(Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) Internationalists based in the world working class, wherever they are, have known it for some time. The long-running global economic crisis of capitalism, and the expedient policies adopted to combat it, have now reduced all the major powers to desperate measures. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the insoluble problems of ‘declining growth’ meant that it was only a matter of time before the major powers were openly taking the road to what was once unthinkable: yet another world war.