Articles
Hazırda Ukraynada baş verənlər Ukrayna və Rusiya xalqlarının, istismardan azad edilmiş ədalətli bir cəmiyyət və gələcəyin kommunist dünyasını qurmaq üçün birləşən keçmiş sovet sosialist respublikalarının bütün xalqlarının ümumi faciəsidir. Bu faciə Sovet İttifaqının xainliklə və amansız şəkildə məhv edilməsinin bilavasitə nəticəsidir. Buna görə SSRİ prezidenti və Sov.İKP baş katibi Mixail Qorbaçov, RSFSR prezidenti və Sov.İKP MK üzvü Boris Yeltsin, Ukrayna SSR prezidenti və Sov.İKP MK üzvü L. M. Kravçuk və Belarus Respublikası Ali Sovetinin sədri Stanislav S. Şuşkeviç məsuliyyət daşıyır.
Bugün Ukrayna’da yaşananlar Ukrayna ve Rusya halklarının, sömürünün olmadığı adil bir toplum ve geleceğin komünist dünyasını kurmak için bir araya gelen eski Sovyet sosyalist cumhuriyetlerin tüm halklarının ortak trajedisidir. Bu trajedi Sovyetler Birliğinin haince ve canice yok edilmesinin doğrudan sonucudur.
Faisant de nombreux morts, la guerre a commencé en l’Ukraine. Nous, militants ouvriers et révolutionnaires de ROR sommes opposé aux bains de sang.
Mais, en France, comme dans d’autres pays impérialistes, le « Camp du Bien », un large conglomérat d’intellectuels bourgeois, faussement pacifistes et vraiment belliciste a unanimement condamnée la seule Russie (le « Camp du Mal »). Ce conglomérat regroupe, en France, les Bernard-Henri Lévy, les Jadot, les Enthoven, et autres Le Maire, - mais également Edwy Plenel, et même Noam Chomsky aux USA – plus tous les autres politiciens pourris de la bourgeoisie réactionnaire, frange fascisante mêlée.
Our fifth annual English edition, Revolutionary Marxism 2021, is out, amidst the prolonged pandemic and the economic and social crisis deepened by the former. World capitalism has failed even to make vaccines accessible worldwide, let alone implementing measures to keep billions of workers safe, such as re-planning the production process in accordance with the pandemic-induced circumstances.
Yli kuukauden koko maailma on ollut järkyttynyt Venäjän ja Ukrainan välisen sodan mahdollisuudesta. Missä hysteriassa läntinen media elääkään! Skenaariot vaihtelevat, mutta kaikkia maustavat yhteydet tuomiopäivään: Venäjän aloittama täysi kybersota naapuriaan vastaan, tai Venäjän hyökkäys ja Ukrainan miehitys, ja jopa miehitys ja hallinnon vaihto Venäjän kätyreihin.
Jopa Ukrainan presidentti Volodymir Zelensky, Ukrainan ulkoministeri ja ukrainalainen media ihmettelevät länsimedian hysteriaa. Verrattaessa nykytilannetta näitten kahden maan väliseen kitkaan sitten Maidanin tapahtumien 2014, kaikki näistä toteavat selkeästi, ettei sodan riski ole nyt sen suurempi. Siksipä on sallittua kysyä lietsovatko NATO-liittolaiset sotaa Venäjän ja Ukrainan välillä, jotta voisivat ahdistaa Venäjän nurkkaan ja rangaista sitä lisää uusilla toimilla.
Ce qui se passe actuellement en Ukraine est une tragédie commune des peuples d’Ukraine et de Russie, de tous les peuples des anciennes républiques socialistes soviétiques, qui ont construit ensemble une société juste exempte d'exploitation, un nouveau monde communiste du futur. Cette tragédie est la conséquence directe de la trahison criminelle de la destruction de l'Union Soviétique, les responsables sont le président de l'URSS,, le Secrétaire Général du Parti Communiste de l'Union Soviétique (PCUS), Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, le Président de la RSFSR, membre du Comité Central du PCUS Boris Eltsine, le Président de la République socialiste soviétique d'Ukraine, membre du Comité Central du PCUS M. Kravtchouk, président du Conseil Suprême de la République du Biéloarussie, Stanislav S.A Shushkevich.
What is currently happening in Ukraine is a common tragedy of the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, of all the peoples of the former Soviet socialist republics, who jointly built a fair society free from exploitation, a new future communist world. This tragedy is a direct consequence of the treacherous and criminal destruction of the Soviet Union, the blame for which lies with the President of the USSR, General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail S. Gorbachev, President of the RSFSR, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU Boris N. Yeltsin, President of the Ukrainian SSR, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU L. M. Kravchuk, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus, Stanislav S. Shushkevich
Происходящее в настоящее время на Украине является общей трагедией народов Украины и России, всех народов бывших советских социалистических республик, совместно строивших свободное от эксплуатации справедливое общество, новый будущий, коммунистический мир. Эта трагедия является прямым следствием предательского и преступного разрушения Советского Союза, вина за которое лежит на Президенте СССР, Генсеке КПСС М.С. Горбачеве, Президенте РСФСР, члене ЦК КПСС Б.Н. Ельцине, Президенте УССР, члене ЦК КПСС Л. М. Кравчуке, председателе Верховного Совета Республики Беларусь, С. С. Шушкевиче. Эти люди и их прямые и косвенные подельники являются государственными преступниками, предавшими не только свою социалистическую Родину и советский народ, но и собственную партию.
War was ignited in the heart of Europe on Thursday 24th February 2022. War, that can be escalated to the scale of the whole of Europe or even to a global war. Putin speaks about ”military operation” to ”defend and save” the Russian-speaking people of Donbass. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, US president Biden talks about an ”unprovoked attack against the sovereignty of Ukraine”. In Finland, we have seen an unprecedented attack of war propaganda. Months before Putin attacked Ukraine, NATO’s top representatives visited Finland and Sweden. Secret negotiations were had with political and military leadership. War drums have been heard in other western European countries as well. In the bigger picture, in the crosshairs of imperialism is also China. Bourgeoisie media ”deliberated” about whether it would be more beneficial to strike against Russia, China, or both simultaneously.
To understand who the war in Ukraine is really between, one should look at who was negotiating for the past two months. The negotiations took place between Putin and Biden, between Putin and NATO or between Putin and Macron. Ukraine was silent the whole time. Prior to the war, politics were conducted between the USA, the EU, NATO and Russia. Since war is the continuation of politics by other means, this war is not between Ukraine and Russia. In this war Ukraine is fighting a proxy war. This in itself should be an embarrassment for the Ukrainian people. What a shame to put your own people in harm’s way for the war of others! The Zelensky government, the proxy of NATO in Ukraine, has driven the neo-Nazi gangs – the murderers of the Ukrainian working people – to the front as so-called “volunteers”. This war is the expression, by other means, of the economic and political humiliation that America and Europe have inflicted on Ukraine.
From the early hours of February 24, 2022, for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the flames of war destruction flared up in Ukraine, threatening to spread to the whole of Europe and set the planet on fire.
The Kremlin, in a speech by Putin, spoke of a "special military operation against the military infrastructure of Ukraine" which, together with the "Western bloc", threatens the populations of Donbass and "the security of Russia". The thermometer of war fever has risen in the imperialist centers, in the USA, NATO and the EU. Biden, in an emergency address, escalated threats against Russia, which he accused of "unprovoked invasion of Ukraine".
Nous venons d’apprendre – avec colère, mais pas d’étonnement – l’attaque déclenché contre vous après les déclarations de Gérard Darmanin. Nous voudrions déclarer que nous considérons cette attaque menée par l'impérialisme français avec la provocation du sionisme comme une attaque contre tous ceux qui se battent pour la cause palestinienne partout dans le monde, et nous nous tenons à vos côtés dans votre lutte.
Fransız İçişleri Bakanı Gérard Darmanin’ın yaptığı açıklama ile birlikte size karşı başlatılan saldırıyı, şaşkınlıkla değil ama öfkeyle öğrenmiş bulunuyoruz. Siyonizmin kışkırtması ile Fransız emperyalizminin yürüttüğü bu saldırıyı, tüm dünyada Filistin davası için mücadele yürüten herkese yapılmış saydığımızı ve mücadelenizde yanınızda olduğumuzu belirtmek isteriz.
The immediate background to today's war was the change of regime Ukraine went through in the Maidan events of 2014. The importance, even the existence, of fascists and their presence both at Maidan and later in the setup of the new Ukrainian regime was almost denied by most left-wing international groups. Three months after the end of the Maidan events, a fascist band burned and killed dozens of trade unionists and leftists in the Union House of Odessa. The article below describes the events and reaches certain conclusions. Today also the fascists are very active in Ukraine. We are publishing the article below, originally published on RedMed on 9 May 2014, one more time in order to warn our readers on what kind of "revolution" Maidan was.
We have just published "In defence of Lenin: a reply to Putin on the collapse of the USSR", an article by our comrade Sungur Savran. This article we are now publishing by Savran explains the epoch-making character of Lenin's national policy in the context of the foundation of the USSR in 1922 in more general and theoretical terms. It was first published in the annual English language issue Revolutionary Marxism 2021 of the Turkish language journal of theory and politics Devrimci Marksizm.
An extremely important aspect of Vladimir Putin’s speech on the night of 21 February 2022, relayed by cable television and simultaneously translated into many languages, thus reaching a very wide array of audiences worldwide, was his long-drawn out narrative on the historical aspect of the question of relations between Russia and Ukraine.
February 18th of 1952 is the day Turkey decided to join NATO, voted in favor by both the ruling Democratic Party and the opposition Republican People’s Party in the parliament. This anniversary began with jubilant celebrations from the NATO and AKP government front. NATO celebrated the anniversary of the acceptance of Turkey and Greece on its social media accounts. The Turkish Ministry of National Defense had the propaganda videos prepared for NATO – all too fittingly, given the US Legion of Merit awarded to Hulusi Akar, the Turkish minister of defense.
Remembering the Black Panthers in the Black History Month: inspirations, lessons, prospects – Part 2
The BPP’s remarkable discipline under greatest distress should be praised for at least three reasons. First, as we have remarked below, the greatest of unflinching discipline and finesse are required to combat the repressive organs of the reactionary bourgeois state.
Second, most Left groupings today are in great disarray precisely due to lack of discipline, while a minority of sects understand from discipline an unquestioned ideological and strategic purism. The Panthers’ combination of discipline with tactical flexibility, however, was what allowed them to grow exponentially in a short period of time. We shall talk more about this point below.
Уже больше месяца весь мир сотрясают новости о перспективе российско-украинской войны. Какой истерией кишат западные СМИ! Сценарии разные, но все они окрашены ассоциациями конца света: Россия начинает полномасштабную кибервойну против своего соседа, или российское вторжение в Украину, или полномасштабная оккупация Россией этой страны, или даже эта оккупация сопровождается сменой власти. с русским Квислингом, доставленным к власти по воздуху.
Bir aydan uzun bir süredir tüm dünya olası bir Rusya-Ukrayna savaşı haberleriyle çalkalanıyor. Batı basınında konuyla ilgili hezeyanlardan geçilmiyor! Bin bir türlü senaryo basında dolaşsa da hepsinde bir mahşer günü edası var: Rusya ya komşusuna karşı topyekûn bir siber-savaş başlatmak üzere, ya Ukrayna’ya karadan asker soktu sokacak, ya da Ukrayna’yı hepten işgal edecek. Böylesi bir işgalin bir Rus işbirlikçisi kukla iktidara yol açması bile söylentiler arasında.
Εδώ και πάνω από ένα μήνα ολόκληρος ο κόσμος συγκλονίζεται από ειδήσεις σχετικά με την προοπτική ενός πολέμου Ρωσίας-Ουκρανίας. Η υστερία επικρατεί στα δυτικά μέσα ενημέρωσης! Τα σενάρια ποικίλλουν, αλλά όλα είναι χρωματισμένα με συνειρμούς καταστροφής: Η Ρωσία αρχίζει έναν κυβερνοπόλεμο πλήρους κλίμακας εναντίον του γείτονά της ή μια εισβολή στην Ουκρανία ή μια πλήρους κλίμακας κατοχή της χώρας από τη Ρωσία ή, ακόμη, αυτή η κατοχή φέρεται να συνοδεύεται από καθεστωτική αλλαγής με κάποιον Ρώσο Κουίσλινγκ να εγκαθίσταται από τα πάνω στην εξουσία
For longer than a month the entire world has been rocked with news about the prospect of a Russia-Ukraine war. What hysteria the Western media is alive with! The scenarios vary, but all are tinged with doomsday associations: Russia starting a full-scale cyberwar on its neighbour or a Russian incursion into Ukraine or a full-scale occupation by Russia of that country or even that occupation being accompanied by a change of government with a Russian Quisling airlifted to power.
Depuis plus d'un mois, le monde entier est secoué par des informations sur la perspective d'une guerre Russie-Ukraine. Quelle hystérie dans les médias occidentaux ! Les scénarios varient, mais tous sont teintés d'associations apocalyptiques : La Russie déclenche une cyberguerre à grande échelle contre son voisin, ou une incursion russe en Ukraine, ou une occupation à grande échelle de ce pays par la Russie, ou même une occupation accompagnée d'un changement de gouvernement avec un Quisling russe porté au pouvoir par avion.
Artıq bir aydan çoxdur ki, bütün dünya Rusiya-Ukrayna müharibəsi ehtimalı ilə bağlı xəbərlərlə silkələnir. Qərb mediası bu məsələ ilə bağlı isteriyadadır! Ssenarilər müxtəlifdir, lakin bunların hamısında müəyyən bir məhşər günü nəzərdə tutulur: Rusiya ya qonşusuna qarşı geniş miqyaslı bir kibermüharibəyə başlamaq üzrədir, ya da Ukraynaya qoşun yeridəcək və ya Ukraynanı bütünlüklə işğal edəcək. Söz-söhbətlər arasında o da var ki, belə bir işğalı Rusiyaya meyilli bir marianet rejimin qurulması müşayiət edəcək.
Black History Month (BHM) arrives this year under quite exceptional conditions. The last year and a half has witnessed the parallel rise of the largest mass movement the United States has witnessed in decades and the fascist reaction. Immediately following the George Floyd popular revolt that swept across the country, fascist thugs flexed their muscles on a national scale for the first time on January 6th, 2021 with a putsch in Washington, DC. The old-school Democratic Party liberals captured power by riding on the exhaustion and frustration of the masses and the momentary disorientation in the Republican ranks following the January 6th debacle. Their moment of victory, however, lasted short, as they soon found out that they had no idea on how to handle the multi-layered social crisis in their hands
Les 25 et 26 décembre 1991 constituent un tournant dans l'histoire moderne. Ces jours-là ont vu la dissolution de l'Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (URSS), l'État né de la grande révolution d'octobre 1917. Hormis le règne éphémère de la Commune de Paris pendant 72 jours en 1871, il s'agit de la première révolution qui a aboli les relations capitalistes et a ainsi établi le premier État ouvrier. La situation mondiale tout au long du 20e siècle, non seulement en Russie mais aussi dans le monde entier, a été déterminée par l'existence de cet État, dont la position a été, du moins théoriquement, fortifiée par d'autres révolutions victorieuses pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Les noms sont importants. Commençons donc par nommer correctement la crise actuelle : La question n'est pas que la Russie menace l'Ukraine. La question est plutôt que la Russie a décidé de mettre un terme à la menace de l'impérialisme en dressant une barrière militaire contre la menace de l'OTAN. Cette barrière a été établie à la frontière avec l'Ukraine dans les circonstances actuelles. Elle aurait très bien pu être établie dans une autre localité dans des conditions différentes. Le problème n'est pas l'Ukraine : C'est la tension OTAN-Russie.
İstənilən bir məsələni necə adlandırmağımız olduqca əhəmiyyətlidir. Odur ki, ilk növbədə baş verən böhranın adını düzgün qoymalıyıq: burada söhbət Rusiyanın Ukraynanı təhdid etməsindən yox, Rusiyanın NATO əleyhinə hərbi baryerlə imperializm təhlükəsinin qarşısını almaq qərarına gəlməsindən gedir. Sözü gedən baryer hazırkı şəraitdə Ukrayna ilə sərhəddə təsadüfən qurulub. Yəni belə bir baryer müxtəlif şərtlər daxilində başqa bir ərazidə də qurula bilərdi. Məsələ Ukrayna deyil, NATO-Rusiya gərginliyidir.
Bir sorunu nasıl adlandırdığınız çok önemlidir. Yaşanmakta olan krizin adını doğru koyalım: Mesele Rusya’nın Ukrayna’yı tehdit etmesi değil. Mesele, Rusya’nın NATO’nun kendisini tehdit etmesine karşı bir askerî barajla emperyalizmin bu tehdidine “dur!” demesi. Bu baraj bugünün koşullarında Ukrayna sınırında kuruldu. Başka koşullarda başka bir coğrafyada kurulabilirdi. Konu Ukrayna değil. Konu NATO-Rusya gerilimi.
Naming matters. So let us start with correctly naming the current crisis: The question is not about Russia threatening Ukraine. Rather, the question is that Russia decided to put a stop to the threat of imperialism with a military barrier against NATO’s threat. This barrier happened to be established on the border with Ukraine under current circumstances. It could very well have been established in another locality under different conditions. The issue is not Ukraine: It is the NATO-Russia tension.
Qazaxıstan təzə ilə kütləvi etiraz aksiyaları ilə başladı. Yanvarın 2-də başlayan aksiyalar artıq ilk həftəsini başa vurarkən bir çox məsələ barədə hələ də dürüst məlumatlar əldə etmək mümkün deyil. Bununla belə, günbəgün toz-duman dağılır, hadisələrin başlıca cəhətləri aşkara çıxmağa başlayır. Biz də belə bir şəraitdə Qazaxıstan siyasətinin ən xırda təfərrüatları barədə məlumatlı olduğumuzu iddia etmədən ilkin hadisələrə və mümkün gedişata dair təəssüratlarımızı bölüşməyi mənalı hesab edirik.
Kazakistan yeni yıla büyük kitle eylemleri ile başladı. 2 Ocak’ta başlayan eylemler ilk haftasını doldurmak üzereyken, birçok konuda hala net bilgiler edinmek mümkün değil. Yine de her geçen gün toz duman biraz daha dağılıyor, bazı hatlar ortaya çıkmaya başlıyor. Biz de bu şartlarda, Kazakistan siyasetinin inceliklerine vâkıf olma iddiamız olmaksızın, ilk gelişmelere ve olası gidişata dair izlenimlerimizi paylaşmayı anlamlı buluyoruz.
Kazakhstan’s new year took off with mass protests. While the actions that started on January 2 are a week in, it is still not possible to obtain precise information on many issues. However, the fog of war disperses by the day, and the main lines of the episode start to emerge. In these circumstances, we find it meaningful to share our impressions of the first developments and possible course without claiming any expertise in the intricacies of Kazakhstan’s politics.
To the couriers and delivery workers of Greece, Europe and the whole world. To the international labour movement.
The Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece) fully endorses the announced international strike of the delivery workers called by the SVEOD rank-and-file union in Greece in cooperation with equivalent unions from Europe and other countries. The first international action of the delivery workers has been announced to take place on the 1st of May 2022. May Day, a global day of international and internationalist action by workers all over the world, has been set as a springboard to the international emergence of the demands and claims of the new proletariat.
The series of events of 6th January 2021 in the United States that culminated in the storming of Congress is, to refer to a metaphor Lenin used in an entirely different context, “a flash of lightning which threw more of a glare on reality than anything else.”
Exactly one year has passed since Trump’s fascist gangs have attempted to take over the Capitol in Washington, DC to prevent the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.
Though the putsch emerged as a flash of lighting seemingly out of thin air a mere nine days before the succession, it was in fact one of the most predictable political ruptures the United States had ever witnessed.
The American fascist movement is regaining the momentum in the aftermath of the 2020 elections and the abortive putsch on January 6th in Washington, DC at lightning speed. In stark contrast to the classical forms of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, today’s fascist movement is strengthening its grip on large sections of the working class. The gubernatorial elections in two East Coast states, Virginia and New Jersey, clearly demonstrate this horrifying fact.
Подведём итоги проведённого обзора величайших исторических прорывов, незабываемых подвигов, совершённых в ХХ веке коммунистами и трудящимися СССР и – по их примеру, после Второй мировой войны, - многих других стран, обзора огромных достижений в начатом движении по переходу к высшей фазе коммунизма и – попутно – немалых ошибок, теоретических и практических извращений, допущенных на этом пути. Негативы, увы, оказались сильнее и прервали развитие большинства социалистических проектов. Систематизация причин поражений станет естественным заключением очерка нашей драматической 74-летней истории.
We are proud to present to our readers Issue No. 4 (11) for 2021 of Советское Возрождение. Бюллетень Ассоциации «Советский Союз» or in English Soviet Renaissance. Bulletin of the Association “Soviet Union”.
Fakat 1991’de, Berlin Duvarı’nın yıkılmasının ve Orta ve Doğu Avrupa’daki tüm işçi devletlerinin çöküşünün hemen ardından, bu grubun hâlâ en gelişmişi ve temsilcisi olan Sovyet devleti dağıldı. Bunu, Asya’nın devleri Çin ve Vietnam’da kapitalizmin daha tedrici ve kontrollü restorasyonu izledi. Böylece, tüm dünya sahnesinin gidişatına damgasını vuran 20. yüzyılın sosyalist inşa deneyimi, iskambil kağıtlarından bir kule gibi devrildi.