[OccupyCU] Ukraine: Down with the Imperialist-Backed Fascist/Nationalist Coup!

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U.S./European Union Anti-Russia Drive Backfires
Self-Determination for Crimea -- Oppose Sanctions!

Down with the Imperialist-Backed Fascist/Nationalist Coup in Ukraine!

Against Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism and Anti-Semitism -- For Workers 
Revolution!

http://www.internationalist.org/ukrainefascistcoup1403.html

Since late November, Ukraine has been convulsed by a right-wing nationalist 
and pro-imperialist mobilization culminating in a coup d'état that drove out 
the widely despised president Viktor Yanukovich and has split the country in 
two. Within hours of seizing power, the usurpers decreed that Russian would no 
longer be accepted as an official language, enraging the Russian-speaking east 
and south of the country. The mobilization, falsely portrayed in the Western 
media as nothing but "peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators," from early on was 
led by ethnic nationalists, fascists and outright Nazis. The U.S. and European 
Union were up to their necks in financing and backing these sinister 
putschists. Russian president Vladimir Putin correctly saw the coup as a blow 
aimed at Moscow by the Western imperialists, and struck back swiftly, taking 
over the Crimean peninsula, home of the Russian Black Sea fleet, to the 
applause of the majority Russian local population. Now Washington and the E.U. 
are sputtering, with the U.S. threatening economic sanctions and worse. The 
League for the Fourth International calls for self-determination for Crimea 
and would oppose any attempt to prevent or undermine that, whether imperialist 
sanctions, military threats or cutting off vital supplies. We demand that the 
U.S./EU/NATO imperialists get out of Ukraine and call for close collaboration 
by Ukrainian and Russian workers fighting for international socialist 
revolution.