“For a Ukraine without Bourgeois
and Fascists”
Joint Initiative Translation from the Russian, Mark Harris, 22 February, 2001
Ukraine is being sold to liquidate debts. Among the buyers are the “Great Eastern Neighbor”, the transoceanic “Strategic Partners”, and “compassionate” Europeans. All of them are capitalist colonizers of Ukraine, indifferent to the fate of the working people. The lackeys of the local colonial administration represent their interests in the tender of sale of the homeland. It’s entirely clear that the President wants to carry out his gendarme-lackey responsibilities on his own, ‘according to understandings’ without the observation of any rules. In its turn the bourgeois opposition declares its aspiration to defend bourgeois rights and freedoms, but its general democratic demands hide the bluntly anti-worker essence of the pro-Western, pro-IMF politics of the Yushchenko government. They are openly striving to transform their campaign to the movement for “Ukraine without Kuchma and Communists”. When necessary, neither faction of the bourgeoisie is shy about the use of brute force. In the February events both sides (of the bourgeois forces) used neo-fascist militants against the attempts of worker-activist to give the movement ‘Ukraine without Kuchma’ an anti-bourgeois content. The bankrupt authorities used Bandera bandits from the Trident (Ukrainian Nationalists’ Symbol –trans); the bourgeois opposition - nazis from the “Ukrainian National Self Defense Forces” (UNO-UNCA). In this complex situation, the only alternative to the coming reaction may be the formation of a unified workers’ front of all actual left forces under the slogan ‘For Ukraine without Bourgeois and Fascists’, on the following principles: · No support for any fraction of the bourgeoisie! Determined
separation from all of them!
We appeal to all political parties and organizations, who defend the interests of the working class, to establish a joint committee of the unified workers’ front, in order to develop a program of coordinated actions for the nearest future. We are certain that with coordinated actions of parties, youth organizations, groups and activists, we will be able to open the eyes of the people of Ukraine to the ongoing bourgeois orgy, and with the combined efforts of the working people to do away with the dictatorship of capital. For the Kiev City Committee of the Union of Leninist Communist Youth
of Ukraine:
For the Alliance of Revolutionary Marxists “Workers’ Resistance”:
For the Kiev Committee of the Union of Marxists:
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