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

[Ricky Baldwin]

Trouble is, there is no international socialist revolution going on in Ukraine, and the pro-Putin crowd (like Putin's regime) are just as rightwing as the pro-EU crowd if not moreso.  There is (or was) a Socialist Party in Ukraine, started by former Soviets and later merging with 'Cossack Glory' and other marginal groups, but it is extremely doubtful how much "revolution" can be attributed to them or even how 'left' they really are.  

It is true that there were nationalists and fascists involved in the Ukrainian coup and that there was some very serious violence, mainly against police as far as I can tell.  It is also true that the US Government knows all about elections under military occupation, as in Crimea, from the US Marines' experience in Haiti, and that the US chooses hypocritically which 'breakaway' initiatives to support (Kosovo but not Crimea, etc.).  

None of this means the left should support Putin.  We in the US should oppose (further) US intervention in Ukraine, as we should any attempt to extend US influence.  But Russian influence in the area is not by extension necessarily a good thing.

Ricky 


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

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.
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