Imperialist conflict and war

How the Fourth International fought World War Two

Montage by Diego Rivera to commemorate founding of Fourth International
Theory, History, Imperialist conflict and war  

As the anniversary of the end of World War Two is celebrated, the world’s leaders are again recruiting soldiers and arming them with horrific new weapons in preparation for new conflicts, and possibly yet another, even more brutal world war.
This article examines how Trotskyists worldwide struggled, ‘despite all hazards’, to build the slender forces of the Fourth International (FI), intended to assist the working class to overthrow capitalism, and the bureaucratic, Stalinist elite in the USSR and replace them by genuinely democratic, international socialism to end poverty and war forever.

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Pahalgam Killings: As Kashmir bleeds again, India and Pakistan fan the flames of war

Troops on patrol in Kashmir
Imperialist conflict and war, Asia  

By Socialist Struggle India, 30 April 2025 The Indian subcontinent once again stands on the brink of catastrophe. With the Pakistani military alleging “credible intelligence” of imminent Indian airstrikes, the prospect of last week’s terror attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir becoming the spark of a new military conflict between the two nuclear-armed states is no longer

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Sudan is ravaged by two years of counter-revolutionary war

Sudanese refugees escape conflict
Africa, Imperialist conflict and war  

By Liv Shange Moyo PRMI in Sweden. 16 April 2025 Two years of civil war between the RSF and the SAF – two counter-revolutionary forces that together suppressed the revolutionary movement that was sparked in 2018 before falling out – has left Sudan’s people ravaged, brutalised, starved, but not defeated. What is behind the war

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Turning back the clock: Trump launching war on progress

Trump during his inauguration
LGBTQIA+, Americas, Socialist feminism, Imperialist conflict and war  

By Harper Cleves, Socialist Party Ireland. 31 March 2025 Trump’s resounding victory in the 2024 election was a huge blow to millions living in the United States and around the world. From promises of deporting ‘one million immigrants,’ to spending tens of millions of dollars in the final weeks of the election campaign on ads

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Myanmar: embroiled in a complex and intensifying revolutionary and civil war

Protesters in Myanmar demand democracy
Imperialist conflict and war, Asia  

It’s now over four years since the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military overthrew the elected government. The coup met widespread resistance and escalated into a brutal civil war. PRMI reporters spoke to the Marxist journalist and historian Phyo Win Latt. 24 March 2025 PRMI: With the world news dominated by the Genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine,

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Trump-fuelled Israeli genocidal war machine shatters ceasefire in Gaza

Building in Gaza ablaze after new Israeli attacks
Workers' struggle and solidarity, Imperialist conflict and war, Middle East  

By Serge Jordan, PRMI. 19 March 2025 In the dead of night, in the midst of Ramadan, the Israeli regime resumed its mass bombing of Gaza, obliterating any remaining semblance of holding onto what was already an increasingly precarious and threatened ceasefire. The claim that Israel merely targeted Hamas operatives in this new barrage of

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Plundering of Ukraine: Stunning change in US foreign policy

Trump looking down on a grinning Putin
Imperialist conflict and war, Europe  

By Walter Chambers, 24 February 2025 So shocking was the speech delivered by US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference that the Chair burst into tears during his closing speech. Barely a day has gone by since Trump’s inauguration in which a horrific new twist has not been added to the US’s

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Greenland – independence and the imperialist scramble for Arctic dominance

Warship in the Arctic sea
News and analysis, National politics, Imperialist conflict and war, Europe  

By Paul Smith, 14 February 2025 Trump’s threats accelerate Greenland’s push for independence, amid growing dangers of imperialist exploitation and conflict, as the Arctic becomes a new battleground in the global struggle for power, natural resources and strategic dominance. In 2019, Donald Trump’s proposal to purchase Greenland, reducing the future of the country to a

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Trump’s abhorrent plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza

News and analysis, National politics, Imperialist conflict and war, Middle East  

By Socialist Party Ireland reporters, 6 February 2025 The Gaza genocide is continuing. Trump has announced an outrageous plan for the wholesale ethnic cleansing of its two million Palestinians, even hinting that US troops may be used to enforce this. As if talking about one of his corrupt land deals, he announced the US would

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A critique of ‘Analyzing an Age of Imperialism, Nationalism and Militarism’

News and analysis, Imperialist conflict and war, Socialist feminism, PRMI  

By PRMI reporters 20 January 2025 This rather unusual article is published as a contribution to the process of clarifying how we as a revolutionary Marxist, feminist, antiracist organisation in the process of reflection and reconstruction understand and orientate ourselves within the world today. Introduction In 2024, after five years of existence, the International Socialist

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Ceasefire in Gaza: The struggle against Genocide and Occupation isn’t over

Destroyed areas of Gaza
News and analysis, Imperialist conflict and war, Middle East  

By PRMI reporters 18 January 2025 “This is a day of happiness, and sadness, a shock and joy, but certainly it is a day we all must cry and cry long because of what we all lost. We did not lose friends, relatives, and homes only, we lost our city, Israel sent us back in

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Discussing the global situation – report of PRMI meeting

News and analysis, Socialist feminism, Imperialist conflict and war, Global economy, PRMI  

PRMI Reporters At the end of December, an international meeting of organisations and supporters from twenty-two countries was held to discuss the current global situation and take a series of political decisions concerning the work of the Project for a Revolutionary Marxist International [PRMI].  Just a week before the meeting, the sixty-year long Assad dictatorship

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