Western propaganda about Russia and China, the two main targets of Nato’s war drive, aims to drum up support for war and destroy anti-imperialist resistance.

Even as their proxies are collapsing at the front and behind the lines, the USA and its EU allies are pressing on with their plans to carve up Russia.

As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.

With Ukraine’s defeat in this pivotal battle now certain, western media are rushing to assure their audiences the town holds no significance.

But it will deepen and expand the fissures within the imperialist camp itself, as the demise of the west accelerates.

But despite all the baseless allegations, reality is stubbornly resistant to imperialist propaganda.

The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.

The advance of Ukraine’s armed forces into territory from which Russian forces had already withdrawn, is not the ‘turning point’ western media are claiming.

Uniting those who oppose the spread of Nazi ideology – which remains, as before, an imperialist tool for the division and control of the world’s peoples.

Partial mobilisation of military signals Russia’s determination firmly to protect any newly-joined regions and their citizens.

Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.

As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.

‘Those calling for the victory of Ukraine are trampling on the graves of the 27 million Soviet dead in WW2.’

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.