Ukraine

Western demonisation of the former KGB director obscures his real manoeuvrings, observes Chris Bambery 

Chris Nineham highlights a worrying foreign policy shift at this year's Nato Summit that needs to be examined

Chris Nineham reviews Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Despite the ceasefire the crisis in Ukraine is far from resolved. Feyzi Ismail talks to Russian Marxist and dissident Boris Kagarlitsky about the background to the current situation

It was the prospect of Ukraine being drawn into the western military alliance that triggered conflict in the first place

Images, videos and tweets from the mobilisation against Nato's war summit in Newport, Wales

Video from a Stop the War Coalition rally on the eve of protests in Newport against the Nato summit, with Boris Kagarlitsky, Sami Ramadani and Lindsey German

Lindsey German: this week Nato's political and military elite will descend on Newport to plan more military intervention - creating the greatest threat of another major war since 1945

Isis is simply the latest in a series of fanatical, violent movements born out of the disastrous consequences of US military intervention argues Alastair Stephens

The deranged expansionist policies of Nato are implicated in the wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Iraq argues Chris Nineham

The downing of Flight MH17 has fuelled the dangerous dynamic of global conflict that is leading the world towards the violent chaos we witnessed one hundred years ago writes Matt Carr

To see the extent of David Cameron's hypocrisy, contrast his call for action on the plane shot down in Ukraine to his government's complicity in Israel's brutal assault on Gaza

A conference of the (genuine) lefts of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in Minsk has issued the declaration translated below

In July UK and US troops are due to participate alongside Ukrainian troops in joint military exercises as part of Nato’s ‘Rapid Trident’ manoeuvres

Boris Kagarlitsky on the background to Ukraine's growing revolutionary movement in the south east

All out war between Russia and the US is still not on the cards. But a proxy war is, says Lindsey German, and gets closer by the day

Yesterday a strike broke out at mines in the Luhansk region owned by Rinat Akhmetov an Oligarch and Ukraine’s richest man

Ukraine is about to receive a dose of the same IMF medicine that has devastated Greece writes Matt Carr

Chris Bambery argues that while neither side wants war in Ukraine, the build up of forces in the region poses a major risk to peace

Chris Nineham argues that being against imperialism in general isn't enough - anti-war activists in the West need to oppose the aggressive expansion of the Nato military alliance

The West support dictatorships around the world. Putin is no friend of democracy, but the campaign of demonisation against Russia is cynical propaganda that could lead to war

Ukraine, as it always has been, is caught between rival imperial powers who will allow no true self-determination, argues Chris Bambery

Jeremy Corbyn MP on BBC's The Big Questions, answers the armchair warriors in the studio who contemplate the western powers going to war with Russia

Anti-war activists in Britain should oppose the war policies and preparations for war of our US aligned government argues Lindsey German

It will be a disaster for the Ukrainian people if their new rulers sign the EU association agreement argues Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

Is international law for all, except for Britain and the USA? Andrew Murray replies to the Economist article, Britain and Ukraine: Fisking Stop the War

A leaked telephone conversation between Victoria Nuland, neo-con US Assistant Secretary of State and US Ambassador to Ukraine reveals influence of US right on events

The following statement of the Russian Socialist Movement is an example of how socialists oppose the imperial ambitions of their own ruling class - one the Left in Britain should emulate

The following statement has been circulated by Stop the War Coalition in response to the events in Ukraine

The situation in Ukraine and the Crimea and the rivalry between the West and Russia threatens to explode into a much larger war than has been seen for many years says Lindsey German

Ukraine risks being torn apart by forces encouraged by the West and their pro-Russian opponents writes Alastair Stephens

A power vacuum has been created and some very frightening forces could fill it writes Alastair Stephens