THE illegal Ukrainian regime, that came to power through a US-EU-backed and financed coup, yesterday accused Russia of carrying out an armed invasion of the Crimea and sending naval forces to occupy Sevastopol airport in the Crimea region.
The US, EU and the UK joined in the threats, issuing warnings to Russia that it must not interfere.
They have no shame! EU and US politicians were practically camped out on the Maidan square along with the neo-fascists, and were arguing with each other which of their prodigies should occupy which position after their coup was successful.
In fact, the Crimea airports have been occupied by Ukrainian workers’ self-defence units who are determined to keep the Western-backed Kiev fascists out of their area.
All Ukrainian workers know just how the right wingers greeted their victory.
The Prime Minister inaugerated by the coup, Yatsenyuk, in his speech of acceptance to the mob, said that the country required a $35bn loan. He added that: ‘We are to undertake extremely unpopular steps…We are on the brink of a disaster and this is the government of political suiciders! So welcome to Hell!’
The mission of the coupists is to destroy the industry and the working people of the Ukraine for the benefit of the bankers and the bosses of the world.
They will have to take on the working class head-on, to even attempt to carry out this policy!
President Yanukovych has now surfaced in South Russia and yesterday held a news conference in the city of Rostov-on-Don, near the Ukrainian border.
He showed, once again, exactly why the Ukrainian working class requires a new and revolutionary leadership to replace the counter-revolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy.
He declared: ‘No one has ousted me…I had to leave Ukraine because of a direct threat to my life and the lives of my family’ after ‘nationalist fascist-like fellows representing the absolute minority of Ukrainians took over power in Ukraine’.
The violence and deaths in Ukraine are the ‘result of the irresponsible politics of the West, which has encouraged Maidan’, Yanukovych stressed.
US and other Western countries’ representatives ‘must take full responsibility’ for the fact that the agreement between Yanukovych and the opposition leaders was not kept, the ousted president stressed. The Western powers’ ‘patronage’ of Maidan makes them directly responsible for the situation in Ukraine, he claimed.
However, they did have an accomplice and his name was Yanukovych!
When asked if he felt ashamed of his actions, Yanukovych replied that he feels ashamed and sorry for ‘not having been able to stabilise the situations and stop the mayhem’ in Ukraine.
‘I want to apologise to the Ukrainian people for what has happened in Ukraine and that I lacked strength to maintain stability.’
He said that he will return to Ukraine as soon as he receives ‘international safety guarantees’.
He will never receive such guarantees. Yanukovych revealed his fear of the working class using its power when he made a deal with the EU foreign ministers. He placed his trust in them, not in the power of the working class, and of course the bourgeois ministers betrayed him.
He refused to mobilise the working class and to form a workers militia to drive the Maidan fascists off the streets. He is the architect of the blow that the Ukrainian workers have had to take.
Instead of mobilising the masses he organised a deal with the representatives of imperialism, under which there was an amnesty for the terrorists and the police were taken off the streets, in return for a national unity government with the nationalists and the fascists and then new elections.
With the working class politically disarmed by Yanukovych, the fascists took to the streets, guns in hand, to take the power by storm, which they did. Yanukovych did not die at his post or seek to rally the masses, he sought safety and has now emerged to say that he will return when his safety is guaranteed.
He will never be back. The working class has had enough of him and his Stalinist politics. What is required is a new revolutionary leadership to mobilise the working class to smash the nationalists and the fascists and restore soviet power in the Ukraine.
The working class is showing that it is now building such a leadership!
