Using "anti-imperialism" to avoid siding with Ukraine
Socialist Workers’ Party leader Alex Callinicos has been debating Lebanese Marxist Gilbert Achcar, a supporter of the Fourth International and the Anti-Capitalist Resistance group in the UK, about the war in Ukraine. On 27 March Socialist Worker published a long piece by Callinicos arguing that an “understanding of capitalist imperialism as involving a system of interstate rivalry is completely missing from Achcar’s analysis” and criticising him for arguing that socialists should support Ukraine, including by supporting the provision of weapons by Western governments. On 30 March the SW...