War
Imperialism: The epoch of wars and revolutions
Thu, 05/04/2007 - 12:19Vast technological changes took place in the last hundred years: from electrification and powered flight, via splitting the atom and space travel, to the internet and mapping the human genetic structure. These technological revolutions, and their application to production through the assembly line and computerisation, have shaped human life in every corner of the planet. Consequently the world’s population has increased with incredible rapidity. But under capitalism these triumphs of human skill, ingenuity and labour have never attained their full potential. Read more...
Niger Coup exposes Sahel’s acute crisis
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 406, September 2023 Fri, 15/09/2023 - 18:54On July 26, Niamey, capital of the West African state of Niger, saw the presidential guard arrest and depose President Mohamed Bazoum. Read more...
Sweden integrates into the NATO war alliance
Arbetarmakt - Swedish section, League for the Fifth International Tue, 01/08/2023 - 16:16Sweden joining NATO has formalised a long standing military and security reality: Swedish imperialism lining up behind Washington. Read more...
Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky!
League for the Fifth International Sat, 29/07/2023 - 15:07A year of war in Ukraine
Resolution of LFI-Congress, 24. June 2023 Fri, 21/07/2023 - 11:081. The outbreak of the war in Ukraine marks a decisive change in the world situation. Read more...
Sweden - part of the NATO war alliance
Arbetarmakt, Swedish section, League for the Fifth International Fri, 21/07/2023 - 10:56Sweden's admission to NATO formalises what has long been a military and security reality: Swedish imperialism is allying itself with Washington. Read more...
Tragedy and Farce: the Wagner coup
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1226, June 26, 2023 Thu, 06/07/2023 - 10:00Almost as quickly as the scare had begun, it was over. On June 23, the head and owner of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Prigozhin, announced a "March for Justice" on Moscow. Read more...
Ukraine: On the Way to an Endless War of Position?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 273, May 2023 Wed, 17/05/2023 - 10:56The war in Ukraine is taking on more and more of the terrible characteristics of the First World War. Read more...
The anti-war movement in Russia
Jaqueline Singh, Fight! Revolutionary Women's Newspaper 11, March 2023 Fri, 07/04/2023 - 10:29The Ukraine War and its Impact on Women
Jaqueline Singh, Fight! Revolutionary Women's Newspaper 11, March 2023 Tue, 04/04/2023 - 09:32For more than a year, the Ukraine war has dominated the headlines. Read more...
The first year of the Ukraine war
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 400, February 2023 Fri, 24/02/2023 - 10:59February 24 is the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War, when 190,000 Russian armed forces launched a massive attack on the country. Read more...
Israel: rising repression, rising resistance
Alex Rutherford and Marcel Rajeky, Workers Power 400 Wed, 15/02/2023 - 14:38ON 30 DECEMBER, the Israeli parliament voted into office a government headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more...
The different components of the war in Ukraine
Markus Lehner Neue Internationale 271, February 2023 Tue, 31/01/2023 - 11:18The war in Ukraine is certainly at a historical turning point. Read more...
Half a year of war: Putin's endgame?
Martin Suchanek Neue Internationale 268, Berlin, October 2022 Sun, 09/10/2022 - 16:21The Russian army's significant losses of occupied Ukrainian territories in September has faced Putin and his regime with the possibility of defeat. Read more...
10 years of Rojava: achievements and aberrations
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 267, Berlin, September 2022 Fri, 02/09/2022 - 15:48In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...
Belarus: "Railway partisans" threatened with execution
Lars Keller, Infomail 1195, Berlin, 9 August 2022 Thu, 11/08/2022 - 07:55In March and April, the Russian army stood at the gates of Kyiv, but Putin's invasion of Ukraine stalled. A few weeks later, Russia had to withdraw from the area around the capital. Read more...
Taiwan - a sign of the times
Peter Main Thu, 04/08/2022 - 15:25August 4, the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, might not seem an auspicious date for China to mobilise its forces to surround Taiwan. Read more...
Biden's visit to two pariah states
Dave Stockton Wed, 20/07/2022 - 11:06Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. Read more...
Madrid decisions – NATO on course for war
Susanne Kühn, Neue Internationale 266, July/August 2022 Mon, 11/07/2022 - 16:00NATO leaders celebrated in the midst of war. They themselves present the conference on 28 and 29 June as a "historic summit" with an "undoubted message". Read more...
The West’s war aims in Ukraine
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 394, London, June 2022 Sat, 04/06/2022 - 16:45THE WORLD situation in 2022 is characterised by multiple crises—the most immediate and far reaching in its global consequences is the war in Ukraine, which has massively boosted re-armament, the expan Read more...
As Sweden and Finland join NATO: The end of Nordic "neutrality"?
Neue Internationale, Berlin, June 2022 Thu, 26/05/2022 - 17:28The Russian invasion of Ukraine has meant an all-out barrage of pro-Western imperialist propaganda in Western Europe. Read more...
The War over Ukraine: National Defence or Imperialist War?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 264, May 2022 Thu, 05/05/2022 - 19:21For all their rejection of the imperialist aggression represented by the Russian attack on Ukraine at the end of February, Marxists must ask themselves deeper questions about the background to the con Read more...
Malvinas War anniversary
Bernie McAdam Mon, 11/04/2022 - 18:06Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government fought an undeclared war against Argentina for control of the Malvinas or, as Britain calls them, the Falkland Islands. Read more...
Belarus: Solidarity with railway workers
Martin Suchanek Wed, 06/04/2022 - 18:35On 19 March, railway workers from Belarus closed the railway lines to Ukraine in order to block supplies for the invading Russian troops. Read more...
Ukraine: Sanctions: ‘war by other means’
Tim Nailsea, Workers Power 392, April 2022 Mon, 04/04/2022 - 17:03Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine has prompted justified outrage around the world. Read more...
Solidarity with the Russian anti-war movement!
Jaqueline Katharina Singh, Neue Internationale 263, April 2022 Fri, 01/04/2022 - 12:06Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there have been protests around the world - including in Russia itself. This article is dedicated to them. Read more...
The war in Ukraine and the struggle for the re-division of the world
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 08/03/2022 - 09:25The Russian invasion of Ukraine has opened a new stage in the struggle for the re-division of the world between the great powers. Read more...
Germany rearms
Martin Suchanek, Infomail 1179, 27 February 2022 (abridged) Mon, 28/02/2022 - 13:17When the U-turn came, it came fast. At a special session of Germany's Bundestag on Sunday, February 27, it was agreed to more than double the Army's budget to 100 billion euros. Read more...
NATO, USA, EU, Russia, Ukraine: Background to the Propaganda War
Frederik Haber, Neue Internationale 262, February 2022 Mon, 07/02/2022 - 10:36Revolutionary communists must not be taken in by the propaganda of rulers, especially not those of the imperialist countries. Read more...
Statement: The Danger of War over Ukraine
International Executive Committee, League for the Fifth International Mon, 24/01/2022 - 18:13For the first time since the 1990s, war drums are beating again in Europe. The issue is the escalating conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine. Read more...
