![[Ted Grant Archive – Update] Against “National Defence”](https://communist.red/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Hammer-and-sickle-the-communist-featured-image.png "[Ted Grant Archive – Update] Against “National Defence”")
As armaments were piled up in preparation for the Second World War Ted Grant explained that, "This war machine is for the defence of the trading interests and the colonial loot of British imperialism, for what is making for war is the intensified and sharpened struggle for markets between the different countries of the world."
Read the full article on the Ted Grant Internet Archive.
Today, western leaders gathered in Normandy, allegedly to commemorate the lives lost in the fight against Nazism. But as Alan Woods explains, the Allied leaders played an insignificant role in defeating fascism, compared to the struggle and sacrifice of the Soviet people.
Today is the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War Two. This bloody catastrophe, which claimed the lives of almost 5m Soviet troops and saw the Nazis plunge deep into Soviet territory, was facilitated by the wrecking behaviour of Stalin and the bureaucracy.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day. The establishment are pushing flag-waving jingoism down people’s throats, to distract from the COVID-19 crisis. We must tell the truth about WWII and the so-called ‘war hero’ Winston Churchill.