Chris Slee Dave Holmes argues “Russia is most decidedly defending itself from an existential threat from the US-NATO bloc” while approvingly quoting Scott Ritter’s assertions that “NATO is a paper tiger”. So which is it?
Paul Le Blanc Consistent partisans of actual democracy insist that people have the right to shape their own future. This includes the right to struggle for self-determination.
To the extent that the purpose of the speaking tour was to undermine genuine socialist opposition to the war and bolster the official war propaganda, it can be characterized as a fiasco
The tour's main purpose is to prop up the faltering US war propaganda of the “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine by the Putin regime, and advocate for more weapons for Ukraine, i.e., extension of the bloodbath.
The “Socialism 2023” conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent “reformists” of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.