Presentation of Chapter V:

2015: With the Minsk Accords, Ukraine is divided: a real hell for the masses

Under these conditions the Ukrainian nation was besieged, divided, handcuffed and subjected to the IMF, after the working class could not take power due to the betrayal of its leaders.
Donbass could not be taken by fascism, but it was contained and its revolutionary forces were exhausted by the perfidious actions of the Stalinist fifth column and Putin's mercenaries and, as we have already seen, with the gun to their temple of Poroshenko's counterrevolutionary army.

If yesterday they had deceived the masses in Maidan Square to get them off the streets, telling them that their lives would change and they would earn wages like those of the workers in Maastricht Europe, in Donbass, as we have seen, with the fiction of "Novorrosia" and the promise of its incorporation to Russia, they created the deception that the mines would continue working and there would be no dismissals, to cover up the disorganization of the masses that the Stalinist fifth column was imposing. Actually, as soon as the last vanguard worker or rank and file soldier in Donbass, who was not under the discipline of Putin's generals and politicians was executed, the mines were razed and the least productive ones were closed, as the IMF had been demanding, first under Yanukovych government and now with the Poroshenko government.
Thus, the Minsk Accords were established, which are the true regime of domination that was imposed on the Ukraine already under tutelage, dividing its working class and subjugating the nation with double chains.
The Minsk Accords, as it could not be otherwise, were provisional deals that served the US to advance on Ukraine, but not enough to weaken the "great" Russia, which is what the former really and decisively needs in order to palliate the crash and the crisis that involve the ruling imperialism.

From the point of view of the revolution and the counterrevolution in Ukraine, these accords marked an enormous victory for the exploiters as a whole, which ended up strangling the revolutionary process and meant, above all, the end of the phase of civil war that had started in 2014.
Despite this, as we will see in the next chapters, the Ukrainian working class confronted this anti-worker and national subjugation pacts openly and decisively. They are a deal like the one signed in Geneva among Turkey, the US, Russia and Iran to support the fascist al-Assad, to crush the Syrian revolution and split Syria, on the basis of 600,000 deaths and millions of IDP and refugees.
As we will show in this book, it was precisely this great mass resistance in Ukraine, which again threatened to unite the working class for their demands and against the lay-offs, which prevented the Minsk Accords from stabilizing. That is what the current war is about: dividing Ukraine and completing the Minsk Accords, with Moscow stealing the south and east of Ukraine.
This is what Kissinger proposed to do now and without delay at the last Davos Summit. But this does not still convince Biden and the NATO chiefs. They are supporting the Kyiv government in order to maintain a war that leaves Russia worn out before Ukraine breaks. Not only that, but also they aim to weaken US imperialist competitors in the world market as a result, amid the deepening economic crisis of the imperialist Europe of Maastricht. So that in this war the US is also accumulating military power in Europe in order to achieve victory in the trade war that Trump had launched on imperialist Europe.

We present an article in which there’s the letter of the sinister Minsk Accords signed by Merkel, Obama, Hollande, Putin and Poroshenko. People that today talk about the “progressive” and “anti-imperialist” role of Putin turn to be really miserable, because with this deal the signatories created a bloodbath in Ukraine. Putin, far from “containing imperialism”, worked with it to contain a heroic revolution, a thousand times betrayed, a thousand times drown in blood, from the East to the West of Ukraine.
So we publish in this chapter the article of May 2015 titled:

Poroshenko couldn’t defeat the exploited of Donbass. Therefore…
Putin, the US and NATO seal a deal in Minsk to disarm the masses in the East and partition Ukraine

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There’s also in this Chapter a statement of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International / FLTI of May 2015 calling the European working class to take in its hands the fight against the imperialist oppression and that of the “great” Russia of Ukraine and against the brutal attack that its proletariat was suffering.
In this article we affirmed that in Eastern and Western Europe, the working class had one single enemy: the imperialist powers of Maastricht, the IMF, the US and the butcher Putin, the gendarme at thecservice of all of them in Eurasia. We called the workers of the entire Europe to break the siege imposed by the Minsk Accords on the Ukrainian working class, whose ranks were divided and subjected to huge forces that closed the path to their victory in the struggle that the exploited had started in 2014.
As yesterday the struggle in Greece, of the “Outraged” in the Spanish State, of the workers in Romania in 2010, of the French workers, or the masses of Georgia, Ukraine poses that the fight to conquer the unity of the whole European working class is on the agenda. In particular, to conquer the unity with the Russian workers, who are suffering one of the cruelest counterrevolutionary dictatorships in the planet, which allows Putin to massacre without consequences in the areas where he acts as guardian of the business deals of the capitalists and imperialism.

So we hereby present the statement titled:
“The tasks of internationalist solidarity of the European proletariat with the enslaved Ukrainian working class”

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Also, for the reader to know deeply the situation of the Ukrainian working class in those years, in this Chapter, we add two notes about the unprecedented sufferings of the miners movement, which, in Ukraine as in the rest of the world, work under terrible conditions.
The first note written on the situation of the miners of Donbass:
On the death of 33 miners
It was not an accident, it was a massacre! Murderous State!

This note is about the explosion of firedamp, which took place in Zasiadko mine in Donetsk in March 2015. Media discussed if this was due to an attack of artillery by Poroshenko. But it was not. It was due to the terrible conditions that caused a demolition of the mine which was in the territory under Putin’s mercenaries control.

The second note, which refers to the congress of the Kyiv miners union and their struggle against the government, has the title:
Enough of dividing the workers in Ukraine!
From the East to the West, one single enemy, one single struggle, one single demand!

In this note we explain the tendency of the miners of Kyiv and the Ukrainian west to enter the fight, expressed in the Congress of the Mining Federation, which made a strike and demonstration of 10 thousand workers in Kyiv in April 2015 demanding decent wages.

2014: miners of Donbass

2015: 2015: Minsk Accords between the Kyiv government, Germany, France and Russia