NEO-fascist movements in Ukraine are operating with the connivance of the Kiev authorities, which is absolutely unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
‘With the connivance of the authorities, these thugs are marching under the neo-Nazi and even Nazi slogans and banners and promote an ideology that has been recognised as criminal …’
Lavrov continued: ‘We have been attracting the attention of the UN, the OSCE and the European Council to this issue for many months …’
On October 14, marches to mark the anniversary of the establishment of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) took place in a number of Ukrainian cities.
The UPA was formed in 1942 as the military wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists with its proclaimed aim being the independence of Ukraine. The UPA operated mainly in western Ukraine, fighting against Soviet forces.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern over the spread of neo-Nazi ideology in Europe and called for efforts to prevent the revision of the outcome of the Second World War.
Speaking on the eve of his visit to Serbia, he said: ‘We are especially concerned in this respect about the situation in Ukraine, where an unconstitutional state coup in February was driven by nationalists and other radical groups.’
The above is complete proof that after the February 22 coup when the stormtroopers placed the new regime into power in Kiev, with the full support of the EU, the US and the UK, the Red Army should have been mobilised to march on Kiev and send the coupists and their fascist bands packing.
Instead the struggle was left in the hands of the workers of Eastern Ukraine, who armed themselves and have fought the Ukrainian army to a standstill, and to a current truce.
Meanwhile, the Kiev gang have brought in their purification law to destroy the military, police and legal apparatus of the Ukrainian workers state, at the same time as more and more workers in the west of the country are condemning the war against eastern Ukraine, demanding that the troops are brought home and condemning the new regime as western puppets.
The essence of the struggle in the Ukraine is not for some partition, but for a nationwide struggle for the revolutionary restoration of Soviet Ukraine, as part of the world revolution.
Putin’s policy is to accept the junta, and seek to win Germany away from the US so as to be able to come to some separate peace and a new order.
This policy was and is doomed to fail. The point is that the world capitalist crisis is driving capitalism and imperialism to war and to organising civil wars to try and save the capitalist world, by counter-revolution in Russia and China and by crushing the trade unions in the EU and USA.
The real response to this drive is the building up of the Fourth International to organise the millions of workers who are fighting back to carry through the world socialist revolution to smash capitalism and imperialism.
Meanwhile, right-wing extremist groups are erupting apace in the West as the struggle to smash Welfare States and the working class becomes ever more desperate. This struggle makes for strange bedfellows, who thoroughly deserve each other.
UKIP is bidding to be the party of the hysterical petty-bourgeoisie in the UK. It has declared that if it holds the balance of power in Westminster it will join the Tories to form a government, provided Cameron agrees for a referendum to quit the EU.
UKIP has just resolved its cash crisis and acquired its general election fund millions, by bringing a Polish fascist MP into its EU group! Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz a member of the Congress of the New Right (KNP) has joined its ranks. His party is so extreme that the French National Front will not associate with it in the EU. In Farage’s would-be coalition regime, he will be propping up Cameron, and he will be propped up by the Polish fascists!
However these right-wing contortions cannot save capitalism. We are living in the period of its death agony. It has reached the end of its bloody road.
It must be put to an end by the victory of the world socialist revolution.
