    President, Russian-speaking Community Council/American Russian-speaking Association for Civil and Human Rights
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