FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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The Minsk Agreement is but a lull in a war waged by proxies between the US and Russia. The US and its allies finance, train and arm the Kiev military fighting the pro-Russian rebels. The Russians have done likewise for their supporters in Eastern Ukraine.
This war is slaughtering thousands of civilians and soldiers and displacing almost two million civilians. But it is just a skirmish in the bigger struggle between US imperialism and its main imperialist rivals, China and Russia, for world domination. The US must constrain and eventually confront Russia in Europe and China in Asia Pacific.
A resurgent Russia, aggressively trying to reassert its influence over its post-Soviet space poses a major threat to US imperialism, whose goal since its early days as a rising imperialist power has been, “to not allow any state to amass too much power in Europe… The most dangerous potential alliance, from the perspective of the United States, was considered to be an alliance between Russia and Germany.” (Stratfor’s George Friedman from US-Russia.org 01-17-2015)
Therefore, the US bosses have two main objectives in the Ukraine. One is to induct Ukraine into an alliance with the West. The other is to drive a wedge between Russia and Europe – especially Germany- to prevent a German-Russian alliance, and even more terrifying for them, a German-Russian-China axis.
Putin’s annexation of Crimea and support of the Eastern Ukrainian rebels is a reaction to the first objective. Russian rulers realized that in the short term the US wants Ukraine as part of a line against Russian expansion into its post-Soviet space.
In the long term, they understand it is for war: if the West succeeds in dominating Ukraine, Russia will become indefensible. This would leave Russia wide open to US and allied forces that could be stationed less than 350 miles from Moscow. This is unacceptable to the Russian imperialists.
So far the US has failed on both counts. Ukraine is still and will remain for the foreseeable future a bone of contention. The fact that the French President and German Premier participated in brokering the Minsk Agreement, without the US involved, indicates that these European imperialists are questioning their US alliance.
Whether the Minsk Agreement holds up or not, it can at best slow, and more likely accelerate, but will never stop these butchers’ drive toward greater and more lethal wars and World War III.
Peace under capitalism is impossible. Its dog-eat-dog competition inevitably leads to war. The only way to end capitalist-imperialist wars is to end capitalism-imperialism and build a communist society worldwide.
Many workers abhor the horrors of war. Many agree that working and sharing collectively the product of our labor - without bosses, money, racism, sexism, and borders to divide us and pit us against each other – sounds fantastic.
“But,” they say, “The capitalists-imperialists are so rich and powerful. How can we do it?”
In appearance they seem invincible, but in essence they are very vulnerable. We, on the other hand, may seem weak but in essence we are very powerful. We are actually the most powerful force in history.
The bosses’ wealth and military might depends on us. If we refuse to work, their whole industrial base grinds to a stop. Nothing moves without our labor power. All their money will not get one single machine to run.
When the soldiers, sailors and Marines in the armed forces refuse to obey their superiors and join forces with a revolutionary working class and turn the guns around – the bosses will be history.
Our task is to transform ourselves into a revolutionary force in order to make the communist revolution we need. For that we need communist organization and ideology. We can only get both by joining the International Workers’ Party,
Let’s fight capitalist ideology among our class by distributing Red Flag among our friends and family at work, school and in the military.