Category: Ukraine-Russia conflict

  • Middle East crisis: sleepwalking into the abyss

    Middle East crisis: sleepwalking into the abyss

    “When the leaders speak of peace, the common people know that war is coming.” (Bertolt Brecht) It was a fragment of conversation that one might overhear by pure coincidence, and then have thought nothing more of it. It occurred one morning when we were strolling along a picturesque beach in a Spanish resort in Santander. The…

  • The Ukrainian war: an internationalist class position – IMT Statement

    The Ukrainian war: an internationalist class position – IMT Statement

    The first casualty of war is truth. This is also the case of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Marxists need to be able to cut through the fog of lies and war propaganda and analyse the real reasons behind the conflict; what has caused it; and the real interests that lie behind the excuses…