February 27, 2022
Proletarians of all
countries, unite!
RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS
OUT OF UKRAINE! SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE!
On the 23rd of this month and year, at 5 o’clock in the morning, air, sea
and land troops of the Russian army in a lightning operation have penetrated
into the territory of Ukraine and started their imperialist war of aggression
against the country, today in their advance they are at the gates of the
capital Kiev with the open purpose to overthrow the government of the country
and to establish a puppet administration on all state levels and to impose the
“demilitarisation” of the country, that is to put it under a protectorate of
the army of the Russian imperialist state.
It might come as a surprise to some, that this war of aggression and
occupation of the country by the Russian imperialist atomic superpower took
place now when this atomic superpower and the sole hegemonic imperialist
superpower, Yankee imperialism, as part of the development of their
contradiction in collusion and struggle, had returned to the negotiating table
to discuss a general agreement on strategic arms and other problems of
“security” and, among these, on the expansion of the imperialist NATO alliance
to the countries that formerly belonged to the so-called “Warsaw Pact”, the
former semi-colonies of Soviet social-imperialism.
However, it is not a surprise, if one takes into account that since the end
of January the Yankee imperialists had made it public that Russian imperialism
was going to invade Ukraine regardless and that that was the purpose of the
concentration of more than one hundred thousand soldiers on the common border
of Russia with Ukraine, calling afterwards for all its diplomatic personnel,
citizens, etc. to leave Ukraine immediately and that, a few days before the
Russian attack, the genocidal president Biden and other senior representatives
of the Yankee imperialism and its instrument NATO had categorically declared
that “NATO will not allow Russia to touch a single piece of land of any NATO
member country”, which they
repeated on every occasion and that in case Russia invades Ukraine, the
harshest economic sanctions will be imposed on it. It is well known that
Ukraine is not a NATO or EU member. It was an oblique message, with which they
sent a clear message that the Yankee imperialists would not risk any direct
clashes with the Russian imperialists, thus giving the Russian imperialists
carte blanche to unleash their war of aggression against Ukraine. The Yankee
imperialists have seen their opportunity to take advantage of the desperate
situation of Putin and the Russian imperialists to ease the way for them to
engage in a war of occupation which they hope will have very similar
consequences for the Russian imperialists as Afghanistan had for the Soviet
social-imperialists.
The above facts confirm that the main contradiction in the world is
oppressed nations – superpowers and imperialist powers, against all the attacks
by revisionists of all stripes who deny the main contradiction in order to deny
and attack the definition of Maoism. This oppressed nations-imperialism
contradiction remains and will remain in perspective whatever the circumstances
that could have repercussions by postponing it temporarily and then becoming
the main contradiction again.
The fact that this war of imperialist aggression is taking place in Eastern
Europe does not deny the importance of the oppressed nations, it might
disorientate that Ukraine is in Europe, but it is one of the countries that
were semi-colonies of the USSR. In those countries, no revolutions have taken
place, but imperialist rebellion and revisionist decomposition which gave room
for bourgeois rampage, for capitalist rampage, thus passing from one hand to
another.
In the specific case of Ukraine, it temporarily came under the
semi-colonial domination mainly of Russian imperialism, to whom it handed over
its atomic weapons in 1993 in exchange for protecting its security. Then in
this century the US, German, French and other imperialists in collusion and
struggle began to shake the floor under the dominant pro-Russian regime in the
country and there came the so-called “colour revolution”, then the
re-establishment of the pro-Russian regime and later the “Maidan revolution”,
through the indirect intervention of these imperialists using the so-called
“low intensity warfare”, which brought about the change of regime to the one
made up of different groups of the big bourgeoisie dependent on various foreign
masters such as the current servant of the Yankees Volodymir Zelensky (since
2019).
In short, Russia ceased to be the main imperialist country oppressing
Ukraine and yankee imperialism, in collusion and struggle with other
imperialist countries, became the main imperialist oppressor of that
semi-colony. In the face of this came the direct and indirect aggression
(hybrid war) of Russian imperialism in 2014 with the occupation of Crimea, the
establishment of two Russian protectorates in the Lower Don and the rest of the
country remained as a zone of influence of U.S. imperialism and others.
Now, with its war of aggression Russian imperialism seeks to re-establish
its rule, but no longer as semi-colonial but with a colonial character. This is
yet to be defined at the present time.
Ukraine, an oppressed country, is the spoils of the imperialist dispute.
Therefore in this situation there is being expressed not only the main
contradiction but also the contradiction between the sole hegemonic imperialist
superpower, Yankee imperialism (the fat dog) and the Russian atomic superpower
(the skinny dog), with an economy the size of that of Belgium, and the
contradictions, which are also developing in collusion and struggle, of each of
these with the other imperialist powers such as Germany, France, etc. We refer
to Chairman Mao’s quote on the Suez Canal incident in 1956 (see Chairman Mao’s
speech of January 27, 1957).
These problems that we see since the beginning of the 90’s of the last
century in Europe, unfortunately not in movement of the class or the people,
but to pass from the hands of one imperialist to another, are pushing back
borders to how they were before World War II and are stirring up nationalism.
All this confirms what Chairman Gonzalo said about Germany after reunification,
that from what was foreseen and is confirmed by all these events, its
transition to superpower as they dream of, was not going to be easy. These
developments from the 1990s to the present, these situations break the balances
derived from World War II.
What is it up to the Ukrainian people to do? Liberation struggle against
mainly Russian imperialism, protracted war; it lacks of its political
leadership but the Ukrainian proletariat and people have long experience of
struggle, they have made the socialist revolution led by the great Lenin, they
have defeated the Nazi invasion as part of the Soviet people and the Red Army
in the Great Patriotic War led by comrade Stalin, so they will generate their
political leadership, reconstitute their Communist Party as a militarized
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, in the midst of the armed guerrilla struggle
against the invader developing war of resistance, war of national liberation as
befits the revolution in an oppressed nation.
Chairman Mao calls us to:
Unite to overthrow imperialism, revisionism and world
reaction, this is fully valid today. Let us march firmly and surely to
the Unified Maoist International Conference to extend the birth certificate to
the new international organization of the proletariat.
As long as there is exploitation on Earth there will not be a new world,
therefore the problem is to destroy imperialism, revisionism and reaction, all
systems of exploitation, and necessarily socialism will be built. It is enough
to see the socialist experiences lived, in a few decades they swept away
centuries of exploitation, obviously not totally and completely because time
was lacking, but how was it that countries as backward as China or the USSR
became a power or superpower. Only socialism is capable of developing the
forces constrained by imperialism, revisionism and world reaction. Another
thing is that in those processes they have been restored and have become
revisionist, that they have shamelessly developed capitalism; it is because
they abandoned Marxism, because they restored capitalism, it was because they
abandoned the building of socialism, but there too the revolution will arise
and socialism will be developed again.
As Chairman Gonzalo said: All of this further strengthens the main
contradiction and leads us to reaffirm that the oppressed nations are the basis
of the revolution as the main tendency in the world. I insist, to see that
tendency as a historical tendency, as a political tendency and as an
understanding that opens the way for the transforming action of the communists
to achieve its clearer expression. It reaffirms, in synthesis, that the
oppressed nations are the basis of the revolution as the main tendency of
history.
RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS OUT OF UKRAINE! LET US SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE!
PERU PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT
February 2022
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