Ukraine: choices before Scottish TUC
The half dozen templated motions on Ukraine submitted to this year’s Scottish TUC congress (17-19 April 2023, Dundee) have been amalgamated into a single composite, to be discussed on the Wednesday morning of the congress. Masquerading as pseudo-pacifist "peace proposals", the composite is riddled with factual inaccuracies, political misrepresentations and empty phrase-mongering. Putin’s 2022 invasion was a continuation of the Soviet-imperialist repression of Ukraine dating back to Stalin. Denying the right of Ukraine to exist as a state and as a nation, Putin’s war aim was, and is, genocidal...