[Peace-discuss] "No War Between 'Nations' - No Peace Between Classes"

[Carl G. Estabrook]

WAR ON WAR! NOT A SINGLE DROP A BLOOD FOR THE "NATION"! ----

The power struggle between oligarchic clans in Ukraine threatens to
escalate into an international armed conflict. Russian capitalism intends
to use redistribution of Ukrainian state power in order to implement their
long-standing imperial and expansionist aspirations in the Crimea and
eastern Ukraine where it has strong economic, financial and political
interests. ----  On the background of the next round of the impending
economic crisis in Russia, the regime is trying to stoking Russian
nationalism to divert attention from the growing workers' socio-economic
problems: poverty wages and pensions, dismantling of available health care,
education and other social services. In the thunder of the nationalist and
militant rhetoric it is easier to complete the formation of a corporate,
authoritarian state based on reactionary conservative values and repressive
policies.

In Ukraine, the acute economic and political crisis has led to increased
confrontation between "old" and "new" oligarchic clans, and the first used
including ultra-rightist and ultra-nationalist formations for making a
state coup in Kiev. The political elite of Crimea and eastern Ukraine does
not intend to share their power and property with the next in turn Kiev
rulers and trying to rely on help from the Russian government. Both sides
resorted to rampant nationalist hysteria: respectively, Ukrainian and
Russian. There are armed clashes, bloodshed. The Western powers have their
own interests and aspirations, and their intervention in the conflict could
lead to World War III.

Warring cliques of bosses force, as usual, force to fight for their
interests us, ordinary people: wage workers, unemployed, students,
pensioners... Making us drunkards of nationalist drug, they set us against
each other, causing us forget about our real needs and interests: we don`t
and can`t care about their "nations" where we are now concerned more vital
and pressing problems - how to make ends meet in the system which they
found to enslave and oppress us.

We will not succumb to nationalist intoxication. To hell with their state
and "nations", their flags and offices! This is not our war, and we should
not go on it, paying with our blood their palaces, bank accounts and the
pleasure to sit in soft chairs of authorities. And if the bosses in Moscow,
Kiev, Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Simferopol start this war, our duty is to
resist it by all available means!

NO WAR BETWEEN "NATIONS" - NO PEACE BETWEEN CLASSES!

KRAS, Russian section of the International Workers Association

Internationalists of Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Israel, Lithuania

Anarchist Federation of Moldova

Fraction of the Revolutionary Socialists (Ukraine)

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