Stop the War’s perspective on the Ukraine war is a blend of the politics of the two major political tendencies which support it and make up the bulk of its members – Counterfire and the Communist Party of Britain (CPB).

Azerbaijan forces have expelled 100,000 ethnic Armenians from their homeland.

An analysis of the specific features of Russian imperialism

Wagner mutiny shows how Ukraine war is testing Putin regime

The League for the Fifth International corrects its errors on the character of the war in Ukraine

As rival imperialists manoeuvre for position, workers urgently needs a Fifth International

The manoeuvrings of the great powers will shape the prospects for peace

Conscription order has prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country

In death, as in life, the role and significance of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 and was buried on September 3, remains disputed.

The British press barely mentioned the resistance in Belarus.

The new cold war has intensified.

The British media have hailed the scale of sanctions being imposed upon Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

The United States works on the principle that what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is a matter for negotiation.

Nato, despite its huge military superiority, presents itself as a defensive alliance, as ‘the good guys’.

A revolutionary situation could emerge in which Putin’s ‘managed capitalism’ and ‘managed democracy’ can be called into question.

Putin has resorted to a war of attrition against civilians.

Political bulletin for 2 March 2022

By KD Tait VLADIMIR PUTIN’S invasion of Ukraine is a savage and reactionary assault on the sovereignty and independence of the people of Ukraine. People around the world are rightly moved by images of the wrecked apartment blocks and a rising death toll, covered on their TV screens. The UN estimates (27 February) 160,000 refugees, […]

The main enemy is at home.

Putin’s threat to invade, let alone any actual invasion, must be condemned by all socialists and democrats.

The Turkish-Russian agreement on the establishment of a buffer zone along the Turkish-Syrian border, which was negotiated in Sochi on 22 October, has fundamentally changed the balance of power in Syria