(en) Autonomous Workers Union revolutionary syndicalists statement on the Russian military intervention in Ukraine

On February 27, 2014, pro-Russian chauvinists of Crimea, supported by Berkut riot police 
and Russian Black Sea Fleet committed military coup in Crimea. Right now it?s already 
obvious that the government of ?Russian Unity? movement headed by Aksionov is no more than 
a puppet of the Kremlin regime. ---- We don?t regard Ukraine?s territorial integrity and 
inviolability of its borders as a value, we are against violent ?pacification? of Crimea, 
but we think that the status of Crimea should be defined with due regard to the opinion of 
the Crimean Tatar minority. ---- The latest events show that Putin is not going to limit 
himself with the annexation of Crimea. The aim of the imperialist Kremlin regime is to 
expand the Russian practices on all territory of Ukraine.

Thereby the Russian regime proved to be the main threat to the interests of the 
proletariat at the post-Soviet area.

We are opponents of war and militarism. But we think that in this situation conscious 
proletarians can rely on nobody but themselves.

There?s no point in waiting for ?rescue? from Nato. Ukrainian nationalist politicians can 
only organize defense of a part of territory at best. The war can be averted only if 
proletarians of all countries, first and foremost Ukrainian and Russian, together make a 
stand against the criminal regime of Putin.

Joint action by the Ukrainian and Russian proletariat and all progressive democratic 
forces which will put an end to Putin?s regime, will also mean an end to the current 
neoliberal-oriented nationalist regime in Ukraine.

While for the leftists and anarchists of the West it?s high time to cut ties with the 
so-called ?anti-imperialism? which comes down to the support of the Putin?s regime against 
the US.

No war between nations, no peace between classes!

Source; 
http://avtonomia.net/2014/03/02/awu-statement-russian-intervention-uber-die-russische-intervention-erklarung-der-autonomen-union-der-arbeiterinnen-kiev/