Ukraine - May 9th, 2022
Let's stop Putin's occupation in Ukraine
Under the boot of Putin or NATO, Ukraine will remain a monitored colony
For a workers’, Soviet and independent Ukraine!
Only a workers’ leadership of the war can defeat Putin and put an end to the plundering of Ukraine by imperialism and the IMF
No confidence in Zelensky and his bourgeois
and pro-imperialist leadership of the war
Zelensky is already negotiating the partition of Ukraine
with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs
For the solidarity of European workers:
Let's stop the massacre of Ukrainian workers! International workers' militias
War to war!
NATO must be disarmed! The workers and rank-and-file soldiers of Russia must turn the gun around!
Revolutionary General Strike throughout Europe!
In a general context in which imperialism uses Putin’s counterrevolutionary gendarme role, the occupation of Ukraine by Putin's troops continues in the east and south of the country (see box). And while this is happening, negotiations are already taking place for the partition of Ukraine by the Russian and Ukrainian oligarchies. The Russian flag is already flying in the east and south of Ukraine while Putin and Zelenski negotiate internationally with the approval of NATO.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian working class is fighting the Russian invader with Molotov cocktails and hunting rifles alongside rank-and-file soldiers in the midst of Putin's massacre of his people, as happened in Syria.
The Ukrainian resistance is selflessly giving its blood in the battles against Putin's troops. But Zelensky and his generals do not distribute the weapons that the European imperialist governments and NATO are giving them, they are safely stored in their guarded warehouses so that the workers do not get hold of them and can use them, in addition to against Putin's troops, against the oligarchs and the Ukrainian bourgeoisie, of which Zelensky is a faithful representative.
It is necessary that committees of workers’ and rank-and-file soldiers rise, with a workers' militia in every neighborhood, city, region and at the national level.
We must conquer the generalised arming of all the workers and poor people of Ukraine! The demand for "weapons for the resistance of Ukraine" must become an appeal to the world working class and its organizations, it is the task of the moment.
The defeat of the invading Kremlin troops at the hands of the exploited Ukrainian masses will be won with the working class as the protagonist, and not with generals, who are puppets of NATO. The workers, the poor people and the rank-and-file soldiers must take into their hands the control of the weapons of all the barracks in the Ukraine, dismissing all the officers, who with Zelenzki at the head, subject to the NATO officers, agree in secret with Moscow and are preparing their surrender by negotiating on the blood of the Ukrainian people.
For the disarmament of the bourgeoisie by the workers!
The Ukraine is defended through the proletarian revolution and not through the imperialists and the bourgeoisie!
Victory can only be guaranteed by the proletariat leading the war against the Ukrainian bourgeoisie and its pacts, and defending Ukraine as an oppressed nation from the rest of the world with the international unity of the working class, Europeans and Russians, to finish with the imperialist EU and with Putin.
Workers of the world, unite… to the Ukrainian resistance, against Putin and NATO
The European, North American and workers around the world must ship weapons and ensure that they reach the Ukrainian resistance directly by boycotting the imperialist and Putin’s war machine so that no military supplies are shipped or delivered to NATO’s counterrevolutionary troops or those of Putin.
At the same time, the workers' and peasants' resistance in Ukraine must seek fraternization and call to defection to Russia's rank-and-file soldiers, who are workers and poor peasants under arms, encouraging them to turn the gun on the butcher Putin and their own bourgeoisie. The Ukrainian resistance must also raise as its own the demand for the freedom of the thousands of political prisoners imprisoned by Putin for facing the war, refusing to kill their brothers in Ukraine.
It is necessary to conquer a workers' and peasants' leadership of the war. It is necessary to set up a Revolutionary Military Committee of workers, poor people and rank-and-file soldiers to guarantee control of weapons and all the arsenals of Ukraine, ignoring all the bourgeois officers, always ready to negotiate and agree with Moscow and imperialism.
Only the revolutionary struggle of the workers and poor peasants of Ukraine will even be able to guarantee the right to self-determination and autonomy to the peoples of Donetsk and Luhansk and the broadest democratic freedoms to all the oppressed of the Ukrainian nation.
Let’s put an end to Putin and the pretensions of NATO. The only solution is the decisive irruption on the streets of the European, Russian and international proletariat, which paralyzes Putin's war machine and calls for open combat against NATO and Maastricht.
European revolutionary general strike! Boycotts of shipments carrying supplies for Putin and NATO troops have already begun to develop in England, Italy, the Netherlands, and several other countries. And in Italy, on May 20, a general strike is being prepared against war policies and war governments, which is an example to follow and a good starting point.
From the trade union centrals and workers' organizations of all European countries, a call must be made to coordinate the struggle and their action with the workers of the Glacis. International Coordination and Action Committees must be set up to fight alongside the workers' and peasants' resistance in Ukraine and the millions of Ukrainian refugees.
As the world working class already did in the face of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, a campaign must be launched so that the workers' organizations send internationalist militiamen to fight alongside the exploited Ukrainians.
May financial collections be organized calling on all workers to contribute with a daily wage for the resistance. Let us organize pickets in all the ports of Europe stopping the NATO war machine, may the resistance be supplied and may not a single ammunition arrive for the butcher Putin, etc.
For the triumph of the Ukrainian nation at the hands of the armed masses! This must be the first step of the revolution in all the oppressed nations of the continent and in the metropolises throughout Europe!
It is time for a great internationalist action of the European and US working class! For a workers’, Soviet and independent Ukraine!.
Stalinists, social-imperialists and ex-Trotskyists against class Independence
Not only the butcher Putin, on the one hand, and Zelenskiy and his bourgeois leadership of the war, on the other, want to dismantle the Ukrainian workers' resistance, the former to massacre and occupy a country that they consider to be their own, and the latter so that there is no room for a workers' leadership of the war that endangers its bourgeois leadership that will end up surrendering and dividing the businesses between its oligarchy and the Russian one in a partition plan between imperialism and Russia. Also the traitorous leaderships of the working class do their bit to dismantle the Ukrainian working class resistance and the European and world working class in general.
The Stalinists of the "communist" Parties, supporting the counterrevolutionary Putin, and some ex-Trotskyists, such as the Morenoites of the IWL-FI (LIT-CI) and the IWU-FI (UIT-CI), giving hope with the "democratic goodness" of the European Union and of Biden, to whom they demand that the Ukrainian workers and peasants be armed. These are the two ends of the same rope that strangles the working class of Ukraine. Enough of subjecting the workers to their slavers! The Morenoite ex-Trotskyists side with Ukraine, but without questioning the bourgeois leadership of the war, a logic that comes from their reformist theory of the “democratic revolution”. And the Stalinists, who surrendered our combats one by one throughout history, side with the butcher Putin and today call the exploited Ukrainians Nazis while Putin is the "denazifier" and "liberator of the pro-Russian oblasts".
Yesterday, the workers of the world were deceived under the farce of the "fight against terrorism" in Syria, freeing the hands to Putin and Al Assad and all the counterrevolutionary forces that, under the command of the Yankees, massacred the revolution. These same leaderships that called the Syrian resistance “jihadists” today, under the scam of the “fight against the Nazis”, call the Ukrainian resistance Nazis and separate the Ukrainian workers and peasants from the world working class, as Putin and NATO apply the same plan of Syria in Ukraine.
In this war it is not possible to have an abstentionist, neutral policy, as other ex-Trotskyists claim, such as those of the Argentine PTS and its branches in Europe (CRT in the Spanish State or Révolution Permanente in France). To say that it is a war of two reactionary camps as these ex-Trotskyists say, equating the Russian invaders and the invaded Ukrainian people, is to assist Putin and imperialism.
We principled Trotskyist revolutionaries stand in the military trench of the Ukrainian nation and fight for its victory over Putin's fascist troops, because it is a completely just war against the reactionary invasion of Putin, the gendarme of imperialism in Eurasia. We place ourselves in the military camp of the invaded Ukrainians, although Zelensky is in it, but not in his bourgeois political camp, but continually denouncing the betrayal of the bourgeois Zelenskys and disputing their leadership so that the workers have it. It is the same position that we had in Syria regarding the FSA, or in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Trotskyists were in the republican military camp, against the fascist Franco, but not having the slightest confidence in the bourgeois governments of Casares Quiroga, Largo Caballero and Negrín who wanted to submit the workers against the revolution, and having a revolutionary line of class independence.
We must also oppose the social-imperialists such as Podemos, which is part of the Spanish bourgeois government, which maintains a "pacifist" position betting on the diplomatic channels of the national and supranational bourgeois institutions and also other ex-Trotskyists, such as the Spanish Anticapitalistas and the French NPA or like the different factions from the Militant trunk (Woods, Ramos or Taffee), which maintain a position supposedly "Neither with Putin nor with NATO" raising a "No to War!" and “For peace!” but without positioning themselves in the Ukrainian military camp nor with its workers' resistance.
These positions are a reactionary trap because the demand for peace is conquered with the shout of the working class of the metropolises with the motto of "the enemy is at home and it must be defeated", fighting to defeat NATO’s war machine and putting an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and always siding with the Ukrainian workers' resistance.
The wars against oppression and colonialism are not won by submitting to the bourgeoisie, neither by submitting to any gang of imperialism. There is no other way out than that the workers' organizations, the unions, the poor peasants and the rank-and-file soldiers take the leadership of the war in their hands and control all the weapons, which are now being guarded by the Ukrainian generals who are negotiating their surrender to the Russian officers.
We Trotskyist revolutionaries have placed ourselves in the trench of the Ukrainian nation, but we do not submit to NATO, we fight to break the submission of the workers and poor peasants of Ukraine to the bourgeoisie, to strike together internationally to revolt the world working class, and, mainly, to strengthen our struggle to defeat the social-imperialist leaderships and their Stalinist and reformist parties. And we fight for the arming of the workers, despite the fact that the Ukrainian bourgeoisie and imperialism are very careful that this does not happen.
We must defeat the social-imperialist leaderships that submit the working class of the metropolises to their NATO executioners, paralyzing their forces, separating them from their brothers in the Ukraine, while Putin advances with blood and fire on the exploited!
It is necessary to put an end to NATO and the imperialist Maastricht that put the gun on the temple of all the workers and oppressed peoples of Europe and the whole world! Free way to the European socialist revolution!
The enemy is at home! The enemy is Wall Street! The enemy is Biden, the commander of the murderous NATO troops!
Revolutionary General Strike throughout Europe!
Benito Toribio Morales
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