Presentation of Chapter VI:
From Maidan square to the Minsk Accords and the siege to the revolutionary uprising of the workers of Donbass
“Novorossia”: a political scam of Putin and Stalinism to partition and divide the Ukrainian working class
As we have seen so far, the expropriation of Maidan Square struggle, which allowed the pro-European Union bourgeoisie of Kyiv to usurp the struggle of the masses when Yanukovych fell, was followed by a counterrevolutionary counteroffensive against the miners of Donbass in order to split and defeat the Ukrainian working class.
In the previous Chapter the Minsk Accords among the US, the EU and Putin had been developed and deepened.
In this Chapter, we affirm it was neither Poroshenko nor the fascist Kyiv army who crushed the heroic mass uprisings in Donbass. Their armies were disbanding from the rank and file, which was not willing to go to fight against their class brothers and sisters from Donbass.
As we will prove in this Chapter, the working class of the East could be defeated due to the sinister deeds of the fifth column from within, and by the Minsk Accords, which subjected the workers and the revolted people in Donbass to their pro-Russian executioners again.
The Minsk Accords could only be imposed by crushing the masses in Eastern Ukraine, which permanently tended to unite with the working class of the rest of the nation.
The Minsk Accords were followed, like the body by the soul, by a brutal fallacy and a fabrication of the Stalinist counterrevolutionary forces of the “great” Russia and Ukraine, of the fascist Russian Orthodox Church and the high oligarchy of Lugansk and Donetsk, the so-called “Novorrosia republic”.
This was a parody of a fictitious nation which took advantage of the hatred of the masses in Donbass against the oppression, crushing and systematic attack of the bourgeois gangs of Kyiv on their region, which is connected through links of production and language to the old industrial apparatus of the former USSR, as we have said.
If only the Ukranian working class had got unified in their struggle against imperialism, the oligarchy and Putin the murderer, every aspect of oppression and persecution of the peoples of Donetsk and Lugansk would have been gone quickly. It was about unifying the demands of the working class to break with the IMF, expropriate the oligarchs and disavow the foreign debt of Ukraine. That way, there could have been created a great national income to re-invest in the mines of the whole Ukraine, in the wealth of its lands, and in the technification with state-of-the-art machine-tools, in the steel and metal-mechanic industries.
Only the working class, which is an oppressed class, is capable of guaranteeing all the democratic rights, even that of self-determination, to the workers twice as exploited and persecuted in Donbass.
Yesterday, the pro-Russian post-1989 governments, and that of Yanukovych in particular, with its brutal policy of over-exploitation and attack on the masses’ gains imposed by the IMF and supported by Putin, pushed the masses more and more to the European Union. That way, a pro-Maastricht bourgeoisie was strengthened in Kyiv, the capital of the finances and gas transit of Ukraine.
Poroshenko’s attack on the workers and the people in Donbass was cynically prepared. This pushed the masses of that region to seek to be “protected” by the “great” Russia, which was waiting for them to strangle, with its agents there, the dual power of the working class and the exploited. From “Novorrosia”, with the pro-Russian oligarchs, the plans of hunger, sellout and dismissals dictated by the IMF were imposed just as Poroshenko or even worse, as Yanukovych had tried to implement them before, supported by Putin.
“Novorrosia” was nothing but a fiction and a deception, like the postulate of “anti-fascist front” which was promoted by the Stalinist currents in the entire Europe, which imposed an infamous deal with the oligarchs of Moscow with the excuse of stopping fascism in Kyiv. They were who ultimately saved the government of Poroshenko when it had already been defeated by the masses in its offensive on Donbass.
The Stalinists and their fifth column brigades set up the “anti-fascist front” with nothing more and nothing less than Putin, who applied an open fascist policy and one of direct counterrevolution when defending the interests of imperialism in the former Soviet republics.
Therefore, in this sixth Chapter, we publish the article which develops the betrayals and stabs on the back suffered by the Ukrainian proletariat in those hard years and the strangling of the huge potentiality of a mass revolutionary uprising, which couldn’t stand up in a synchronized way in the whole Ukraine. From there, also, the weakness and limits it had. It is precisely on these where the counterrevolution hit. The masses didn’t have the leadership they deserved at their helm.
This work on the scam that “Novorrosia” meant was written in moments in which the struggle of the working class in France and its general strikes in defense of a working week of 35 hours and against labour flexibility was still on fire, and when there was the flame of the struggle of the workers in Greece, the vanguard of the Western Europe uprising with more than 32 general strikes. Which was later betrayed by Stalinism and reformism that subjected, with Syriza in power, the working class to its “democratic” executioners of Maastricht Europe.
Also, this article was written in moments in which Putin, the US, Turkey and al-Assad signed the pacts of Geneva to partition Syria after massacring that nation, leaving 600 thousand dead, thousands and thousands of imprisoned and disappeared, plus 15 million refugees. The same fate will be suffered by Ukraine if the partition and destruction plan of Putin and NATO is imposed.
Undoubtedly, the policy of imperialism was to concentrate forces in Syria and Ukraine, using his guardian dog, Putin, to contain and defeat two key focuses of the mass revolutionary struggle against the capitalist crash in 2008, which led the workers and the subjugated people to the worst catastrophe.
So we present the article of April 2016:
“Ukraine: once again a revolution betrayed”
This work includes a note on the notorious role of the former Trotskyists, which, as in the Syrian revolution, were in the swamp of reformism together with Stalinism or subjecting the working class to the “democratic” executioners of Kyiv. The call our current did was to set up an independent soviet strategy for the victory of the Ukrainian revolution.
Also, this work goes with a programmatic manifesto of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International / FLTI on the imposition of the Minsk Accords and the betrayal of the reformist leaderships of the Ukrainian working class.
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It was not easy for the bourgeoisie and imperialism to control the indomitable masses of Ukraine. Every serious Marxist should understand that the characterization of the phenomena of the class struggles are not defined by ideology or by the reformist workers parties or bourgeois parties that lead or manipulate the masses to drive them off the revolutionary road.
To understand, in each moment, the struggles of the working class and the role of the treacherous leaderships, which filled the battlefield with defeats and betrayals, is decisive to collaborate with the masses to find a revolutionary way forward and to conquer their liberation.
Seeing today’s infamy, which tries to hide the counterrevolutionary role of Moscow, which is the one that truly managed to defeat the indomitable forces of the workers of Donbass from the inside, associated to the Stalinist fifth column, has our full despise and condemn.
The bourgeoisie had to consolidate the Minsk Pact and with it the robbery of the Crimea Peninsula of the “great” Russia. Putin already had a part of the loot in his pocket. The fifth column attacked, by killing leaders and fighters of the former Ukrainian army which were fighting together with the workers committees of the mines that organized the resistance.
The reconstitution of a centralized military force in Donbass, under the command of the “great” Russian bourgeoisie and Donetsk oligarchy, was the guarantee of the re-establishing of the bourgeois power in the region and a preview that Minsk Accords were being imposed.
We insist, “Novorrosia” was therefore a fictitious nation composed by a part of two provinces, under the protective umbrella of Moscow, to make the masses surrender. It was a maneuver of Putin and Stalinism to conspire against the Ukrainian workers. The role of the fifth column was decisive. For this, we publish two notes we consider significant, where our current denounced openly and internationally the role of murderers and criminals played by the “anti-fascist brigades” promoted from Moscow and the whole Europe.
So we present:
“Minsk Accords: Murders, missing people, jail and torture in Donbass”
“The killing of the commander Alexey Mozgovoi: A shot in the back by the bourgeoisie of Donbass to impose the disarming of the masses”
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The result of a strangled revolution, with a divided working class, couldn’t be other than the sharpening of the masses’ hardships and the attack on all their gains. This is how the working class ended, in a nation tied up with double and triple chains in the Minsk Accords.
“The consequences of the counterrevolutionary Minsk Accords for the masses”
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