Ukraine- Feburary 25, 2022

Russian troops invade Ukraine
and fighting breaks out in Kyiv

While encircling Russia, NATO cynically lets Putin do the "dirty work" of massacring the masses and complete the enslavement of that nation. Then, they will go for everything.

Let’s stop the massacre and defeat the Russian invasion and the murderous NATO troops!
Revolutionary General Strike in the whole Europe!

Neither Biden nor NATO have stopped this invasion and they will not. They are not willing to go into a direct military clash with Putin today. Their strategy is to wear him down and encircle the "great" Russia politically and economically. Imperialism knows that Putin's weapons and his powerful army are not there to confront NATO, but rather to crush the revolutionary processes of the masses and the national rebellions of the subjugated peoples.
Putin is the guardian of the businesses of the capitalists and imperialism in Eurasia. He is defending to play that role also in Ukraine. Hence his devastating offensive in that nation already divided and oppressed by imperialism and the same "great" Russia.
Russia demonstrated its role as a counterrevolutionary gendarme in Kazakhstan, in Belarus, in the Caucasus, previously in Georgia and since 2015 in Donbass, massacring the best of the revolted working class in those former Soviet republics, just as the fascists in Kiev did it under the US command. They all acted under the umbrella of the Minsk Pact of the Maastricht powers, NATO and Putin.
For years now, Russia has agreed with Turkey and NATO to crush the revolutionary masses of Syria together with the fascist al-Assad. In a pact with Erdogan, Putin has surrendered Armenia and guaranteed that British Petroleum can steal all the oil from Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

The imperialist policy is to use this counterrevolutionary role of Putin and while doing so, he seeks to corner Russia to its borders in Europe. Ukraine is a battle that today, and for now, imperialism is not willing to fight militarily to the end. There’s a risk of weakening Putin, his counterrevolutionary gendarme in Eurasia, to the extreme, and even of weakening imperialism itself, since the imperialist powers and the US in particular do not have mass support in their countries to go on new military adventures, as they withdrew their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Wall Street pirates did make decisive progress in putting the Europe of Maastricht and Glacis under the command of NATO, that is, under the political, military and economic leadership of US imperialism with the excuse of "fighting against Russia". Thus Biden divided the European market controlled by the Franco-German axis and broke their sphere of influence and vital space throughout Europe, in particular in the East and next to the borders with Russia. From this point of view, this was also a very heavy blow to the gas business, not only in Germany, but fundamentally in Russia.
The US did this in the way that the imperialist powers dispute the spheres of influence: putting the weapons, the bayonets, NATO and its role as victorious in the Second World War on the table of the imperialist Maastricht.
As a result, as we have already said, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was stopped, which was a super business of Germany, supplied by Russia, to control the energy of the entire Europe. US-UK imperialism did the same thing with its Pacific fleet: England took the business of building 14 nuclear-powered submarines for Australia, in fact stealing it from the imperialist France and causing it to lose more than 20 billion dollars.

US imperialism has gone through three serious crises (that of 1997-2001, that of 2008 and the last stock market crash of 2019-2020) in the 21st century. Those crises blew up the world economy and the US wants to make the whole world to pay for their crisis.
The Europe of Maastricht closed the European market, while maintaining an open dispute over the spheres of influence in the semi-colonial world. In the last two decades the great Germany together with France conquered a vital space and a division of labor from Russia to Portugal. Thus, Maastricht acted defensively in the face of the successive crises that hit US imperialism and threw them to the world and Europe.

The US policy in Europe is to besiege Russia and to complete the colonization and control of the former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe that became independent from the Russian Federation in 1989. This is what they have already done in all the nations of the European Glacis, which have been transformed into the "backyard" of the imperialist Maastricht or are under the political, economic and military tutelage of NATO, under the Anglo-American command. Now imperialism is seeking to advance on Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine -which are already true semi-colonies with their economies totally controlled by transnationals and imperialist bankers- to turn them into colonies under the direct command of NATO, as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

Today, Ukraine is the battle of a war for the complete colonization of the former Soviet republics that the US needs to lead in order to, in the future, advance towards the submission of the "great" Russia. This offensive war of Anglo-American imperialism, to corner Russia within its borders and to break the political, economic and military balance of Europe, is a strategic battle of the imperialist gangs of Wall Street to make Russia, the working class, the oppressed peoples of the world and their competitors the ones to pay for the crash of the world economy.
But today's battle to crush the working class and finish destroying the Ukrainian nation, under these conditions, has been left in the hands of its executioner, Putin, with whom a new pact and agreement will be negotiated again, while imperialism continues to surround it economically and politically. Meanwhile, the dead belong to the working class and the exploited masses of Ukraine.

All the contradictions of world politics and economy have been concentrated in Ukraine

These last weeks we have seen Germany and France to plead for a "peaceful" and "diplomatic" solution to the crisis, but they collided with the irreducible position of NATO to force them to break with Russia.
The Franco-German axis was and is eagerly seeking to maintain the status quo and negotiate with Putin -even if Kiev is taken- a new Minsk 2 Pact that recomposes the European division of labour.
After losing Nord Stream 2, Germany is reluctant to advance more economic and military measures against Russia. As a great power, it has denied Ukraine the entrance to the European Union, an issue that would be a very heavy blow for Moscow. Germany is even against removing Russia from the SWIFT system of international banking connections, since it would put at risk collecting the millionaire loans that Germany provided to Putin. Seeing this, the US sent the presidents of Latvia and Poland to Frankfurt to demand this measure to be applied immediately. At every step inter-imperialist tensions erupt under US command, and Germany is reluctantly drawn into this NATO offensive.
With Biden, Wall Street Establishment is achieving what Trump could not do with his trade war to increase tariffs on Maastricht products entering the US. The trade war, without being supported by bayonets, is only smoke that is dissipated by the wind

Putin saw this imperialist offensive by NATO and at the same time these inter-imperialist contradictions. Supported by broad layers of the middle classes of the "great" Russia and in a ferocious repression and crushing of the masses (which for now leaves him the hands free to fight at international level), Putin moved 150,000 men to the border, invaded Kazakhstan to crush the revolted workers, occupied Belarus and prepared his counterattack in the Ukraine. No class or class sector gives up without a fight, let alone if it has 13,000 nuclear warheads behind it and one of the most powerful armies in the world, inherited from the former USSR. And this is so, despite the fact that the "great" Russia depends on the exports of its wheat, gas, oil and minerals to trade as a major supplier of raw materials and commodities in the entire world market, particularly Europe. Likewise, Russia also decisively needs the world economy, controlled by imperialism, to import machinery, machine tools and even technology for its military apparatus.

Contrary to what the bourgeois press affirmed that we were facing "war games" and despite what the world reformist left said, namely that there was a "clash between NATO and Russia", there’s the battle for Ukraine ongoing, which for Putin means his survival as the gendarme of the businesses of the capitalists and imperialism in the European republics of the former USSR, while for the US and NATO, Ukraine is one more pawn on their offensive board against Russia and the European market.

Today, Putin and his army are at the gates of Kiev. He demands that the Ukrainian army's officer caste take over the government there... That is, a Russian military attache that allows him to open a new negotiation with imperialism about his role in the western republics of the former USSR.
Russia was suffocated in this imperialist offensive and attacked. And by doing so, it is doing imperialism's “dirty work” of causing a national defeat for Ukraine and massacring its working class. If Russia takes Ukraine, it will leave it colonized with double and triple chains, and a thousand times more subject to imperialism when it sees the conditions to take it. In other words, the US allows Putin to attack Ukraine and when conditions allow it, it will enter to keep an already oppressed and crushed colony. Meanwhile, they announce that Sweden and Finland will join NATO and keep Russia in a permanent state of war in order to undermine its home front, wear it down economically and subject it to a war of occupation in which it may suffer heavy losses.

In this cruel invasion, the workers and the poor of the colonized Ukraine are the ones bleeding in the disputes over the spheres of influence between the imperialist powers of Masstricht and USA, and in Putin’s ‘battles’ to defend his right to oppress all the nations of the former USSR around him.

To stop the massacre, expel Russian troops from Ukraine, stop Putin's counter-revolutionary war machine and defeat NATO:
Revolutionary General Strike in the whole Europe!

The coward fascist generals in Kiev and their government, submited to NATO officers, have already begun to make deals with Moscow and are ready to surrender. It is the masses resisting hard who are really fighting the invading troops.
On the one hand, President Zelensky has already started a negotiation with Russia, while the rank-and-file soldiers put up a tough fight. Thousands of workers and poor peasants sign up to resist.
The tragedy that drags down the Ukrainian working class is the fratricidal war imposed by Kiev and Putin's Black Hundreds in Donbass, to divide and strangle the Ukrainian proletariat, which had risen up united and overthrown the pro-Putin and pro-IMF government of Yanukovych in 2014. The division resulted very bad for the Ukrainian proletariat, whether from East or from West, leaving more than 14,000 dead in this fratricidal clash.

We must recover the unity of the Ukrainian working class!
For a provisional revolutionary government of the resistance workers’ committees, the trade unions, the poor peasants and the rank and file soldiers

The workers, the poor and the rank and file soldiers should take into their hands the control of the armament of all the barracks in Ukraine, ousting all the officers, always ready to negotiate and agree with Moscow and imperialism.
The Ukrainian resistance is standing up and with a workers' militia it can already be centralized with committees by neighborhood, city, region and at the national level.

EXPROPRIATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION AND PLACE UNDER WORKERS' CONTROL THE BANKS AND THE BIG PROPERTIES OF THE UKRAINIAN BILLIONAIRE OLIGARCHS who for decades have enslaved the working class, to put all the resources of the nation to get weapons and feed the people!

The demand “arms for Ukraine”, as an appeal to the world working class and its organizations, is the task of the moment.
The defeat of the invading troops at the hands of the exploited masses will be won by civil war in the cities and not by NATO puppet generals.
The European workers and those of the whole world should only ship the weapons that go directly to the Ukrainian resistance and not the military supplies that go to the counterrevolutionary troops of NATO or to those of Putin.

The workers of Kiev must call on their class brothers and sisters in Donbass to break with the fascist forces of Putin's Black Hundreds, who have closed their mines and starved them to death, as it happens to all the Ukrainian workers who today they see their children emigrate by millions to the Europe of Maastricht due to lack of bread and work, while earning a miserable 200 euros wage, the lowest wage in the whole Europe.

The murderous and coward Putin claims that he invades Ukraine to “put an end to the neo-Nazis of Kiev”, when his government in Donbass is just as fascist than that of the comic actor and the paramilitary gangs that rule Ukraine, or more.
Putin's government is no less counter-revolutionary, since he is a true Franco from the Russian steppes and has imposed a ferocious dictatorship; his counterrevolutionary troops  massacred the entire male population over 14 years of age in Chechnya; they bombed entire cities in Syria; they entered to kill, repress and torture with hot iron the oil workers of Kazakhstan; they repress and detain tens and tens of thousands of Russian workers in their prisons and imprison them when more than two workers get together to make a claim... The oligarchs of Moscow are a bourgeois class that came out of the Stalinist scum that took over the businesses of the former USSR, crushing the working class with blood and fire. The bourgeoisie wants to hide that the assassin Putin is an exponent of the capitalist restoration of the USSR, which everyone applauded, and an excrescence of the world policy of imperialism.

A clear way to win the war and the resistance that will open in the occupied Ukraine will be to fraternize and call to the rank-and-file soldiers of Russia, who are workers and poor peasants under arms, to defect, to issue, together with them, a call for the Russian working class, the workers and oppressed peoples of all the former Soviet republics to rise up, to fight alongside their class siblings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and to break with NATO in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
This will be the way to restore the dictatorship of the proletariat in the former USSR as in 1917, when power was seized under the revolutionary leadership of the Bolsheviks and the Third International. They, supported by the European proletariat, were able to break the siege and defeat the invasion of 14 imperialist armies to the USSR.

In this war of colonization and oppression in Ukraine, only the workers die... They cannot continue to bleed for their exploiters and executioners and to continue living with hunger, misery and the migration of their children.
As Trotskyism stated in the Spanish Civil War, a program of social reform, of attacking the businesses of the capitalists and imperialism, is necessary to win the war.

Let’s open the fronts!

In Russia, the workers and the people are already going out onto the streets, as in Moscow and St. Petersburg, to stop Putin's murderous war machine.
In Tbilisi, Georgia, the uprising against the war has begun.
The oil workers and the entire working class of Kazakhstan have in their hands the possibility of entering into combat for their claims against the imperialist oil companies and their gendarme Putin. This is the moment. This is how the workers of that country announce it in the company assemblies and in the oil wells.
Russia invaded Belarus to support the Lukashenko dictatorship, cornered and surrounded by the general strike of the working class. He took that country to suffocate the struggle of the workers and from there enter Ukraine with his troops. We must take to the streets in Belarus again! Lukashenko out! Putin out!

The Europe of Maastricht has launched a ferocious attack against the working class. Layoffs have deepened. There’s a collapse of wages and all the workers' gains. The infamous Bourbon monarchy has crushed Catalonia and the Basque people and, as it did in the Cadiz metalworkers' strike, threatens to violently attack any decisive workers' action.
The workers of the imperialist powers and of Eastern Europe must look at themselves in the mirror of the Ukrainian working class, which receives the worst wages in Europe and has the largest number of migrants on the continent.
The proletariat of the imperialist Maastricht, its trade union centers and workers' organizations must call to coordinate the struggle and its action with the workers of the Glacis.
The demand for "equal pay for equal work" by the trade unions and workers' organizations of Maastricht, can rise up and lead to unity with all the workers of Eastern Europe.

Ukraine, like Syria, is being martyred by Putin and fascist counter-revolutionary bourgeois forces. Ukraine and Syria have been twin revolutions and counterrevolutions, where with the traps of counterrevolutionary pacts like the one in Minsk and the one in Geneva and Astana, the masses were disarmed, divided and massacre, genocide and partition were imposed on those nations.
The flame of the Syrian resistance is still burning and deserves to be part of the same resistance of the masses in Ukraine.
The fight against the imperialist oil companies such as British Petroleum, Exxon and Total, which plunder the former Soviet republics and all of Eurasia, is the same one that revolts the martyred masses of the Maghreb and the Middle East.

It is the traitorous cadres of the workers' organizations, tied to the imperialist gangs, that prevent the irruption of the European and international working class to stop the war.

It is time for a great internationalist action of the European and US working class!
It is only prevented by the servile character of its leadership before the bourgeoisie.

 What prevents a great action of the working class of the whole Europe, from opening the fronts in Russia and in the European Old Glacis, what prevents the American proletariat to re-enter the scene to confront the pirates of Wall Street and NATO, as they did against Trump, is the social-imperialist leaderships, the trade union bureaucracies and Stalinism.
The irruption of the European working class is a question of life and death in the first place for the Ukrainian working class.  Because the more the reformist left, the trade unions and workers' organizations of the world that are under the leadership of Stalinism and Castroism that handed over the Cuban revolution, support Putin, his invasion and massacre in Ukraine, the more they push the Ukrainian masses to the burning embers of imperialist Maastricht and NATO.
The "political backwardness" of the Ukrainian working class is none other than the treacherous betrayal of the counterrevolutionary leaderships that support Putin or seed open illusions in the "democratic goodness" of the European Union and Biden.
These are the two ends of the same rope that strangles the working class of Ukraine.  The only thing that can break this is the decisive irruption of the European, Russian and international proletariat on the streets, which would paralyze Putin's war machine and call for open combat against NATO and Maastricht.
Most currents of the reformist left today support the assassin Putin in his invasion of Ukraine.  In 2015-2017, Stalinism, supported by the renegades of Trotskyism, sent counterrevolutionary brigades as a fifth column to kill the most hardened and combative of the Lugansk and Donetsk working class and the leaders of the militias whose fighting program was to unite the workers Donbass and Kiev and the return of the millions of migrant workers treated as slaves in imperialist Europe.
These same currents today continue to support the fascist al-Assad and brazenly dress themselves as "anti-NATO" when they are the ones who called in the US to vote for Biden "against Trump."  HOW MISERABLE.

 These leaderships are what divides the working class in the US, Europe and internationally, tying their fate to that of their executioners.
An entire wing of ex-Trotskyists that also upholds this policy has become a link in this chain that strangles any independent intervention of the international working class in the war.

Likewise, the pro-social democratic and social-imperialist currents also prevent a unified irruption of the European working class.  They, like Melenchon, Varoufakis, the "socialists" of the Queen of England, subjected to the Labor Party, etc., have created in the great masses illusions over it is possible to "democratize Maastricht" and "build a social Maastricht", though it is, as we see today, submitted and subordinated to the counterrevolutionary bayonets of NATO, monitored by the Pentagon.

 Other currents - like every reformist who is lost when the war begins and who does not distinguish the interests of the working class in it -maintain that the way out would be given by conquering a "unified Ukraine, free from Russian oppression and outside NATO and the European Union”, as if this were possible without the working class taking the political and military leadership of the war and intervening together with the European proletariat, cornering the imperialist powers.  In the midst of a country at war and occupied, this is a social democratic policy with a fever of 40°C (104°F).
In this era when no new nations can emerge in a world economy and politics totally controlled by imperialism, there will be no national independence of Ukraine without the success of a workers' and Soviet revolution, that is, without the working class leading all the oppressed and exploited classes of the nation in the national war against the occupying troops and imperialism, a class war that will only get victory with the exploited taking power.

This is why the position and program raised by an Argentine current, the PTS, fully integrated into bourgeois parliamentarism, draws attention.  They wrote a 600-page book trying to crudely link Clausewitz's manual on the military question and the technique of war with the political struggle of Marxism.  They entered into a controversy over the policy of "war of maneuvers" and "war of positions" that developed in the Third International after the defeat of the German revolution.  This pacifist current, enemy of intervening in any civil war, thus tried to shine as "military specialists", when every day of their militancy they go out of their way to win a new parliamentarian in the bourgeois Congress of Argentina.
The proof is in sight: the "military policy" that they propose in their different declarations to win the war and end the oppression of Russia, is a "mobilization"... What mobilization?  There are many types of demonstrations, strikes, marches, strikes, pickets, militias, boycotts of military machines, sending international brigades to fight, insurrections... We all know that the PTS refers to peaceful demonstrations.  Moreover, they are afraid, due to their submission to the bourgeois regime, of proposing a minimum military program so that the Ukrainian proletariat frees itself from the Russian invasion and the NATO encirclement.  Giving a "little jump" to the left, they argue that we must confront the "Ukrainian oligarchs" (sic).  How?  Remaining totally quiet.  Ooh yes, all this in the "perspective", nobody knows for how many years, of "conquering socialism".
When the war, the crash and the revolution arrive, the dust dissipates and the reformist and revisionist character of those who have liquidated all continuity and vestiges of the Fourth International and the military program of the proletariat is seen with total clarity.

For their part, the self-proclaimed “anti-capitalists” in Europe call for the “UN to intervene” to mediate in the war.  These people no longer have any shame in being servants of imperialism.  They propose to that den of bandits, where Russia and the US have veto power, that they end the war and the massacre in Ukraine.  Whom are these self-styled “anti-capitalists” kidding?

 There are also currents that proclaim that in Ukraine there is an immediate war between NATO and Russia.  For now, this is not the case.  Today's war is over who gets Ukraine, who crushes the working class of that country and colonizes that nation, either under a new Minsk Pact 2 between Putin and Biden, or under full control of a military agent in Kiev protected by Moscow, which continues to guarantee the business of the imperialist gas barons throughout Ukraine.  Meanwhile, NATO will continue to join forces, incorporating Finland and Sweden as it is proposing today, imposing sanctions and militarily fortifying the countries it controls in Eastern Europe.  NATO and the imperialist powers will use Moscow's current “dirty work” to make Russia pay the political and economic costs of this war, continue to corner it towards its borders and prepare new military counter-offensives going forward.
These currents raise the slogan of “peace”, as if this were possible without crushing NATO and sweeping away the counterrevolutionary Franco from Moscow.  There is not and there will be no peace without the victory of the European working class in the class war that the bourgeoisie, imperialism, their murderous governments and regimes have declared against it.
The demand for peace without stating that the enemy is at home and must be defeated is a flagrant betrayal of the struggle to defeat the NATO war machine and end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

NATO has cynically let Putin and his counterrevolutionary troops do the "dirty work" in Ukraine

 The Zelensky government of Ukraine screams from the rooftops that they have left him alone.  What did he believe?  That NATO troops are national liberation troops?  how cynical!  NATO troops are just as murderous and oppressive as Putin's.  They are the ones who massacred a million Iraqis.  The ones that invaded Vietnam and sprayed it with Napalm.  Those who put a protective umbrella with Turkey to al-Assad and Putin so that they could send Syria to the Middle Ages.  They are the ones that occupied Afghanistan... They are the ones that for now let this "dirty work" be done by the invading troops of the "great" Russia, so when they finally enter they will already have a torn, massacred and crushed working class and also a protected colony, which will have changed of oppressor and in this case, also of owner.

 The members of NATO and its leader, the United States, as we have said, still do not have the mass social base in their countries that would allow them to go on new warmongering and military adventures.  The American, French, Spanish, and German working class would not allow themselves to go and die for the business of those above.  As we said, this is the most serious “military limit” that the US and the imperialist powers of Maastricht have.  That's because they would need, as Russia has, a new Franco crushing the masses with sabers and boots.
That is Putin's “military advantage” as the gendarme of capitalism's businesses, which he wants to assert.
We say that this military advantage is for now, because it is not the same to win a war of positions, of armies, and even occupy a nation, than to take full dominion and control over it.  Or is Putin going to put a soldier pointing his gun next to every miner, every worker, every teacher, every doctor, to work and produce under Russian control?
That is the contradiction that the "super" armies have when they face the masses in a civil war, as happened to US imperialism that suffered serious defeats when it came to wanting to crush the oppressed peoples.
The battle for Russia's entry into Kiev is getting much tougher than the Kremlin anticipated.  This is normal.  Absolutely normal.  The reason is that the worker who defends Kiev and the cities of Ukraine is defending his family, his home, his life, which he feels as his dearest responsibilities.  On the other hand, the one who attacks defends nothing, except his ambition to win.

But this is not enough to impose the victory of the masses against the invading troops.  For weeks, England and France have been announcing that they had donated 500 million dollars to the Ukrainian government to buy weapons... For its part, the US claimed that it had provided the country with state-of-the-art weapons.  This is an infamy and a lie!  The Ukrainian government has called every man over the age of 18 to join the militias to defend Kiev and only gives him a Kalashnikov with 2 chargers.  Miserable.  A thousand times miserable.
They send the masses to their death, while the bourgeoisie steal the money, which by the way was never intended to buy weapons.
The wars against oppression and colonialism are not won by means of submitting to the bourgeoisie, much less to some gang of imperialism.  There is no other way out than making the workers' organizations, the unions, the poor peasants and the common soldiers take the direction of the war in their hands and control all the weapons, which are now surely well-guarded by the Ukrainian generals, who are negotiating their surrender to the Russian officers.

 The "great" Russian military offensive in Ukraine is far from over, even if it managed to take Kiev.  There is the fascist beast of al-Assad that even after 11 years of massacre together with the Russian, Turkish, American army and with Gurkha troops like the YPG, has not yet been able to finish liquidating the resistance of the Syrian people, as the US imperialists could not either do in Iraq or Afghanistan.
What the "great" Russia and NATO deserve in Europe are new Iraqs and new Vietnams that finish arising the workers of the imperialist metropolises in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, New York, and also inside Russia, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, etc.  The path to victory will be there, leading to a class civil war and socialist revolution to crush the imperialist beast and its executioner in Eastern Europe.

The revolutionary uprising of the masses in Ukraine in 2014, which was quickly sidetracked, betrayed and crushed, drew the veil off the fact that the Ukrainian revolution was, is and will be a pivotal revolution of the revolutions of the East and the West of Europe.
Hence its strategic importance, not only for Putin and NATO, but fundamentally for the European and world working class.

From the Russian steppes to Portugal, from the Glacis to Maastricht… throughout Europe we must open our fronts!

The same working class, the same struggle, the same enemy!

 Against counter-revolutionary wars and the invasion of Ukraine, civil war throughout Europe against NATO, imperialism and Putin's assassin!

 From Kazakhstan and Belarus, from Ukraine and Moscow, from Syria and from Georgia… Putin's bloody war machine must be defeated and crushed!

 It is necessary to put an end to NATO and the imperialist Maastricht that put the gun to the temple of all the workers and oppressed peoples of Europe and the whole world!

 The lives of the workers of Ukraine matter too!
Against the counterrevolutionary forces of the imperialist Wall Street gangs, against the attack on their conquests, against hunger and unemployment, the American working class must win back the streets!
 The enemy is at home!  The enemy is Wall Street!  The enemy is Biden, the commander of the murderous NATO troops!

Independent Ukraine was not a misunderstanding of Lenin and the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, quite the contrary.  Because only under the revolutionary government of the Soviets in the USSR, the oppressed peoples of Eurasia and Eastern Europe were able to achieve their self-determination and even the foundation of their nations.  This is so because the working class is the only class that does not live from the work of others, but from their own work.  It is not a class that oppresses, contrariwise, it is an exploited class.  Hence, the war cry of the Bolsheviks of 1917 must reach the workers of today's “great” white Russia and of the imperialist countries: any people that oppresses another will never be able to liberate itself!
That is why also only a provisional revolutionary government of Ukrainian workers and poor peasants would be able to give the right to self-determination and autonomy to the peoples of Donetsk and Lugansk and the broadest democratic freedoms to all the oppressed within the Ukrainian nation.

 Russia has invaded Ukraine.  The resistance of the Ukrainian masses has already begun.

 If Putin's occupation is imposed, Ukraine will be tied with double and triple chains and will be handed over as a bargaining chip by murderous Putin to the imperialist butchers of Maastricht or Wall Street.
Yesterday it was Syria… Today it is Ukraine… If we do not stop the imperialist beast and its counter-revolutionary partners, the path to war and fascism will certainly be opened.

The US is already announcing the mobilization of huge military contingents of 150,000 men to the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea and the NATO countries that have border with Russia.  For imperialism Ukraine is a "pearl for its crown", which it hopes to recover as a colony and crush it, so fencing Russia; far from returning to the time of the tsars, the latter will have to look at itself in the mirror of the former Soviet republics that have been totally colonized or semi-colonized by imperialism.

 In Latin America, in the US, in Europe, in Africa, the working class has not given up.  Those who have long ago done that are the treacherous leaderships that surrender and betray their class fights.

 It is necessary to put up a fight!  For the international revolutionary unity and struggle of the working class!

For a working class, united, Soviet and independent Ukraine!
For the Socialist United States of Europe!

 Carlos Munzer and Nadia Briante,
For the Editorial Board of “The International Workers Organizer”,  
Organ of the Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International / FLTI