Oct 5, 2022

Theses on the war in Ukraine

By Dave Holmes & Renfrey Clarke

A.  Introduction

  1. Climate change threatens the survival of humanity. Disasters are coming thick and fast and will quickly get much worse. But rather than deal with the truly existential crisis this represents, Western imperialism is devoting more and more resources to a war drive against Russia and China, two big countries that have persistently resisted subordination to Western imperialism.

  2. This perverse misallocation of resources shows the pathological sickness of the world imperialist system presided over by the United States.

  3. The war in Ukraine is being used to massively intensify the West’s anti-Russia campaign. But the blowback from the sanctions regime is destabilising Western Europe and intensifying the suffering of developing countries.