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LCC endorses and reposts the following statement of the RCIT<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Joint Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and the Movement to Socialism (MAS, Russia), 25.2.2014,<\/em>www.thecommunists.net<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0www.nuevomas.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A coalition of pro-EU right-wing and fascist parties has overthrown the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. This represents a clear victory for EU imperialism and a setback for Russian imperialism which traditionally has massive influence in the Ukraine. In addition, this right-wing victory goes hand-in-hand with a substantial strengthening of fascist forces like the\u00a0Svoboda<\/em>\u00a0party of Oleg Tyagnibok, the \u201cPravy Sektor,<\/em>\u201d (Right Sector) and others.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The right-wing forces and fascists have already started by banning the Communist Party (KPU) in a number of regions. (See MAS: No to the Terror of the Bandera-Fascists! Stop the Repression against the Communists of Ukraine!, 22.2.2014,http:\/\/www.nuevomas.blogspot.co.at\/2014\/02\/no-to-terror-of-bandera-fascists-stop.html<\/a>) On February 23, the parliament abolished the \u201cLaw on Regional Languages<\/em>\u201d which entitled any local language spoken by at least 10% of the population of that region to be declared an official language within that region. Thus the right-wing nationalists have once again made Ukrainian the sole state language at all levels. This is an attack on the rights of the Russian-speaking population in the East and Southeast regions of the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Western media, as well as numerous left-liberal, reformist, and centrist forces, have depicted the \u201cMaidan<\/em>\u201d opposition as a democratic and progressive force. From the beginning of this protest movement, this has been completely untrue. The protests were initiated by the pro-EU right-wing parties (the\u00a0Fatherland Party<\/em>\u00a0of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Yulia Tymoshenko and the\u00a0Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform<\/em>\u00a0led by Vitali Klitschko) and the fascists. Their immediate goal was to force President Yanukovych\u2019s to sign an\u00a0Association Agreement<\/em>\u00a0with the European Union, which meant nothing but intensified colonialization of the Ukraine by EU imperialism. There has always been a strong presence of openly fascist forces in the Ukraine, and the Maidan protests have always been under the control of these fascist forces and other right-wing parties (while, of course, being rivals of one other).<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At the same time, revolutionaries clearly could not support the reactionary government of President Yanukovych. The latter was a government of super-rich capitalists (the so-called\u00a0oligarchs<\/em>) and collaborated closely with Russian imperialism.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For these reasons the RCIT stated in its resolution from December 18 2013: \u201cThe RCIT maintains that class conscious workers and socialists must support neither the pro-EU nor the pro-Russian faction of the capitalist class. The present mobilizations don\u2019t represent an independent organization of workers and youth to advance their interests, but rather the attempt of the right-wing and fascist faction of the bourgeoisie to bring down the equally reactionary Yanukovych government.<\/em>\u201d (See RCIT: Ukraine: Neither Brussels nor Moscow! For an independent Workers\u2019 Republic! 18.12.2013,\u00a0http:\/\/www.thecommunists.net\/worldwide\/europe\/ukraine-neither-brussels-nor-moscow\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We note that various socialist and anarcho-syndicalist organizations \u2013 like\u00a0Borotba<\/em>\u00a0or the\u00a0Autonomous Workers\u2019 Union<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 in the Ukraine correctly refused to support either of the two reactionary camps. At the same time, others did support the right-wing-led Maidan protests (like the “Vpered<\/em>” group of the Mandelite \u201cFourth International\u201d headed by Ilya Budraitskis, and the so-called \u201cLeft Opposition Collective<\/em>\u201d). On the other hand, the Stalinist KPU and others supported the reactionary Yanukovych government. Various international centrist forces have also supported the Maidan protests as a \u201cprogressive\u201d and \u201cdemocratic\u201d movement (e.g., the CWI, IMT, the Morenoite LIT-CI, various Cliffite groups like the ISO [USA] or the British RS21). Such support once more emphasizes how, without correct revolutionary communist theory and a program derived from such, left-wing groups are doomed to vacillate in the class struggle and to accommodate themselves to bourgeois forces.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The central task now is to mobilize the workers\u2019 movement against the new right-wing government and their pro-EU agenda, without making any accommodations to Russian imperialism or the old pro-Yanukovych regime. It is urgent to call for\u00a0mass assemblies in workplaces and neighborhoods<\/em>\u00a0so the working class can discuss its next steps and elect delegates. These delegates should meet for an\u00a0emergency congress<\/em>\u00a0to agree upon a plan to fight against the coming attacks of the new right-wing government. Socialists must explain that accession to the EU will bring about rapid increases in prices (+40% for gas) and massive attacks on social security. They must call for the workers\u2019 movement to form\u00a0defense squads to fight against the fascists<\/em>. They have to argue for a Ukraine in which\u00a0no national and ethnic group is discriminated against in its national rights<\/em>\u00a0(for example, using its language in public administration and in schools). They must call for a Ukraine in which the economy is no longer controlled by oligarchs and in which the\u00a0large banks and enterprises are nationalized and placed under control of the workers<\/em>. In short, socialists should fight for aworkers\u2019 government based on working class councils and militias<\/em>. The task of such a government is to transform the Ukraine into an\u00a0independent workers\u2019 republic which is neither a colony of Brussels or Moscow<\/em>.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This task can be only be achieved by an\u00a0organized\u00a0struggle of the working class, led by a revolutionary party in the tradition of Lenin and Trotsky. The RCIT and MAS call for revolutionaries in the Ukraine to unite in a Bolshevik organization based on an internationalist and communist program.<\/p>\n

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International Secretariat of the RCIT and Editors of the Bulletin “Movement to Socialism\u201d (MAS)<\/em><\/p>\n

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For a more detailed analysis of the situation in the Ukraine we refer readers to the RCIT resolution \u201cUkraine<\/em>: Neither Brussels nor Moscow! For an independent Workers\u2019 Republic!<\/em>\u201d 18.12.2013 which has been published in several languages:<\/p>\n

English:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thecommunists.net\/worldwide\/europe\/ukraine-neither-brussels-nor-moscow\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Russian:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thecommunists.net\/home\/%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9\/ukraine-statement\/<\/a><\/p>\n

German:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thecommunists.net\/home\/deutsch\/ukraine-weder-bruessel-noch-moskau\/<\/a><\/p>\n

See also the MAS-Statement: No to the Terror of the Bandera-Fascists! Stop the Repression against the Communists of Ukraine!, 22.2.2014<\/p>\n

English:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nuevomas.blogspot.co.at\/2014\/02\/no-to-terror-of-bandera-fascists-stop.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Russian:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nuevomas.blogspot.co.at\/2014\/02\/mas-www.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Spanish:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nuevomas.blogspot.co.at\/2014\/02\/no-terror-fascista-bandera-detener.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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