These notes, pleading for an historical approach to the question of war in a proletarian sense, have been written for a preparatory meeting of the ‘Beach Communists Summer Camp’ in July 2024 at Poznan. Whereas we have found no publicly available reports on this summer camp so far, we find the notes by the UK-based ‘Friends of working class struggle’ nevertheless stimulating . They are followed by an evaluative report of a political confrontation with pro-Ukrainian “solidarity collec...