A major part of the treacherous left and Stalinism in particular make huge efforts to present Putin as a "friend" of the exploited of the world when he is actually a minion of imperialism. However their fallacies are very far away from reality.
Each time imperialism requested his services to slaughter the masses, this murderer from the former KGB has been always ready for it. In Chechnya, he exterminated every men over age 10 for the sole "crime" of rising for the right to national self-determination. He invaded Georgia, North and South Ossetia; he filled with military bases the former soviet republics that got independence from Russia, such as Moldavia, South Ossetia, Belorussia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
Imperialism assigned the former Stalinist bureaucrats (now turned into bourgeoisie and capitalist restoration governments) to play the role of discipline, subordinate and crush the masses in the former workers states. The cynic ruthless counterrevolutionary role of the new Russian bourgeoisie that rose since the 90's with the capitalist restoration is not new. Previously, in the 90's, this bourgeoisie was proved in the Balkans with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, where they supported Milosevic the genocidal, the president of the "Great Serbia", also from the kidney of the former bureaucracy. He was used by imperialism to suffocate and discipline all the uprisings for national independence of the nations that the "Great Serbia" subjugated and he made genocide in Bosnia. After that genocide in Bosnia, when this butcher of the Balkans wanted to take over the small nation Kosovo by exterminating the masses and making an exodus of thousands of exploited, NATO intervened to impose discipline on its guardian dog by bombing and plunging it in destruction, suffocating the masses of the region in a bloodbath.
Yugoslavia was later shared among the different imperialist powers. Germany took over Croatia and Slovenia. France kept a big share of the business deals of Serbia. USA kept Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia. The IMF is the creditor of them all.
The "Great Russia", dressed as "anti-imperialist" by the renegades of Marxism, did not take a single inch from the Balkans. Imperialism "thanked Milosevic for his services" and just in case he thought about advancing half a meter, imperialism took Milosevic to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he was judged and sentenced as war criminal.
That's the role in world politics and econmy imperialism reserves for Moscow gangs: TO BE A GENDARME AND SLAUGHTER IN ALL THE AREAS OF FORMER USSR, BUT NOT KEEP AN INCH OF LAND AS SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. THIS IS HOW IT HAS BEEN AND HOW IT IS.
Putin also intervened in Ukraine as a gendarme. He posed of being "confronted to imperialism" when he supported the pro-US government of Janukovic, an oligarch who is a junior partner of its business deals and kicked out by the Ukrainian masses, after selling out Ukraine to the IMF with its hands and feet tied. Putin signed with imperialism the Minsk agreement with which they besieged the revolutionary Donbass, while recognizing the fascist government of Kiev. It is thus clear that imperialism and its guardian in the region threatened the unity of the working class in Ukraine and the war cry of "let the USSR return" in a Soviet Ukraine.
Putin's role as gendarme and hit man of imperialism is the guardian of the transnational companies and the finance capital in Caucasus nations and Eurasia. When Zionism failed and 2011 revolutions broke out in Maghreb and Middle East and the imperialist devices of control in the region fell, imperialism relied on Putin for him to support Assad as he was falling in Damascus as besieged from the revolution in Syria in 2015. The Russian air force, together with Al Assad slaughtered and ended up destroying the most important cities in Syria. Putin the butcher proved to be a good gendarme of the Muslim nations of former USSR such as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, etc with the threat of his bayonets and together with the new national oligarchies allied to the "Great Russian" bourgeoisie. All of them are discipline by 150.000 marines that USA has in Afghanistan. They not only control that country but the whole route of opium in the region, particularly the Muslim masses.
Putin's gang not only plays the role of gendarme and hit man in the region. In the first place, he and his Bonapartist counterrevolutionary government are the guardians of the business deals of French-German and US imperialism in Russia. He is just a junior partner of the imperialist powers.
Putin is the jail guard of the Russian (former USSR) working class that made one of the biggest revolutions in history in October 1917 defeating capitalism. Putin is the "first shield of NATO" (although he has big contradictions with NATO and imperialism) to smash the Russian masses if they think to set up again soviets and the councils of workers, soldiers and peasants once again.
Imperialism and Putin himself fear this prospect. That's why even imperialism will want in the first place to disarm his hitman from any nuclear weaponry, not because they fear Putin which will never fire on imperialism not even fireworks. It is mostly due to the panic that the masses take over power. Imperialism knows it must control the Russian military industrial apparatus directly, throughout copyrights of transnational companies or with generals. Such a military power cannot fall on the hands of a new red army.
Putin uses military technology inherited from the USSR to negotiate his location and part of the business deals with imperialism. But on the long term and historically, he needs to disarm it. That's what's NATO advance in Ukraine is about. That's what NATO bases in Lithuania, Estonia, Poland is about. That's what the embargo on the Russian oligarchy is about. And that is also why Putin doesn't get a piece of Syria as it happened yesterday in the Balkans. The destiny of Putin's Russia is the Balkans. The fate of the "Great Russia" is that of the countries it subjugates. That's what imperialism has prepared for it.
The policy of imperialism is to penetrate in Russia by economic and financial means. Citibank, American Express and Visa handle the Russian banking and financial circuit. BASF owns 50% of Gazprom, which supplies gas to Europe and is one of the biggest of the world.
Imperialism pushes to colonize Russia more and more and must force and blackmail the Russian oligarchy to surrender. It has expropriated the Russian oligarchy all its funds abroad, which is the sum of 300 thousand dollars and still hasn't returned it.
Meanwhile, imperialism uses Putin and the Russian oligarchy as hitman and bodyguard, as we see in Ukraine, Syria and mostly Afghanistan. USA knows that if it withdraws from Afghanistan due to a new revolutionary assault of the masses of the region or because of the struggle of US masses, it has a guardian dog already proved in Syria ready to massacre in Kabul.
Russia is a transitional capitalist country, which depends on the world economy, the finances and politics of imperialism. It increasingly besieges Russia because they want to colonize it. But in the meantime it needs the counterrevolutionary forces for them to keep the masses in Eurasia and Romania aside.
Imperialism needs Putin as gendarme and hit man, as a bodyguard, but not as an associate. Even the minor imperialist partners of USA, Germany, France, England were brought down to their knees. There are too many imperialist powers.
Russia and China emerge as new capitalist countries since 1989, in a world already partitioned by war and with spheres of influence totally subordinated by several imperialist gangs. Undoubtedly, these contradictions will be solved with huge convulsions, revolutions, counterrevolutions and wars.
The same thing happens with China. First, Obama besieged it with a free trade agreement with 14 countries in the Pacific. It did not turn out as China started a negotiation and a trading agreement with Europe, even with a new infrastructure for the traffic of commodities from Beijing to London. Now Trump came and kicked the door. He blackmails and threatens US transnational companies will withdraw from China and USA will close his domestic market (the biggest one in the world) only to its products, and to increase US economy productivity of labour to make China surrender and put it down on its knees to make China give USA the state profitable companies and most of the shares of the Chinese banks.
The bankrupt international finance capital controls new markets, each time with fewer intermediaries. Ultimately, the dispute is between USA and Germany, that is to say, with Maastricht imperialist Europe, to see which imperialist power keeps colonizing Russia and China. That is what the commercial war that has started is about.
After defeating the Syrian revolution, Moscow gangs will increase their Bonapartist counterrevolutionary turn in Russia and in the nations it subjugates inside it
Tens of subjugated republics did not get the independence from the "Great Russia" in 1989 with the fall of USSR and now they are inside it, subjugated. After the defeat of the Syrian revolution and with the strengthening of Moscow gangs, the national oppression and the terror regime over those nations has exacerbated.
The cruel lies and deceptions that scattered all the treacherous leaderships of the world proletariat asserting that the rebel masses of Syria were nothing but "terrorists", "jihadists" and "agents of imperialism" gave green light to the fascist Al Assad and the criminal Putin to exterminate over 600,000 exploited and devastate entire towns and villages, without the masses and the Russian proletariat rising and paralyzing the machinery of war to prevent this carnage.
The "Great Russian" oligarchy had already proved itself to be an expert on genocides such as Chechnya and Bosnia, among other massacres it consummated on behalf of the imperialist powers.
Putin can play this role because he keeps the proletariat and the exploited Russians under his boot with a regime of terror. This assassin for imperialism was thus able to emerge victorious and strengthened from the massacre in Syria, and this strength is now turned to redouble the subjection and oppression against his own people and the small nations that "Great Russia" oppresses.
It is more than clear that Putin and the Moscow gangs showed as "allies of the peoples of the world", as we said before, never shot a single bullet against imperialism. Not even against Turkey which downed a Russian airplane, while Putin looked astonished. Nor against the Yankees and European imperialisms, which froze his accounts and the ones of the Russian oligarchy. Moreover, when Ukraine was in default, suffocated by the IMF's usurious debt, Putin offered to give a loan to his friend Janukovich (the president back then), to fulfill his "payment obligations."
We insist: not a single ammunition or attacks of these genocides and massacres were directed against imperialism; they were always against workers and poor people.
Putin has proved to be a "brave" butcher against the masses, and a lapdog and cuddly puppet of imperialism, who does all the dirty work of drowning revolutions for bread in blood.
The strengthening of the Russian bourgeoisie in Syria is also paid by the Russian masses with more starvation, misery and repression.
Russian economy is suffering the blows of the new round of the world bankruptcy that made the prices of commodities and raw materials -fictitiously inflated- to fall. Over 50% of its income comes from the looting of its gas and its oil.
To make things worse, imperialism presses on Russia embargoing individuals and companies for billions of dollars. In this way imperialism makes sure that his assassin Putin exemplarily carries out the "dirty work" he was assigned to massacre the Syrian revolution, to act as a gendarme in the Eurasian region, and to submit and surrender the Ukrainian revolution In the Donbass.
The answer of Putin has been to launch the crisis costs on the exploited masses. At the end of 2015 and beginning 2016 the value of Ruble (Russian currency) dropped 50% in days, thus, capitalists took for themselves half of the salary of workers. Millions of Russians found themselves below the datum poverty line (41% don’t have enough money to by clothe and food) and the economic breach got bigger. The official level of poverty is 16%, although it is estimated that among the 30% and 50% of the Russian people are at risk of poverty. Only 1% of the people have 71% of the private assets.
Thousands of workers have lost their jobs and those “luckily” employed are not paid their salaries. For example, in the Russian Donbass, bosses have not paid salary for months to 70.000 workers: the debt is about 57 million dollars. The most affected workers are those in manufacturing and construction. This is the case of the mine KingCoal (coal mine) in Gurlovko city (province of Rostov in the Russian Donbass). Since last year, they went on hunger strike, carried out stoppages, and demos demanding the salary payment without obtaining any response. Far from being “the great power ousting USA” as the bourgeois analysts and the spokespersons of the Left currents say, the Russian workers suffer like in Zimbabwe, one of the poorest countries in the world where they don’t have even a miserable salary.
But what happens if workers want to demand what belongs to them? Putin regime is ready to criminalize, put in jail and brutally repress those who dare to do so. If a person carries a banner on the streets, he can be fined for it or sentenced to prison. A demonstration with more than one protester must be authorized, if not protesters can receive a fine equivalent to 2 years of salary or sentenced to days in prison or forced works; and if he does it again: 5 years of jail. The “incitements” to the disorder called from the social media are also fined!
The terror regime of the Moscow oligarchy gets deepened
The most exploited sectors of the working class experience the regime of terror of Putin and his clique of oligarchies. Recently, they approved a law where to blow a woman, children or parents once a year will not be considered a crime. The law will punish the offenders only when the violence is a recurrent event but woman should prove it before the court since the justice will not litigate ex-officio as regards domestic violence cases. Every day, 36.000 women and 26.000 children in Russia suffer domestic violence. 12.000 women are killed every year by their partner: a woman per 40 minutes. 2.000 children commit suicide per year and 10.000 ran away from their families. 40% of all the violent crimes in the Russian courts are cases of domestic violence. 97% of the cases related to domestic violence in Russia don’t reach courts; the victims know that none “justice” will come from police, judges and the bourgeois state. The parliament voted 385-2 to decriminalize domestic violence.
The Duma has 450 members of the parliament with 42 belonging to the Russian Communist Party. They rejected the law, but shamelessly presented a proposal of not removing the penalties on the aggressions on children or pregnant women. These “communists” are the biggest supporters and those who make the butcher Putin pretty as well as the reactionary regime. The partners of the Russian CP in Europe are those who sent hit men of the European Communist Party under the name of “anti-fascist international brigades” that killed and murdered from the back all the fighters of the resistance of Donbass that refused to obey Minsk agreement in Ukraine, which prevents the masses of Donbass to unite themselves with the working class of Kyiv and smash fascism there. These “internationalists” of the European CP are those who smashed and dissolved from inside the “Phantom Brigade” of the miners of Donbass, that made imperialism and Kyiv government to terrify, marched to pay tribute to the fascist Al Assad in Syria.
That’s what the role of the Russian Communist Party is about, it is the biggest supporter and partner of the oligarchy of Moscow.
It is not rare that the legalization of violence against women is supported by the reactionary Russian orthodox church to which Putin just gave the properties expropriated by the people during October Revolution back.
It is no surprise that this law is voted by those who committed the biggest femicide in the last years and a massacre of children in the rebel Syria. The majority of martyrs as well as those who most suffer from the crimes of these criminals is women and children.
This is the Russian “democracy”: a true regime of terror of the hit man Putin and the oligarchs. This is the “antiimperialist” Putin to which Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism want to present as allies of the masses: the slaughterer of the Syrian masses, the undertaker of the Ukrainian revolution, the one that crushes the Russian working class under his jackboot and the gendarme of imperialism in Eurasia.
The Communist Party is the founder of the white Russia of the oligarchs. From its kidney and insides these ferocious thieves of the people emerged. They are those who kept the factories, the lands, the rubles that belong to the exploited, the bloodiest repressor. Today, the Communist Party stays as the “leftist” support of the Bonapartist government of Putin and is his most loyal ally in the biggest outrages on the working class inside and outside Russia.
Let the USSR return, without Stalinist bureaucrats traitors!
As we saw, the oligarchy of Moscow and its counterrevolutionary terror government is the first device of imperialism in Eurasia to prevent the Russian working class to stand up again and heads a new revolution as those of the twentieth century.
Imperialism and the bourgeois gangs of Moscow know that every serious revolutionary uprising of the Russian masses directly poses again the struggle for the expropriation of the capitalists. They promised the masses of the former workers states a better future if USSR falls… a future as in Germany, France or USA and they have put the exploited in Russia and the entire Eastern Europe in the living conditions of Africa, Latin America and the semi colonial world.
The bourgeoisie knows that the Russian working class, with a new revolutionary uprising will start from the historic experience, which is to expropriate the capitalists, the socialist revolution. “Let the USSR return”, as the slogan of the Ukrainian masses when they entered into the fight DOESN’T MEAN THAT THEY MISS THE OLD STALINIST BUREAUCRACY THAT SOLD OUT THE WORKERS STATES BUT THEY WANT TO RECOVER WORK, WAGES AND DIGNITY THAT THEY HAD CONQUERED WITH THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION.
In a process of mass offensive against the bourgeois gangs of Moscow, the task of restoring the proletarian dictatorship but in revolutionary ways will be posed as an immediate task and will represent a leap forward in the anti-capitalist consciousness.
A workers uprising in Russia will turn on the meadows of Eastern Europe, which is plundered by the imperialist powers with maquilas, finance strangling and NATO guns. Moscow gangs are aware of this situation and their role as a gendarme of imperialism in Eurasia, which they want to highlight before the imperialist gangs with which they clash and negotiate a bigger share of the business deals. This allows them also to do an “empty hand” demagogy with the middle classes and sectors of the masses, denouncing “an attack of the western powers against Russia” and developed nationalist chauvinism, a false national defense over which they are based to militarily control the working class in its own country and the nations they subjugate inside Russia.
The whole reformist world left and the renegades of Trotskyism were riding the coat tails of Stalinism when the USSR fell. In Russia they supported Gorbachev and the capitalist restoration. They turn a blind eye and want to hide that with the capitalist restoration, imperialism conquered in Russia a new counterrevolutionary gendarme.
The European social imperialist left as Podemos, Syriza and the “real democracy” movement of “citizens” speak about democratizing Maastricht and silence the openly counterrevolutionary regimes of Eastern Europe, particularly Russia. The social-imperialist democrats in Maastricht Europe are there to cover the back on Putin in Eastern Europe, as they did in Ukraine and Syria, supporting the Minsk Agreement in the first case and the mass bombings in the last case.
The so called “anticapitalists”, the renegades of Trotskyism, are strange “anticaptialist” that don’t want and don’t let the masses in Eastern Europe and Russia to go back through the footsteps of the socialist revolution and the expropriation of capitalists. Further, all of them poison the masses of the world in their consciousness so they condemn the socialist revolutions that occurred in the 20th century, even the workers that expropriated the capitalists. They are posers, servants of imperialism that want to make the huge gains that meant the expropriation of the capitalists in those countries as if the Stalinist bureaucracy had done those expropriations and not the revolutionary masses.
As Trotsky said, the expropriation of the capitalists is the only thing that they cannot stand. They will go to war, counterrevolution and of course buying off the bureaucracy as an restoration agent inside the working class.
That’s why the Trotskyists that fight for the refoundation of the Fourth International that fight for the socialist revolution, for the destruction of the bourgeois states, we take as our own the war cry of the masses in Eastern Europe: “Let the USSR return, without Stalinist bureaucrats or traitors that sold it out”.
Down with Putin’s autocracy and his oligarchy, the heirs of the treacherous Communist Party of Stalin, Yeltsin and Gorbachev! Down with the dictatorship of Putin and his semi-fascist party “United Russia”, supported by his appendix the Russian Communist Party, the one that sold out the USSR! Full rights for organizations, to have meetings and to go on strike!
For the right of self determination of the nations that are subjugated by the Big Russia, on behalf of imperialism!
Dissolve the murderous officer’s caste, the ones commanded by imperialism that crush the subjugated people as in Syria!
The Russian working class needs to get back on its feet, with its unions and revolutionary soviets of workers and red soldiers as in 1917 October revolution!
For the working class to eat:
Expropriation without compensation of all the capitalists, companies and imperialist Banks such as Citibank, German company BASF, the high tech companies of Sillicon Valley that are in Moscow! Recover, re-stateize without compensation gas, oil and minerals and place them under workers control! Take them away from the Russian oligarchy and the imperialist oil transnational companies! Impound all the imperialist companies that have occupied and control key branches of production in the Russian industry! Re-stateization and collectivization of the land under the workers in the farms and the cities!
Immediate impound of the assets of the parasitic oligarchy and Russian bankers which in 1989 as leaders of the Stalinist camarilla of the Communist Party stole away the wealth of the people and sold out the workers states to Reagan, Thatcher and Citibank!
The slogan is “BREAD, LAND AND DISARM THE COUNTERREVOLUTION OF MOSCOW GANGS, AS WELL AS NATO AND IMPERIALISM!”
100 years after the October Revolution, the workers are called to once again fulfill a historical mission: to start once again the path of the socialist revolution and to become a stronghold and the advanced of the European working class. Open the road for the workers and soldiers councils!
Today, the Russian workers have a key role and an internationalist task of vital importance such as the working class in USA and the imperialist Europe has: to paralyze the war machine of Putin, the hit man of imperialism. Let the military bases and the murderous troops of the Great Russia out of Syria, Ukraine and Eurasia!
Down with the counterrevolutionary pacts of imperialism with Putin the butcher! Those are pacts of massacre, subordination of the revolutionary Ukraine and Syria! Crimea is for Ukraine and the resistance of Donbass, Tartus is for the rebel forces of the tormented Syria!
From Portugal to the Russian steppes, one single working class, one single revolution. For the Socialist United States of Europe!