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That long document in French seems to be looking forward to a coming world war. In the meantime workers in Ukraine should use the free guns that are being handed out to use in a civil war against the bourgeoisie. Left Communist revolutionary romanticism.
It appears that Snake Island near Odessa may have to be renamed as Fake Island. The Ukrainian soldiers still deserve to be congratulated, for choosing not to die for nothing.
Similarly, the mayor and people of this Ukrainian town took the sensible decision not to follow the Ukrainian government’s stupid advice to throw Molotov cocktails at the tanks that rolled into their town. That way a pointless loss of life was avoided.
No war is worth the shedding of a single drop of working class blood.
More disinformation from US intelligence agencies, this time aimed at sabotaging the Ukraine/Russia talks?
“Amid reports of a referendum in Belarus approving a proposal to renounce its non-nuclear status, a US official believes Belarus is preparing to send soldiers into Ukraine in support of the Russian invasion.
The Washington Post spoke to an unnamed US administration official on Sunday evening who said the deployment could begin as soon as Monday.”If you are going to make up something like that, it might be an idea to give it some degree of plausibility.
By the way, it is Monday.
So the EU wants to ban RT and in Britain so does the Labour Party (of course, nothing less would be expected of “the party of NATO”) but in the days when bourgeois democrats really believed in the principles of bourgeois democracy this would have been denounced as an infringement of freedom of speech.
When in the middle of fighting an actual war the British government banned the Daily Worker in 1941 this had to be done under a carefully drafted regulation and apologised for. Today, apparently, governments can decide to do this just like that without a state being at war.
In 1941 we protested against the suppression of the Daily Worker even thought we had waged war on the so-called Communist Party since it was founded. Our grounds were:
“The S.P.G.B. has its own, quite different, point of view. True to our basic principle we do not support suppression of opinion, however false we believe that opinion to be.”
Why should RT be banned? Many of us watch it to be able to informed of what Russian state propaganda is saying. Others will do so too. People should be able to watch it and make their own minds up just as should be able to watch the BBC and other TV station churning out propaganda and make their minds about that too.
Here are some politicians admitting that their sanctions against Russia will make things worse for ordinary people in this country. It is all very well them saying that this is a price worth paying to bring Ukraine into the NATO sphere of influence, but it won’t be paid by them and they didn’t ask us any more than Putin did before launching Russia’s invasion. And they say what they are doing is to defend democracy.
Since it has also just been announced that Russia and Ukraine are to have talks on the Belorussian border it looks as if Putin is practising the “big stick” theory of diplomacy of pre-WWI US President Theodore Roosevelt of carry a big stick but speak softly. Rather a big stick to wave about, I would have thought.
That Starmer character has turned out to be completely unprincipled, a nasty piece of work motivated by personal ambition and prejudice. In other words, he has all the qualities needed to be a future Labour prime minister, an appropriate leader of the “party of NATO”.
We know Labour governments have always defended and promoted the imperialist interests of British capitalism. So his attitude is really just par for the course.
The first part of this passage is good, very good in fact, but the last part is a bit surprising since it is not one that the ACG normally accepts. In fact it’s wrong:
“The imperialist war is being waged for the sharing of spheres of influence, energy routes and the rearrangement of geopolitical power. We have no interest in fighting for the interests of the powerful, for the interests of capital. Moreover, the outbreak of war is expected to bring further price increases and inflation in both energy and basic commodities, putting even more strain on the pockets of those who are already unable to meet their basic needs. We must not forget that war is a solution of capital to overcome the structural crises of over-accumulation from which capitalism is periodically afflicted. The destruction of fixed (means of production) and variable capital (labour power) paves the way for capitalist reconstruction and development.”
Calling for “the sabotage of the war machine” is not a sensible idea either. I know it’s probably just rhetorics or revolutionary romanticism but we can’t urge workers to risk their life or long terms of imprisonment trying to do that.
Kazakhstan is denying a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine
That strikes me as a rather obvious untruth, either made up by the journalist or disinformation planted by one of the US intelligence agencies.
Think about it. Why would Russia ask for troops from a country whose armed forces must be an even less efficient killing machine than the Ukrainian one?
Maybe there are some sensible elements in the Ukraine government after all. Don’t know if it’s true, though. Hope so as it’s the only way to stop the killing and destruction. That’s the immediate priority from a working class point of view.
The Ukrainian government is stupidly encouraging people to resist Russian tanks with rifles and Molotov cocktails. That will only get them killed and endanger other people. Most people seem to be ignoring that stupid advice and are sensibly trying to escape from the combat zones or lying low till it’s all over.
Just been to fill up. The politicians only think of the economic or strategic interests of the capitalist class and ignore the effect on ordinary people. It’s not just petrol prices that are going to go up but, later, gas.
I was surprised to find this on the BBC, debunking pro-Ukrainian propaganda photos and videos. I wonder when they will be given a D notice or whatever telling them to stop.
Well, this would be a turn up for the books — Ukraine ready to renounce wanting to join NATO?
Maybe some members of the Ukraine ruling elite are beginning to realise that they have been used as pawns by the US and its allies who have left them to face the consequences of NATO intransigence on this issue (while urging from their armchairs Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian).
