Who is this man who ‘preferred the ruin of his country to a timely compromise’?

Liz Truss represents a continued commitment by our rulers to their catastrophic direction on both the war drive and the economy.

Is the government about to start seizing the assets of every citizen it doesn’t like, without even the pretence of a legal process?

Despite ceasefire agreements, Saudi military attacks are ongoing, as is the brutal blockade of Yemeni ports, leaving millions at risk of starvation.

The reality of Europe’s much-vaunted ‘unity’ in support of Ukraine is that the EU is in the process of tearing itself apart.

How will workers feel when these lies are exposed and they realise the extent to which they have been lied to and manipulated once again?

The Azov battalion did not appear out of nowhere; fascism has been the imperialist tool of choice in Ukraine since the 1930s.

Those who spread the lie that the conflict in Ukraine is an ‘interimperialist war’ are helping to demobilise the world’s most militant antiwar activists.

What are we supposed to make of the our rulers’ desire to extend the warmest possible welcome to refugees from Ukraine?

Where is the force capable of harnessing the anger and militancy of the French working class?

None of the glib refutations of nazism in Ukraine stand up to scrutiny, yet western media continue to repeat them while closing down those who expose their lies.

As information trickles in, it is becoming clear that Nato and its proxies are losing the ground war to Russia and the Donbass antifascist forces in east Ukraine.

The accounts of those on the scene clearly contradict the atrocity narratives the west is spinning to whip up support for an escalation of the war.

Will this admission turn out to have been a massive own goal?

President Putin’s declared objectives of demilitarisation and denazification look likely to be fulfilled.

Are western leaders and their local proxies ready to recognise Russia’s legitimate security concerns?

The present denazification operation is the result of 30 years of slow-motion war by Nato against Russia.

The country continues to be used as a pawn in the imperialists’ drive to war with Russia, regardless of the needs and wishes of its people.

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

But his oligarch sponsor has called for a renewal of good relations with Russia.