Resolution adopted by the XIIth Congress of the League for the Fifth International.
The League for the Fifth International corrects its errors on the character of the war in Ukraine
The manoeuvrings of the great powers will shape the prospects for peace
By Dave Stockton THE 23–24 February is the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War. On that night, 190,000 Russian armed forces launched a massive attack on the country. Their aim was to occupy its capital, overthrow its government and overawe its people. Putin called it a ‘special military operation’. In fact, it was a […]
Conscription order has prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country
Editorial September 2022, No. 396
By Dave Stockton THE 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 expansion of Nato, the world’s biggest war-waging alliance, and with it the global hegemony of the USA, coupled with a global food […]
Despite the many inadequacies of the UK government’s scheme, its effects in terms of the relatively large number of refugees already allowed in under it cannot be denied.
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.