This war does not end in Ukraine

Esta guerra no termina en Ucrania is a Spanish-language political essay by Raúl Sánchez Cedillo published by Katakrak. Rather than treating the conflict as a conventional military or geopolitical case study, the book focuses on what it means to practice emancipatory politics in an environment shaped by propaganda and the consolidation of a continental “war regime.” 

Starting from Ukraine’s modern history and the wider post-Soviet space, Cedillo connects the current war to longer processes: capitalist restructuring, competing imperialisms, and the social effects of militarization. The argument follows the infrastructure that sustains war on both sides—economic logics, legal frameworks, and cultural narratives—and asks how these mechanisms are linked to neoliberalism, racism and xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-LGBTQI politics. 

A central thread is the insistence on reading the war from the standpoint of subaltern groups and scapegoated populations: poor workers (including racialized and feminized labor), the precariat, migrants, sexual and gender minorities, and people displaced by violence and extractive development. Across historical, geographic, and conceptual registers, the book brings together themes such as modern war and empire, international law, world-system economy, post-Soviet accumulation, and policy horizons like the Green New Deal—always returning to questions of class struggle and the search for “the common.”