Joint statement of the Communist Party and the Workers' Party (on the war in Ukraine)

July 6, 2022 

– LPR (Luhansk) Communist Workers’ Organization (KRO LPR)

– Donbas Workers’ Front (DPR)

– Ukrainian Communist Party

– Ukrainian Workers’ Front

It has been four months since the publicly declared military operation of Russian and Donbas Republic troops against the Nazi regime in Ukraine began. And the war against the Kyiv Nazi rebel republics, the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LPR (Rhansk), has actually been going on since 2014 and stopped until early 2022. For the lives of about 15,000 people, it turns out that it is a very difficult task to accurately diagnose the true cause of the tragedy that we all experience with outwardly observable symptoms. The disagreement sparked much debate, with some parties even reaching the opposite conclusion.

In our analysis today, we can use information about the actual behavior of warring parties, allies and partners, the consequences of these actions, and the mood of people in warring countries and other countries of the world. This, figuratively speaking, can be compared to clarifying the diagnosis after the start of surgery. An abscess was opened. What causes an abscess? How dangerous is pathology? Has the infection of the blood and the spread of the disease to other organs have begun? Are surgical interventions and follow-up treatment plans selected correctly? And what are the prospects?

The first thing that catches your eye is the difference in warfare. The Russian and Donbass armies act extremely deliberately against an armed adversary by doing everything possible to avoid direct damage to civilians pointed out by the Russian and foreign media, the Kyiv regime's armies use the opposite tactic. They hide behind civilians with human shields. They take people hostage, for example, in Mariupol of the Azovstal plant. Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), primarily artillery, are deployed throughout residential areas, where they fire at enemies in the hope that the Russians will not shoot at houses with people.

Secondly, the long-range artillery fire of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, repeatedly reinforced and regularly deployed, bombardment of Donbass and residential areas, in particular the city of Donetsk. It is not uncommon for Ukrainian troops to bombard their territories to blame the enemy for these crimes. Purely peaceful people suffer and die every day.

Third, Ukrainian Armed Forces representatives are planning and attempting various destructive actions to cause multiple large-scale disasters in high-risk industrial facilities ranging from gas processing and chemical plants to nuclear power plants. Minimize casualties and blame the enemy.

Fourth, nationalist units with Nazi symbols and corresponding slogans exposed in their actions against civilians are particularly cruel. These people feel themselves fascists and in this way they openly expose themselves to the world.

Fifth, the attitudes of the warring parties toward prisoners of war are completely different. Against them, the norms of the Geneva Conventions is being carried out by the armed forces of Russia and the Donbass. At the same time, we hear candid calls from Ukrainian officials to maim prisoners of war, and we watch videos on Ukrainian TV channels where the Nazis deal in sadistic ways with wounded or captured soldiers of the Russian Federation and especially of  Donbass.

Sixth; nearly 24 countries, including the existing militant coalition led by the United States aids; Heavy and medium-range missile systems, tanks and armored vehicles. The amount of such “aid” is already in the hundreds of billions of dollars and continues to grow.

Seventh, in Ukraine, the Nazi regime is actively using foreign mercenaries from all over the world. The main stream of this moral waste went from Poland, Romania, England, Canada, Georgia and the United States to Ukraine. More than 2000 of these thugs have already come to an end in Donbass and the lands of Ukraine.

Eighth, from the mouths of Kyiv's demon-infested politicians and some of their Western partners are wishes and proposals for Ukraine's nuclear weapons acquisition. Thus, a similar extravagant and provocative idea of ​​the need to one day conduct a nuclear retaliatory strike on a decision-making center can sometimes be heard on the lips of Russian publicists and politicians.

Ninth, voices are already being heard openly in propaganda from both camps of the fighting party (Russia-NATO), and I think they have successfully combined the situation to bite Ukraine or parts of Russia themselves. In Poland, some circles dream of Transcarpathia and Western Ukraine. There are people in Russia trying to solve the problem of historical land return. In the EU, some are questioning the need to separate the Kaliningrad region from the Russian Federation. This are signs that the situation is likely to escalate into a much larger war.

Tenth, on both sides at war (Russia and Ukraine), even in concentration camps (Russia has an ally, Ukraine has NATO), in different ways, anti-communism and so-called official post-communism are clearly on the rise. Since anti-communism is an inalienable feature of fascism, we must address the growing risk of fascism on both sides of the world and in the world as a whole.

Eleventh, the end of the ongoing war is not visible from either side. Western partners are pushing the Ukrainian regime to the end (“To the last Ukrainian”). Russian authorities do not have specific plans for how to achieve demilitarization and demilitarization by establishing a stable order in a vast territory inhabited by millions. Yes, from the very beginning, these goals were most likely declared more than executed.

From all of the above, the following conclusions can be drawn:

– Wars are imperialist in nature, driven by the competition between the largest imperialist forces led by the United States for world domination and the desire to curb the growing forces of Russian imperialism backed by Belarus, partly China and other allies. Undoubtedly, the driving force behind the war is the new and particularly serious crisis of the economic crisis of the global capitalist system that is being experienced.

– The war for the people of the Republic of Donbass has a fair and liberating character.

– For Russia, war is imperialist, but defensive in nature and protects against NATO threats. Naturally, the Russian state defends the interests of the ruling class, the large bourgeoisie.

– Overtly fascist forces are active in Ukraine, led and supported by the West, and are in fact already at war with Ukraine at the hands of Russia.

– Today, NATO countries, led by the United States, are in fact pursuing fascist diplomacy. Not only do they supply Ukraine with weapons, they also supply weapons and encourage and help fascists kill people. In other words, the West itself today reveals an overtly fascist nature.

– The Communist and Labor Parties of the world and above all the belligerents and their sympathizers, including NATO, must explain this situation to the workers of their own countries. Undoubtedly, the joint efforts of all parties should aim to suppress fascism in Ukraine and the foreign policy of the United States and its allies. This is largely a struggle to prevent the possibility of the conflict escalating into World War III.

– Communists in Russia, Ukraine, Donbass, Belarus and their allies should support actions to suppress fascism and liberate Donbass and Ukraine from fascism, but at the same time of Russian and Ukrainian capitalism-in the development of such tragic events in the USSR a counter-revolution that took place (don't overlook the fact that there is).

– Communists in all countries must promote and organize the struggle for socialism together as the only way to destroy fascism and create a world without war.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!