A review of Chris Kaspar de Ploeg, Ukraine in the Crossfire (Clarity Press, 2017), £19.19 Since the unrest of 2014—the Maidan protests, the outbreak of separatist war in Donbass, the annexation of Crimea and the MH17 plane crash—it seems Ukraine… Continue Reading
And when war is waged between two groups of predators and oppressors merely for division of the spoils of plunder, merely to see who will strangle more peoples, who will grab more, the question as to who began this war,… Continue Reading
The Russian Revolution unleashed a vicious struggle between revolutionaries (above all the Bolsheviks based among the miners of the Donbass in the east), Ukrainian and Polish nationalists, and red and white armies. This sentence in Alex Callinicos’s analysis of events… Continue Reading