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Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 Now that the forces of resistance have fought the stormtroopers of the fascist junta to a standstill, obliging Kiev to moderate its warmongering bluster and creep to the negotiating table in Minsk, it is more than ever urgent for us to stand in solidarity with the people of Donetsk and Lugansk. It is their inspiring courage and endurance, reinforced by the diplomatic firmness of Russia, that has humbled the junta and created, at the least, the possibility of a just political solution of a crisis that has, from the first, been provoked by imperialism. Back in February when the elected government of President Yanukovich was overturned in a violent putsch which installed a fascist junta acting as a catspaw for NATO expansion, the people of Crimea re...

Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 The “freedom-loving democrats” currently hijacking the apparatus of state in Kiev have given further testimony to their commitment to “our shared values” by holding a parliamentary election on 26 October that flies in the face of all legal and constitutional norms. Under the constitution, members of the Ukraine Rada (or parliament) are elected for a five-year term of office. Since this last happened in October 2012, no general election is due until 2017. However in August Poroshenko dismissed the Rada, in contemptuous disregard of the constitution. Poroshenko’s mouthpiece, Tsegolko, excused this act of dictatorship on the curious grounds that the majority of MPs had previously voted for “dictator-style laws,” and called on “democratic forces” in ...

Reports coming through from the south and east of Ukraine suggest that, despite the considerable material superiority of the Kiev junta’s military equipment, wild boasts that the resistance struggle is all-but “mopped up” reflect a good deal of wishful thinking on the part of the usurpers and their backers in the West. Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 The resistance stands firm Donetsk, a city of about a million people, is no pushover. It has been able to repel Poroshenko’s forces which had been advancing on the west of Donetsk. The local news agency Novorossiya reported on 5 August that self-defence forces were driving back the enemy and continued to control the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and Yasinovataya. The partisans were able to restore relative calm once the...

Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 For Washington, everything is going according to plan in Ukraine – except that nothing is going according to plan. Geeing up another “colour revolution” on the borders of Russia in the hope of pulling Ukraine into the EU/NATO bloc seemed to fit perfectly with the long term goals of isolating and weakening Russia and China, neutralising their combined clout in world affairs and removing a major obstacle to Washington’s hegemonic stranglehold on shrinking world markets. There was nothing random about the decision to help stage a fascist provocation on Russia’s borders, any more than there is anything random about the nuclear missiles encircling Russia or the US navy infesting the Pacific. This is all according to plan. Yet by acting in a blind p...

If the West ever believed that cultivating a fascist provocation on the borders of the Russian Federation would somehow compensate for the failure of its proxy war against Syria, the events currently unfolding in the Ukraine are teaching a very different lesson. Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 The wars of national oppression waged by the West against such countries as Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and (via proxies) Syria in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union stand like so many milestones on the road to a much greater conflict, as crisis-stricken imperialism nerves itself up to direct its reckless aggression against Russia and China. The fascist coup in Kiev, brazenly engineered by imperialism, was in essence the first blow in that yet-to-be declared war. ...

Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 Since this article was written, the tide of violence has surged ever higher, culminating in the fascist coup the world is now witnessing. As we go to press the fascist coup engineered by the West in the Ukraine is now in full cry, with the ousted President Yanukovych the object of a manhunt, the governing party’s MPs terrorised out of parliament, a quisling “president” and puppet “government” issuing illegal decrees and ethnic Russians and others living in fear of sectarian pogroms. In the Crimea armed militia are now protecting parliament from the threat of assault, as the legislators discuss holding a referendum over extending the region’s semi-autonomous status. In Sevastopol a public meeting estimated at 25,000 strong rallied against fascism, un...

In their haste to secure a new East European dumping ground for the West’s surplus commodities, manipulate the European energy market, undermine Russia’s economy and impose upon an independent country a political leadership tied to an imperialist agenda, the EU and the IMF have unleashed a political storm in the Ukraine which they will come to regret. Posted by: John Phoenix 2014 Kiev reluctant to dance to the IMF’s tune Ukraine’s surprise decision to hold back for the moment on signing up to what has been billed as a “historic” agreement to expand a free trade zone between the Ukraine and the EU has stunned the West, throwing all its calculations into disarray. What was supposed to be a crowning moment of imperialist diplomacy, with Kiev taking a decisive step down a sli...