Tag: Ukraine

The War in Ukraine: I.O.D. on the US-Turnaround and Europe’s Difficulties

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In the following article, L. Procopio of the ’Istituto Onorato Damen’ develops on the turnabout in US international policies since the start of Trump’s second term, at the hand of the US negotiations with the Kremlin on the war in Ukraine, keeping the notorious ‘European diplomacy’ at bay. Under the pretense of bringing about “piece” and setting an end to this war, the stage is set for still larger imperialist confrontations.

The article is a follow up to The Trump Menace: Proof of Strength or of Great Fragility? (G. Paolucci, March 5, 2025) which we took up recently on this site.

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World domination by 2030: Middle Empire and/or US Empire?

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We publish a first article that treats the stakes of the worldwide imperialist rivalries and confrontations, following the re-inauguration of D.J. Trump as president of the USA: “World Domination by 2030: Middle Empire and/or US Empire”, translated from the Pantopolis website.

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Discussion on ‘Gaza: The Horror and its Lies’

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At the French language web blog GRAND LARGE CRITIQUES a commentary has appeared on the article Gaza: The Horror and its Lies, whose translation we’re pleased to take up here, followed by the reply of the author:

We welcome this constructive start of a discussion. Readers who want to participate in this discussion are invited to send their appreciations and/or contributions by e-mail to: afreeretriever[at]gmail.com (and to also read the Colophon).

The editor, December 2, 2024.

Gaza: The Horror and its Lies

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A Statement by Raoul Victor (ex Cercle de Discussion de Paris)

“In war, truth is the first casualty”, wrote Aeschylus over 2,500 years ago. The Gaza war, a military event that will go down as one of the most despicable in history, has not belied this merciless dictum. Three gross lies, three enormous “casualties of truth” mark its course. The first, the Hamas attack, was presented as a “surprise”. The second lie concerns nothing less than the objective proclaimed by the most powerful combatant: the extermination of Hamas. The third, but by no means least, concerns the motivation of the main supplier of the material means for the massacre, the world’s leading economic and military power, the United States.

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Russia’s Annexations in Ukraine are Another Step Towards Global Imperialist War

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Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
(October 21, 2022).

We resume this publication by adopting the latest statement issued by the ICT (International Communist Tendency) on the threat of a more generalized war, including the use of nuclear weapons, apropos of the recent exacerbation of the armed conflict in Ukraine, and on the development of the working class alternative to capitalism, its crises and war, which has also recently announced itself through a tendency towards massive strikes.

In addition, we draw the attention of ours readers to the progress in the constitution of “No War but the Class War” committees, defending proletarian internationalism against all sides in the inter-imperialist conflict, which has been initiated by the ICT, and which has recently taken shape through the constitution of such committees in Turkiye (April 28), Italy (August 5) and Canada (Toronto and the Pacific North-West Committee, September 2022; Montreal, October 2022).

The Editor, October 23, 2022.

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Russia: About “Anarchists” who forget the principles

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Statement approved at a referendum of the members of the KRAS-IWA (Russia)

“We reproduce the following article in solidarity with KRAS, section of the anarcho-syndicalist IWA in Russia. From the beginning of the war in Ukraine members of KRAS have consistently defended the internationalist position, denouncing all sides in the conflict and calling on workers to resist it. (1) For this, they are now being accused by those anarchists who have taken the side of the Ukrainian national resistance of being stooges of the Kremlin.

We can’t help but be reminded of the smears against our comrades in the PCInt who, for opposing all sides in the Second World War and for calling on workers to “desert the war” , (2) were denounced by the Stalinist party of Togliatti as “agents and servants of Hitler”. Back then such smears were used to physically liquidate internationalists.

Once again there is no low to which those who have made their peace with national defencism will not stoop down.” (ICT, June 13, 2022)

In agreement with the foregoing, we have added a translation of the London Anti-War Manifesto of February 1915 to a new documentary section on this site: Proletarian Internationalism against Imperialism and War (Documents), which refers to the historical schism on the question of war that also took place within anarchism apropos of the First World War,

The editor, July 3, 2022.

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The War in Ukraine is just a Chapter of the Permanent Imperialist War

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Introduction Article of I Quaderni dell’Istituto Onorato Damen Nº 1 (April 2022)

“A new dramatic front of the permanent imperialist war has opened in the heart of Europe. At the dawn of February 24, 2022, the Russian armed forces have unleashed their firepower against Ukraine, bombing the main cities of the country and invading the Ukrainian territory from several fronts with hundreds of thousands of soldiers. A war that in the plans of the Russians probably had to last only a few days, given the disparity of the forces in the field, whose prolongation [however] dangerously risks to widen, dragging the whole of Europe into the vortex of the conflict. This is the future that the capitalist system envisages for us, a future made of wars, generalized misery and increasingly precarious living and working conditions.”

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‘Controverses’: Internationalist Positions on the War in Ukraine

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The following statement of the Forum for the Internationalist Communist Left is completed by an updated review list of internationalist statements and analyses produced both by political groups and individuals from diverse backgrounds and tongues. We recommend readers with a mastery of foreign languages, especially of Spanish and/or French, to consult it, as it provides a somewhat broader scope than the selection we present on this site in English. We also would like to encourage readers with language capabilities to contribute crafting proper English translations of the most interesting texts, that may appear both at Controverses and here.

The editor

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War in Ukraine: A Salute to Proletarian Internationalism from Argentina

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Against Capitalist War!

(La Oveja Negra, March 13, 2022)

In support of the internationalist statement issued by KRAS in Russia at the outset of the military assault on Ukraine, the group around ‘La Ovaja Negra’ (“the black sheep”) in Argentine published an excellent reply underlining the old adagium of the international workers’ movement: the proletarians of the world have no country to defend! We present this statement in the translation by Internationalist Perspective.

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War in Ukraine: An Internationalist Voice from Russia

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An interview with KRAS – IWA by Grupo Moiras (Spain)

Grupo Moiras is an anarcho-feminist group in Spain inspired by the ‘Mujeres libres’ of the Spanish Civil War. KRAS is one of the rare groups in Russia, from the anarcho-syndicalist milieu, who has defended a proletarian internationalist position for years. The interview presents the groups’ view on the character and stakes of the present war in Ukraine, on the contradictory positions that divide anarchists in Ukraine, most of whom are siding with the Ukrainian bourgeoisie and its army against the Russian military invasion; on the difficulties of anyone in Russia who tries to protest against the war in face of the military censorship and the brutal state repression of the Putin regime, and on the difficulties of the anarchist milieu in particular.

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