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Part One

Ukraine - The Lie of the Proxy War / The Betrayal of the Trotskyist Faction


I. The FT-CI on Ukraine


II. The Invasion of Ukraine Is a War of Imperialist Aggression


  1. Historical and material characterization of the act of aggression

  2. Continuity of Russian imperialism from Tsarism to Putin

  3. The FT-CI and the denial of Russian imperialism


III. The Putinist Legitimization Lies Reproduced by the Pro-Putin (or “Neutral”) Left


  1. The falsification of Maidan as a “coup d’état”

  2. Donbas as a “humanitarian excuse” for a colonial invasion

  3. The delusional argument of “denazification”

  4. The lie of the “artificial Ukrainian state”


IV. Brief Marxist History of Ukrainian National Oppression


  1. From Tsarism to Stalinism: language bans and cultural repression

  2. Shevchenko and the denunciation of Russian colonialism

  3. The Bolshevik betrayal: Brest-Litovsk — Ukraine handed over to the Kaiser

  4. Bolshevik invasions of the 1920s: nationalities and Soviet oppression

  5. Makhno and the Makhnovshchina: the extermination of the free Ukrainian peasantry

  6. The Holodomor as an act of colonial genocide

  7. The period of Soviet tyranny over Ukraine (1933–1980)

  8. Chernobyl: Soviet energy colonialism


V. The Trash Concept of “Proxy War”


  1. General theoretical critique of the “proxy” concept

  2. Dismantling the central argument of the Pro-Putin left

  3. Independent Ukrainian actions and critique of colonial logic

  4. Historical examples against the “proxy” argument

  5. The trash concept of “proxy war,” Western support for Ukraine, and inter-imperialist struggle

    5.1 The “proxy” logic exists: but it does not explain the nature of a war

    5.2 Western support for Ukraine also contains an imperial logic

    5.3 The “proxy” phenomenon does not explain Ukrainian resistance

    5.4 Why the “proxy” concept is a trash concept when used as a totalizing category

  6. The Pro-Putin left denies Ukraine’s historical agency

  7. The betrayal of Ukraine by a large part of the global left


VI. The War in Ukraine as a War of National Liberation


  1. The Marxist definition of a war of national liberation

  2. The structural goals of the Ukrainian struggle

  3. The Pro-Putin and “neutralist” left denies Ukraine’s right to exist

  4. The pseudo-Marxist cynicism of “supporting Russia” (via Ukrainian defeatism)

  5. The historical necessity of denouncing and making this betrayal pay


Second Part


VII. The Betrayal of the Ukrainian People by the Trotskyist Faction


  1. The political, theoretical, and historical betrayal by the FT-CI

    1.1 Renunciation of Leninism and the right to self-determination

    1.2 Objective convergence with Kremlin discourse

    1.3 The “neutralist” position as a campist cover

    1.4 The betrayal of the oppressed

  2. How adopting the “proxy” concept places the FT-CI on the side of the aggressor

  3. The theoretical operation to abandon the Ukrainian people


VIII. The FT-CI in Service of Kremlin Propaganda


  1. The interpretative zigzag of Claudia Cinatti and Juan Chingo on Ukraine (2022–2025)

  2. From “there will be no invasion” to “Russian victory”

    2.1 The political-military amateurism of the FT-CI

    2.2 From dilettante amateurism to Putinist complicity

    2.3 The prediction of an unlikely invasion — The case of Santiago Montag

    2.4 The invisible Russian weakness — Or the FT-CI not understanding a damn thing

    2.5 Declaring “Russian victory” (Alcoy, Maiello, Martínez)

    2.6 From “Russian victory” to Albamonte’s “non-victory”

    2.7 The Trotskyist lie about the New York Times… and again about the proxy war


IX. The Strategic Decline of Russia and the Ukrainian Disaster


  1. On the “Russian strategic advantage”

  2. The FT-CI and its (persistent) underestimation of Russia’s strategic crisis

  3. Can Russia collapse?


Third Part


X. From Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza to the Falklands War


  1. The FT-CI and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan

  2. Another betrayal by the FT-CI: the struggle of Rojava

  3. Yes to Palestinian resistance… No to Ukrainian resistance

  4. Yes to Argentine victory… No to Ukrainian victory

  5. The FT-CI’s reactionary anti-American campism


XI. Ukraine and the FT-CI’s International Document


XII. Emilio Albamonte’s “Military Art” Put to the Ukrainian Test


Fourth Part


XIII. For Ukraine’s Military Victory Against Russian Aggression


XIV. For the Disintegration of the Imperial Russian Federation


XV. Other Issues Regarding the Ukrainian Question


  1. Ukraine cannot trust any imperialism!

  2. Neither NATO nor the EU can protect the Ukrainian people!

  3. The Western betrayal of Budapest and the need for Ukrainian nuclear rearmament

  4. Ukraine in the face of revolution and civilizational collapse


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Ukraine – Archival Materials (2023–2025)


1-Essay in Support of the Ukrainian People and the Mapuche Struggle (September 2022)


2-The Pigs of Putin. Against the Pro-Putin Left (March 2023)


3-Weapons for Ukraine! (April 2023)


4-The Wagner Insurrection and the Death of Putin (June 2023)


5-The Triumph of Trump – Ukraine Analysis (November 2024)



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