Antifascists and activists from "Borotba" (Ukraine, it means "struggle") made a statement on the occation of a protest in London against British military aid to Ukraine and in solidarity with those resisiting fascist oppression in Ukraine, which was read at the protest.
We want to publish this statement in order to show the ongoing imperialist war in Ukraine, which is a new allocation war between USA/EU imperialists and russian imperialism. The imperilaists of the EU use their fascist lakies in Ukraine, to defend their interests. The ukrainian people are murdered, supressed and robbed of every democratic rights. Antifascists are getting killed by fascist military groups, financed and supported by European Union Imperialists. Anifascists and revolutionarys have to show their international solidarity with the ukrainian masses in theirs struggle against imperialism and imperialist war.
Dear comrades and friends!
For more than four years war has raged in our country and has claimed thousands of lives.
Ultimately, neo-liberals came to power in Ukraine as a result of a coup d’état at the hands of extreme right-wing paramilitary groups.
The first laws of the new government were aimed at discriminating against the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, imposing a cult of the Nazi collaborators of the Second World War, and selling off the remains of state property.
Ukraine was plunged into the abyss of chaos, poverty and devastation. The new government’s economic course caused the national currency to fall in value by more than 300 per cent, a fall in trade turnover, the closure of enterprises and, as a result, a financial crisis for state institutions.
There has been a steep rise in the number of weapons in Ukraine at the hands of the far-right nationalist groups. As a result, crime has increased 8–10 times in recent years.
The far-right nationalists are allowed to rob and murder people with impunity. Today they get away with anything as they are the backbone of the ruling regime.
Violations of human rights such as the right to freedom of expression, the right to work, the right to freedom of thought, the right to religion and many others have been brutally violated in Ukraine.
After the coup in February 2014 many Ukrainians began to resist the illegitimate liberal-nationalist government with weapons in their hands, forming militia units.
After the terror inflicted by the new Kiev authorities in Odessa on 2nd May, 2014, when neo-Nazi militants killed dozens of civilians, it became clear to Ukrainian society that there was no possibility of reaching any agreement with the new government peacefully.
Mass resistance began in the southern and eastern regions. A civil war began. In this war, the new Ukrainian government used the army against civilians of its own country. It used heavy artillery to destroy whole villages.
Comrades! All this would not be possible if the new Ukrainian government did not receive financial assistance from members of the European Union and other international institutions, in which the UK plays a key role.
From our TV screens we are told that the help is being given to peaceful projects but this is not true. The Ukrainian military machine cannot live without foreign financial support.
When your government sends the next tranche of aid to Ukraine – you know that this money is taken from you, taken from your pockets, and given to those who kill our brothers and sisters who do not agree with the new national-liberal course of the Ukrainian government.
Comrades! We remember well from history that during the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, when the Entente troops landed in Soviet Russia, the workers of England and other countries did everything to disrupt military supplies, and made an invaluable contribution to the liberation of Russia and the establishment of the young workers’ state.
We remember how our great-grandfathers, together with yours, fought together in the allied coalition against fascism – and won!
Today, solidarity is our main weapon. We are glad that in Britain there are our like-minded people, our comrades, and just and good people who do not want war. We are grateful to you for your solidarity and your principled position. We are grateful to you that the voice of Borotba is being heard in London, in the heart of Whitehall. We will only win together! No Pasaran!
