Ukraine - November 3, 2023

After the so-called "counter-offensive" of NATO’s lackey Zelensky, the only thing the Ukrainian working class and people received was more death and destruction and more and more colonization of the nation

Under the leadership of Zelensky and the Ukrainian oligarchy it is impossible
to defeat the invader!

The Ukrainian working class must unify its ranks and take in its hands the leadership
of the war to defeat Putin and
break with the IMF!

The farce of the "counter-offensive" which, with great fanfare, Zelensky announced in June, is coming to an end and the results expose the cynicism of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie and oligarchy. The fact is that, after long months of trench fighting in a war which can already be catalogued as "chronic", it has only brought death and destruction.
The fighting has centered on small villages such as Avdiika, in the north of the city of Donetsk (in the hands of the hitman Putin), which has been under attack for weeks, forcing the population to withdraw from their lands, while ten thousand Ukrainian soldiers have been stationed there to try to recover Donetsk, while receiving daily attacks from the Russian forces.
The balance sheet of the "Ukrainian counteroffensive" shows what we have stated: small gains on the southern front for Ukraine, some recovery for Russia in the north. But the losses on the Ukrainian side already amount to 400,000 dead, which has caused not only tragedy for hundreds of thousands of exploited people, but even shortage of manpower, and the already clear attempt of thousands and thousands of citizens to avoid mobilization which only leads to death. The Ukrainian people are suffering not only Putin's criminal attack, but the surrender of the nation at the cost of their lives, by the lackey Zelensky.

A new counterrevolutionary pact of partition and redoubled plunder is looming over the war-stricken Ukrainian nation

The objective of the US imperialism is being exposed clearly on a daily basis: it subdued the Franco-German axis, using all the weight of NATO and sold out Ukraine as a pawn for Moscow to massacre it, throwing it more and more into subjugation and plunder, while in a chronic war it pushes Putin to attrition. Thus, U.S. imperialism was left in unbeatable conditions at the borders of Europe and Russia. It has been playing so that Moscow bleeds the nation and weakens itself, but without Ukraine winning the war. That is why, despite its grandiloquent declarations "in defense of Ukraine," the only thing that imperialism grants to the attacked nation is obsolete and defensive weaponry, in dribs and drabs, so that Ukraine does not allow Moscow to advance, but the first does not defeat the later either. And at the same time, we see the same imperialist powers arming to the teeth, in minutes, the fascist Zionist state of Israel to massacre in a brutal offensive, the martyred Palestinian people.
Imperialism still needs Putin as its gendarme in the region, to massacre and keep the masses of Eurasia at bay. Moreover, a victory of the Ukrainian masses over the butcher Putin would leave them with high morale to continue their fight against the puppet Zelensky who has attacked his own working class in the midst of the invasion. But even a Ukrainian victory over "Great Russia" would be an encouragement to resume the revolutionary path for all the subjugated peoples under Putin's boot and all the republics of the former USSR, a matter that imperialism takes very good care that it does not happen.

As if that were not enough, recently, in the face of the criminal offensive of Zionism in Gaza against the Palestinian masses, the cynical Zelensky spoke out in favor of the fascist and occupier state of Israeli. But the occupier state of Israel has invaded the Palestinian nation, just as Putin invades the oppressed Ukraine!

Thus, it has become crystal clear that with the lackey Zelensky, surrenderer of the Ukrainian nation, and supporter and accomplice of the genocide which is already a war of extermination of Zionism and imperialism against the Palestinian nation, it is impossible to defeat the invader Putin and win the war of national liberation against the occupier, and to break with the IMF and imperialism, so that Ukraine can be truly free. Zelensky is preparing to surrender Ukraine, in a pact with Putin and imperialism, splitting it and redoubling its oppression and exploitation.
This is why it becomes urgent and pressing that the working class, the only one that is not tied to any agreement, business or pact with imperialism, leads and directs the war. The direction of the war cannot be left one more minute in the hands of Zelensky, the lackey of imperialism! Under his leadership it is impossible to stop this massacre and the surrender of the nation to colonialism and plunder!

Right now, the working class must unite its ranks and take the leadership of the war into its own hands. Its life depends on it! This is the only way to prevent this catastrophe, uniting with the European and Russian working class in a single combat

Imperialism and Putin have split the nation in order to plunder and oppress it better.
Today, the conditions are being prepared for a pact to legitimize the partition of the nation and the division of the territory: Zelensky, under US imperialism orders, will control Kiev and the whole Western region, while Putin will be given control of Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea. With this partition, on the basis of the blood of the Ukrainian people, he will leave the nation doubly plundered and subjugated.
Therefore, the Ukrainian working class must unify its ranks from Kiev to the Donbass, in defense of the nation and the same demands for work, wages and dignified life, facing the same enemies.
It is necessary to conquer the generalized armament of the Ukrainian people to defeat the Moscow invader, and for the trade unions and mass organizations to take control of the armament of reservists and their military training.
Rank-and-file soldiers, together with workers, must set up their own committees in every factory and in every city, and disown and disregard and expel the exploiters and their agents, the Ukrainian officialdom, lackey of NATO and always ready to sell out the nation, and elect their own bosses and commanders.

The only way to defeat the invader and conquer the liberation of Ukraine is with the working class taking the lead in the war, and carrying out the program of social revolution:

We must expropriate the expropriators! We must break with the IMF and expropriate the banks and factories to put all the wealth of the nation at the service of defending the nation and defeating the occupier! We must confiscate the black lands and expropriate Cargill and Monsanto so that the working class and the poor people can eat and live in dignity!
All the wealth, resources and goods of the nation at the service of the war of national liberation and its fighters! We must put under the control of the workers' organizations the entire industry and chain of commercialization of food and supply of the people!

The Russian and European workers must now ally themselves with their Ukrainian siblings! One and the same struggle and one and the same enemy from Portugal to the Russian steppes!

The Russian workers who refuse by the thousands to go to war and face prison, repression and the consequences of a war that starves and kills the people, are the great ally of the Ukrainian working class that suffers the massacre perpetrated by Putin. The Russian soldiers must fraternize on the front with the Ukrainian workers and go over to fight at their side to defeat the invader!

Ukraine is a hinge nation, towards Western and Eastern Europe. On the fate of the Ukrainian nation is also at stake the fate of the European proletariat. A defeat of Ukraine would be a mortal blow for the European working class and a bastion of counterrevolution in Europe. The same would be true for the nations and republics of the former USSR. There, as in Syria and Palestine, imperialism seeks to teach the world working class a lesson.
But a victory of the Ukrainian working class would leave the butcher Putin weakened to the extreme and would untie the hands of the working class of Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia itself and all the ex-Soviet republics, to return to combat and to the path of the revolution of the workers and soldiers councils that culminated with the seizure of power. It would also be a militant breath for the working class of the central countries, like those of France or Greece that stood up a thousand times and were betrayed a thousand times.
European general strike! Putin's war machine must be paralyzed! Weapons for Ukraine!

A workers, soviet and independent Ukraine is the only way out to conquer bread, land and national liberation, so that Ukraine is not a tutelary colony, plundered and oppressed by imperialism and split by the US imperialism and Putin. Only a provisional revolutionary government of workers and peasants, allied to the European and Russian working class, will be able to guarantee the unity of the Ukrainian nation and its complete and true independence and liberation.

Eliza Funes and Nadia Briante

Destruction in the city of Avdiivka

Ukrainian trenches in Bajmut