{"id":19779,"date":"2013-12-09T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19779"},"modified":"2013-12-09T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:11:33","slug":"as-pro-imperialists-besiege-ukraine-communists-warn-of-fascist-coup-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/12\/as-pro-imperialists-besiege-ukraine-communists-warn-of-fascist-coup-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"As pro-imperialists besiege Ukraine, Communists warn of fascist coup attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neo-Nazi thugs at the forefront of Ukrainian protests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By<\/span>\u00a0Greg Butterfield<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Communist Party of Ukraine has issued an urgent call for solidarity from the international workers\u2019 movement, warning that an attempted fascist coup is underway in the former Soviet republic.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the afternoon of Dec. 8, protesters in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, toppled\u00a0a statue of Soviet leader V.I. Lenin. The Svoboda (\u201cFreedom\u201d) party set up its flag and also the flag of the World War II\u00a0era Nazi collaboration regime on the pedestal. The group\u2019s leader, Oleg Tyagnibok, declared this\u00a0vandalism to be\u00a0the \u201cpolitical murder\u201d of communists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Protests began in Kiev on Nov.\u00a021, uniting various pro-Western opposition forces under the name \u201cEuromaidan,\u201d after the government of\u00a0Viktor Yanukovich\u00a0announced plans to delay agreements toward integrating Ukraine into the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yanukovich, who had strongly supported joining the EU, pulled back as European and U.S. officials poured on pressure to undermine the sovereignty of Ukraine\u2019s bourgeois government. This pressure included extremely harsh terms for an International Monetary Fund loan.<\/span><\/p>\n

While\u00a0the numbers have been exaggerated in\u00a0Western media reports, the pro-imperialist protests have grown and undertaken numerous provocations \u2014\u00a0including ramming a government building with a bulldozer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Svoboda group plays a leading role in the protest movement. Party leader Oleg Tyagnibok, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, has built his political career on appeals to anti-Russia nationalism and anti-Semitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the destruction of the Lenin monument, Anatoli\u00a0Sokoliuk, head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Communist Party of Ukraine, reported: \u201cAt 19:00 Kiev time, crowds of opposition in the city center are saying that their next target will be the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich. They are calling for the arrest of the Ukrainian government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fascists have also called for the destruction of the Communist Party of Ukraine office and expressed a desire to kill all of our workers,\u201d said Sokoliuk. \u201cThat is why I and my comrades will defend our headquarters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The German daily Junge Welt reported Dec.\u00a09 that the Ukrainian government had\u00a0begun raids against organizations involved in the Euromaidan movement. It is unclear what impact these steps will have on quelling the U.S.\/European-backed forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-war and solidarity activists in the U.S. must be on alert to respond to further provocations by the West and by fascists inside Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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