Category: War and peace

Pietro Maestri discusses positions of various left groups in Italy regarding the war in Ukraine and calls for solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance.

Tom Dale discusses why the left should support Ukraine’s self-defense, based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism.

Ukrainian students: Maxim and Katya
Patrick Le Tréhondat of the Syllepse Publishing House collective conducted an interview with two Ukrainian university students, Katya and Maxim. Katya studies at the Academy of the Arts and Maxim is a computer science student. This

Why the peace movement should support Ukraine

We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation.

Anna Rajagopal speaks about what Judaism and anti-Zionism mean to them, what it’s like being a Jew of color, and how this controversy has been affecting them.

Historically, Russian imperialism has been based on the ideas of “amassing Russian lands” and building a “unique and indivisible” Russian state.

The Ukraine war is a convergence of three wars: 1) Ukraine defending itself against the Russian invasion, 2) the inter-imperialist cold war between the US-led bloc of the established powers and the Russia-China bloc challenging them, and 3) the civil war between the Ukrainian government and Russian separatists.

Why is DSA in this anomalous position: A political organization with no useful position on the central foreign policy question of the day?

Ukraine’s decisions should not be subject to the approval of either western imperialism or the western imperial left.

Report by an international delegate to a solidarity conference with Ukraine

Clarifying left views on national self-determination and the war in Ukraine

Westerners need to understand the perspective of Ukrainian feminists.

The difference between helping defend Ukraine and warmongering

Explaining the positions of the Spanish left on Ukraine

A response to Branko Marcetic’s argument against weapons for Ukraine

Military service in the U.S. and the U.K. promised more than it ever delivered for many post-9/11 volunteers.

Statement from anti-capitalist organizations

Internationalists must listen to the voice of Ukrainians

Explaining the background to the current crisis and the prospects for peace.

Discussion of the current state of Russia’s invasion, the scale of peoples’ resistance to it and key issues such as Ukraine’s far right, NATO and sending weapons to Ukraine.