(Editorial for _Revolutionary Perspectives 28_ https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-07-23/revolutionary-perspectives-28 (Series 4), summarising the perspectives discussion from the CWO AGM held in Manchester, May 2026.) As we and others on the Communist Left predicted some years back, the insoluble economic crisis is forcing our capitalist masters into rivalries which presage a much wider conflict. Despite numerous planned or implemented "ceasefires" and "peace deals", the war in Ukraine has now dragged on for more than four years, the war in Palestine for nearly three.