UKRAINE – September 27 2020 Like the miners of the east facing the pro-Russian Donbas oligarchy, Putin's partner supported by Stalinism With strikes and occupations in the mines, the iron miners return to fight against the fascist government in Kiev   DOWN WITH THE MINSK COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY PACT of Trump and Putin, of partition and plunder of Ukraine! From Donbass to Kiev, the same class, the same enemy! For a Soviet, socialist, united, free and independent Ukraine! without oligarchs, without bourgeoisie, and free from Stalinism that supports them today!   From the first days of September, the iron miners of KryvyiRih have staged a strike with occupation in the tunnels of the Zhovtneva, Batkivshchyna, Ternivska and Hvradeiska mines, which reached 400 miners on strike below the surface. Their demand is the same as of the entire Ukrainian working class, from Kiev to Donbass: 1000 euros monthly salary for all! Ukraine is Europe's leading iron producer, but its miners are the worst paid. That is why the workers have warned that they will not give up their demands: "We are notifying the city government that the situation will get worse if it is not resolved." In addition to decent wages, they demand an end to repression against workers, the dismissal of managers, and early retirement for unhealthy work. As it happened with the Lugansk miners in June, the oligarchs are trying to isolate the strikers, even preventing relatives and activists in solidarity with their struggle from bringing them food, water and medicine. The partition of Ukraine accorded in the counterrevolutionary pacts of Minsk aim to divide the workers' ranks to guarantee the business of the Ukrainian oligarchy and imperialism. So much so that RinatAkhmetov, one of Ukraine's leading magnates, is the owner not only of the KryvyiRih mines, but also of the entire  Donetsk basin. And he was the one who financed the campaign of the current Ukrainian president Zelensky. DOWN WITH THE MINSK COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY AGREEMENT of partition and looting of the Ukrainian nation! Out with Trump, Merkel, Putin, France, the EU, the UN and NATO from Ukraine! Out with the Russian military base in Crimea! Crimea is Ukraine too! GET THE IMF OUT OF UKRAINE! No to the repayment of the fraudulent foreign debt! Wage increase of 2,000 euros for all workers! No layoffs! All hands free must be set to produce! Decentworkforall! Renationalization without compensation andplace under workers' control all the mines, steel mills and factories of Ukraine that the Stalinists, today turned into a new millionaire oligarchy, allied to imperialism and partner of Moscow, stole from the Ukrainian nation! For an investment and modernization plan of the mining industry, to put the mines that have closed or have been devastated by the civil war into production! In both eastern and western Ukraine, workers suffer the same dire conditions of exploitation and face the same enemy: the Ukrainian and Russian oligarchies and imperialism. Only the working class uniting its ranks can save the Ukrainian nation from barbarism. From Donbass to Kiev: one class, one fight against the same enemy! Let's set up a Unified Struggle Committee of the workers of the entire Ukraine, based on workers' organizations and soldiers' committees! May the revolution stand up and triumph from the Donbass to Kiev, sweeping away the Ukrainian oligarchy from east and west, and breaking with imperialism! The mineworkers' militias must be on their feet again together with the rank and file soldiers of Kiev who in 2014/2015 refused to go to a fratricidal war and were fighting to go and fight alongside their brothers from the Lugansk and Donetsk regions! We must open the way to the restoration of the dictatorship of the proletariat under revolutionary ways, without Stalinist bureaucrats that surrendered the worker states! Expel the counterrevolutionary forces of the murderer Putin from Crimea! For a Soviet, socialist and independentUkraine! The struggle of the workers of the whole Ukraine is a sibling to the combat of the working class and the exploited of Belarus who face the terror regime of Lukashenko and the oligarchy of the old traitors of the CP that in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the entire former USSR stole the wealth of the people and handed over the worker states to imperialism. One single working class in all of Europe! For the United Socialist States of Europe!

The mine of Hvardeiske does not surrender!