عکس- ابتدا طرفداران حزب کمونیست (استالینیستهای طرفدار
روسیه) به مردم در پناه پلیس تیر اندازی کردند.
برای بزرگنمایی روی عکس کلیک کنیم.
Photo: Pro-Russian
paramilitaries firing shots behind the defensive line of riot police
فیلم نجات کارگران از ساختمان اتحادیه توسط معترضان
به حکومت سابق (طرفدار روسیه)
Video: Civilians from
“Euromaidan” crowd attempt to rescue people from the burning Trade Union house.
بیانیه ی آنارشیستها در زیربرای خواندن بیانیه به زبان فرانسه روی تیتر زیر کلیک کنیم.
Ni dieux, ni maîtres, ni nations, ni frontières !
Syndicat autonome des travailleurs - Kiev
(syndicaliste révolutionnaire)
More than
40 people were killed and nearly 200 were wounded in the tragic clash of
right-wing combatants in Odessa on May 2: football hooligans and
Euromaidan self-defence on the one side; Stalinists, pro-Russian paramilitaries
and local police force on the other.
It started
as a belligerent mob, comprised of men with “St. George’s ribbons” and red
armbands (such armbands were also spotted on some police officers), wielding
clubs and firearms, approached the march “for united Ukraine” which was made up
of right-wing football hooligans joined by a large crowd of civilian people. As
fighting began between the sides, the riot police provided cover to the
attackers and cooperated with them. 4 people were killed. It is noteworthy that
in the previous days the Antimaidan protesters had repeatedly marched along the
centre of Odessa and never met any physical counteraction either from their political
opponents or the police.
Photo:
Pro-Russian paramilitaries firing shots behind the defensive line of riot
police / credit: napaki.livejournal.com
Civilian
“pro-Ukrainian” crowd didn’t disperse after the shootings; enraged, they
started the counterattack. As the fighting became sufficiently intense, some of
pro-Russian combatants withdrew to the Afina trading center, which was then
blocked by the police. The crowd, incited by hooligans, followed the other part
of the attackers and proceeded to rout the Antimaidan camp, located near the
Trade Union house. The Antimaidan protesters fled to that building and then the
entrances were barricaded. It should also be noted that Alexey Albu, leader of
Stalinist Borotba organization, personally urged protesters to come inside the
blocked building, although never joined them himself. We see this as a proof
enough to any left or anarchist organization in the world to sever any ties,
either financial or informational, with this organization. By sending them
money you would fund the civil war; by spreading their statements and
supporting them morally you would contribute to their war propaganda.
Violence
continued, as Euromaidan crowd surrounded the Trade Union house and combatants
from both sides fired shots and hurled Molotov cocktails both to and fro the
roof of the building. At this moment is still unclear which factor contributed
the most to the fire, which burned some and suffocated others to death.
Video:
Civilians from “Euromaidan” crowd attempt to rescue people from the burning
Trade Union house
Майдановцы спасают сепаратистов из огня
We are sure
that the violence of right-wing hooligans was the integral part of this
tragedy. However, it is clear that this violence was planned for and counted
on. The people who should also be held responsible are the pro-Russian
instigators and the local police, who supported them.
Members of
AWU wish to express their deepest mourning for the victims. They fell prey to
the interests of the forces that consistently try to instigate a civil war in Ukraine. Sadly, large parts of the working
class are disoriented and serve as merely blind puppets in the hands of such
forces, giving their lives for utterly stupid and meaningless things and ideas.
The immediate effect of the escalation of this tragically pointless conflict is
the split of the working class in Ukraine. While some workers are threatening
with a political strike in support of the Antimaidan, several members of the
(pro-Maidan) Confederation of Free Trade Unions are being kidnapped by
Antimaidan forces. Instead of taking a united stance against the neoliberal
policies of the government, proletarians are busy fighting each other for the interests
of various bourgeois cliques.
The final
result of such policies will be a civil war in Ukraine, which will mean an ultimate
catastrophe for the working class. We are not pacifists and will be at the side
of the working class whenever it fights against the bourgeoisie, no matter what
forms this fight takes — but this is not the case in Ukraine nowadays. The
disoriented and weak proletariat will be busy engaging in self-destruction; the
outcomes will be drastic fall of life standards, rise of unemployment and
criminal activities, and loss of huge number of lives. All prospects of
working-class self-organization and mobilization will be buried for some time.
We can see
that this scenario is being pushed forward by the alliance of various
right-wing groups, nazis, conservatives and Stalinists. It is important to
understand that Antimaidan cannot be considered a “working-class social
protest”: the typical demands of this movement in various towns are dictated by
the most reactionary clerical conservatives (abolition of electronic IDs
because they include “the Number of the Beast”; banning of vaccination; etc.)
and have little to do with the interests of workers.
On the
other hand, we are disgusted by the reaction of the right-liberal and patriotic
general public which takes delight in the Odessa deaths. However wrong the killed
people might have been, they shouldn’t have died in this brutish accident. As
Ukrainian workers side with various warring right-wing movements, they are
sliding further from socialism to barbarism. The cure is well-known: we should
realize our own class interests, organize at workplaces and direct our rage
against the real enemy, not at each other. In days like these global workers’
solidarity means very much. The global working class is doomed to eliminate
itself: either in the process of social revolution and construction of a
classless society or in the process of a barbaric all-out war.
No gods, no
masters, no nations, no borders!
Autonomous Workers’ Union – Kiev
5 May 2014
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