(en) Ukraine, Anarchists rally in Kiev outside Russian Embassy to free leftwing and antifascist activist Aleksandr "Tundra" Kolchenko.

Tundra was arrested in occupied-Crimea and moved to Moscow for trial on absurd charges of 
terrorism and membership in the Right Sector. 
https://www.facebook.com/blackrainboworg/photos/pcb.795411407193446/795405927193994---- 
Action of solidarity with Alyaksandr "Tundra" Kolchenko 22.10.2014 in Kyiv Embassy of the 
Russian Federation in Ukraine the coordination of libertarian activists, black Rainbow, 
activists of other organizations, activists and simply caring about vneorganizacionnye 
people held a rally of solidarity with political prisoner, an activist of the leftist, 
anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko "Tundra". ---- The rally brought together about 30 
participants. ---- We remind that Alyaksandr trumped FEDERAL case are accused of preparing 
terrorist acts on the territory of Crimea.

The Moscow City Court on Monday 20 October upheld the extension of arrest until January 
11, 2015 year Alexander "Tundra" Kolchenko, who is accused of preparing attacks in the Crimea.

The participants voiced the Embassy of their slogans calling for immediate release of tundra.

In a situation where the political regimes are fighting with activists using its 
repressive apparatus and throw them in jail, we can confront the State with his inhuman 
machine of coercion, police officers, courts, etc. its organised struggle against it and 
the solidarity of all people # exploited and oppressed of capital and the State.

Solidarity stronger all prisons!

(en) Ukraine, Statement of the Kharkiv Autonomous Workers Union members about creation of social and cultural center

Revolutional greeting to all solidary comrades of the world! ---- We are the workers of 
Ukraine and active members of the most massive and radical protests of the last decades 
continuing development of avtonomous class movement. ---- The antigovernmental uprising 
that begun last autumn outgrown into destructible massacre for the working class. 
Naturally, upper classes of Russia and Ukraine easilly imposed values of patriotism and 
interethnic hatred to the working masses. ---- At the same time, while social inequality 
maintaining the expirience of successful struggle against governmental and political 
system gives good chances to change the occuring social jolts into the real revolutional 
growth. ---- Realizing complexity of the situation we are making the choice in favor of 
strong and consistent struggle for constructing anarchistic (classless, self-governing) 
communism society.

In times when life of millions workers is getting worser because of chaos of war, we call 
up to follow by our own anarchist way of worker?s solidarity and mutual aid of all 
depressed groups.

Aid for the workers of Crimea and East Ukraine, who got into position of refugees and 
migrants because of political repressions and battle actions which captured many cities 
and residential areas, could be the first step in this direction.

In desire of helping to the refugees from Crimea and East Ukraine we?re ? the members of 
Kharkiv AWU (Autonomous Workers? Union), anarchists and antifaschists of Ukraine made the 
action of expropriation of abbandoned municipal placement. This placement will be redone 
into the social and cultural center for living, working and leisure of workers who 
suffered from consequences of interethnic war and other forms of social oppression.

Collectives of Kharkiv AWU and social and cultural center of Kharkiv.

War on the Palaces! Peace to the Cottages!


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World : (en) Ukraine: Activist Perspective

Interested in political situation in ?#?Ukraine?? Not satisfied with what conservative, 
liberal and official ?#?leftist? media can offer? Cannot stand being showered by 
?#?propaganda? from both sides? Interested in a view ?from the left?, but without cliches? 
Then here is a page for you to follow. ---- We, a group of Ukrainian left-wing activists 
and anarchists, have recently launched a new English-language Ukraine: Activist 
Perspective Facebook page, with the aim to deliver to the reader critical and informative 
publications in ?#?English? about the ?#?classstruggle? in Ukraine, the Ukrainian 
?#?economy?, ?#?socialmovements?, labor ?#?union? activities, and the struggle against 
?#?xenophobia? and ?#?authoritarianism?, ?#?militarism?, etc.

Most of us participated in the ?#?EuroMaidan? protests one way or another. We witnessed 
both all the progressive and reactionary sides of the protest and its consequences. Now we 
are trying to develop the ?#?grassroots? democratic intentions of ?#?Maidan? and fight 
against conservative and pro-market tendencies, militarism that sprang from it.

Of course, no one can be objective, especially if one tries to speak from within the 
conflict. Unfortunately, we are no exception. But we do try to publish only proven facts 
and make conclusions on their basis.

If you want to keep up with what is progressive in Ukraine, and to receive first-hand 
information about everything else from a critical perspective?please, like us and share 
the page with your friends!

(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

(en) Ukraine, Statement of left and anarchist organizations about ?Borotba? organization (de, fr, pt)

We, the collectives and members of Ukrainian leftist and anarchist organizations, announce 
that ?Borotba? union is not a part of our movement. During the whole time of this 
political project?s existence, its members tended to be committed to the most discredited, 
conservative and authoritarian ?leftist? regimes and ideologies, which do not represent 
the interests of working classes in any way. ---- ?Borotba? has proved itself an 
organization with a non-transparent funding mechanism and unscrupulous principles of 
cooperation. It uses hired workers, who are not even the members of the organization. The 
local cells of ?Borotba? took part in the protest actions together with PSPU (Progressive 
Socialist Party of Ukraine, which is an anti-Semitic, racist, and clerical party, and has 
no relation to the world socialist movement) and with Kharkiv pro-government, anti-Semitic 
and homophobic group ?Oplot?; and are known for their linkage with an infamous journalist 
O.Chalenko, who openly stands for Russian chauvinism.

Recent events demonstrate that the leadership of this union, following
the example of the ?Communist? Party of Ukraine, have been overtly
defending the interests of president Yanukovych, justifying the use of
weapons by security forces and denying the acts of unjustified violence
and cruelty on their part, the use of tortures and other forms of
political terror. The representatives of ?Borotba? take an extremely
biased stance concerning the composition of protest movement, which is
represented both on their own web resources and in the media
commentaries. According to them, the Maidan protests are supported
exclusively by nationalists and radical right, and were aimed only at a
coup d?etat (?fascist putsch?).
We stand on antifascist positions, and our activists have often been
victims of radical rightists? attacks. We do not support some of the
Maidan?s ideas, and are against the bourgeois opposition. We also
condemn conservative, nationalist, and radical right sentiments, which
are tolerated in the protesters? circles nowadays. However, we emphasize
that labeling all active citizens as ?fascists? is not only false, but
also dangerous. This one-sidedness is fueling chauvinist hysteria and
divides society, which is only favourable for the ruling class.
On January 24th, the region council deputy and ?Borotba? representative
Oleksiy Albu participated in the protection of Odesa region
administration building against ?Nazis?, accompanied by Russian
Cossacks and nationalists (?Slavic Unity?) and the members of ruling
Party of Regions and Communist Party. In his later interview, he
admitted his cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine.
On March 1st, ?Borotba? activists together with pro-Putin organizations
took part in the assault on Kharkiv region state administration, which
resulted in raising of a Russian flag and severe beating of many Kharkiv
Maidan activists, including a leftist poet Serhiy Zhadan. The members of
?Borotba? call all of this ?an antifascist action? and claim that these
violent actions were aimed against radical rightists.
Therefore, we conclude that the leadership of ?Borotba? union not only
support the authoritarian Soviet past, but also consciously manipulate
public opinion, and are acting as ?pocket revolutionaries? of the ruling
elites. Their activity at the moment does not have anything in common
with leftist politics and class struggle, and is aimed at the support of
pro-Putinist forces behind the mask of ?antifascism? and ?communism?.
Thus, the actions of this organization are discrediting both its name
(which is derived from revolutionaries-?borotbists? of the beginning of
the XXth century) and all the modern Ukrainian left in general.
Moreover, ?Borotba? does not disdain overt lies and fact manipulations,
deceiving foreign leftists and antifascists.
We urge all the conscious revolutionaries, who are still the members of
?Borotba?, to leave this treacherous, pro-bourgeois union and to cease
all the political relations with its leadership. We also hope that
European and Russian left will reconsider their attitude to ?Borotba.?
The organization of this kind should be isolated.
No gods, no masters, no nations, no borders!
Workers of all countries ? unite!
Autonomous Workers Union
Independent Student Union ?Direct Action ?
(The statement is open for further signatories, organizations as well as
individuals)

This is also available in French, German and Polish here:
http://avtonomia.net/2014/03/03/statement-left-anarchist-organizations-borotba-organization/.