On Feb. 24, the anti-fascist Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, together with the Russian Federation, launched a military action with the goal of “demilitarization and denazification” of the U.S./NATO coup regime in Kiev. Following are links to reports and analysis that give an understanding of the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine.
Victory to the anti-fascist forces of Donbass and their allies! U.S./NATO hands off Russia!
Socialist Unity Party / Partido de Socialismo Unido statement on the military conflict in Ukraine
Comunicado del Partido de Socialismo Unido sobre el conflicto militar en Ucrania
Looking behind the headlines
Why Russia recognized the Donbass republics
In order to have a clear anti-war, anti-imperialist position today, class-conscious workers need to understand the significance of the Russian Federation’s Feb. 21 decision to recognize the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent, sovereign countries, nearly eight years after they first declared independence from Ukraine.
‘Cut through wall of imperialist propaganda’ on Ukraine
The situation in Eastern Europe today was created by the U.S. and NATO, which bear full responsibility for the military conflict unfolding in Ukraine. Ukraine and its Western sponsors spent the last seven years sabotaging the 2015 Minsk II agreements meant to end Kiev’s attacks on the people of the Donbass region. Washington and Kiev spent the last three months preparing an invasion of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as a means to draw Russia into a war.
Former NATO military analyst exposes West’s Ukraine invasion narrative
In his speech on Feb. 24, Vladimir Putin stated the two objectives of his operation: to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine. It is therefore not a question of seizing Ukraine, nor even, in all likelihood, of occupying it and certainly not of destroying it.
Pentagon mania 1992: Bush disowns but won’t denounce plan for world domination
On March 8, 1992, the New York Times published excerpts from a 46-page secret Pentagon draft document that it said was leaked by Pentagon officials. This document is truly extraordinary. It asserts complete U.S. world domination in both political and military terms. In other words, the U.S. is to be the sole and exclusive superpower on the face of the planet. It is to exercise its power not only in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, but also on the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Ukraine: It was all written in the Rand Corp plan
The strategic plan of the United States against Russia was elaborated three years ago by the Rand Corporation.
Why Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law
One must begin this discussion by accepting the fact that there was already a war happening in Ukraine for the eight years preceding the Russian military incursion in February 2022. And, this war by the government in Kiev against the Russian-speaking peoples of the Donbass – a war which claimed the lives of around 14,000 people, many of them children, and displaced around 1.5 million more even before Russia’s military operation – has been arguably genocidal. That is, the government in Kiev, and especially its neo-Nazi battalions, carried out attacks against these peoples with the intention of destroying, at least in part, the ethnic Russians precisely because of their ethnicity.
On Ukraine
Fact-finding trip to Donbass: A front-line shelter in Rubizhne
Struggle-La Lucha’s John Parker reports from the Lugansk People’s Republic, on the front line of the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine. Parker interviewed Donbass residents who’ve lived under eight years of Ukrainian bombing and occupation, bearing witness to war crimes committed by Ukraine in the name of NATO expansion. Parker traveling alongside Ukrainian activists forced into exile after the U.S.-backed Maidan coup in 2014.
Voices from Donbass speak to U.S. anti-war movement
On March 27, the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called “Stop the War Lies: Voices from Donbass.” This was a unique opportunity for the U.S. anti-war movement to hear directly from people in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), whose voices are silenced by the Western mass media’s pro-Ukraine war propaganda.
Mariupol and Donetsk: a tale of two cities
The U.S. and other Western media mostly ignored Mariupol for the eight years it was under fascist occupation. They couldn’t have cared less for the workers and political activists who had to live under the thumb of the Azov Battalion and Ukrainian security forces.
Imperialist propaganda and Ukrainian Jews
The history of Ukrainian nationalist collaboration with Nazi Germany and the present alliance between the Kiev government and neo-Nazis.
Ukrainian security services arrest young communist leaders
The March 6 arrest of Aleksandr Kononovich and Mikhail Kononovich, leaders of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine, has been condemned by the World Federation of Democratic Youth and other progressive organizations.
Ukrainian authorities unleash witch hunt
The Ukrainian authorities, being in a state of shock and fearing for their fate, organized a widespread witch hunt. Every day in the territories controlled by Kiev, there are detentions, abductions and torture of political activists and civilians who disagree with the policies of the central government.
Ukrainian secret service and neo-nazis abduct left-wing activist in Dnipro
Around noon on March 3, five persons forced their way into the apartment of 31-year-old hotel clerk Alexander Matyushenko and his partner Maria M. in Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk). Matyushenko is an anti-fascist and a member of Livitsya (Left), an alliance founded by activists from various social movements in Dnipro two years ago.
Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: U.S. is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’
Yuliy Dubovyk: I am a Ukrainian-American. I grew up and spent over half of my life in Ukraine, although now I live in the United States. I wanted to explain my thoughts on the ongoing crisis with Russia, because mainstream corporate media outlets don’t ever share perspectives like mine.
The Ukrainians that aren’t mentioned
The corporate media claim that all Ukrainians support President Zelensky, who has banned most political parties except his own and the far-right. These news outlets also whitewash the fascist gangs―integrated into the Ukrainian army―that engage in torture.
Blackwater is in the Donbass with the Azov Battalion
Understanding Ukrainian Nazism
Pentagon + NATO = war
NATO military expansion to target Russia and China, says top official
NATO formally launched a 40,000-strong rapid response force targeting Russia in February. This was in addition to the 175,000 NATO troops already on Russia’s border. NATO has expanded from 16 countries to 30. NATO expansion technically means that the member-nation’s armed forces are “integrated” into the NATO military command. NATO takes command, with the U.S. dominating. No NATO member-state can act without U.S. approval.
Graphic: 31-year history of NATO absorbing, arming Ukraine
Ukraine: NATO launched its attack eight years ago
A short history of NATO eastward expansion and the current tensions in Europe
The danger of a world ruled by NATO: Interview with Ángeles Maestro
NATO is not a defensive international organization but was founded to threaten the USSR
U.S./NATO real culprits in Ukraine crisis
War propaganda
Refuting lies about “Bucha atrocities” by Russian military
A century of lies for war, about Russia
The vast international network in charge of Ukrainian war propaganda
Fact sheet
No to U.S./NATO war: Here are the facts!
Statements
John Parker (Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido): Stop NATO! No war on Russia and Donbass
John Parker (Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido): ‘We must remain on the correct side of history’
Lenin and imperialism
For socialists, the fundamental understanding of imperialism goes back to World War I and is found in the pamphlet written by V.I. Lenin, “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.”
Lenin: How to oppose an unjust war
The Leninist view of how to fight against imperialist war remains one of the most controversial and defining characteristics of the communist movement, because it means standing up to the capitalist class at the moment its fangs are bared.
Ukraine and the Bolshevik Revolution
Gay communist on Russia, fascism and USSR’s legacy
War economy
Washington’s economic war on Russia (and Germany)
The U.S./NATO proxy war isn’t about Ukraine. The U.S. aims to sever the deepening economic integration between the EU (particularly Germany) and Russia, restoring U.S. dominance over Europe.
Biden gives Big Oil a win, gas prices going up
U.S. spends billions on war in Ukraine and working class pays the price
Who benefits from the crisis in Ukraine?
Ukraine ‘aid’: Congress pays off military-industrial capitalists
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