#Borotba

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The situation is escalating. The U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks is very dangerous. It threatens a world war because the design of the Abrams engines requires constant maintenance. There are no specialists for this in Ukraine. Therefore, civilian specialists from the United States will be involved for repair and maintenance, who will work at Ukrainian enterprises that are targets for the Russian army.

Everyone understands that as a result of the fighting, there is a very serious risk that these specialists will be killed. However, the death of a U.S. citizen will allow Biden to demand the introduction of a no-fly zone over Ukraine and may become a reason to declare war.

Thus, Biden intends to use ordinary workers as victims to unleash a war with Russia.

#Borotba #Ukraine #proxy war #StandWithDonbass #NoWarWithRussia #solidarity #antiwar #imperialism #Joe Biden #Pentagon #Abrams tanks #no-fly zone #antifascist #protest #Struggle La Lucha

[theculturedmarxist]

This article was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the Union of Left Forces (For a New Socialism) party, which has been banned by the Zelensky government. The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally opposes and denounces the persecution of left-wing and oppositional tendencies in Ukraine by the NATO-backed Zelensky regime. We call on our readers to distribute the information about the state-backed repression of anti-war opposition in Ukraine as widely as possible.

Ukraine has long been proclaimed the freest country in the post-Soviet space. In the pro-NATO media, the country is even portrayed as a bulwark of democracy. But this is a lie. The right-wing oligarchic regime that came to power in the Western-backed coup in February 2014 has severely persecuted its opponents, using terrorist methods.

The most tragic example of not just persecution, but murder by the ruling regime in Kiev of its ideological opponents took place in Odessa on May 2, 2014, when far-right nationalists, with the full connivance of and open assistance from the authorities, blocked anti-fascist activists in the building of the House of Trade Unions and set fire to the building. To escape the burning building, many jumped out of windows to their death. Even on the ground, some of those who had survived were then murdered by neo-Nazis. In total, more than 40 people died, among whom were Vadim Papura, a member of the Komsomol (Communist youth union), as well as Andrei Brazhevsky, a member of the left-wing Borotba organization.

For this crime, no one was ever punished, even though those responsible were recorded in many photos and videos. One of the organizers of this massacre subsequently became the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, another one became a member of parliament on the lists of the party of former President Petro Poroshenko.

In the same way, the killers of a number of well-known opposition politicians and journalists who have died since 2014 have not been punished. This includes the ex-deputy of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Valentina Semenyuk-Samsonenko (her murder on August 27, 2014 was disguised as suicide); the ex-deputy and organizer of opposition actions Oleg Kalashnikov (he was killed on April 15, 2015); the popular writer and anti-fascist publicist Oles Buzina (killed on April 16, 2015), and many others.

The Communist Party of Ukraine, one of the largest parties in the country, was banned in 2015.

In addition, opposition-minded politicians, journalists and activists, many of whom are left-leaning, have been beaten, arrested and imprisoned in recent years on trumped-up charges of “high treason” and other overtly political charges. This happened, in particular, with journalists Vasily Muravitsky, Dmitry Vasilets and Pavel Volkov, as well as human rights activist Ruslan Kotsaba and others. It is telling that even in the courts, which are under heavy pressure from the authorities, the accusations of “high treason” as a rule fell apart and turned out to be completely untenable.

The situation has become more and more aggravated with each passing year, especially after Volodymyr Zelensky became the president of Ukraine. The formal reason for the complete elimination of the remnants of civil liberties and the start of open political repression was the military conflict in Ukraine that began in February 2022.

All opposition parties in Ukraine, most of which are left-wing parties, including the Union of Left Forces (For New Socialism) party, which I lead, were banned on fabricated, carbon-copy accusations of being “pro-Russian.”

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has also detained a number of opinion leaders and journalists who spoke to the media before the war, criticizing the government. All of them were accused of promoting a pro-Russian position, high treason, espionage, propaganda, etc.

In February-March 2022, a number of well-known bloggers and journalists were detained on charges of high treason and placed in pre-trial detention centers (SIZOs). Among them were Dmitry Dzhangirov (a supporter of leftist views, who worked with our party), Yan Taksyur (a supporter of leftist views), Dmitry Marunich, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, Yuri Tkachev, and others. The reason for their detention was not ephemeral treason at all, but the authorities’ fear of their public political position, which did not coincide with the official line of the government.

In March 2022, the historian Alexander Karevin, known for his political activities, disappeared without a trace after SBU officers visited his house. Karevin has repeatedly sharply criticized the actions of the Ukrainian authorities in the field of the humanities, language policy and the politics of historical memory.

In March 2022 in Kiev, Olena Berezhnaya, a lawyer and human rights activist, well known for her anti-fascist positions, was detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center under suspicion under Article 111 of the Criminal Code, i.e., for treason. Just a few months prior, in December 2021, she had spoken at the UN Security Council about the lawlessness in Ukraine.

On March 3, 2022, the SBU detained the left-wing activists and anti-fascist brothers Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich in Kiev on charges of violating Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“actions aimed at forcibly changing the constitutional order or seizing state power”). They were placed in a pre-trial detention center until the end of 2022, where they were beaten and tortured, and denied timely medical assistance.

In May 2022, in Dnipro, the SBU detained the brother of the former presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev, citizen of Ukraine Mikhail Tsarev, on charges of “destabilizing the socio-political situation in the region.” As a result, in December 2022, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of terrorism.

On March 7, 2022, six activists of the opposition organization Patriots for Life disappeared without a trace in Severodonetsk. In May 2022, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, Maxim Zhorin, posted a photo of their dead bodies on the Internet, claiming that they “were executed,” and that their murder was connected to their political views and carried out by paramilitary structures.

On January 12, 2023, Sergei Titov, a resident of Belaya Tserkov, a half-blind and disabled person with a mental illness, was detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center. He was declared a 'saboteur.' On March 2, 2023, it was reported that he had died in the pre-trial detention center.

In February 2023, Dmitry Skvortsov, an Orthodox publicist and blogger, was detained in a monastery near Kiev and placed in a pre-trial detention center.

Since November 2022, Dmitry Shymko from Khmelnytsky has been in the dungeons for his political beliefs.

Hundreds of ordinary people have already been prosecuted in today’s Ukraine for distributing political content on the Internet that the authorities considered prohibited.

The authorities have taken under tight control the information space of Ukraine, including the Internet. Any personal publication of citizens about mistakes at the front, about corruption among the authorities and the military, and about the lies of officials are declared to be crimes. Such individuals, as well as bloggers and administrators of TG channels, are subject to harassment by the police and the Security Service.

By the spring of this year, according to the SBU, 26 Telegram channels were blocked—channels on which people had informed each other about the locations where military summons were being handed out. Six Telegram channel administrators were searched and charged with crimes. Thus, public pages were blocked in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Cherkasy, Vinnitsa, Chernivtsi, Kiev, Lviv and Odessa regions. These pages had more than 400,000 subscribers. The public administrators of these channels face 10 years in prison.

In March 2022, Article 436-2 (“Justification, recognition as lawful, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants”) was introduced into the Criminal Code of Ukraine. In reality, it is directed against any citizens of Ukraine who have views that differ from the official government line.

This new law is formulated in such a way that, in essence, it provides for punishment for “thought crimes”—words or phrases spoken not only publicly, but also in a private conversation, written in a private messenger or SMS message, or said over the phone. In fact, we are talking about an invasion of the privacy of citizens and of their thoughts. This, in fact, has been confirmed by the practice of law enforcement—conviction for likes, private phone calls, and so on. For simple conversations on the street and likes on the Internet under posts, as of March 2023 there have been 380 sentences, based on court records, including those sentenced to prison.

Thus, in June 2022, in Dnipro, a resident of Mariupol was sentenced to five years in prison, with a trial period of two years. In March 2022, the individual had claimed that shelling of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in Mariupol was carried out by servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Another sentence, based on a telephone conversation in March 2023, was handed down against a resident of Odessa. That person was sentenced to two years on probation for “unpatriotic and anti-state” conversations on a mobile phone.

A resident of the village of Maly Bobrik in the Sumy region was convicted under Part 1 of Art. 436-2 of the Criminal Code in June 2022 and sentenced to a term of six months in prison because she had, in April 2022, near her yard and in the presence of three persons, expressed approval of the actions of the Russian authorities in relation to Ukraine, and later refused to admit her guilt.

At least 25 Ukrainians have been convicted of “anti-Ukrainian activities” on social media. Nineteen people were found by law enforcement officers in Odnoklassniki and held in the country. According to the investigation, these residents of Ukraine distributed “Z” symbols and Russian flags on their pages and called the invasion “liberation.”

Sentences were also handed down against those who did not distribute such publications, but only “liked” them (i.e., expressed a form of approval on social media). The texts of at least two sentences say that the so-called “likes” had the goal of “bringing the idea to a wide range of people of changing the borders of the territory of Ukraine,” and “justifying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.” The investigators justified the prosecutions on the grounds that personal pages have open access, and liked publications can be seen by many people.

For instance, in May 2022, in Uman, a pensioner was sentenced to two years in prison with a probationary period of a year for “rejection of the current Ukrainian authorities... on the Odnoklassniki Internet network,” having put down “likes... to a number of publications that justify the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”

In Kremenchug in May 2022, a citizen of Ukraine was convicted under article 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Using a pseudonym, this individual had spoken on the social media platform Odnoklassniki about the Nazis in Ukraine and the development of biological weapons funded by the Pentagon.

The repressive actions carried out by the current government to fight against those who disagree with it have turned Ukraine into the most repressive state in Europe, a state where any person who dares to oppose the authorities, the oligarchy, nationalism and neo-Nazism risks freedom and often even their life.

We ask you to disseminate this information as widely as possible, since in the current situation only wide international publicity about the facts presented in this article can help save thousands of people whose freedom and life are now under serious threat in Ukraine.

#wsws #ukraine #ukraine conflict #leftist persecution #nazi ukraine

[katchwreck]

Backbone of the Army

March 15, 2022 by an article translated from JungeWelt — an interview with Dmitri Kovalevich, a Ukrainian journalist and a member of the Ukrainian Marxist organization Borotba.

Fascists gain more and more ground in Ukraine, West willingly supplies weapons.

Neo-Nazis played a decisive role during the 2013/2014 “Euromaidan” in Ukraine. After that, they assumed a number of leadership positions in all spheres of the Ukrainian state apparatus; their paramilitary armed formations were legalized and incorporated into the National Guard, the police and the regular army. The neo-Nazi Azov-regiment was also given the field of educating (indoctrinating) children and young people who were brainwashed for eight consecutive years in special training camps. There is a perfectly balanced synergy between president Zelenskyy and the fascist and nazi paramilitary organizations batallions.

During all these years, only Ukraine and the United States voted annually in the United Nations against this FN resolution on condemning and stopping glorification of Nazism, which already says a lot. Gradually, the state apparatus merged with several openly neo-Nazi paramilitary battalions, units/organizations, and groups. The ideology of the ultra-right became the state ideology, their symbols became official state symbols. The slogan of the Nazi collaborators, “Glory to Ukraine,” has become an official greeting in the army, and even liberal European politicians do not hesitate to repeat it.

The leader of the neo-Nazi group "C 14," Yevgeny Karas, said at a press conference in Kiev on February 23, the eve of Russia's operation, that a number of countries had provided a large amount of military support "not because they want us to benefit from it," but because the state was "performing the tasks of the West." He continued, "We are the only ones who are willing to perform these tasks because we have fun - we like to kill, and we enjoy fighting."

Not surprisingly, since the beginning of the Russian operation, the neo-Nazis and the extreme right have offered the most stubborn resistance. Denazification is directed specifically against them, but they try to present their cause as the cause of the entire Ukrainian people, as the cause ofl all. Europe, which they are supposedly protecting from the “Asian hordes.” For the past eight years, the Western media have tried to timidly criticize neo-Nazi units such as “Azov”, “Free Corps”, “Right Sector”, “Misanthropic Division”, “C 14”, “Kharkiv-1” and “Kharkiv-2” , “Aidar Battalion”, “Dnipro-1” and “Dnipro-2”, “Kyiv-1” and “Kyiv-2”, “Tornado Batallion” (released from jail), “Wotan Jugens” (Ukrainan unit), but since late February they have become quite acceptable defenders of Ukraine (most notable the “Azov” regiment.

The neo-Nazis of “Azov” are the most motivated forces, and they were, as far as my knowledge goes, the first to receive Western weapons. The US media also freely reports that they supply “Azov”.

On March 3, Ukraine's 'Northern' Operations Command published photos of troops being instructed in the the use of NLAW and Javelin anti-tank weapons. Since then, more such images have been published by the “Azov National Guard” battalion, the U.S. portal Overt Defense wrote on March 8.

In addition to the regular army units, “territorial defense detachments” were formed from the civilian population at the end of February, which immediately received the nickname “Volkssturm” in Ukraine. These units are led by representatives of extreme right-wing groups who have undergone training or have experience of military action in the Donbass. Regularly have to pass their checkpoints, which are established at every intersection. The fighters of the “Territorial Defense” appear quite arrogant even to representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. They do not allow men between the ages of 18 and 60 to leave the region. Refugees fleeing the war zones are often forced to take a “language test” on their Ukrainian language skills. Those who fail the test are either not allowed through or are subjected to a humiliating check where they have to undress in the cold, with many being forcefully taped onto poles, lamp posts, trees, et cetera. They take a particularly harsh attitude toward people from Asian and African countries who try to leave the country.

The “Territorial Defense” as well as military personnel like to show the insignia of the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf”, the Nazi symbol “Black Sun”, which even got into congratulatory NATO tweets to fighting Ukrainian women on March 8. Of course, not all soldiers of the army or members of the “territorial defense” are supporters of neo-Nazi views. However, they are all to one degree or another under the leadership and control of the extreme right-wing forces that form the backbone of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Pictured: Members of the “Azov National Corps” celebrate the second anniversary of their establishment in Kiev without any problems (2.3.2019).”

Text from here: https://telegra.ph/Backbone-of-the-Army-03-15

#Kiev #ukraine #ukraine russian war #Fascism #nazism #Batallion #april 30 #Azov #Dimitri Kovalevich

[conte-olaf]

[reidio-silence]

In more practical terms, the Bolsheviks were short of reliable cadres among their own ranks in most of the borderlands, while many nationalists stood not far from the main social programme of the Russian revolutionaries. In Ukraine, the Bolsheviks took the opportunity of a split in the Socialist Revolutionary Party in May 1918 to woo the left wing of the party, who now called themselves the ‘Borotbists’ after their newspaper Borotba, meaning ‘Struggle’. Although socialist, the Borotbists were also nationalist to the extent that they disagreed with the Bolsheviks on the relationship between Ukraine and Russia and on Ukrainian culture. But they shared the Bolshevik policies on Soviet power and the redistribution of land, which was sufficient for them to propose merging with the Communist Party of Ukraine. Although this advance was initially rejected by the Ukrainian communists, they were overruled by the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party, and in April 1919 the merger went ahead. As part of this deal, the leading Borotbist, Oleksander Shumskyi, was admitted to the Ukrainian Soviet government as commissar of enlightenment, with responsibility for education and culture.

— Jeremy Smith, Red Nations (2013)

#russia #ukraine #ussr

[rostyslavua]

Боротьба із сміттєвим рабством в Обухові: як довести що ви не отримували послуги

https://antiraid.com.ua/news/borotba-iz-smittievym-rabstvom-v-obukhovi-iak-dovesty-shcho-vy-ne-otrymuvaly-posluhy/ Гроші з повітря. Точніше, зі сміття. В Обухові на Київщині приватна компанія вимагає від людей оплати послуги, яких не надавала. За вивезення відходів. Компанія навіть подала до суду, аби стягнути з мешканців вигадані борги. Наша знімальна група поспілкувалася з представниками фірми, з місцевими чиновниками. І їхні відповіді приголомшили навіть досвідченого юриста. Чому – дивіться у […] Повідомлення Боротьба із сміттєвим рабством в Обухові: як довести, що ви не отримували послуги з'явилися спочатку на ANTIRAID. via ANTIRAID https://antiraid.com.ua/home/ December 18, 2023 at 06:42PM

#December 18 #2023 at 06:42PM

[donewithcapitalistfrayers]

Red journalist from Ukraine's Borotba, Dmitri Kovalevich dispatch

[russianreader]

Voices in the Wilderness

Voices in the Wilderness

Timothy Ash: “Nord Stream 2 is about undermining Ukraine.” The most cogent analyst of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is hiding out at a place called Bluebay Asset Management. Watch this six-minute clip if you want to know why Putin is likely to invade Ukraine. Thanks to Mark Teeter for the heads-up. Meanwhile, in the total absence of an anti-war movement in Russia, I share these recent reflections…

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#Borotba #George Losev #Russian anti-war movement #Russian invasion of Ukraine #Sergey Abashin #Timothy Ash #Ukraine-Russia war

[bauerntanz]

allein 17 Netzwerke gesperrt

Falschinformationen aus der Ostukraine: #FB sperrt allein 17 Netzwerke via @netzpolitik

Facebook hat auf eine Recherche von netzpolitik.org und WELT reagiert und eine Vielzahl von Seiten, Gruppen und Konten gesperrt, die russlandfreundliche Propaganda verbreitet haben. Facebook will dabei auf neue Spuren zu den Hinterleuten gestoßen sein. Die Botschaft der Russischen Föderation in Berlin teilte uns mit, zu „inoffizieller Medienberichterstattung“ äußere man sich grundsätzlich nicht.…

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#Alexej Nawalny #Andrey Hunko #Borotba #Desinformation #Facebook #Luhansk #netzpolitik.org #Ostukraine #Propaganda #Recherche #Russland

[spoilersgr]

Borotba: Αλληλεγγύη με τους αγωνιστές κατά του ρατσισμού και της κοινωνικής καταπίεσης!

#Borotba #George Floyd #ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΗ #ΗΠΑ #Μπορότμπα #Ντονμπάς

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Alexey Albu

Message to “People Speak Out to Stop Racism, Poverty and World War III” at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York, on Jan. 13. Albu is a coordinator of the Ukrainian Marxist movement Borotba (Struggle) and a survivor of the Odessa massacre on May 2, 2014, when neo-Nazis killed 48 people. He was forced into exile and currently lives in Lugansk.

Thank you for the rally against the war with Russia and China, against imperialism and NATO. I am very grateful to you for continuing to tell the truth about what is happening in the Donbass. It is very important for us that the world will know what is happening here.

In the last two months, the shelling of Donetsk, in comparison with the summer, has intensified. The neo-Nazis want us to move our artillery. They want to force us to remove it from those areas where their defense became weak. Therefore, the neo-Nazis deliberately bomb civilians. The military actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are bordering on genocide.

But I am sure that everything will change soon. Good news is already coming that in some areas the defenses of the Ukrainian army have been breached. Our comrades are waiting for good news in the coming months.

Please thank all the participants of the rally from the people of Donbass, from all the anti-fascists of Ukraine, and from Borotba.

No pasarán!

#Alexey Albu #Borotba #StandWithDonbass #NoWarWithRussia #StopNATO #Ukraine #proxy war #Donetsk #Lugansk #imperialism #antifascist #communist #neonazis #Odessa massacre #Struggle La Lucha

[ah17hh]

Andrej Hunko and the Party Borotba: Propaganda from the Kremlin to the Bundestag via /r/de

Andrej Hunko and the Party Borotba: Propaganda from the Kremlin to the Bundestag https://ift.tt/2CMfiWJ Submitted July 30, 2020 at 10:34AM by zehdeh90 via reddit https://ift.tt/3ffXsbw

[mi6-rogue]

Andrej Hunko and the Party Borotba: Propaganda from the Kremlin to the Bundestag http://dlvr.it/RcXw8G

#Germany #Russia

[vgoru]

[fotoinform]

#Під Новий рік розпочнеться боротьба за крісло президента держави #Сліпачук #ЦВК #вибори2019

[rostyslavua]

Боротьба з пяними водіями: в США введуть нову технологію для блокування заводження автомобілів

https://antiraid.com.ua/news/borotba-z-p-ianymy-vodiiamy-v-ssha-vvedut-novu-tekhnolohiiu-dlia-blokuvannia-zavodzhennia-avtomobiliv/ Регулятори автомобільної безпеки в США вимагатимуть від автовиробників впровадити нові технології, які не дозволять нетверезому водієві завести автомобіль. У 2021 році Конгрес наказав Національному управлінню безпеки дорожнього руху запровадити пасивну технологію з метою запобігти десяткам тисяч смертей на дорогах щорічно. Закон вимагає, щоб нові розробки були готові до листопада 2024 року. Про це повідомляє АНТИРЕЙД […] Повідомлення Боротьба з п’яними водіями: в США введуть нову технологію для блокування заводження автомобілів з'явилися спочатку на ANTIRAID. via ANTIRAID https://antiraid.com.ua/home/ December 13, 2023 at 08:33PM

#December 13 #2023 at 08:33PM