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From the "12-day war" to the NATO and EU summits: A leap forward in militarisation, under the orders of Trumpism

Jaime Pastor — 2025-10-19T09:10:05Z

NATO's joint declaration, signed on June 25 at its meeting in The Hague, shortly after the 12-day war against Iran, confirmed the subordination of the European powers—led by Great Britain, Germany, and France—to the Trumpist strategy of remilitarising Europe within a global framework of inter-imperialist competition and the Transatlantic bloc's shared responsibility for the genocide that the State of Israel continues to perpetrate against the Palestinian people.

- Features / United States (USA), War drive/Anti-war movements, NATO

Imperialism(s) and the New Cold War

Gilbert Achcar — 2023-09-15T09:53:00Z

The article by Gilbert Achcar argues that the world is currently in a new Cold War, characterised by increased rivalry between the United States, Russia, and China. Achcar traces the origins of the New Cold War to the end of the Cold War in 1991, when the United States emerged as the sole superpower. The United States used its newfound power to expand its military presence around the world and to intervene militarily in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. This expansionist policy led to a backlash from Russia and China, which began to assert their own interests more forcefully.

- IV584 - September 2023 / United States (USA), Russia, NATO

Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital

2022-09-16T10:22:53Z

“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime's war.”

- 2022 - Ukraine / Russia, Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, NATO, Ukraine debate

How the Spheres of Influence Policy Amplifies Reaction

Taras Bilous — 2022-08-11T14:43:30Z

Should the Left support the division of the world into imperialist spheres of influence? A year ago, the very posing of such a question would have surprised me, since the answer seems obvious: of course not. Unfortunately, the apparent sympathy with Russian aggression against Ukraine by many on the Western left has shown that this is not so obvious.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Susan Watkins actually endorsed Putin's desire to divide Europe into spheres of influence (…)

- 2022 - Ukraine / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine, NATO, Ukraine debate

NAT0 expands - Kurds betrayed

Phil Hearse, Sarah Parker — 2022-07-23T10:52:50Z

Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the betrayal of the Kurdish people as Erdoğan of Turkey uses the threat of veto on NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Finland, Sweden, Turkey, NATO

The United States and Eurasia: Some geopolitical reflections at a time of global crisis

Pierre Rousset — 2022-07-20T04:48:04Z

“We cannot think about geopolitics without rising above our national horizons and learning to see the world from elsewhere. It is not enough to support our comrades who are fighting on both sides of the Russian border, especially Sotsialniy Rukh, the Ukrainian “Social Movement,” we must also listen to them and learn.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), Russia, China, NATO

Towards a new permanent global war? NATO's “new strategic concept”

Jaime Pastor — 2022-07-07T09:03:17Z

“The main conclusion to be drawn is that NATO has formalised a new leap forward in its old project of establishing itself as a global gendarme at the service of the Western capitalist bloc.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / Spanish state, NATO

Military Alliances Aiming for Another “NATO” in East Asia

Karen Yamanaka — 2022-07-05T08:00:38Z

“We must shatter the non-peaceful and non-popular cracked alliances which have been fueled the vicious spiral of militarization and nuclear escalation in the areas.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), South Korea, Japan, NATO, North Korea

The Ukrainian drama and the Russian roulette

Andreu Coll — 2022-07-04T14:50:56Z

The powerlessness in which one finds oneself at a given moment, a powerlessness which must never be considered as definitive, cannot dispense one from remaining faithful to oneself, nor can it excuse capitulation to the enemy, whatever mask he may take on. And the most important enemy remains the administrative, police and military apparatus; not the one on the other side, which is our enemy only insofar as it is the enemy of our brothers, but the one who claims to be our defender and makes (…)

- 2022 - Ukraine / Russia, Ukraine, NATO, Ukraine debate

The far right experience in Hungary

Janos — 2022-06-05T15:11:17Z

In the recent Hungarian general election in April 2022, the ruling coalition, composed of Prime Minister Victor Orban's Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party, won 50% of the vote. Another far-right, neo-Nazi party, the Our Homeland Movement, won 5%. What characterizes these parties and how did we get to this point?

- IV569 - June 2022 / Hungary, Far Right, NATO