August 15th, 2016
Ukraine
The last chapter of the revolution has not been written yet.
After the huge mass demonstration in the Ukrainian capital against the hikes of Poroshenko’s government on behalf of IMF…
While the miners and exploited people keep resisting the imperialist offensive.
Once again the objective conditions of sufferings and starvation are pushing the Ukrainian working class towards its unity from Donbass to Kiev against the imperialist plunder, its oligarch partners, Poroshenko’s government and his fascist troops…
The miners of the western region –controlled by Kiev- are fighting
A single class, a single fight, the same enemy, from Donbass to Kiev in the entire Ukraine!
United Independent Soviet Ukraine or Wall Street colony!
August has started and Western miners of Ukraine once again are fighting for what belongs to them. Most of the workers in the coal state mines in the Western region, controlled by Kiev’s government, have been from 3 to 6 months without getting paid their low wages!
Road blocks, refusing to work on the mines, leaders and miners going on hunger strikes are the ways that workers are using to fight for collecting the owed salaries and against closing and privatizing mines.
On August 3rd miners’ wives of Krasnoarmeyskugol organized a demonstration of “empty cups” claiming the wages owed to be paid to their husbands.
On August 5th miners of Chervonohrad protested in Lviv and blocked the international road Lviv-Rava-Ruska.
On August 9th Viktor Trifonov, from the state complex Selidovugol, was on hunger strike and set himself on fire in a desperate act during a press conference in front of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine. Despite suffering burns in 12% of his body, he kept his hunger strike to protest. Because the life of this miner became a true torment! The debt of this company with the workers is over 60 million hryvnias (2,4 million dollars).
On August 11th the workers of mine Stahanova, the biggest of the state complex Krasnoarmiiskvuhillia, in Oblast of Donetsk controlled by Poroshenko’s government, started a spontaneous strike. In their assembly they decided not to work in the mine and stop the production. The same happened in the mines “Ukraine”, “Kurakhovskaya”, “1/3 Novogrodovskaya”, and “Russia”.
When this happened, the workers of Lvivvuhillya were on their 8th day of hunger strike in front of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine.
The whip of capital does not stop. Living in Ukraine became a real hell, both in the west and the east. The plans of IMF, World Bank and EU for Ukraine are to make it a colony controlled by imperialism… this is the “way out” and this is the fate that capitalists prepared for this country of Eastern Europe.
Imperialism dragged the nation to suffocation since it cannot pay the fake foreign debt and the payment plan includes privatization, closing or reconverting all mines. The miners of Donbass rebelled against this plan and in defense of their lives and work; they rose as the head of the fight and for that they set up militias and soldier committees.
But the imperialist plan is for the entire Ukraine. Misery, hunger and the attack are for the entire exploited people and can only be confronted with a unified struggle of workers from all over the country, breaking the submission that the treacherous leaderships want to impose to different bourgeois sectors, which was sealed in Misnk Pacts to divide the nation: Kiev and the west controlled by Poroshenko; the region of Donbass under control of pro-Russian oligarchy and Putin, who got Crimea as payment for the services provided to imperialism.
Workers from all over Ukraine are facing the same sufferings and have the same demands: bread, work, better salaries. Those demands are denied by the same enemy that wants to keep everything: the IMF. Expropriation without compensation and place under workers’ control all the mines, steel industry and factories of Ukraine! Expropriation without compensation and place under workers’ control all the productive lands that Poroshenko and Yanukovych sold out to Monsanto and Cargill! Renationalization without compensation and place under workers’ control Gazprom! Total and BASF must be expropriated! For an investment plan to modernize the mining industry and to make the closed mines or those devastated by bombings to work again! For an emergency worker plan! For an urgent public work plan to rebuild houses, schools and hospitals, roads and water and power infrastructure!
The tragedy of Ukrainian revolution is that the treacherous leaderships have managed to impose the division among workers.
But the last word has not been said yet. This revolution tries to stand up constantly despite huge betrayals. Workers of Donbass and workers of Kiev refuse to surrender without fighting. Their demands are the same as those of the French workers who are confronting Hollande’s government attempt to steal the 35 working hours a week. The demands are the same as those from the British workers who are facing “zero hour” contract where bosses will have them available 24/7 and will pay them only the time they work, if they do; they are not different from the Spanish workers or Greek workers who are confronting retrenchments, attacks on their conquers and suffering terrible unemployment rates…
In this brutal crisis and economic bankruptcy, Imperialism has decided that workers and exploited people must pay for the crisis. The last chapter of the Ukrainian revolution is being written and will be written in the fights of its most powerful ally: the main battalions of Maastricht Europe working class.
