Vladimir Unkovski-Korica 15 February 2025 (Republished from Counterfire) There was never going to be justice for Ukraine, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica On Wednesday 12 February, Donald Trump announced he had spoken to Vladimir Putin and that peace talks to end the Ukraine War would start now. The announcement left the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, and European states blindsided. … [Read more...]
POLITICAL CRISIS IN ROMANIA
A WIN discussion December 2024. Listen to the discussion HERE. Ever since the fall of the Ceaușescu regime in 1989, Romania has been plunged into turmoil by the scramble between the winners and the losers of the new capitalist order. This tension peaked during the recent elections of 2024, when the Constitutional Court invalidated the presidential run-off – a highly controversial decision which … [Read more...]
Vladimir Putin: godfather and federator of the international far right!
By Yorgos Mitralias The subject of this article is not Putin the warmonger, nor Putin the invader of Ukraine. The subject of this article is Putin, the anti-democrat, the reactionary and the liberticide with increasingly fascist practices. So, after presenting the first pillar of the Brown International in gestation in the person of Israeli genocidaire Bibi Netanyahu, and awaiting the third … [Read more...]
With the help of the Brown International of Putin, Trump and their far-right friends
Irrationality and mass paranoia invade our societies by Yorgos Mitralias “But why are they attacking us? What have we done to them to make them hate us and bomb us like this?”. These are surprising and thought-provoking questions from ordinary Russians living in the Kursk region, asked by reporters sent to cover the advance of Ukrainian troops into this Russian territory. And they are all … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – RUSSIA: LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION
by Roger Silverman. In Russia, literature and revolution are inextricably intertwined. There is a proud and unbroken Russian tradition of defiance of successive autocratic regimes by artists and writers. It happened under the Tsars; it happened under the tyranny of Stalin and his successors; and it happens still today under the Putin dictatorship. There is no country with a richer … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – THE BOLSHEVIKS AND PARLIAMENT
by Roger Silverman. We revolutionaries are often misrepresented as enemies of democracy. Didn’t the Bolsheviks ban opposition parties, shut down the Constituent Assembly, impose war communism, create a one-party police state…? On the contrary. For instance, far from imposing a one-party state, the first Soviet government was not even a one-party government: it was a coalition with the left … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – WHAT WAS STALINISM?
by Roger Silverman. Socialists today still find themselves under the dark shadow that Stalinism has cast over the history of the twentieth century. It is more than ten years since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Russia and Eastern Europe – overthrown in many cases by workers’ uprisings. These were hideous, corrupt, vicious regimes, and workers rightly celebrated their downfall as … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 100 YEARS ON
by Roger Silverman - 7th November 2017. We revolutionaries are often misrepresented as enemies of democracy. Didn’t the Bolsheviks ban opposition parties, shut down the Constituent Assembly, impose war communism, create a one-party police state…? On the contrary. For instance, far from imposing a one-party state, the first Soviet government was not even a one-party government: it was a … [Read more...]
WIN Conference 9th/10th September 2023 London and on Zoom
WIN’s recent conference was attended both physically and online by a total of 60 comrades from 20 countries. WIN CONFERENCE 2023 - SESSION 1 - Near War and Class war - the United States and China - YouTube WIN CONFERENCE 2023 - SESSION 2 - THE UKRAINE WAR: AN INTERNATIONALIST APPROACH - Part 1 of 2 - YouTube WIN CONFERENCE 2023 - SESSION 3 - THE UKRAINE WAR: AN INTERNATIONALIST APPROACH … [Read more...]
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA - YouTube Last Saturday, Russia was shaken by the armed mutiny of 25,000 mercenary soldiers led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the private militia the Wagner Group. Having captured the city of Rostov-on-Don, occupied military installations in Voronezh, and marched to within 200 kilometres of Moscow, they abruptly turned back. How did a maverick private army accumulate … [Read more...]