Russia

Trump and Putin tussle over Ukraine

By Martin Suchanek The bilateral Russia-US talks for a 30 day-ceasefire are in a crisis. Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ and ‘pissed off’ with Putin for attacking Zelensky’s credibility and demanding a UN administration replace him as a condition for a ceasefire. Trump, in turn, is threatening to impose a 50% tariff on […]

Martin Suchanek  ·  02 April 2025

Trump betrays Ukraine

A change of strategy will see the US and Russia attempt to partition Ukraine By Dave Stockton Donald Trump’s first hundred days in office have put the tech broligarch motto ‘move fast and break things’ into action. A blitz of reactionary policies has dislodged longstanding pillars of the domestic and international US-based order. At home, […]

Dave Stockton  ·  10 March 2025

Stop the war… with annexations

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).

George Banks  ·  02 October 2024

Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh

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

Workers Power  ·  15 October 2023

Why Russia is an imperialist power

An analysis of the specific features of Russian imperialism

Markus Lehner  ·  03 July 2023

The short ride of the Valkyries

Wagner mutiny shows how Ukraine war is testing Putin regime

Dave Stockton  ·  02 July 2023

Socialists and the war in Ukraine

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

Workers Power  ·  01 July 2023

The G7 Summit reveals problems for the West

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

Dave Stockton  ·  03 June 2023

The dual character of the Ukraine war

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

Dave Stockton  ·  26 April 2023

Putin gambles on mobilisation to reverse setbacks in Ukraine

Conscription order has prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country

Workers Power  ·  08 October 2022

Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev, 1932–2022

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.

Peter Main  ·  13 September 2022

Belarus: ‘Railway partisans’ threatened with execution

The British press barely mentioned the resistance in Belarus.

Leigh Nin  ·  13 September 2022

From New Cold War to New World War?

The new cold war has intensified.

Dave Stockton  ·  01 May 2022

Sanctions are ‘war by other means’

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

Tim Nailsea  ·  14 April 2022

The geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West

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

Andy Yorke  ·  14 April 2022

Nato: the bloody record of the imperialists’ ‘defensive’ alliance

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

Dara O'Cogaidhin  ·  13 April 2022

A lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia requires a revolution

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

Jeremy Dewar  ·  13 April 2022

Russian and Nato imperialists out of Eastern Europe

Putin has resorted to a war of attrition against civilians.

Dave Stockton  ·  13 April 2022

Political bulletin: From imperialist war to class war

Political bulletin for 2 March 2022

Workers Power  ·  02 March 2022

No to war in Ukraine

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, […]

KD Tait  ·  01 March 2022

Statement: Stop the war in Ukraine

The main enemy is at home.

Workers Power  ·  24 February 2022

Statement: The danger of war over Ukraine

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

Workers Power  ·  25 January 2022

Erdogan and Putin conclude deal against Kurds

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

Robert Teller  ·  19 November 2019

Russia: Protests against pension reform show potential for resistance

By Svenja Spunck IN June, the Russian government announced a far-reaching pension “reform”. The main change is to raise the retirement age for women from 55 to 63 and for men from 60 to 65. What may sound to people in Germany like whingeing actually means working to the death in Russia, because average life […]

Workers Power  ·  05 September 2018

Skripal Affair: Time for Labour to come in from the cold war

ON 4 MARCH 2018, a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI5, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were poisoned using Novichok, a hitherto obscure nerve agent. The British government has named Russia and its newly re-elected President, Vladimir Putin, as the culprit. The main evidence is the claimed development of Novichok by Russia, […]

Workers Power  ·  08 April 2018

Condemn Assad and Putin’s war crimes in Idlib

THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights reports that Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes, artillery and barrel bombing helicopters have launched a major assault on the last extensive rebel-held region of Idlib, aided by their Russian allies. It is likely that the offensive aims to concentrate the population into a narrow pocket, subject them to final liquidation or […]

Workers Power  ·  04 February 2018

Red October: The working class takes power

IN THE February Revolution of 1917, the workers and soldiers of Petrograd rose in spontaneous revolt against the hardships caused by two and a half years of war. Civilians were verging on starvation, while those fighting suffered horrendous losses – 1.5 million had been killed, five million wounded, with millions more taken prisoner. Demonstrations by […]

Workers Power  ·  01 November 2017

The renewal of Bolshevism: Lenin’s April Theses

Lenin’s April Theses, at 479 words one of the shortest of his major works, represented a qualitative advance in his strategic thinking, effected a transformation of the Bolshevik Party’s programme and formed the blue print for the victorious October Revolution that, in turn, changed the world. Nonetheless, the theses built on the previous achievements of […]

Workers Power  ·  06 April 2017

NATO-Russia rivalry risks war

BRITAIN’S DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon recently said that NATO “is waking up to the challenge of Kremlin aggression and could confront Vladimir Putin’s forces in a showdown” within two years. Fallon assured MPs that former general Sir Richard Sherriff’s prediction of war with Russia in 2017 was “too extreme”. So that’s alright then. These comments […]

Workers Power  ·  07 November 2016

Putin’s strange bedfellows

BY crushing the Syrian revolutionaries and leaving only Assad and ISIS standing, Putin hopes to force the West to accept that Assad’s regime (with or without Assad at the top of it) is their least worst option. Putin’s claim to stand for the “unity of the Syrian state” actually means restoring the rule of the […]

Workers Power  ·  26 January 2016

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