The socialists who deny Ukraine's rights
IMT members in Brazil demonstrate alongside the Brazilian Communist Party in support of Russian nationalist rebels in Eastern Ukraine (2014) On 24 January, after almost two months of silence since the new Russian threats to Ukraine began, the International Marxist Tendency website, run by the Socialist Appeal group and its co-thinkers, published an article by Jack Halinski-Fitzpatrick with the title “Will Russia invade Ukraine?” As we’ll see, Halinski-Fitzpatrick’s article is blander, less overtly pro-Russian, than what SA has put out in the past. But in a way it is worse: in 3,677 words, it...