(en) Ukraine, Against the regime of Kiev and the junta of the East!- Declaration SAT (syndicalist) on the conflict in the eastern regions (fr, pt)

Nationalism is the mortal enemy of the workers. This is proven by the current events in 
Ukraine, where the fascists on both sides help the ruling class to physically crush the 
working people. The question is: how many victims and destruction will be required before 
the Ukrainian proletariat realizes. - OCL ---- There is a continuing confrontation on the 
territory of Ukraine between groups of the local ruling class and Russian who oppose 
workers against each other and fanning hostility, and bring the country closer to a state 
civil war. Events Mariupol is the materialization of this confrontation. Many people, 
combatants and civilians, military professionals and conscripts and volunteers, have, on 
both sides of the conflict, suffered the consequences of the "anti-terrorist operation."

This is a critical situation for workers. The government treats all people who protest in 
the Maidan anti-movement in the same way: soldiers do not understand on which they draw, 
and those who are killed do not understand why die. Both sides of the conflict manipulate 
their "foot soldiers" with particular cynicism, and this is why workers come to fight for 
ideas that have nothing to do with their material class interests.

Ukrainian military units and other armed groups fight for foolish ideals of national 
patriotism and "national unity", while separatists are fighting for the creation of a new 
state and / or membership Russia. In all cases, the objective is the bourgeois nation 
state with its bureaucracy, its police, judges, prisons, its capitalist and poor.

Now, there are already dozens of casualties and deaths as a result of fighting between 
these two reactionary movements. The incompetence of the army on the one hand and the 
depravity of the other fighters are growing losses significantly.

The highest ranks of the anti-Maidan movement generally consist of retired military 
personnel and senior police officers remained loyal to the old regime. Therefore, the 
direction of the "people's republics" in the eastern regions of Ukraine may indeed be 
designated as a junta dictatorship of the police and armed forces.

Fascist and criminal groups in this movement gives the junta an overall deeply reactionary 
and radically opposed to the class interests of workers in the regions of Eastern character.

The pro-Russian propaganda depicts separatist fighters as fighters antifascist resistance. 
According to this propaganda, the "anti-terrorist operation" launched by the Ukrainian 
government is nothing but an attack of Ukrainian fascists "Sector Law", whose role in 
these events and many other s 'found so shocking inflated out of all proportion.

The "Sector Law" is a poorly coordinated coalition of right-wing organizations. Social 
structure consists of far-right youth and criminal groups. Social structure combatants 
"people's republics" is similar to most: teenagers, gangsters and elements downgraded. The 
popularity of the "Sector Law" at this time is very low (even lower than the Communist 
Party of Ukraine totally discredited); In addition, the "Sector Law" is in a state of 
secret war with the Ukrainian government.

Due to continuous public relations operations of the anti-fascist so-called international 
community, "Sector Law" is gaining the terrible image of a powerful organization that runs 
almost the Ukrainian state, which is obviously not true. However, we do not seek to 
minimize the problem of fascist movements in Ukraine. SAT has repeatedly insisted on 
climbing the right-wing violence, which refers to leftists, and in 2012, under Yanukovych. 
SAT activists were also attacked. One of our comrades was almost killed by neo-Nazis who 
attacked with knives. In addition, the venue of the first of this year had to be moved due 
to threats of confrontation with the extreme right.

Resist fascist movements has been one of the main tasks of the anarchist movement in 
Ukraine for a long time. Unlike many "anti-fascist" post-Stalinist in Western countries, 
we know the problem first hand and not from the Internet. And yet we and our comrades were 
able to organize anarchist demonstrations on May 1 with a social agenda, anti-capitalist 
and anti-national in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zhytomyr.

Anarchists do not intend to give ground to the Nazis and the government of the liberal 
right. This is the STA which organized the protest campaign of the radical left against 
the ruling party "Bat'kivshyna" ["Country"].

We are ready to continue the struggle against the state, capital and the extreme right to 
protect them. But this fight is a hundred times more difficult when the State, the Church, 
the structures of the police and fascist movements are united into a single force. Such is 
the situation in the Donbass, where "the army of the People's Republic of Donetsk" is 
directed by Igor Strelkov, man secret services of Russia and big fan of historical Tsarist 
White Guard movement; the organizer of the referendum, the founder of the movement 
"Donbass Orthodox", consult the Leader of older neo-Nazi post-Soviet movement, the 
legendary Alexandr Barkashov; where activists of anti-Maidan show solidarity and pay their 
respects to another icon of European fascists - Aleksandr Dugin; where the co-chairman of 
the "Government of the People's Republic of Donetsk", Denis Pushilin openly regrets that 
the 1917 revolution had ended the Tsarist and calls "bloody disaster".

Social slogans were not inserted into the clear and official documents of the separatists, 
while there was a lot of sentences on social peace and the interests of "small business". 
Currently, criminal and fascist junta East organizes tortures and kidnappings of union 
activists.

Nationalism is the mortal enemy of the workers. This is proven by the current events in 
Ukraine, where the fascists on both sides help the ruling class to physically crush the 
working people. The question is: how many victims and destruction will be required before 
the Ukrainian proletariat realizes.

We demand that the Kiev government immediately withdraw troops from cities, and East junta 
to cease terrorizing peaceful workers. Our goal is to continue the resistance on all 
fronts and build against all odds a revolutionary labor movement.

We call on our fellow Ukrainian workers to line up behind our common class interests, 
including peace and solidarity, but not senseless struggle to keep their territories or 
separation. Class struggle has nothing to do with the struggle for the redistribution of 
power. Whatever the winner of the confrontation between the government and the separatists 
- we will lose, and that is why his boycott is our priority. Ignore the decisions of the 
government, renounce militarism, conduct strikes and build a revolutionary workers' 
movement - these are our weapons against the war imposed on us. We can only rely on 
ourselves and on international solidarity with other organizations of the radical left. If 
we do not start to get up now, we will face the most difficult time.

Neither gods nor masters, nor nations, no borders!

Workers of the world Unite!

Kiev, 14 May 2014

SAT Autonomous Workers Union