Germany’s Left Party Closes Ranks with Federal Government and NATO on Ukraine - World Socialist Web Site

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The fact that all capitalist parties are backing the German government and NATO confirms the perspective of the International Committee of the Fourth International that war can only be stopped and a third world war prevented if the international working class is mobilised on the basis of a socialist programme. In its statement on the Ukraine war, the ICFI, quoting Leon Trotsky, declared:

“Not to bind itself to the national state in time of war, to follow not the war map but the map of the class struggle, is possible only for that party that has already declared irreconcilable war on the national state in time of peace.” To follow “the map of the class struggle” means to root opposition to imperialism in the fight to unify the international working class in opposition to exploitation, inequality and the capitalist system.

The ICFI calls for an immediate end to the war. In opposing the invasion of Ukraine, we denounce the policies of US/NATO imperialism, whose claims to be defending democracy and human rights are blood-drenched with hypocrisy.