Putin’s Assault on Ukraine: Internationalist Statements and Analyses

In this post we list a collection of internationalist statements against the war in Ukraine and analyses of its wider significance and stakes for the working class internationally, notwithstanding their variety and inevitable differences in points of departure or conceptions.

We share the concern voiced at the Forum for the internationalist communist Left: “Given the seriousness of the international situation, the weaknesses and the dispersion of the internationalist-revolutionary milieu, it goes without saying that we will support any common position along the lines of the ones we have listed below. Indeed, if there is a paradox to be underlined on this level, it is that each of the groups below brandishes proletarian internationalism loud and clear – which is excellent … but they are withdrawn into themselves and quite incapable of speaking with one voice!”

As not all texts referenced here are yet available in English, this post is subject to updates  when they become available. Incidentally a translation of ours has been added on a follow-up page. Suggestions and proposals for internationalist statements are welcome.

The editor, March 5, 2022.

(Last updated: April 17, 2022, Listing closed)

Istituto Onoratio Damen (I.O.D., Italy)

• The Ukrainian Powder Factory (Article, February 3, 2022, our translation)

• On the Russian (and American?) invasion of Ukraine (Article, March 4, 2022, our translation)

• Joint statement of groups of the International Communist Left about the war in Ukraine (April 6, 2022, by ICC; Internationalist Voice; Int. Communist Perspective – S. Korea; I.O.D.)

International Group of the Communist Left (IGCL)

• Ukraine: faced with the threats of imperialist war, defend our living and working conditions all over the world (international leaflet, February 20, 2022)

• Theses on the significance and consequences of the imperialist war in Ukraine (Special edition, March 2, 2022)

‘International Communist Party’ (Il Programma comunista / The Internationalist)

• In Ukraine as in the whole world, in the face of the imperialist war, the proletarian watchword once again must be: revolutionary defeatism against all bourgeoisies and against all bourgeois states! (international leaflet, February 22, 2022)

‘International Communist Party’ (Le Prolétaire / Proletarian)

• In its confrontation with American and European imperialisms, Russian imperialism launches its troops to the territorial conquest of strategic areas of Ukraine (international leaflet, February 24, 2022)

• No to the imperialist mobilization around the war in Ukraine! (international leaflet, March 8, 2022)

Prospettiva Marxista – Circolo internazionalista “coalizione operaia” (Italy)

• UKRAINE: INTERNATIONALISM TO THE TEST OF REALITY (Statement, February 23, 2022, English translation)

TŘÍDNÍ VÁLKA # CLASS WAR # GUERRE DE CLASSE

• Proletarians in Russia and in the Ukraine! On production front and military front… Comrades! (international leaflet, February 24, 2022)

Communia (Journal of Emancipación)

• The invasion of Ukraine and the workers of the whole world (Communiqué, February 24, 2022)

Barbaria (Spain)

• English: War in Ukraine: Cat and Mouse (Statement, February 24, 2022, our translation)

• English: Some fundamental positions of proletarian internationalism (Article, February 26, 2022, our translation)

Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT)

• Ukraine: Neither NATO nor Putin! No War but the Class War! (international leaflet, February 25, 2022)

• War in Ukraine: Imperialist Rivalry in a Global Economic Crisis (February 27, 2022)

• No War but the Class War: Statements from the Haft Tappeh Workers (Iran) (March 5, 2002)

• War in Ukraine: The Internationalist Position (March 17, 2022; CWO apropos of a public on-line meeting of March 13)

• Some Considerations on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (March 21; FD, Battaglia Comunista, March 11, 2022)

• No to Capitalism’s Wars (Battaglia Comunista, Leaflet given out at a demonstration in Florence on 26 March)

• No War but the Class War – A Call for Action (An appeal by Comrades of the Internationalist Communist Tendency, April 6, 2022)

KRAS – International Workers Association (Russia)

• No War! (Statement of the IWA section in the region of Russia, February 25, 2022)

• KRAS-IWA on the War in Ukraine (An interview by Grupo Moiras, March 13, 2022; our translation from Spanish)

• Anti-war struggle in Russia and in Ukraine (A brief overview of the main forms and methods of anti-war protests. KRAS-IWA, April 1, 2022)

‘International Communist Party’ (Il Partito Comunista / The Communist Party)

• Capitalism is War. To stop it, the working class must bring capitalism down (Article, February 26, 2022. ‘The Communist Party’ nr. 40)

• Capitalism Needs War Government Armies and “People’s Resistance” is being Used Against the Working Class (Article, March 5, 2022. ‘The Communist Party’ nr. 41)

Internationalist Voice

• The Russian Military Campaign, NATO Militarism and Gang War Capitalism Means War and Savagery! (Statement of February 26, 2022, also available as pdf booklet)

• Joint Statement with ICC, Int. Communist Perspective – S. Korea & I.O.D. (April 6, 2022)

Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu

• UKRAINE: Russia’s colonial expedition accelerates the course to world war (Bulletin no. 22, February 27, 2022. English language edition, March 11, 2022)

• UKRAINE: Modern War, Democratic Movements and the Revolutionary Process (Bulletin no. 23, April 03, 2002. English language edition, April 10, 2022)

International Communist Current (ICC)

• Capitalism is war, war on capitalism! (international leaflet, February 28, 2022)

• The ruling class demands sacrifices on the altar of war (Article, March 2, 2022)

• Joint Statement with Internationalist Voice, Int. Communist Perspective – S. Korea & I.O.D. (April 6, 2022)

Internationalist Perspective

• BARBARISM RESURFACES IN EUROPE (not that it ever went away) (Communiqué  of March 2, 2022)

• DON’T FIGHT FOR “YOUR” COUNTRY ! (March 26, 2022; Sanderr, March 23, 2022)

Matériaux Critiques – Critical Materials

• Capitalist war is always against the proletariat (Journal no. 4, March 1, 2022)

• War in Ukraine: Always more against the proletariat (Journal no. 5, March 18, 2022)

A council communist collective (Düsseldorf, Germany)

• War against War! (Statement of March 13, 2022, our translation)

La Ovaja Negra (Argentine)

• Against Capitalist War! (Statement of March 13, 2022, apropos of KRAS-IWA. Translated by Internationalist Perspective, March 30, 2022)

Internationalist Communist Perspective (South Korea)

• Joint Statement with ICC, Internationalist Voice, & I.O.D. (April 6, 2022)

• No War But the Class War! Only the international class struggle to overthrow the capitalist system can stop the imperialist war. (Statement of April 13, 2022)

Left-Wing Communism – Not an Infantile Disorder (Website & Blog)

• Two calls for proletarian internationalism against the war in Ukraine – An Unwelcome Response (Statement by Fredo Corvo & Aníbal, April 10, 2022)

• Ukraine war: What next? (An alternative proposition by ‘Left-Wing Communism’ and ‘Inter-Rev Forum’, April 10, 2022)

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