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Johannesburg – The SACP and other communist parties in the world have condemned the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
In a joint statement, the parties said they were opposed to the imperialist conflict in Ukraine, which constituted one of the consequences of the tragic situation for the peoples shaped after the overthrow of socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth the bourgeois and the opportunist forces, which for years have fought against the USSR and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its dissolution, silencing the fact that the restoration of capitalism meant the dismantling of historic workers\u2019 and people\u2019s achievements and brought the peoples of the USSR back to the era of class exploitation and imperialist wars, are completely exposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe developments in Ukraine, which are taking place in the framework of monopoly capitalism, are linked to the US, Nato, and EU plans and their intervention in the region in the context of their fierce competition with capitalist Russia for the control of the markets, raw materials, and transport networks of the country,\u201d the communist parties said.<\/p>\n
They said the pursuits were concealed by imperialist powers, which were in conflict promoting their own pretexts such as \u201cdefending democracy\u201d, \u201cself-defence\u201d, and one\u2019s right to \u201cchoose their alliances\u201d, the compliance with the UN or OSCE principles, or supposedly \u201cfascism\u201d, while deliberately detaching fascism from the capitalist system that gives rise to and utilises it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe denounce the activity of fascist and nationalist forces in Ukraine, anti-communism and the persecution of communists, the discrimination against the Russian-speaking population, the armed attacks of the Ukrainian government against the people in Donbas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe condemn the utilisation of reactionary political forces of Ukraine, including fascist groups, by the Euro-Atlantic powers for the implementation of their plans. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, the anti-communist rhetoric against Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the Soviet Union to which the Russian leadership resorts to justify its own strategic plans in the region, is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, nothing can tarnish the enormous contribution of socialism in the Soviet Union, which was a multinational union of equal Socialist Republics.<\/p>\n
The parties said the decision of the Russian Federation to initially recognize the \u201cindependence\u201d of the so-called \u201cPeoples\u2019 Republics\u201d in Donbas and then to proceed to a Russian military intervention, which was taking place under the pretext of Russia\u2019s \u201cself-defence\u201d, the \u201cdemilitarisation\u201d and \u201cdefascistisation\u201d of Ukraine, was not made to protect the people of the region or peace but to promote the interests of Russian monopolies in Ukrainian territory and their fierce competition with Western monopolies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe express our solidarity with the communists and the peoples of Russia and Ukraine and we stand on their side to strengthen the struggle against nationalism, which is fostered by each bourgeoisie. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe peoples of both countries, who lived in peace and jointly thrived in the framework of the USSR, as well as all other peoples have no interest in siding with one or another imperialist or alliance that serves the interests of the monopolies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe highlight that the illusions fostered by bourgeois forces claiming that there could be a \u201cbetter security architecture\u201d in Europe by EU intervention, Nato \u201cwithout military plans and aggressive weapon systems in its territory\u201d, a \u201cpro-peace EU\u201d, or a \u201cpeaceful multi-polar world\u201d, etc are highly dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these assumptions have nothing to do with reality and are misleading for the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle, seeking to cultivate the perception that \u201cpeaceful imperialism\u201d may exist.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the truth is that Natoand the EU, like any capitalist transnational union, are predatory alliances with a deeply reactionary nature that cannot become pro-people and will continue to act against workers\u2019 and people\u2019s rights and the peoples; that capitalism goes hand in hand with imperialist wars,\u201d the parties said.<\/p>\n
They called on the peoples of the countries whose governments were involved in the developments, especially through Nato and the EU but also Russia, to struggle against the propaganda of the bourgeois forces that lure the people to the meat grinder of imperialist war using various spurious pretexts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo demand the closure of military bases, the return home of troops from missions abroad, to strengthen the struggle for the disengagement of the countries from imperialist plans and alliances such as Nato and the EU.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe interest of the working class and the popular strata requires us to strengthen the class criterion for analysing the developments, to chart our own independent path against monopolies and bourgeois classes, for the overthrow of capitalism, for the strengthening of the class struggle against imperialist war, for socialism, which remains as timely and necessary as ever,\u201d the parties said.<\/p>\n
baldwin.ndaba@inl.co.za<\/p>\n
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