Ukraine/NATO/US ignored Kremlin’s red lines The recent Russian military intervention in Ukraine is an example of what can happen when you get “an offer you can’t refuse” and decide to refuse it anyway. The...
Unlike most of the self-declared Trotskyist left, the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) has not characterised Russia as imperialist. In its 30 January international statement on the current crisis in Ukraine, the TF distinguishes Russia and...
Wheels of racist U.S. Injustice System grind on The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenage rightist vigilante who killed two people and seriously wounded a third at a 25 August 2020 anti-racist protest in...
After four years of civil war following three years of devastating world war, by 1921 the Russian proletariat, never more than a few million strong, had almost ceased to exist. Russia’s cities were depopulated...
Critical observations on China’s Great Road by John Ross At a time when most of the world’s ostensibly Trotskyist tendencies have mistakenly declared the Chinese deformed workers’ state to be “capitalist,” in China’s Great...
‘Russian Imperialism’ & Flip-flops on Syria and Libya On 18 February 2020 we retracted an assertion that Socialist Action (SA) “opposed” Russian involvement in Syria. In doing so we quoted the following from SA’s...
Comrades, In a recent Socialist Appeal article on the brutal murder of Sarah Everard (allegedly by a police officer), the subsequent attack by police on the vigil held for her and the Tory government’s...
For Humanity to Live, Capitalism Must Die! “Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’,...
The following are excerpts from a 23 January letter sent by a former Spartacist League cadre to Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency: I must admit…my worries about what is happening to the revolutionary...
The events on January 6 at the Capitol, like the entire phenomenon of “Trump Nation,” was an expression of the profound crisis of American capitalist society. The storming of the Capitol, spearheaded by...