Ukraine: Declaration of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International / FLTI
04/06/2016
By means of the Minsk Pact imperialism, together with its lackey Putin,
has arranged the partition of Ukraine
Thus the working class was divided and subjected to the oligarchs of Kiev and the Donbass and to IMF,
while Putin got Ukrainian Crimea
With Minsk Pact and filthy "ceasefire" they contained the revolution that stood up in the Donbass lest it end up defeating IMF lackey Poroshenko's government, both in Kiev and throughout Ukraine
Out with Obama, Putin, IMF, EU, UN and NATO from Ukraine!
Down with Poroshenko and Minsk filthy "ceasefire"!
The Communist-Stalinist Parties of Europe sent volunteers to Ukraine to prevent Donbass revolution from succeeding in Kiev and throughout Ukraine.
They held the looting of Putin's stealing Crimea.
They went to divide the Ukrainian working class and to subdue Donbass miners to the pro-Russian bourgeoisie and its fictional "Republic of Novorossiya".
he Communist-Stalinist Parties of Europe sent volunteers to Ukraine to prevent Donbass revolution from succeeding in Kiev and throughout Ukraine
They want to drown the cry of the Ukrainian masses in the Donbass requiring: "MAY THE USSR RETURN!”
Ukraine, Madrid with its "outraged", the spark of Athens and the French general strike today are the weakest links of the imperialist domination in Europe
With the betrayals of the left of Maastricht, i.e. Social Democracy, Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism that supported them, the Ukrainian working class was doubly enslaved, with miserable wages of 47 euros.
The Ukrainian working class must re-unify their ranks…
The Ukrainian revolution must again stand up
Out with the IMF! No to payment of the foreign debt contracted by oligarchs and gangs of the old Stalinist bureaucracy that stole the riches of the peoples of the former USSR and handed them over to Citibank!
As Renault-Dacia workers in Romania said: we want to win as the workers in Paris! A 2,500 euros salary for all workers in Ukraine and across Europe!
We must renationalize the land without payment and retrieve large companies that six people-expropriating Ukrainian oligarchs stole!
One class, one struggle against imperialist bankers and Maastricht!
Ukraine ... from Portugal to the Russian steppes: A single European revolution!
Soviet Ukraine will be either united, free and independent and a bastion of European and world revolution ...or a colony looted and torn by Wall Street parasites!
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE COLLECTIVE FOR THE REFOUNDATION OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL / FLTI
Ukraine: once more, a revolution betrayed
The Ukrainian revolution is in an alarming situation. European and Russian Stalinism have landed in the Donbass where an armed true dual-power was established by the miners and privates from Kiev who had risen up. The former went there to impose Minsk Pacts policy to be strictly complied as signed by Merkel, Hollande, Putin, Poroshenko and the "pro-Russian" Ukrainian bourgeoisie, with US imperialism behind the scenes. These agreements were signed when the revolution had gained enormous political and military success: miners in the Donbass had begun to conquer the unity with the workers of Kiev, when the latter refused to enter the counterrevolutionary army or went with their weapons to fight alongside Don exploited to the middle of 2014. The pact would reverse this situation and -with the help of the pro-Putin Russian bourgeoisie- convert the military victory into defeat.
Minsk pacts are pacts for the partition of Ukraine: Crimea for Putin, "Novorossiya" (Donbass) to the pro-Russian bourgeoisie and the west and Kiev under the command of Poroshenko, the current president, a puppet of imperialism. Thus they sought to divide the Ukrainian working class and submit it to each one of the bourgeois sectors. Because this counter-revolutionary pact had a clear objective: that the revolution having stood up in the Donbass, with militias of miners and privates, not come to Kiev and the head of Poroshenko rolled down. Thus, with this agreement, they laid the foundation to bury the Ukrainian revolution, a key link in the European revolution, so that it is not combined with uprisings of workers in the central countries.
On behalf of putting in place an "anti-fascist front", European, Russian and Ukrainian Stalinism marched to Donbass. There it submitted the working class to nothing more and nothing less than the oligarchs of Donbass and the anti-worker rogue murderer Putin who imposed together with Obama the siege against the uprising by the masses in Donbass.
With the excuse of the "anti-fascist front", i.e. with this policy of class collaboration, everything Stalinism did was to save fascism.
The fact is the army of Kiev could not recruit soldiers and workers en masse to fight the insurgent masses of Donbass. That disrupted their offensive. Kiev Fascist brigades were defeated militarily and when it was raised the unity of the workers of the Donbass and the masses of the rest of Ukraine to defeat the government Poroshenko and its fascist brigades, quickly Obama and Putin imposed a "ceasefire" with the Minsk pact.
Kiev troops were already defeated, and fascist brigades were exposed to a heavy defeat; it was time to crush them and unite the entire Ukrainian working class against Poroshenko to defeat the IMF and end hunger and misery.
Under the orders of Stalinism all militias were topped which refused to accept this shameful pact. Suspiciously, some leaders of theirs as Mozgovoy were killed in the very rearguard, in the Donbass.
Stalinists called to make a new fictional nation in the Donbass, "Novorossiya". They saved Kiev's fascists and Donbass oligarchy. They disbanded the militias and transformed them into new Republic of Novorossiya’s regular army under the direct command of the bourgeois factions of Donbass. Thus they were in charge of destroying the combat organizations of the masses for the struggle.
Ukraine was split. Putin had already plundered a part of it when grabbing Crimea. The working class was divided. The cry of "MAY THE USSR RETURN!" was thus drowned. Today the masses of Donbass are suffering a military siege and an economic embargo.
Obama, Putin and IMF stomped Ukraine and distributed it among themselves. Stalinism made for them the "dirty work" in the Donbass, where the labor movement and the miners went so far as to proclaim their goal and their struggle to recover the USSR and Soviet Ukraine.
These counterrevolutionary agreements, like Obama-Castro pact or the Geneva pacts have been prepared against the revolution and the world working class.
We already witnessed it with Obama's visit to Cuba, where the surrender of the Cuban revolution, its conquests and all the Latin American revolution was sealed.
In Geneva it was agreed to hold the dog Bashar, so that he in turn supported by the Russian aviation, crush the Syrian revolution into a bloodbath. Meanwhile, the Europe of Maastricht has trapped thousands of refugees in camps that have nothing to envy to the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz established by Hitler.
In Minsk Ukraine was split and all its fractions were subjected to the infamous pact where the butcher of the Russian steppes, Putin, is presented by all Communist Parties of the world as an ally of the workers, when in fact he is their biggest executioner.
Putin is continuity of Kolchak, old white counter-revolutionary troops attacking the USSR. He is not an ally of socialism, but its greatest enemy and liquidator, and the European and world Stalinism is his most faithful servant.
The Ukrainian revolution had a clear program to trigger revolution like wildfire throughout Europe of Maastricht and Russia, "MAY THE USSR RETURN!” This cry that terrorized imperialism, is which they do not want to hear again, and to bury it they are wearing their best proven agent, Stalinism, which has experience in surrendering revolutions as the USSR in '89, and today Cuba.
A huge betrayal hangs over the heroic revolution of Ukrainian workers, but still the last word has not been said.
The last word remains with the working class of Ukraine, Russia and Europe. The last blow of the last battle has not yet been delivered.
The defeat of the Syrian revolution, its strangulation and the siege laid to it have strengthened butcher Putin at a time when the global economic crisis has generated a wave of hunger and unemployment against the Russian workers, who in defensive strikes are revolting against the butcher of Moscow.
Putin closes ranks with Obama and Merkel to choke and strangle the Ukrainian revolution. The Greek CP and unions support the anti-worker government of Syriza, as also the "new left" as well as PODEMOS in the Spanish State and old recycled Stalinists save at every step the battered Maastricht political regimes.
But the last battle of the Ukrainian working class has not been waged. The French general strike and the struggle to defend the 35-hour workweek reopen new conditions for new mass offensives throughout Europe.
To do this, the working class must break the fences, the counterrevolutionary pacts and the sinister policy of submission to the bourgeoisie that the treacherous leaderships have imposed.
Despite the siege to and the partition of Ukraine, the claim of the working class in that oppressed nation has not been silenced: “Out with the IMF! We want bread, dignity and jobs!”
Before new defeats of the masses settle down, the whip of capital will gather the exploited together in their claims so they go out and fight.
The ruling classes of Europe have not yet succeeded in uniting the links in their chain of domination that have been dislocated.
Its agents in the labor movement act in that sense, but the incredible suffering of the masses prevent them from re-weld these links, because that suffering reopens at every step new attempts to struggle by the exploited. Paris youth and the French working class have sent a gust of fresh air to dispel such betrayal to and sellout of the masses.
So the last battle has not been fought.
It is a task of life and death that the masses get rid of the Stalinist monster strangling Ukrainian and European revolution, the same as yesterday surrendered the worker states of Eastern Europe and the USSR.
The renegades of Trotskyism hold up that monster and support it worldwide, in unions of Greece, the Spanish State, in Italy, bowing to its feet in the French CGT, painting red counterrevolutionary butcher Putin, and holding up the dog Bashar in Syria...
Amid these heavy fighting and bitter partial defeats of the European working class the conditions will emerge to refound the Fourth International of 1938, because the cry still continues being heard among the Ukrainian, eastern European and Russian masses: "May the USSR return!” The only party that is fighting for that is the Fourth International.
With the Minsk Pact they seek to disarm, encircle and crush the revolutionary masses of Donbass and thereby defeat the Ukrainian revolution and prevent its spread to Europe
Minsk Pacts, signed in September 2014 and February 2015 by Merkel, Hollande, Putin, Poroshenko and the "pro-Russian" bourgeoisie, with US imperialism behind the scenes, were the counterrevolutionary response to the onslaught of the masses, to prevent them from unifying into a single fight, to disarm their militias and crush the revolution that threatened to come to Kiev, and thus isolate this revolution in the making from the Greek and European revolution.
This covenant was no "peace agreement"; it only granted Kiev the time it needed to rebuild its army, which had been foiled by the masses, as an army of occupation trained, financed and equipped by NATO. Peace of imperialism and the jailer Putin is the peace of the cemeteries for a torn and divided Ukraine, one full of misery and despair. (See box “Under the boot of imperialism ...”)
Ukraine was divided. But this partition did not start with Minsk agreements, but with murderous Putin snatching for himself the Crimean Peninsula, a territory that imperialism gave him in return for the services fulfilled and those this hitman should still honor. After the counterrevolutionary agreements of Minsk partition of Ukraine deepens through demilitarized zones, creating a fictional republic in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, one besieged by hunger, with no electricity or gas and under siege by the bombings of Kievan troops . With this partition of the Ukrainian nation, they sought to subdue and bow down the working class to each of the bourgeois factions, either to the white Russians in Crimea, to the pro-Russian bourgeoisie in the Donbass or to that in Kiev, to prevent the working class from gathering together in one and the same fight (as it was doing) to cap it all by taking Kiev.
Borders throughout Ukraine are again under control of Poroshenko's counter-revolutionary army, while hitman Putin covers it the rear from Crimea and Russia, guaranteeing the total siege of the masses of the Donbass.
There, with the policy of submission to the Russophile bourgeoisie with the popular front, deceiving and lulling the masses with the scam of a fictitious independence, the plan progresses to disarm the militias and achieve their integration into a regular army, which will be- as agreed in Minsk-in the future merged with the "white" fascist army of Kiev. And the more they subject the miners' vanguard to the bourgeoisie in the East, and everyone is settled who refuses to abide by the counterrevolutionary pacts -with Stalinism acting as a fifth column-, the more fascism heads up with its gangs terrorizing the workers going to fight in the West, and prepares to crush blood and fire this heroic revolution.
Crimea belongs in Ukraine! Obama and NATO handed it over to Putin, as a favor and reward for acting as gendarme of the revolutionary uprising of the masses in Ukraine and all the oppressed peoples of the East.
Out with the Great Russian military base in Crimea! Out with the counterrevolutionary White troops of Putin, the hitman of NATO and partner of Citibank! He is prepared to disarm and crush the Ukrainian revolution as soon as he concludes his business with imperialism, as he did yesterday in Georgia, Chechnya and throughout the Caucasus and the Balkans.
Stalinism as a shock force sustained by the entire European social-imperialist left, formed a real fifth column against the Donbass insurgent masses to defeat the Ukrainian revolution from within
Enormous counterrevolutionary forces have concentrated to encircle the masses revolting in Ukraine, because the Ukrainian revolution is a hinge revolution, which puts on the agenda the unity of the European working class against imperialist Maastricht and the struggle for the restoration of dictatorship of the proletariat under revolutionary ways in the former USSR and Eastern Europe.
European and Russian Communist Parties have sent their "internationalist" brigade members to the Donbass, who entered the most combative sectors of the workers' militias to ensure compliance with the counterrevolutionary plans of Minsk, involving the disarmament of the masses and safeguard the private property and business of the whole bourgeoisie and imperialism. So they concentrated their forces to dislocate and break the miners' Prizrak (Ghost) brigade which had called for unity with the workers of Kiev and to ignore the counterrevolutionary pacts that the pro-Russian bourgeoisie of the Donbass signed in eastern Ukraine. Therefore, from the battalion 404 (stronghold of Stalinism) and Interunit (the unit of "internationalists" of the Communist Parties) ensured the integration of Prizrak militia into the regular army of the pro-Russian bourgeoisie, as stipulated by Minsk agreements.
Brigade Prizrak (Ghost) which houses mostly miners and workers in the region, has been literally taken over by Stalinism, which announces and imposes the disarmament of the militia and their integration into the regular army, and acceptance of the provisions in Minsk ... unilaterally, since Poroshenko, supported by imperialism didn't at all stop the fire and nothing good has come for the people of the region following the agreements. The peace they want to impose on Don Region rebellious masses is a peace of the graveyard!
They fired Prizrak Brigade independent base units, leaving the top of Stalinist generals integrated into the officer caste of 14th Battalion of Territorial Defense and the "Republic of Lugansk" 4th Brigade. An open confession of guilt: they have co-opted whoever they could to the regular army (offering a wage and social security, a "luxury" in devastated Donbass), delivered weapons and thus run Minsk counter-revolutionary plan strictly. Therefore they disarmed anyone who did not want to get into this plan. They themselves are saying that "in any restructuring, there is always somebody to suffer". In "Stalinist Novorossiya", blacklists and the disappearance of those who do not undergo this plan have become commonplace.
Disarmament of the militias and their integration into the regular army of the pro-Russian bourgeoisie aim at reconstructing the bourgeois state that had been totally disrupted by the masses in their revolutionary breakthrough, when all the bloody government of Kiev could enlist were the fascist gangs, since the children of the workers and peasants in the region had refused to fight against their brothers and sisters in the Donbass. This sinister plan would culminate with the high officers of the "Republics" of Donetsk and Lugansk merging with the murderous caste of Kiev in one and the same army that guarantees business and properties of the entire Ukrainian bourgeoisie and imperialism.
With the same old treacherous policy of "anti-fascist front" used back in the '30s, Stalinism, supported by the renegades of Trotskyism -the SWP and NPA did it openly- made a common front with Putin and the pro-Russian bourgeoisie in Donbass, telling the masses that the latter are their "allies" and their enemy is "fascist Kiev". So Stalinism has put Donbass exploited falling to their knees before the "democratic allies" who meanwhile agree with the "fascist foes” in disarming the masses, at a time when attacks against the region have not stopped and the siege on East Ukraine -like that imposed on Madaya, Aleppo, Homs, Zabadani, etc., in which Putin bombed Syrian masses to support fascist Al Assad- seeks to breaking through hunger and massacres the will of the masses who continue to resist in the last ditch.
Every month Stalinism gathered Communist Parties across Europe together to support the Covenant of Minsk, murderous Al Assad, assassin Putin ...whom they wanted to cover as "anti-imperialist"... (those agents that kill without fear of reprisal on account imperialism!); now it has enlisted and sent its "brigadistas" traveling from all European countries to take the militias and submit them to the bourgeois governments of the East and the counterrevolutionary Minsk agreements.
Imperialism needs disorganize and encircle the masses, to disarm and end up defeating the revolution. And it uses its best proven agent: those who yesterday delivered the October Revolution today planted the American flag in Havana and fulfill the role of gravediggers of the Ukrainian revolution. Get out the hands of Stalinism of the Ukrainian revolution! For courts of the miners' movement and trade unions to investigate, prosecute and punish the murders and disappearances of the vanguard and the left wing of Donbass militia!
The imperialists, at the same time they take hold of their Stalinist agent to enforce the subjugation of the masses to the pro-Russian bourgeoisie, prepare Poroshenko's fascist army forces and their paramilitary gangs-and if necessary, also the white troops of Kolchak-Putin, to drown this revolution in a bloodbath .
While the Ukrainian masses cry "We want the USSR back!" because they know that only in this way they can eat and have a job; the Stalinist wastes -as the most fervent guarantors of the subjugation of the masses to Minsk agreements-, oppose to that the fictional republic of "Novorossiya" (confined to a strip of land in Donetsk and Lugansk regions). The "Novorossiya" of Stalinism cannot be no other thing that a triply exploited 4th hand colony, without any right and with all repayment obligations, such as to the IMF. It's the same isolation, siege, starvation, misery, imperialist looting and gunfire today other exploited already have in the region.
Stalinism and the pro-Russian bourgeoisie usurp the just national and anti-imperialist sentiment of the masses in Donbass, because in the region every worker knows that if the plan of Kiev progresses, the mines will be closed (while their jobs and lives are intimately linked to them). From there, a Marxist can recognize the defense of "Novorossiya" by the exploited does not have the same meaning for the bloody pro-Russian bourgeoisie. So he alerts the proletariat over the bourgeoisie and Stalinism having invented the "Republic of Novorossiya" to break the revolutionary unity of Ukrainian exploited; thus they could be who run business with the major imperialist banks and also with the bourgeoisie which Poroshenko controls in Kiev- through the companies and banks they control.
We must tell the truth to workers, as bitter it may be. The most you can get from Putin's and Russian/Ukrainian oligarchies' "Novorossiya" is poverty they are now suffering, and worse attacks ahead, since this anti-worker pro-Russian bourgeoisie applies and will apply the same IMF plans hated Poroshenko is applying. For no sooner they finish their businesses, they will start the closure and conversion of the mines that are still standing. The only way to defend the mines, wages and work in the Donbass is breaking with the bourgeoisie of the East -which ties the interests of the working class to its business- and winning the unity of the workers' ranks from all over Ukraine to finally finish standing up and succeeding revolution in Kiev, sweeping the government Poroshenko and breaking with imperialism!
With the siege on and betrayal of the Ukrainian revolution they want to prevent its war cry and revolutionary struggle from finishing spreading all over Western Europe and Russia as a string of a single revolution
European labor aristocracies and bureaucracies and social-imperialist parties were careful and take good care of keeping the Ukrainian revolution isolated from the struggles of the Greek, Spanish, French, German proletariat. They have been the guarantors of the submission of the European working class to imperialist Maastricht.
Greece told the masses that we must support Syriza and today Tsipras downloads worse attacks than his predecessor Samaras while maintaining the vanguard youth behind bars and thousands of Syrian refugees crammed into real concentration camps. In Spain they saved the lives of the monarchy and buried the demand of the Republic of outraged -"Our dreams do not fit in their ballot boxes". Moreover they set up new traps and electoral turnouts like PODEMOS party (the Spanish Syriza) -which is careful not to question one iota of the existence of the monarchy- and the referendum of the Catalan bourgeoisie. In France they put the French working class on its knees at the foot of "Charlie Hebdo" to convince the proletariat that their enemy is not the imperialist bourgeoisie but the ISISnow returns to fight in the streets paralyzing the country with massive general strikes against labor flexibility, (in spite of that the French workers now return to fight in the streets paralyzing the country with massive general strikes against labor flexibility). In Western countries, the treacherous leaderships hide the fact that the enemy is at home; they seek to pass the worst enemies of the workers as their allies, and their class brothers in the colonies and semi-colonies as their main enemies.
The role of Stalinism and the "New Left" was to subject the masses to the bourgeoisie one to one in each country and thus dislocating all the links in a single, European, revolution, at one and the same counterrevolutionary chain. They did so in Maastricht's Europe and in the Ukrainian revolution. The renegades of Trotskyism extended them the red carpet, and applauded and supported these counterrevolutionary actions.
They should explain why they have submitted the militia that refused to accept the covenants of Minsk and countered local governments, the regular army, making support of the "Republic of Novorossiya". And they must also explain what happened to Mozgovoy who was found murdered in an unsolved case-; he was the commander denouncing the Minsk agreements as a trap and the pro-Russian bourgeoisie as part of the oligarchy that had nothing to do with the people's struggle. They should explain what happened to anyone who was opposed to this plan because he refused to die starved and bombed in "Novorossiya" ghetto.
The Ukrainian revolution raises what the program and the way is to achieve the European revolution stand. The demand for wage and decent jobs unifies the workers' ranks across Ukraine, Spain, Greece, Germany ... and Russia. Because in Eastern Europe and Western Europe the enemy is the same: imperialist Maastricht and US imperialism.
Meanwhile, more than one million refugees crowd the borders of Western Europe looking for a piece of bread and a future for their families, fleeing the slaughter and miserable lives to which they are subjected throughout the Middle East. They were welcomed by the Greek, Spanish, etc., working class, though abandoned by all European organizations that keep a complicit silence towards the atrocities that refugees suffer in the same way that they leave aside the thousands of Ukrainian immigrants in the Europe of Maastricht that are enslaved and made to do the worst jobs. Bureaucracies and labor aristocracies fell off from the fate of the proletariat of core countries, of the most exploited sectors; in this case, from the immigrants, who are the slave labor reserve in Europe -and thus prepare a black future for the proletariat of the imperialist countries. The imperialist pirates give the same treatment to native workers and refugees, tearing up their last conquests. One class, one struggle!
At the same time, the global crisis is severely hitting the Russian proletariat.
The fact is, when the price of oil began to return to 2002 levels, Russia's economy with its GDP made up 50% from oil income, crunched. Murderous Putin did not hesitate to throw the crisis over the masses, through layoffs, wage cuts, or directly unpaid salaries. That is why the Russian working class demonstrated its discomfort turning to the streets in protest days. Such important ones that even the US imperialist bourgeoisie newspaper itself, the New York Times, in its issue of January 23, 2016, stated in dread: "there sound in the industrial cities poems and legends of those revolutionary times warning the new Russian bourgeoisie: Eat pineapples, chew partridge; your days are numbered, bourgeois! ". (SEE BOX "Putin ...").
These movements of the Russian working class are a breath of fresh air for the exploited in Ukraine and all former Soviet republics of Eastern Europe. And they show that the invention and the subsequent imposition of "Novorossiya" are an attempt to expropriate the Ukrainian revolution and the demands of the exploited: "May the USSR return!” which is already beginning to be heard in Moscow's Red Square. No more lies! With "Novorossiya" who again comes is hated Yanukovych -Putin's friend-, repaying the IMF a fraudulent debt!
The Russian proletariat must finish revolting! It has to assume its internationalist responsibilities, starting by joining the exploited in Syria, Ukraine and former Soviet republics of Eastern Europe and Eurasia! It must defeat the butcher Putin, who has massacred the Syrian masses on account and by order of imperialism, in the same way as yesterday he massacred in Chechnya and Ossetia, among other nations oppressed by the "great" Russia! This is the fight that has already begun! If Putin is victorious in the counterrevolutionary attack in Syria, as it seems to be doing, he will be strengthened enough to deepen the attack he is just discharging against the Russian and Ukrainian exploited and the nationalities oppressed by Russia.
Ukraine and Greece are the two weakest links in the chain of imperialist domination. The struggle of the working class in the Spanish state was controlled by the social-imperialist left of PODEMOS that as Syriza in Greece or Hollande (attempted to do) in France, threaten to be the ones to do the "dirty work" of defeating the masses for the imperialist bankers. But that is still far from happening, as evidenced by the general strike and mass political struggle that has begun throughout France.
Through the enormous revolutionary battles of the proletariat of these countries, the revolution threatened to enter fully into Europe, as a string of revolutions, one and the same revolution from Portugal to the Russian steppes. This is the only real breakthrough for Ukrainian and Greek revolutions completely stand up. The future that awaits the French, German, English, working class, if that perspective does not succeed, is none other than the Greek and Spanish hungry masses, as we are beginning to see with the French law of labor flexibility. They will lose their labor gains one after the other. The global crisis does not give peace and capitalist pirates have decided that the masses are who pay for the cost.
The slaughter of the Syrian masses and 47 euros monthly salary of Ukrainian proletariat are neither more nor less than a warning and blackmail for the world proletariat. "Either you accept increased working hours and the conditions I impose upon you, or that (Syrian and Ukrainian’s) is the future that awaits you" We cannot allow it! One class, one struggle from Portugal to the Russian steppes!
The renegades of Trotskyism once again at the foot of Stalinism to subdue the masses to the bourgeoisie, encircling the European revolution and silencing the genocide in Syria
The renegades of Trotskyism have shown the cold shoulder to the heroic Ukrainian revolution, so enabling Stalinism to direct and disarm from within the revolution. Currents of the European left as the English SWP, French NPA, Antarsya or EEK (sister party of PO Argentina) in Greece, have rendered homage to Stalinism, sending delegations or letters of support to the conference their parties performed by Ukraine, these same conferences where voting support agreements Minsk, as one performed in Lugansk 8 and May 9 last year or those occurred in Greece, England and other European countries.
Since the outbreak of the global economic crisis, when the exploited began to battle against the attack of the imperialists, the liquidators of the Fourth International called to fight for a "more social Maastricht" poisoning the minds of the workers into believing that easing off the "adjustment" was possible. As we said, they held a policy of class collaboration with which subjected the masses to the bourgeoisie, thus dividing the workers' ranks country by country, layin siege to the revolutionary processes. They endeavored to present the butcher Putin, hitman on behalf of imperialism, as anti-imperialist and friend of the masses of Donbass, while he fled Ukraine as a rat and unceremoniously was massacring the martyred Syrian masses. They are posing the greatest enemies of the masses as their friends and concentrated all their strength to hide that there is a heroic revolution for bread that has been bloodied in Syria and the masses brutally massacred, starved and isolated by the treacherous leaderships of the world left.
The "new left" composed of Stalinist waste and former Trotskyists was laid by imperialism to isolate and strangle the revolutionary offensive of the exploited in Ukraine and Greece, in turn isolating them from the entire Europe, and to hide the heroic Syrian revolution as well as the brutal genocide led by imperialism to drown her -from the world proletariat. Thus the imperialist bandits recruited all their agents to prevent the revolution from standing up in any of the core countries and become the spark that ignite the dry grass in the region, as in the great revolution of the Maghreb and the Middle East.
The role of the liquidators of the Fourth International has been essentially legitimizing the nauseating corpse of Stalinism, which yesterday gave China, the USSR, Vietnam and East Europe to imperialism in '89, so today comes again to surrender Cuba and crush the most advanced centers of the world revolution.
All liquidators of Trotskyism were part of that "holy alliance" that told the world masses that "the enemy was the ISIS" in the Middle East and Europe. That legitimized imperialism to support murderous Bashar who massacred the Syrian revolution ... and legitimized governments of imperialist Europe to crush, cast and imprison thousands of refugees ... It strengthened Hollande -who run a self-serving bombing in Paris- by putting the blame on ISIS, so then he could attack the conquest of the 35 hours’ working week of French workers.
They are the renegades of Trotskyist who supported the Stalinist fifth column that went on to defeat from within the revolutionary masses of Donbass in Ukraine, and are also those who support and sustain the treacherous counter-revolutionary policy of the Kurdish Stalinism, the PKK, that by the Bashar dog slaughters the Syrian masses.
They silenced and support the pact between Obama and Putin in Minsk; conceal the Geneva Conference that ensures Al-Assad's perpetuation in power until slaughtering even the last of the rebels in Syria or until they are surrendered by the FSA bourgeois generals.
They openly support or silence and cover up the Castro-Obama pact surrendering Cuba and the entire Latin American revolution to US imperialism.
Between revolution and counterrevolution there is a river of blood, as there is between Trotskyism and Stalinism.
The liquidators of the Fourth International and Stalinism have one party that is none other than the World Social Forum and its current representative: social-imperialist "new left" of Syriza and PODEMOS, advocates to imperialist multinationals and bankers' business dealings.
To the counterrevolutionary pact of imperialism and the bourgeoisies we must oppose a true pact of the working class -only truly "national" class-- and the exploited, from the Donbass to Kiev
It has become clear that there will be no peace for Ukraine exploited if the counterrevolutionary army of Kiev and its fascist gangs, massacring every step the workers' struggle is not defeat. The only way to end the war that imperialism and its lackeys have declared to the Ukrainian working class, massacring more than nine thousand men, women and children, and which has left Ukraine and especially the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk utterly destroyed, is ... BY WINNING IT.
In "Lessons from Spain" (1936) the founder of the Red Army, Comrade Leon Trotsky, argued that "(...) the workers and peasants are not able to secure victory but when fighting for their own emancipation. Under these conditions, subjecting them to the leadership of the bourgeoisie is to ensure in advance their defeat in the civil war. " Victory will only be possible if workers, who have no ties with imperialism-and starting with Donbass miners militias- take in their hands the direction of the war and re-weld the unity of the exploited from all over Ukraine, against Stalinism and its popular-front politics of class collaboration with the Russophile bourgeoisie and Putin.
To the counterrevolutionary alliance between imperialism and the native bourgeoisie, we must oppose a true alliance between the working class (the only truly "national" class) and the exploited, from the Donbass to Kiev, expropriating the expropriators and putting all mines, factories and steel mills to produce under workers' control. To this we must sweep away the government Poroshenko and his IMF plans, breaking with the IMF, expropriating the Ukrainian bourgeoisie and oligarchy, recovering for the rural poor black soil agricultural lands of Ukraine that yesterday Yanukovych and today Poroshenko have given in exchange for crumbs to the imperialist grain corporations like Cargill and Monsanto.
Ukrainian exploited, from east to west, have everything in common. In their struggle they face the same enemy, imperialism and its plans of hunger and misery; and they have the same demand: bread, jobs and decent wages to end the misery of 47 euros a month. The revolution that began in Ukraine is a revolution of the workers who refuse to accept poverty wages and to survive in a maquila (sweatshop) pillaged by imperialism! The last word has not been said, because under those same demands that motorized the revolutionary struggle of the Ukrainian masses, coal miners and steelworkers in Pavlograd, Lviv, Volyn and all those regions of Ukraine under control of Kiev government now return to combat . It is necessary and urgent that the masses in Kiev again disrupt the fascist army, preventing the levies and calling for the demobilization of the privates, and break out the siege around Donbass! By self-defense committees of workers against the attack of the fascist gangs!
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF WORKERS' ORGANIZATIONS IN STRUGGLE AND INDEPENDENT UNIONS WITH DELEGATES FROM ALL OVER UKRAINE!
Let's put up the power of the councils of workers and soldiers from all over Ukraine to make socialist Ukraine come back to crush the fascists, expel imperialism and expropriate the capitalists!
We must break with the bourgeoisie!
To unify the ranks of the Ukrainian working class and fight for bread, jobs and wages, the unions of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk must break right now their subordination to the bourgeoisie and call and send delegates to this congress.
It is necessary to take the political leadership of the war in our hands:
Out with Obama, Putin, IMF, EU, UN and NATO from Ukraine!
Out with the Russian military base in Crimea! Crimea is Ukraine!
Down Poroshenko and the cheat Minsk "ceasefire"!
There is plenty of money; it is swept by imperialism and the oligarchs!
Not a single dollar to pay the fraudulent foreign debt to the IMF! The debt has to be repaid for by those that contracted it: the old treacherous hierarchs of Stalinism, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and all Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, Citibank managers who stole rubles in trucks from the former workers states leaving them in debt! Let the Bundesbank pay for Russian oil, gas and minerals it has plundered for pennies in Russia, Ukraine and the former workers states of Eurasia! Immediate seizure of all assets of the parasites of the Ukrainian oligarchy that in '89, as head of the Stalinist CP clique, robbed property and wealth of the people and handed out the workers states to Reagan, Thatcher and Citibank!
Expropriation without compensation and under workers control of all mines, mills and factories of Ukraine!
Expropriation without compensation and under workers control of all productive land that today Poroshenko and yesterday Yanukovych deliver to Monsanto and Cargill!
Renationalization without compensation and under workers' control of Gazprom! We must expropriate BASF and Total!
For an investment plan to modernize the mining industry and to put into production mines that have closed or been devastated by bombing!
For a workers emergency plan! Urgently put in place a plan of public works to rebuild destroyed homes, schools and hospitals, roads and water infrastructure and energy!
The wage demand is unifying the ranks of workers in Ukraine and in the rest of Europe. Sliding scale of wages and hours of work in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Russia! All available hands to produce! Sharing working hours! 36 hours per week for all! We are all immigrants, we are all refugees! Enough of workers treated as pariahs with no future in imperialist Europe! We must enforce the battle cry of the workers of Renault-Dacia in Romania (2009): Equal pay for equal work! We want to earn as the best paid European worker!
Imperialism has already defined what the fate is it holds for Ukraine, if the working class fails to stop it. And it is none other than being a ransacked and starved 4th rank colony, with no power, no water, no gas, no food, health or education; without jobs and mines, with miserable salaries of U $ S 50, with more than 20% of unemployed and hundreds of thousands of workers forced to leave their home and their families to work for coins in imperialist Europe. Ukrainian exploited know that and have staged a great revolution for bread shouting "We want the USSR back!" because they know that only a successful revolution can get bread and decent jobs for the workers.
For a revolutionary provisional government of workers' organizations and committees of workers and soldiers from all over Ukraine! The weapons are not delivered! The militias do not dissolve!
We must extend and centralize the dual power of the armed workers all across Ukraine! Widespread arming of the masses! Workers' militias throughout Ukraine to defend us from Kiev fascist army, armed to the teeth by NATO and the IMF!
Soviet Ukraine will either be united, free and independent and become a bastion of European and world revolution ... or stay like today a tutelary colony of imperialism, torn and pillaged by the IMF and the EU!
May the USSR of councils of workers, peasants and soldiers come again without Stalinism traitors, betrayers to the October Revolution of 1917 and the international socialist revolution!
In Ukraine a decisive chapter in European proletarian revolution is played today. If counterrevolution settles, Ukraine will be a bastion and serve to blackmail -with workers earning miserable wages- and continue imposing worse conditions to those Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German proletariat are enduring. Ukraine is the advanced anti-imperialist struggle of Eastern Europe, West and Russia; so it is a revolution of an entirely international character. If revolution is successful in Ukraine, the proletariat of Western Europe will have the best conditions to face the same enemy that plunders the peoples both in Eastern and Western Europe. Ukrainian workers cannot keep fighting isolated!
Both in Eastern and Western Europe, the same enemy: reactionary Maastricht's UE.
In the imperialist powers: The enemy is at home!
All European and world unions and workers' organizations must vote right now: let's organize mass actions across the continent and the collection of weapons, ammunition and food to send to the heroic resistance!
International workers’ brigades to go and fight alongside the militia of Donbass and all workers from all over Ukraine!
Open the way to European socialist revolution!
For the Socialist United States of Europe, from Portugal to the Russian steppes!