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Vol. 79/No. 24 July 13, 2015
(front page, editorial)
Attacks on CP a danger to entire working class
The Militant stands shoulder to shoulder with the Communist Party of
Ukraine, which faces physical assaults, destruction of their offices,
and “disappearances” and murders of its members for exercising their
right to participate in politics.
These attacks are a deadly threat to the working class and labor
movement, precedents that will be turned against all those who fight for
a class-struggle road forward in Ukraine.
They are the naked fist that gives meaning to the capitalist rulers’
“decommunization” laws, which seek to outlaw communist political views
and activity and to empower the state to set “correct” history, which
you challenge at your peril, and to the so far unsuccessful efforts to
ban the CP.
The Poroshenko government in Kiev and the propertied rulers it
represents are the class enemy of the workers and farmers in Ukraine.
Fighting against the capitalist rulers in the interests of the toilers,
gaining experience and confidence, searching for continuity in past
class-struggle experiences — this is the revolutionary line of march
needed to defend jobs, wages, safety on the job, and social and
political rights.
It is the only axis on which a successful fight can be waged against the
assaults by the Putin regime in Moscow and the forces they control in
eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
The Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues it collaborates
with internationally — defenders of the 1917 Russian Revolution and
Lenin’s course in the early 1920s, including Ukrainization and the
flowering of Tatar culture in Crimea before the Stalinist
counterrevolution, and co-fighters alongside the Cuban Revolution today
— would be targets under Kiev’s “decommunization” laws and other assaults.
Miners, rail workers and other unionists fighting government and boss
attacks in Ukraine are increasingly called “fifth columnists” by the
rulers, the same charge used to justify the assaults on the CP. Using
these slanders, the Security Service of Ukraine hauled Independent
Miners Union President Mikhailo Volynets in for interrogation June 18.
Workers and all defenders of political rights must stand in solidarity
with the Ukrainian Communist Party, its youth organization and members
against physical attacks and legislative assaults of all kinds.
Hands off the Communist Party!
Related articles:
Protest widespread attacks on Communist Party in Ukraine
CP members assaulted in streets and parliament
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