From Ukraine to Gaza, stop the war!

Since the 19th century, the workers’ movement has often been the main social force committed to preventing imperialist wars where younger workers would be called to shed their blood and elder workers would be forced to work and starve. Since the Russian invasion and the outbreak of the Ukraine war, the urgent needfor this commitment is back. At the first stages of that war, we, as members of the workers’ committee of the Portuguese public media network RTP, issued a statement as our own contribution to this task.1 The following article is an explanation and updating of the reasons for that statement.