July 10th, 2016

Ukraine: The crisis of Maastricht Europe is being paid by the European working class and the oppressed peoples

The masses of Kiev fight against the plans of starvation, misery and plunder imposed by Poroshenko on behalf of the IMF and EU

The Eastern and Western Ukrainian masses do not surrender!
Enough of fighting divided: One single enemy, one single fight from Donbass to Kiev!

In early July, the masses from Kiev (the Ukrainian capital) fought in the streets once again, with demonstrations and protests against the increases of taxes on basic services (water, electricity and gas), which will start in September and will affect the already low wages of the workers and exploited masses. The government increased 100% the prices of hot water and heating.
The whip of capital keeps punishing the masses, in the East and the West. Imperialism will not rest until Ukraine is tied with double chains.

However the Ukrainian masses show that their forces have not been exhausted yet. The protest against retrenchments was organized by the Union Federation of Ukraine, miners and steel workers unions, with the Federation of Independent Unions. Unions of education and science workers from the regions of Kiev and Vinnitsa endorsed the protest. It was held in the streets and avenues where thousands of demonstrators (about 5 thousand only in Kiev) around buildings of the Government and the Supreme Rada (Parliament).

“If the government talks about European values, so we want European salaries”, protesters demanded. They demanded that starting on October 1st the minimum wage must be equal to the consumptions, estimated in 3067 grivnas (U$ 123), when today it is not even U$50. Other demands are related to the increase of pensions for retired people and students.

On the other hand, in the Rada, the fraction of the Opposition Block warned on Wednesday that the accumulation of citizen’s unhappiness and vital problems of the populations will lead to social uprisings.

The fight of the masses from Kiev is a huge anti-imperialist fight, against the plans of starvation and misery dictated by IMF and EU. It is the same fight headed by miners and workers of Donbass who defend the mines and their jobs that imperialism wants to steal from them. In order to defend them, they set up militias disorganizing Kiev murderous army that attacks and bomb them, destroys their hospitals, schools, etc., and also by winning privates with their fight.

The resistance of the masses in Donbass, despite the brutal fence, isolation and the betrayal of Minsk pacts that divide the Ukrainian working class; and the demonstrations of the masses of Kiev who came back to the fight in the streets against Poroshenko and Rada (the IMF’s plans appliers) show that the forces of the Ukrainian masses are not exhausted at all.

They are willing to fight against the plans imperialism and its puppet Poroshenko. Their lives depend on it. The tragedy is the huge betrayal of the leaderships, which imposed a divided fight and weakened their forces against the enormous enemy they are confronting.

Unfortunately, the Ukrainian workers have been divided in different unions depending if they work in Kiev or Donbass. And even if they have the same sufferings, attacks or increase in the cost of living in the entire territory, the leaderships refuse to organize a joint struggle to confront the same enemy.

Ukraine will not have way out favorable for workers and exploited masses unless they unite their fight from Donbass to Kiev and if they defeat the hated Poroshenko government in the capital. This demand for better wages and against the increase in the cost of living unifies the exploited from all over Ukraine. It is the demand that links their fight with the one of the French, Greek and European workers.

Enough of fighting divided! The same enemy, the same fight from Donbass to Kiev! Down with the counterrevolutionary Minsk pact and its deceitful ceasefire!
In order to end with the IMF and EU and their plans of misery, starvation and plunder!
In order to end with Poroshenko and “Novorossia” oligarchy, friends of Putin!

In order to end with the Minsk infamous pact!
In order to recover Crimea from the hands of the killer Putin that imperialism gave him in Minsk in return for his acts! Crimea also belongs to Ukraine! Out with the military Russian base of Kolchak-Putin that is prepared to attack the masses who refuse to disarm themselves!
In order to get wages, jobs and all the masses’ demands!
The councils of workers and soldiers must be extended, generalized and set up all over Ukraine
Generalize weapons for the Ukrainian masses!
For a Soviet, Socialist, United, Free and Independent Ukraine!
Let’s make Donbass masses war cry come true:
For the return of the USSR!

ELIZA FUNES AND NADIA BRIANTE