The war in Ukraine is a pivotal moment in world affairs, and its repercussions in geopolitics and the domestic economic and political life of Europe and beyond will be felt for years to come. Marxists have a responsibility to analyze global politics and advance a revolutionary perspective to prepare the...
NATO Imperialists Escalate Ukraine Crisis
Once again, the United States and its NATO allies are escalating the conflict over imperialist control of Ukraine and threatening war against nuclear-armed Russia. The heightened hostilities have led to a massive military build-up, the likes of which Europe has not seen for decades. Despite the most recent round of...
NATO Provokes Russian Attack on Ukraine
The International Bolshevik Tendency condemns the imperialist brinkmanship that has led to war in Ukraine, and we call on the international working class to organize labor strikes to thwart the military actions of the imperialist rulers. Washington and its NATO allies have recklessly encircled and threatened Russia for decades, and...
Provoking China
The South China Sea is the site of myriad irredentist territorial claims by China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, over islands, oil and gas resources, and fishing and maritime boundaries. Recent weeks have seen a series of bellicose provocations by US imperialism in the region – part...
The Bulldog Pokes the Bear
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender set sail from the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa on 23 June, headed for Batumi, Georgia, and passed 3km into territorial waters claimed by Russia off the coast of Crimea. In response, a Russian patrol ship fired warning shots and an S-24M jet...
Ukraine in Imperialist Vise
Earlier this year tensions flared up in the disputed territories of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics (DPR/LPR) declared independence in May 2014. The Ukrainian-chauvinist government in Kiev, supported by Western imperialism, stepped up its campaign to forcibly reintegrate the republics, which are...