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'
socioeconomic 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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