October 30, 2022
After 9 months of war…
Moscow's counter-revolutionary army bogs down in eastern Ukraine
Russian youth refuse to die for Putin's war and his counterrevolutionary oligarch partners
The US imperialism and NATO prepare with Putin the "pax of cemeteries" and new businesses
The workers and the Ukrainian masses are the ones who put the dead
They must take the political and military leadership of the war
It's been almost 9 tragic months of the Russian invasion to Ukraine, which the working class pays with their flesh and blood. Thousands of refugees, hundreds of deaths, destroyed cities, only deepen the suffering of the punished Ukrainian masses. As if that were not enough, Russia bombed the main cities for several days, such as Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia among others, with dozens of deaths, destroying buildings, hospitals, schools, and leaving thousands without water, electricity or heating, before a harsh winter ahead.
Weeks ago, we saw Putin signing the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Dontesk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson (hiding behind an alleged rigged referendum and held at gunpoint), deepening a partition of the nation that will begin in 2015/2016, with the counterrevolutionary Minsk pacts, which left Crimea for Putin, “Novorossiya” (Donbass) for the pro-Russian bourgeoisie and the west and Kyiv under the command of Poroshenko, the former president, a puppet of imperialism.
The situation in Ukraine is becoming more and more unbearable for the masses, both in the regions annexed by Russia, where plans to close mines and establishments are already being applied, and in the rest of Ukraine where, in addition to suffering from the siege of Russia, the president of Ukraine Zelensky , with the war and a "reconstruction plan" as perfect excuses, has decreed that companies can fire workers without cause and without compensation, in addition to allowing wages not to be paid in the context of the cruel war.
Meanwhile, US imperialism has yield its Ukrainian colony as a pawn to be massacred, with the increasingly clear objective of weakening "Great Russia" to go about its business and break their political and commercial relationship with Maastricht imperialist Europe.
With the sale of short-range weapons to Ukraine, imperialism manages to indebt that nation a thousand times more than it already was, plundered by the IMF.
Ukraine is a devastated nation, in debt, with millions of refugees, and a people heroically defending its territory against invading troops.
The working class puts up the dead. Together with the European and Russian working class, it holds the key to prevent the partition and definitive colonization of Ukraine.
In Russia and on the Ukrainian front, the youth refuses to die and fight for the oligarchs and Putin's murderous regime
Russian troops are bogged down in the Ukrainian east and south. It is the masses and the Russian youth who achieved it
It has been in Russia where the main ally of the Ukrainian masses has stood up. Their refusal to enlist in Putin's army, blessed by the fascists of the Orthodox Church, is the most powerful "missile" received by the Ukrainian masses to stop the invasion.
On the Ukrainian front, ordinary soldiers do not fight. There is withdrawal and even surrender of weapons for the nation they occupy. Why kill and die in a sister nation for the benefit of Putin's super-millionaires and bourgeois gangs associated in multiple businesses with imperialism?
In the Ukrainian war, the fronts were opened, but they are not only Kherson, Donbass, Zaporizhzhia, but also Moscow, the Urals, Saint Petersburg, etc. The men, as the imperialist and Russian press must acknowledge, do not go out during the day neither they take the subway nor buses to avoid being recruited by Putin's murderous counterrevolutionary white army. Not even the prisoners accept being recruited.
This is what the Ukrainian offensive of the last few weeks on the front lines and the retreat of Russian troops are all about: the heroism of a people who refuse to be subdued, and of the vast majority of the attacker who refuses to subdue them.
In Moscow, gaps and tendencies towards political crisis are already opening up. US imperialism announces that negotiations must begin quickly. For the US, it is decisive that this counterrevolutionary military adventure of Moscow is not defeated by the masses, since it would open a Vietnam-type scenario for Russia, which would end up collapsing the gendarme of its businesses throughout Eurasia.
A victory of the Ukrainian masses, who gave up their lives on the battlefield and who paid with millions of refugees who are running hungry across Europe, would make it impossible for imperialism and the Ukrainian oligarchs to control their slaves and impose the partition they are preparing for the martyred and oppressed Ukraine.
The uprising of the Russian youth and the Ukrainian workers would reopen the way to the only way out of the historical quagmire imposed by the betrayal of Stalinism in 1989, which is none other than the revolution of the workers' councils to conquer a Soviet Workers' Independent and United Ukraine, as was done in 1918.
To deal a decisive blow to the invasion of the “Great Russia”, to end the imperialist looting by the IMF and the EU
The Ukrainian working class must take the political and military leadership of the war
Set up committees of workers and common soldiers! The heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people, who bleed and leave the dead on the battlefield and in the cities while the bourgeoisie discusses how businesses are distributed, must take in their hands the political and military leadership of the war, that is, in the first place, dismiss and disobey the bourgeois officers and take control of all the arming and disarmament of the bourgeoisie by the workers. To stop the invasion and the massacre: Generalized armament of the people: one man, one rifle!
In each liberated territory, councils of workers and common soldiers must be set up to put all the factories and companies under their control to produce so that the people at war and hungry can eat, dress and live with dignity; so that it is the Kyiv super-oligarchs who pay for the war and not the masses torn apart by the Moscow massacre.
The setting up of workers' and soldiers' councils must impose workers' control in all companies and in trade. It is the people in arms that must take control of the ports, through which Cargill and Monsanto take all the wealth of grains and food from the Ukrainian land in spurious and dirty deals with Zelensky and his band of oligarchs.
This is the path to reunify the Ukrainian working class from Donbass to Kyiv, to unite it with the workers martyred and super-exploited by the butcher Putin in Russia and in all the former Soviet republics where he maintains control with manu militari.
It must be the proletarian revolution the one that resolves the crisis of this war; the one that frees the Ukrainian nation from all oppression and the working class of Russia and all of Europe from exploitation, hunger and misery.
Nadia Briante , co-author of the book “Ukraine at War”
Russia: rebellion of the youth and the people against Putin's counterrevolutionary wars
Russia is bogged down in Ukraine and can't figure out how to get out of the quagmire, despite the claims of those who affirm that “Russia is a military power”. The Russian artillery attack has failed. The bombardment to the main Ukrainian cities was a blackmail that lasted just a few days but multiplied the suffering of thousands of exploited. This exposed Putin, who promised a short war that would be easily won, as after 8 months he must accept a negotiation for the regions of Ukraine that he has already taken in Donbass to be recognized.
The Russian economy is creaking because of the expenses of the war, because of the drop in Russian oil sales, because of the stoppage of the gas pipelines that fed Europe, etc., and advancing towards recession. A fraction of the Russian bourgeoisie that sees its business lose, looks at Putin with mistrust. The Smolninsky District Council recently called for Putin to be charged with treason, sending it as a request to Russia's parliament, the State Duma. The Lomonosovsky council also called for the resignation of the Russian president.
The Russian offensive is already in a quagmire, first of all because the Russian workers refuse to go to kill their Ukrainian brothers: the rank and file soldiers do not want to die or fight.
Before Putin's announcement of the mobilization of 300,000 reservists among the civilian population, there were protests throughout Russia and thousands of arrests. Airports and routes have collapsed due to the number of Russians trying to flee from the forced conscription. Already more than 260 thousand exploited have escaped from Russia. "I'd rather go to jail and be tortured, and even die in a prison cell, than to die on the front lines" they declare. Recruitment barracks were attacked and in Dagestan the masses confronted the conscription in the streets, with women leading the clash with the police to prevent their sons and husbands from going to war. As in 2015, when Poroshenko's NATO puppet government wanted to send the Kyiv workers to kill their rebellious brothers in Donbass, the masses refuse to go to a fratricidal war, today also with women surrounding the recruitment barracks. The great ally of the Ukrainian masses is the Russian worker and soldier who refuse to go to the fratricidal war !
The Russian workers are beginning to confront the hated regime of the butcher Putin, with their demands of NO TO WAR, and also work and decent wages. Their uprising against the war is decisive in defeating Putin and his counterrevolutionary forces. The workers of Russia have in their hands the chance to paralyze Putin's counterrevolutionary war machine, the bloodthirsty guardian of imperialism's businesses in Eurasia.
For this reason, today more than ever the workers of the Ukraine must call on the common soldiers of Russia and those who were forcibly mobilized to defect and turn the rifle against the butcher Putin and their own bourgeoisie. For the same reason, the exploited in Ukraine must take as their own the demand for freedom of the thousands of political prisoners, locked up, tortured and repressed by Putin and his dogs of prey, for confronting the war, and refusing the forced mobilization of the who are trying to escape risking their lives, because they do not want to go to a fratricidal war with their brothers in Ukraine.
Ukraine is threatening to become a new Vietnam for Russia. The uprising of the exploited of Russia and the nations that “Great Russia” oppresses, as well as the exploited of Belarus who have many accounts to settle with the murderous Putin and his lackeys, are the main ally and the most powerful missile of the Ukrainian working class. Unity of the workers of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, to defeat the Putins, the Zelenskys, the Lukashenkos, and all the regimes and governments that starve the peoples of the region!
Nadia Briante, co-author of the book “Ukraine at War” |
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