Workers World Party's unconditional defense of Great Russian chauvinism against the oppressed Ukrainian nation continues. Again they liquidate the national question of the Ukrainians. Not even lip service is paid.
Can anyone imagine this party talking about the class struggle in the United States and not mentioning the oppressed Black nationality?
But for Workers World Party politics begin with support for any regime that for whatever temporary or episodic reason finds itself opposed to Washington's policies. They do not follow the class lines on these questions. Instead they promote a pragmatic geopolitics of "great powers."
This is not an academic question. Rather, it is the kind of unprincipled politics that led to workers and peasants to defeat in Indonesia in 1965. [Not to mention Germany in the early 1930s.] Workers, farmers and oppressed nationalities must rely on our own class forces, whatever the level of their leadership or consciousness. The Putins of the world will not defend us any more than the Assads, Obamas, or DeBlasios.
The Ukrainian national question was never "solved" for all time during the lifespan of the USSR. No wonder there are people in Ukraine willing to die for their oppressed nation and fight (with whatever illusions and whatever caliber of leadership) for its liberation, just like Kurds and Palestinians.
[Previous generations' communist leaders understood the social weight of the Ukrainian national question very well, as can be seen here and here.]
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