Inevitably and predictably, Russian president Putin has responded to the use of American and British long-range missiles, sanctioned by US president Biden and British prime minister Starmer, deploying longer-range missiles into Ukraine which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Following Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire long-range Army Tactical Continue Reading
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Ukraine war two years on – who are the winners and losers?
This article is based on Will McMahon’s introduction to the 19 February Talking About Socialism event which you can watch here. Between the last quarter of 2022 and March 2023 over 60,000 Ukrainian troops were given training in NATO countries, and accompanying military supplies, in preparation for the Spring Offensive Continue Reading
Sunak, Shapps and Starmer beat the war drum
In a speech delivered at Lancaster House in London on Monday 15 January 2024, titled Defending Britain from a more dangerous world, UK Defence Minister Grant Shapps evoked the spirit of previous war-mongering Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to prepare the British public for war. War on many fronts. War that will Continue Reading
Military spending accelerates
It will soon be reported that Bakhmut has fallen. With Russian bombs raining down, and GPS guided bombs destroying Ukrainian positions, Ukrainian forces will have little option but to retreat to a new front line having suffered, like the Russians, thousands of casualties. It is generally assumed that NATO and Continue Reading
In whose interest?
Coming from one of the leading figures on the British left, a Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 – 2020, John McDonnell’s recent article “The Ukrainian Question for Socialists” requires comment: all the more so because it argues that it is an inescapable conclusion that socialists Continue Reading
Not all quiet on the Eastern Front
The Stop the War demonstration took place last weekend amidst a huge wave of pro-war propaganda in the British media. Even the BBC World Service, which usually has to attenuate its imperial message for a global audience, is full-throttle behind Ukraine – no other voices are entertained. In this context, Continue Reading
What is socialism?
Welcome to this Marxist website. Its aim is to promote Marxist ideas, analysis and discussion. Against the background of the failed experience of Corbynism in the UK and the rout of the socialist left inside the Labour Party, and with the development of a new wave of industrial working-class militancy, Continue Reading