Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1170 The horror of war, of families fleeing for their lives as bombs fall on their cities and towns, is dominating the news. Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is being watched with fear and revulsion. His farcical propaganda claims this is a ‘special military operation’, designed to fight ‘Ukrainian fascism’. Yet Ukraine is being trampled ...
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By Niall Mulholland The war in Ukraine has revisited the ‘national question’ in Europe, ie the language, culture, and democratic rights of populations to territory, in a bloody manner, not seen since the Balkans wars in the 1990s following the breakup of Yugoslavia. Niall Mulholland of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) explains how capitalism cannot peacefully solve the ...
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Stop the war in UkraineWithdraw Russian troops and end the bombingNo trust in NatoFor workers’ unity, for self-determination and full democratic rights for all minoritiesNo trust in Johnson, Putin, Biden, or Zelensky. For an independent workers’ movementFight for a socialist alternative to capitalism and war War is the inevitable consequence of an international capitalist system based on profit, exploitation and ...
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