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Anarchists in wartime. The experience of Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine

Francesca Barca — 2025-11-19T15:20:21Z

What does it mean to be left-wing and find yourself facing an invasion that you didn't choose or want, that forces you to revise your principles, while continuing to defend a more just society? A Discussion with the Ukrainian anti-authoritarian group Solidarity Collectives.

- Features / Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements, Features

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

Agent Orange, a slow violence that still kills

Collectif Vietnam-Dioxine — 2025-10-18T10:30:07Z

The Vietnam-Dioxin Collective is part of a decolonial ecology since the cause is not only ecological but is also the result of colonial and imperialist logics and of a capitalist system that produces environmental crises (which are in fact continuous) and wars in times of crisis. We demand justice for the victims of Agent Orange, a chemical and defoliant weapon used during the US-led Imperial War in Vietnam.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Vietnam, Ecology and the Environment, War drive/Anti-war movements

A warning from history: ‘This is what is going to happen to you'

Allen Myers — 2025-08-06T09:45:00Z

Eighty years ago, the United States government exploded over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the only two nuclear bombs ever used in wartime against a civilian population. Never before in human history had a single weapon caused such widespread death and destruction.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA), Japan, War drive/Anti-war movements, Nuclear power

New Disorder, Geopolitical Transition and Militarization of Europe

Jaime Pastor — 2025-05-09T13:11:14Z

The new era that the reactionary bloc grouped around Trump aspires to impose on a global scale has just begun, but we are already seeing the contradictions and resistances of different scope that are manifesting themselves in the face of that project. I will try to point out in this article some of the features that characterize this historical moment to then enter into its implications in Europe.

- Rearming Europe / Spanish state, War drive/Anti-war movements

Oppose the Trump‑Putin axis, oppose European rearmament

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — 2025-04-20T15:47:00Z

ACR stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine fighting to defend their country against occupation and annexation. We have done so since Putin's first aggression in 2014. We therefore support the right of Ukraine to obtain the weapons and aid necessary for its fight against Russian imperialism.

- Rearming Europe / War drive/Anti-war movements

For a campaign against rearmament, wars and imperialism

Gippò Mukendi Ngandu — 2025-04-15T10:30:42Z

We are entering a new era. Trump's return to the White House is so disruptive that it is causing the historic crisis of transatlantic relations as they were constituted after the Second World War. The new Republican and reactionary administration aims to exploit the new situation of ‘geopolitical chaos' to revive the role of the United States of America through an authoritarian turn, based on an alliance with the big hi-tech capitalists such as Elon Musk, and through a new foreign policy that focuses on imperialist national interests.

- Rearming Europe / Italy, Europe, War drive/Anti-war movements

In support of “synchronized global disarmament”

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-04-13T20:29:43Z

At a time when everything is spiralling out of control in the East, when alliances as evil as the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin duo are being forged, and when our leaders are advocating rearmament, we wanted to take some time to think about it. With Gilbert Achcar, a specialist in international relations and professor at the University of London, we discussed ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.[Gaëlle Desnos-CQFD]

- Rearming Europe / United States (USA), Europe, Russia, China, War drive/Anti-war movements

Europe in the Trump-Putin Axis Trap

Left Bloc — 2025-04-12T12:48:37Z

‘For the Left Bloc, there are various imperialisms and "none of them will have a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites". Therefore, "recognising this reality is vital in elaborating an internationalist proposal capable of offering a future to humanity and conceiving a democratic order of peoples."'

- Rearming Europe / Europe, Portugal, War drive/Anti-war movements

For an anti-capitalist and internationalist security policy, against the Trump-Musk-Putin axis and neoliberal authoritarian European governments:

Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP Antikapitalisten — 2025-04-10T16:01:14Z

“In this context, the debate on security, military and defence issues has gripped all the countries of Europe. Putin's regime poses a real threat to Eastern Europe and to democratic and social rights across the continent, through its alliances with the far right. Similarly, Trump, Musk and Vance, like the far right in Europe and elsewhere, are showing their willingness to attack head-on any social and progressive policy, however minimal, such as environmental regulations, the fight against discrimination or workers' social and trade union rights.”

- Rearming Europe / Europe, Belgium, War drive/Anti-war movements