The following is a recent exchange between a former member of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL–the youth group of the Spartacist League/U.S. [SL]) and Tom Riley of the BT. Greetings, I have been...
In our 19 June 2022 posting of a speech held at the LO Fete about the Ukraine conflict we asserted: ‘Whilst in Western Ukraine there are Hungarian, Romanian and Polish national minorities, about 20...
Below is an edited version of a speech delivered at Lutte Ouvrière’s Fête, 27 May 2022 The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning...
We have had considerable correspondence from people interested in our observations regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Recently a link was sent to a report on Henry Kissinger’s remarks on the subject at Davos with...
A former Spartacist League member who lived in New York City in the 1960s sent the following correction to “Jimstown as we knew it,” a piece by Tom Riley which we posted on 1...
The following text has been inserted as a footnote to our 27 February article on the current Russian incursion into Ukraine: Russia Reacts to Imperialist Encroachment * In a 3 March discussion featuring John Mearsheimer...
Nordenites, like TF, WSWS neutral on Ukraine’s ‘right’ to join NATO On 23 February, on the eve of the current Russian military campaign to “de-NATO-ize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine, Jan Norden’s Internationalist Group (IG) released...
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...
You can lead a horse to water… Reprinted below are comments from Facebook on our 6 February posting regarding a 30 January Zoom meeting the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held on current tensions between Ukraine and Russia....