Showing posts with label Serbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serbia. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Scintilla: No to chauvinist provocations and warmongers in the Balkans!

From Scintilla, Issue 130January 2023, by  Piattaforma Comunista – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy  


No to chauvinist provocations and warmongers in the Balkans!  


In recent times the striving for "Greater Serbia" by the Serbian bourgeoisie, which has always had historical pretensions, has been revitalized. Considering favorably the context of the conflict created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine to make progress towards this goal, the Serbian bourgeoisie, with the Vucic government, is looking for a new adventure.  


It is said that tensions have cooled since Vucic declared that the Serbs in northern Kosovo have begun to tear down some barricades that they had erected, but the situation has not changed overall, as the reasons for the conflict have deep roots.  


Vucic seems to have set his sights on Kosovo, where the chauvinist and racist Serbian nationalist gangs, the Chetniks, do not stop. They began to create tensions with Kosovo by deploying troops to the border. The Serbian bourgeoisie, which has good relations with Hungary's Orban and the far right in the new Italian government, also has its eyes on other parts of former Yugoslavia, assuming that by annexing parts of Kosovo and other Balkan countries it can create "Greater Serbia". Vucic is trying to materialize step by step the dream of the Serbian bourgeoisie together with the reactionaries in Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia.  


Since Serbia is a powerful Balkan country, the nationalism of the Serbian bourgeoisie and the aspiration for "Greater Serbia" should not be underestimated. This orientation of the Serbian bourgeoisie, which has increased especially before the First World War, has constantly posed a serious problem in the Balkans. The nationalist fervor of the Serbian bourgeoisie, which was taken up by Tito immediately after the liberation of Yugoslavia, continued with the repression of the nationalities in that country, which he detached from unity with the countries of the people's democracies.  


The domination of modern revisionism paved the way in Yugoslavia, in the USSR, and then in all the Balkan and Eastern European countries except for a few decades in Albania, to openly adopt the capitalist order of exploitation. This led to the collapse and disintegration of these revisionist countries.  


As a result, the bourgeoisies of the Balkan countries, first and foremost those of Serbia, who considered collaboration with the US, European, Russian and Chinese imperialists a solution, have provoked rivalries and conflicts between nations, spread enmities between peoples and produced national differences, in order to strengthen their hegemony in the region.  


In the 1990s, under the conditions of national oppression by the Serbian bourgeoisie, which fueled nationalism and national differences, the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO, which led the country to destruction, was bloody but not difficult. The Great-Serb aggression led by Milosevic and the disintegration of Yugoslavia led to the deterioration and widening of nationalist rivalries and conflicts among the Balkan bourgeoisie.  


The Balkans must not once again become a terrain of conflict and war, a war that will inevitably affect all the workers and peoples of Europe.  


It is necessary to prevent the bourgeoisies of the Balkan countries, especially the Serbian bourgeoisie, in collaboration with the imperialists and with the support of the remnants of revisionism, from dragging the peoples into a new nationalist struggle.  


The Balkans remain once again a center of conflict among the imperialist powers. The US and NATO "protect" Kosovo for their own interests – not for the freedom of the Albanians and the other peoples in Kosovo – and many Balkan states are now members of NATO and the imperialist EU, which are using and deepening conflicts and encouraging the pro-Western imperialist forces in the region. Russian imperialism seeks to maintain and extend its influence by fueling conflicts, supporting and fostering Serbian chauvinism.  


It is up to the working class and the peoples of the Balkans, with their communist, revolutionary and progressive organizations, to take responsibility.  


As members of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO), we declare that we stand with the peoples of the Balkans and the revolutionaries who raise the demands of peace and brotherhood against chauvinism, warmongering and fascism. 

 

The solution lies in socialism against capitalism, in real independence, in political democracy against fascism, in equality of national rights and in the international unity and solidarity of the working class and peoples against bourgeois nationalism and all imperialists.  


January 2023  


European members of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO)  

Communist Party of Albania – CPA  

Communist Workers' Party of Denmark – APK  

Communist Workers' Party of France – PCOF  

Organization for the Construction of a Communist Workers' Party of Germany  

Movement for the reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE 1919-55)  

Marxist-Leninist organization Revolusjon – Norway  

Revolutionary Labor Alliance of Serbia – RSRS  

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist)  

Party of Labor (EMEP) – Turkey  


Monday, September 26, 2022

September 2022 issue of Revolutionary Democracy published

The September issue of the English-language Indian Marxist-Leninist theoretical and political journal Revolutionary Democracy ( revolutionarydemocacry.org ) has been published and can be ordered from Red Star Publishers ( redstarpublishers.org ) for $6 dollars, which covers US shipping costs.  For more information see the website or contact them at:  


Red Star Publishers
PO Box 1641
Manhattanville Station
New York, New York 10027
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Phone:  212 864 7595

Brick and mortar bookstores and organizations selling copies in India, the UK, and the US are listed at revolutionarydemocracy.org and many of the articles are also available posted.



Contents:



Hands off Ukraine!

On the Situation in the Ukraine, Bikram Mohan

No war in Ukraine, No to all kinds of warmongering! ICMLPO

The War in Ukraine: A War of Imperialist Aggression and Redivision of Territories for World Hegemony, Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta – PCRV/ Burkina Faso

Is the War in Ukraine Only a Inter-Imperialist War Between the USA and Russia or Is It Also a National-Liberation War of the Ukrainian People?, Revolutionary Alliance of Labour of Serbia

The Communists and the Independence of Ukraine, Luiz Falcao, PCR Brazil

On the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Pakistan Mazdur Mahaz

Russian and US imperialism  Hands off Ukraine!, National Liberation Council, Bangladesh

Statement by Members of the United Communist Party – Internationalists

Russia Needs ‘Denazification” as Does Ukraine, Alexander Batov

Unafraid to Be Called a “National Traitor”, Andrei Movchan

Minsk Peace Resolution and Southeast “Separatism”, (2014), Maxim Latur

The National Question and Revisionism (1974), Bujar Hoxha

Some Manifestations of National Oppression in the Soviet Union Today (1987), Natasha Iliriani

We Support the Struggle of the People of Sri Lanka, ICMLPO

BJP government: Withdraw Agnipath Now!, NTUI

Review the Condemnable Zakia Jafri Ruling. Release Teesta Setalvad and R. B. Sreekumar Immediately!, NTUI

Continuous Attack on Industrial Workers, Sudha Bharadwaj

Inequalities, the Budget and the Marginalised Groups, K.B. Saxena

A Brief Outline of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Malem Ningthouja

On the Repression of Tribal People in Silger, Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization

Yemen’s Humanitarian Catastrophe and Media Censorship, Toufan

Colombia: Historic Victory of Petro and the Historic Pact, En Marcha

Obituary: Maurice’s Militant Journey, La Forge

Some Reflections on ‘Khrushchev Lied’ by Grover Furr, Vijay Singh

Appearance of the Notes “On the Question of Nationalities or about “Autonomisation”, Valentin Sakharov

Amendments to the Draft Document on the Tactical Line of the Communist Party of India, I.V. Stalin


Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Unity and Struggle issue #44 published

A new issue of Unity and Struggle, journal of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO, cipoml.net/ ; in English, Spanish, and Turkish) has been published and can be ordered from Red Star Publishers for $7 dollars (orders from outside the USA will cost more).  To pay via PayPal, check, money order, or cash see:  www.redstarpublishers.org/  Back issues might also be available.


Tambien disponible en español.


In this issue:


Bangladesh: From the Congress to the BJP: Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist)  

Bolivia: Notes for an Analysis of Crypto Assets and the Blockchain from the Viewpoint of Marxist Political Economy: Revolutionary Communist Party – PCR – Bolivia  

Brazil: Capitalism and War: Revolutionary Communist Party – PCR – Brazil  

Burkina Faso: The War in Ukraine: A War of Imperialist Aggression and Redivision of Territories for World Hegemony: Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta – PCRV  

Colombia: Lessons of an Ongoing Electoral Process: Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist)  

Denmark: Healthcare Professionals – A Global Commodity: Workers’ Communist Party APK  

Dominican Republic: On the Question of Democracy in the Dominican Republic: Communist Party of Labor (PCT)  

Ecuador: The Class Nature of the Communist Party: Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador – PCMLE  

France: A New Issue of Our Journal Rupture: Communist Party of the Workers of France – PCOF  

India: Some Questions of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the People’s Democracies: Revolutionary Democracy  

Italy: Ecological Crisis, Capitalism and Scientific Socialism: Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy  

Mexico: The Struggle of the Masses towards Their Sovietization: A Task on the Order of the Day: Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist)  

Morocco: The Situation in Morocco: Democratic Way  

Serbia: Is the War in Ukraine Only an Inter-Imperialist between the USA and Russia or Is It Also a National-Liberation War of the Ukrainian People?: Revolutionary Alliance of Labour of Serbia  

Spain: The Intellectuals and Communism: Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) – PCE(ml)  

Tunisia: Address of the Central Committee to the Activists of the Party on the Situation Prevailing in the Country: Workers’ Party of Tunisia  

Turkey: The Fallacy of “Green Capitalism”: Party of Labour (EMEP)  

United States of America: We Reject Biden’s and Putin’s War: American Party of Labor  

Uruguay: Breaking with the Two-Party System: a Task of Historical Perspectives: Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Uruguay – PCMLU  

Venezuela: A Time of Wars and Revolutions: Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela – PCMLV 


Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Five statements on Ukraine and BAJ showing of The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes 3/8

Below are five statements from the lead up to the war in Ukraine and after hostilities began, February 28th from the Coordination Committee of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations [ICMLPO, cipoml.net ], around February 20th from the European Meeting of the ICMLPO, February 24th from the PCOF, February 25th from the PCMLE, and March 4th from the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven Catholic protesters.  


Also, Chapel Hill-based Balance and Accuracy in Journalism will be showing The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scences online tonight, International Women's Day, Tuesday March 8th.


ICMLPO, February 28th, cipoml.net/en/?p=319


No war in Ukraine, no to all kinds of warmongering!


The tension in Ukraine, which has been on the agenda of Europe for several months, has become alarming with the military intervention that Russia launched in this country from air, land and sea after recognizing the two self-declared “republics” in eastern Ukraine.

The tension began when Russia annexed Crimea and supported the two self-declared “people’s republics” (Donetsk and Lugansk) in eastern Ukraine in response to Ukraine turning to the West with the US-and-EU-backed “Maidan Coup”. And when, with US encouragement, Ukraine’s ambition for NATO membership and the deployment of long-range missiles on its territory were on the table, Russia has declared these its ‘red lines’.

The long-standing tension was rekindled as Russia amassed a large number of troops near Ukraine, and was fuelled even further by its decision to move troops into Donbas (Donetsk and Lugansk). However, Russia did not stop in Donbass and proceeded to destroy Ukraine’s military infrastructure in order to force Ukraine and the West to give up their plans on that country’s NATO membership, claiming that this poses a security risk for Russia. NATO countries, especially the US and UK, are content with the economic (and political) sanctions, which they said would intensify. Russia, on the other hand, forces Ukraine, whose ruling bourgeoisie has been divided for a long time, for a change of stance through military pressure. Russia seems to aim to persuade the Zelensky government to a compromise that will accept Russian impositions,or bring about a change of government that will do exactly that.

We have witnessed a new “cold war” intensified by the US until Russia recognized the Donbass “republics” and launched a military intervention. The US and its close allies such as the UK had been suggesting since early January that Russia would invade Ukraine, even giving approximate timelines such as ‘soon’ or ‘within 48 hours’. Although Russia’s entry into the territory of Ukraine with its military units seems to have justified the US-UK centered western imperialists, these two countries and NATO openly provoked a war by insisting on Ukraine’s NATO membership and hightening the propaganda of a “Russian invasion”.

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The Ukraine issue certainly concerns this country in particular and Europe, but it is not an isolated problem. It is is part of a “big picture” just like the current Syria problem, the “trade wars” that the US has initiated against China in particular, but also against Europe, and more recently, China’s arming of artificial island bases in the South China Sea, where Japan and Vietnam also claim rights. The “big picture” is the struggle for the economic and territorial redivision of the world between the major imperialist countries, with their own zones of hegemony. Russia participates in this rivalry, first by pushing back the West’s advance in Georgia, and then by confronting it head-on in Syria, and now in Ukraine.

The two main actors in the inter-imperialist struggle for the redivision of the world are the US and China. Although the US has been weakening, it maintains its leading position both economically and political-strategically. China is advancing with giant steps and has already extended its economic influence to all continents. It still lags behind the US, but the US is aware that China will overtake it in the near future, perhaps within a decade.

China has pushed back old problems with Russia and has shown solidarity. It needs Russian energy resources as well as the protection of Russian nuclear weapons as a counterweight to the US. Russia, for its part, needs China’s economic might. Together, they pose a major threat to the United States.

In the face of China and Russia, the US is trying to gather its former European allies, who strongly signal to go their own way and tend to pursue independent policies because of their different interests.

And the US knows that it has to defend itself against the threat posed by China and Russia to its global dominance, before China becomes too strong to be stopped. Therefore, by showing them the tip of a gun, the US is applying power politics and is trying to force them into a battle before they are strong enough or back down and accept its terms. The fact that Russia did not only sent troops to Donetsk and Lugansk but also advanced into the rest of Ukraine, at the risk of being the target of the reaction of the peoples of Europe and accused of being an “invader”, shows that it does not hesitate to follow power politics either.

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The tension in Ukraine makes sense with this full picture.

The US wants to divide the rival bloc and target and repress the relatively weaker one by surrounding it. After the disintegration of the USSR, the US took steps to weaken Russia and encircle it, by turning the former Soviet and people’s republics to the west through “colourful revolutions” and adding them to NATO one by one. The US and its close allies, especially the UK, seek to isolate Russia and force it to back down by severing all ties with EU countries and portraying it as an aggressive power with a tendency to start a war in Europe. With this, the US also aims to destabilise Russia economically, as its main source of income is oil and natural gas sales.

If it succeeds, it will not only have Russia set back, but will also succeed indirectly against China. China is aware of this and while it has avoided getting fully involved in the Ukraine problem, it stood alongside Russia against the US’s “cold war” tactics.

The US also aims to cut off the flow of gas from Russia to Europe, especially to Germany, whose industry needs relatively cheap Russian gas, via Nord Stream1 and Nord Stream2. By doing this, the US wants to force Germany, which has always pursued a different ‘ostpolitik’ (Eastern policy) towards Russia, and other European countries to close ranks with the US. With Germany having reluctantly halted Nord Stream2’s approval process after Russia’s entry into Ukraine, the US appears to have succeeded to a certain extent, even though temporarily. On the other hand, it is obvious that Germany and France, the leading powers of the EU, are also imperialist countries that pursue their own interests, arm for that purpose, and have made Ukraine change its axis with an uprising to join the EU.

Just like Syria and Libya before, now Ukraine is the scene of the inter-imperialist conflict for the redivision of the world. In these confrontations the workers and peoples of Ukraine, Syria and Libya are involved as troops and cannon fodder in favour of one or the other imperialist country, they are dragged along by the different sides and suffer the consequences of the war.

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None of the parties involved in the Ukraine issue pursue policies that are in favour of people: neither the US and its main allies, which are the main forces pursuing power politics, nor Russia and China or the European imperialists led  by Germany and France, which do not prefer an all-out war today, despite reacting from time to time, as in the case of Russia in the Ukraine problem. None of thees parties can be supported for any reason. The thesis that Russia and China are friends of the peoples is as much a lie as is the idea that the West is the “defender of sovereignty and democracy”.

The peoples of the imperialist countries that are party to the problem do not have the slightest interest in the Ukraine policy pursued by their ruling classes. Moreover, the peoples of all countries, especially those of Europe, suffer from rising inflation, falling wages, deteriorating working and living conditions – driven by arms spending – and the growing trend of fascism. Added to this is the chain price hikes triggered by rising energy prices, already aggravated by cuts in transport routes as a result of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

While the US and its allies continue to use proxies (the Zelinsky regime) in Ukraine, the direct use of weapons by Russia reveals that the inter-imperialist fight for the redivision of the world is getting tougher. At the same time, this shows how easily this imperialist fight can turn into an armed conflict, completely ignoring the people’s struggle for their livelihoods.

The international working class and the peoples of the world are undoubtedly in favour of peace, where they can work and live humanely without exploitation and oppression. We, the Marxist-Leninist communists of the world, whose only concern is the interests of the international working class and the peoples, are, of course, in favour of peace. It is also for this reason that we oppose military interventions, invasions and wars that cover up and complicate the struggle of the working peoples of all countries against exploitation and tyranny, as well as the obligation to defend the right of each nation to self-determination. We condemn the Russian attack on Ukraine.

The working class and the peoples of all countries need to unite their forces and struggles for socialism, demanding jobs, bread and political democracy as well as an end to the imperialist fight for the redivision of the world – not limited with Ukraine – and an end to the rattling of weapons for that purpose.

Russia must unconditionally withdraw from Ukraine.

No more war spending!

Dissolve NATO-type military pacts and withdraw foreign troops from all countries!

Long live the struggle of the international working class and the oppressed peoples for jobs, bread, democracy, peace and socialism!

The Coordination Committee of the International Conference of Marxist Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)



European Meeting of the ICMLPO, around February 20th, pceml.info/actual/index.php/internacional/1032-intensificar-la-lucha-contra-la-politica-de-guerra 


Intensify the fight against the policy of war!  


European Meeting of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations  

Unity of the workers and the people for social progress, for democratic rights, for respect for popular sovereignty and for peace!  

The winds of war are again blowing in Europe. War propaganda is intensifying. In and around Ukraine, the largest concentration of armed forces since World War II is continuing to rise. The situation of acute tension could turn into an outbreak of war that would spread in other countries.  

This current conflict is an inter-imperialist one; this is its fundamental character and puts its signature and imprint on all the events that occur daily.  

At the origin of the current conflict, they stoke the inter-imperialist contradictions between the US and Russia together with China; such as the intensification of the struggle for markets and spheres of economic and political influence, for the plundering of natural resources, the control of energy resources, especially gas, and the export of capital, for a new division of the world. It is a struggle that was amplified in the midst of the economic crisis and pandemic that has created more division and serious instability in international relations.  

The existing conflict did not arise suddenly. It has been prepared for decades of the policy of war, the expansion of NATO and the EU to the east, sanctions and provocations, regime changes and local conflicts in Ukraine, the arms race and the deployment of missiles, aggressive nationalism and the training of fascist militants and making use of the refugee crisis.  

The main proponents and animators of the war are the United States. Its strategy is to maintain and strengthen its hegemonic position in the world. Accordingly, its policy of war is aimed at:  

– Conquering regions and countries that were previously under Russian influence and include them in NATO;  

– Encircling Russia militarily, weakening it economically in order to prevent it from participating as a powerful actor in the inter-imperialist struggle;  

– Increasing the legitimacy of NATO and the internal cohesion of the bloc, disciplining uncertain allies such as German imperialism that has strong economic relations with Russia and China;  

– Inflicting a blow against the commercial and energy relations of European countries with Russia (for example, with the blockade of the North Stream 2 gas pipelines), in order to weaken states and monopolies that need to modernize their industrial base;  

– Creating the opportunity to sell gas, oil, weapons and fighter jets to Ukraine and EU countries.  

We must not forget that the main rival of US imperialism is Chinese social-imperialism. They cannot contain and confront China without the support of their imperialist "ally." So they are looking to create a cold war atmosphere to bolster their leadership in Europe.  

The historical decline of US imperialism, its defeat in Afghanistan, the slowdown of its economy, its high debt and inflation, the loss of importance of the dollar, the dramatic consequences of the pandemic, the racial tensions and loss of confidence of the people in their government are all factors that induce US imperialism to concentrate on the war in order to divert attention from its problems.  

US imperialism is on the offensive, but Russia is not an "angel of peace"; it is an aggressive imperialist power as well. The capitalist contradictions are deepening in Russia and its ruling imperialist clique is seeking salvation in militarism. Its interest in Ukraine is not to liberate its people from the reactionary regime that governs them, but to consolidate its position and save its sphere of influence in the region.  

At the same time, Russia is strengthening its relationship with China to stand up to its Western rivals. They are acting together in the economic, political, technological and military spheres. The agreement signed by its giant monopolies for the supply of oil and gas represents a direct warning to EU countries that rely heavily on Russian energy resources.  

The US says it wants to "work" in unison with the EU, but it is obvious that there are contradictions between the EU member states and the US. The bourgeoisie of different European countries do not want to be sacrificed in a US/NATO war against Russia. It is also clear that several EU/NATO vassal governments are supporting the Biden-Blinken plan and are sending troops, tanks, warplanes and ships into the area around Russia.  

The EU is part of the policy of war  

In this context, some governments, political and social forces, are presenting the European Union as an entity that could act in favor of "peace in Europe". In reality, the EU in the military field is closely linked to NATO; this is affirmed in each Treaty, as always, especially since the Lisbon Summit in 2011, which decided to develop the European defence policy, closely linked to NATO.  

The EU, as an imperialist construction, is participating in this policy of war, and many EU member states have sent military forces in NATO's deployment around Russia.  

We must also denounce the increasing militarization of northern Europe, where US imperialism is openly reinforcing its military presence "against the Russian danger." US imperialism is regrouping its military bases in Europe since the Cold War era, now wishing to place military bases in Denmark and Norway.  

We warn of the danger of the spreading of illusions in the EU and we denounce all attempts to create a "national union" with the bourgeoisie. We must have no confidence in imperialist "pacifism" that paralyzes the masses and really prepares for war. Only the working class and the working masses can stop the imperialist war, fighting decisively against the ruling classes.  

Our tasks  

We, as Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations in Europe, denounce the imperialist character of the war and reject the warmongering policy of all the imperialist and capitalist forces involved.  

We call on the workers and peoples to stop the war and the dangerous arms race, explaining that their main enemy is at home, in their own countries: it is the bourgeoisie!  

For the working masses, the youth, the women, the war means more and more cuts in social spending, stronger pressure to increase exploitation and reduce wages, the destruction of workers' rights, as well as the building of police states and thus increasing pressure to recruit young people for the military services.  

The struggle to meet the needs of the working class and the popular masses is closely linked to the struggle against war and militarism, for real democracy, for peace and international solidarity.  

We call on the working class of all the countries involved in the conflict to intensify unity of action against the bourgeoisie of their own country that profits by selling arms and represses workers' protests.  

Bread, work, social services, housing, not war!  

We call for a struggle against reactionary, chauvinist and fascist ideology and the policy of hatred and division between proletarians and oppressed peoples of different countries, developing proletarian solidarity and internationalism.  

We denounce and condemn imperialist military alliances, such as NATO and the EU. Let us reject the policy of war in any form and pretext, to support "our" imperialism, or to support one imperialist power against the other.  

No to military credits and expenditures; the money should be used for health, education and public transportation, for stable and secure work, to raise wages and reduce the high cost of living.  

Immediate withdrawal of troops, weapons and military "advisers" sent to other countries. Down with the warmongers and their policies. Stop the international military maneuvers.  

End the warmongering and anti-democratic alliances such as NATO and the EU. No to the expansion of NATO but yes to the dissolution of this organization of terrorism and war; close all US bases in Europe!  

Let us develop the protests and struggles in the workplaces and factories, in the mass associations, in the streets, on all sides. Let us mobilize the working class and the broad masses in the popular fronts against the warmongers, condemning the capitalist-imperialist system that brings the workers and peoples only exploitation, poverty, disease, oppression and war.  

A REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUT OF THE GENERAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM IS INCREASINGLY NECESSARY!  

February 2022  

Declaration of the European Meeting of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations  

Communist Workers' Party – Denmark  

Communist Party of the Workers of France  

Communist Party of Albania  

Organization for the Construction of the Communist Party of the Workers of Germany  

Communist Platform for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy  

Marxist-Leninist Revolution Organization – Norway  

Revolutionary Labor Alliance of Serbia  

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist)  

Labor Party (EMEP) – Turkey 



PCOF, February 24th, www.pcof.net/ukraine-non-a-la-guerre-imperialiste-reactionnaire/


Ukraine: No to the reactionary imperialist war  


Russia's leaders decided to launch an attack on the cities in Ukraine. We denounce this decision and this escalation. We stand with the forces, the peoples who are struggling to stop this spiral, and we refuse to join our voices to the "warmongers".  

The general context of the current events in Ukraine is the confrontation between the US and its NATO allies on the one hand and Russia, supported by China, on the other.  

Russia wanted to put a stop to the expansion of NATO, whose objective is to integrate Ukraine into this imperialist military alliance, and to strengthen NATO on its borders.  

The US has escalated the tension to get its European allies to line up behind them in this confrontation.  

For weeks, intense propaganda has been carried out to prepare people’s minds for the possibility of war in the center of Europe.  

Tensions have focused on the regions of Ukraine populated mainly by Russian populations: the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Putin announced the recognition of the independence of the two republics with which he has continued to strengthen ties. He announced that the Russian army would deploy to these republics to protect them from any intervention by the armed forces of Ukraine, the very active anti-Russian paramilitary groups, and to deter the US and NATO from intervening.  

The leaders of the US and those of NATO member states, which have increased their military presence in Romania, Poland and the Baltic countries, are announcing economic and political sanctions against Russia, but say they do not want to intervene militarily against Russian forces.  

We are entering a new phase of confrontations between imperialist powers in Europe, but affecting all regions of the world.  

We reaffirm our opposition to the policy of confrontation driven by the US and followed by the leaders of NATO member states, in particular that of French imperialism.  

We continue to demand France's withdrawal from NATO and the dissolution of this aggressive military alliance.  

We refuse to put ourselves behind the imperialist powers, including Russia and a fortiori behind French imperialism, US imperialism, etc.  

We denounce Russia's military escalation in Ukraine.  

We work to mobilize workers and peoples against the imperialist policy of war, in solidarity with all peoples and organizations, movements, parties, who are fighting for these goals.  

Paris, February 25, 2022  

Communist Workers' Party of France  

Our party signed an international declaration against the policy of war in Europe:  

https://www.pcof.net/resolutions-adoptes-par-les-partis-et-organisations-marxistes-leninistes-deurope-membres-de-la-cipoml/  

Website: www.pcof.net   

Email: [ pcof <at> pcof ]  

facebook.com/PartiCommunistedesOuvriersdeFrance/  




En Marcha, Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, February 25th,   

pcmle.org/EM/ [posted in English and Spanish] 


We condemn the imperialist war;
we stand in solidarity with the workers and people of Ukraine
  


February 25, 2022  

 

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has reached a new level, with the mobilization of Russian troops to the territories of the newly proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and with the initiation of military attacks on various points on the territory of Ukraine. What until now had the form of a "cold war" has led to an open military confrontation. Russia shields this invasion as a "special military operation", which has already caused civilian and military casualties, as well as damage to the infrastructure of several Ukrainian towns.  

In the midst of the political tension heightened in recent months, it has become clear that in this conflict the interests of several imperialist powers are at stake, both due to the strategic location of Ukraine, and for the enormous wealth existing in its territory: the United States, the United Kingdom, the member countries of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, on the one hand, and Russia and China on the other hand, which are increasingly strengthening their relations and operating as a bloc. The European imperialist powers and the US seek to incorporate Ukraine into NATO, to continue encircling Russia, which after China they consider their greatest enemy. Several of these countries have mobilized troops to strategic points close to the region in conflict,in order to warn of their willingness to intervene in the event of an aggression against Ukraine — however now they say they will not do so — and have provided heavy war material to the reactionary regime of Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, for its part, mobilized troops on the border and displayed that power through "military exercises." This action has been called the most significant military mobilization since World War II.  

In any political-military conflict in which the interests of the owners of capital, of the imperialist powers, are in  dispute, the fundamental victims are the workers, the youth and the peoples. We cannot take sides in favor of one or another imperialist power that promotes hatred and war, for by their nature they are enemies of the peoples; we are in favor of the workers and peoples of the world who are fighting together to achieve their emancipation. In these particular circumstances, we express our solidarity with the workers, youth and people of Ukraine who are in the midst of inter-imperialist disputes and are victims of war.  

We reiterate our opposition and condemnation of imperialist war; Marxist-Leninist communists fight for peace; we demand the dissolution of the military pacts established by the powers for war for the redivision of the world in spheres of influence.  

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador 




KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES 7 DENOUNCE THE WAR IN UKRAINE

March 4, 2022

The following statement has been prepared by Mark Colville [ ]

Today the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven join our prayers with the global community for the people of Ukraine, at this deeply terrifying historical moment. We watch with moral outrage and horror as another nuclear weapons-wielding state is emboldened to abandon diplomacy in favor of international gangsterism. Killing indiscriminately with impunity; environmental destruction without boundary or responsibility; the plunging of millions into refugee status; the flouting of the very fundamentals of law, human rights, international cooperation and the authority of the United Nations – these are the common threads that tie together Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine, during this most blood-stained of centuries. They are also constitutive elements of the unmitigated evil that is constantly unleashed through the design,development and existence of nuclear weapons in any nation or people. As US Catholics, therefore, we believe that the starting point of our response should be to highlight the lesson of last Sunday’s Gospel reading, Luke 6:39-45, which reads in part:

“How can you say to your brother [or sister], ‘let me remove that splinter in your eye’, when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.”

As we unequivocally condemn the deranged behavior of Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin and his minions, we are obliged also to acknowledge our own government’s role in creating this crisis. For more than thirty years now, US foreign policy in that region of the world has been pursued with a provocative agenda of destabilization, imperiling Russia’s national security through the expansion of NATO right up to its borders. This project has been intensified in recent times by apostate evangelical Christian factions in Washington, which have openly admitted their desire to provoke world events that they believe will bring about the second coming of Christ. And over all of this madness and slaughter preside its silent partners, the only winners in any war today: US-based weapons contractor corporations like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman,General Electric and United Technologies (to name just a few), whose profits increase with every cluster bomb and missile launched, every body torn to pieces.

For our complicity with all of these forces that are literally driving the world insane, we beg the forgiveness of God and neighbor. While affirming our solidarity with both the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, we pledge noncooperation with any armed faction in this senseless conflict. To all soldiers we say: lay down your weapons. Your courage and sacrifice belong at the service of peace for the future of the human race, not to be spent in bloodshed on the altar of the national security state. Together, we can let the words of Martin Luther King Jr. echo through these times until they shake the world back into reality: “The choice today is between nonviolence and non-existence.”

Amen.



                       7:30PM TUE MAR 8
            Balance & Accuracy in Journalism online  
                          Adult movie night ;- )  
       The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes

             "Exercises in irrational jingoism”
     was the answer Noam Chomsky once gave
     when asked what he thought of “big sports."
Yet after last night’s final game for Coach K, the N&O site 
offered a fine, if rambling, account of respect between 
     Dean Smith and Michael William Krzyzewski.
Reading this morning's political wrapup “Letters from an American”
  I'm reminded how far from our two great coaches’ example
                   deadly politics can take us.
                            
Inspired by insights from prior BAJ speaker Ray McGovern 
who participated in achieving nuclear arms control treaties
that Washington has since discarded, and local writer Judy Hogan 
whose person to person encounters in Russia echo her decades of 
community minded environmental action here, our program this Tuesday
offers an adult look a PR hoax that sacrifices our personal and national interests.

Director Andrei Nekrasov, a critic of Putin’s government, embraced 
the story spun by hedge fund operator William Browder, whose 
narrative moved Senators McCain and Cardin to pass anti-Russia
sanctions legislation.  In mid production of a docudrama depicting
an alleged murder and corrupt Russian theft of a quarter billion dollars,
Browder's story fell apart.  In the best tradition of journalism Nekrasov made
a U-turn and in a meticulous 2 hour journey takes viewers through
strongly contested terrain.

Browder’s action has been called an opening blast in reopening 
the Cold War… fear-based psychological warfare with benefits for arms 
production and politicians.  It militates against the advice of strategic 
thinkers Kennan, Kissinger, Mearsheimer, Matlock, Perry, Cohen, 
Sachs and the group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity,
who all warned NATO expansion would be catastrophic for global security.

What they warned against isn’t usually quantified, but isn’t it
the impossibly short decision time of 5 to 7 minutes between false alarm
and Russian nuclear missile launch, with US missiles moving to Russia’s doorstep?

The quarter billion dollars Browder escaped with has made it easy for him
to threaten distributors and theaters with grave legal complications
for screening the film.  A rare exception occurred at the Newseum 
just outside DC, where they ignored the threat and the film was
followed by discussion moderated by My Lai massacre journalist 
Seymour Hersh.  It is currently available for view at reelhouse.org 

Vladimir Posner [Pozner Sr.?], Introduced as one of the world’s most distinguished journalists, 
delivered a talk at Yale in 2018, now viewed over five million times, warns,
"Never before have relations between the US and Russia been at this level
"Neither side seems to be afraid of nuclear weapons
  
               "Why are we at this point today?"
             Vladimir Posner on how we got here….


        At our house, the popcorn is ready….
               Click the LINK TO JOIN
     Come watch and share your insights on 
 “THE MAGNITSKY ACT: BEHIND THE SCENES
            For background, see  MAGNITSKYACT.COM
   or check out investigative journalist Robert Parry’s review:

Director Andrei Nekrasov has given permission for our group showing.

         LINK TO JOIN Our 7:30 PM Tuesday Mar 8   ZOOM EVENT:
 
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                     Jerry Markatos [ ]
        
         Sponsored by Balance & Accuracy in Journalism 
  with the help of the Community Church of Chapel Hill, UU’s Zoom platform