Russia on 24 February launched a “special operation” in Donbass aimed at protecting Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), which were recognised as independent entities by Moscow on 21 February. The Western media called the operation “an invasion” they have long warned about.
The “Russia invasion” narrative wasn’t the West’s “prophecy” but rather a cover-up for a new attempt to return the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk republics by force to Ukraine, according to George Eliason, an American investigative journalist who lives and works in Donbass. Bringing back Donbass would have paved the way for Ukraine’s NATO membership: in accordance with the alliance’s rules, a country having territorial disputes cannot be admitted to the bloc.
“First of all, Zelensky ordered the attack during a speech a few weeks ago,” Eliason says. “He made it very clear Ukraine’s buildup was for that purpose.”
By December 2021, the Kiev government had amassed up to 125,000 troops along the contact line with the Donbass republics. At the same time, OSCE reported more frequent use of heavy weapons, prohibited under the Minsk Agreements, by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the breakaway regions.
The Western smoke-and-mirrors media campaign speculating about Russia’s “imminent invasion” began in spring 2021, according to the investigative journalist. The mainstream press claimed that Russia was about to invade Ukraine.
“This is a huge breach in what constitutes a fact in the media. Published satellite images of Russian army positions accompanying these news reports showed the Russian army on bases over a day’s travel away.
In real terms this translated into 160 miles to 460 miles from the border,” says Eliason, stressing that the Russian army could hardly launch a surprise land attack from these positions.
Ukrainian service members are seen on the front line near the village of Zaitseve in the Donetsk region, Ukraine February 19, 2022
Another battle won. Let’s keep marching and pushing to get our stolen rights and freedoms back
Good news, we have a date for revocation: 15TH MARCH
Really good response to the consultation– approx 90,000 responded, 96% participants responded to revoke the mandate with 84% HCPs supporting to revoke the mandate.
Further details of the analysis is in the official government website below. Good work team, we are on the way there!
In good news of this, those in the care sector who lost their jobs due to these mandates will be able to reapply to their jobs with the government supporting continuation of employement conditions, as well as compensation for any pensions lost during that time. (https://t.me/NHS100kChat/33009)
Statement by the following Australian and New Zealand anarchist groups: Anarchist Communists Meanjin, Black Flag Sydney, Geelong Anarchist Communists, Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group and RedBlackNotes.
Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine is an extension of the human disaster that began many years ago – a product of years of political dictatorship, capitalist terror and geopolitical rivalries. It will predictably result in the deaths of many civilians, and the displacement of even more.
Putin has taken this expansionist course in order to prevent Ukraine from becoming further integrated into the economic bloc of the European Union. His Eurasian Economic Union, comprising Russia and its close allies like Belarus and Kazakhstan, is set up as an expression of the interests of the bourgeoisie of his own country, which prefers to be a big fish in a small pond than to negotiate with the EU as a regular partner.
In some sense, this is a clash between two kinds of capitalist economy: the paternalistic, oligarchic, often state-driven economies of Russia and its neighbours, and the modern, market-driven, hyper-competitive economies of the “advanced” EU states.
The integration of the states around Russia threatens the current Russian bourgeoisie, because it threatens their own existence.
We do not believe this is as simple as a clash between western liberalism and eastern dictatorship, as some would suggest. Our opposition to the Russian bourgeoisie does not entail support for the western European one; as cases like Poland and Hungary show, countries can develop “democratically” towards authoritarianism under the aegis of the EU and NATO.
The growth of “fortress Europe”, greatly inspired by Australia, that brutalises migrants with increasing severity, also demonstrates that liberal democracy and authoritarianism are not opposites, but joint partners.
The war in Ukraine will have global repercussions. Not only will it affect the EU and Eurasian states, but also the USA, which serves as Europe’s main military power through NATO.
Ukraine is also a major agricultural exporter, with many countries reliant on the wheat produced by its fertile soil. Lebanon, for instance, already in the throes of an economic crisis, imports 50% of its wheat from Ukraine. Libya imports 43%. By value, 86% of Egypt’s wheat imports come from Ukraine and Russia.
Destabilisations in this market will undoubtedly trigger the kind of “bread riots” we have seen before in many of these countries.
Despite their differences, both the Western European and Russian bourgeoisies share one essential thing in common: defence of their own existence against their own working classes.
Accordingly, the main response to this warmongering should not be either apologia for Russia imperialism or support for NATO, or even “national defence” within Ukraine.
Rather, we support a renewed effort to bring together workers across national boundaries, supporting all forms of revolt that challenge their respective systems: mutinies, desertions, strikes, sabotage, demonstrations.
For those of us in Australia, we have some basic tasks:
To fight against the warmongering of our own side, and against the hypocritical condemnations of Russia by the same politicians who drove the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan – in particular, we should do all that is possible to prevent even more nations from intervening, which would risk the possibility of the war spiralling into a larger, even more disastrous global conflict;
To undertake meaningful acts of solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia, who are the primary victims of the war, and with protestors against it in both countries;
To spread information among workers here regarding the working conditions of those in Russia and Ukraine, and the ways they fight back against the war economy and the restrictions on liberties that inevitably come from it;
To support the free, safe flow of migrants from the conflict, demanding that Australia end its brutal border policies and grant refugees permanent protection, regardless of how they arrived;
To work, as always, for the union of workers across national boundaries, fighting for the only thing that can put an end to all wars: the social revolution.
The war is truly horrendous, but like all other capitalist crises, it contains the potential to trigger the kinds of social uprisings that overthrow entire regimes.
A century ago Russia participated in a disastrous, bloody war. It ended with a working-class revolution that sent shockwaves across the entire world.
It is up to the international working class to make sure that this current war will end in the same way.[1]
Signed by the following anarchist groups of Australia and New Zealand:
Anarchist Communists Meanjin Black Flag Sydney Geelong Anarchist Communists Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group RedBlackNotes
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR!
Notes
(1) We know how this sentence was meant, nevertheless we want to emphasize that we do not support a revolution like the Bolshevik Russian revolution one hundred years ago. We support an anarchist revolution: against all authority. Enough 14.
According to a reputable Syrian pro-opposition Telegram news channel, al-Jasim older brother, Sa’ad, is a security commander in al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that controls the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.
Tariq al-Jasim in the middle of his armed as seen in a video he released on February 26.
Syrian pro-opposition activists have revealed disturbing facts about a Ukraine-based Syrian businessman who vowed to fight Russian forces currently conducting a special military operation in the country.
The businessman, Tariq al-Jasim, appeared in a video announcing the formation of an armed group to fight Russian forces on February 26.
Not only that, al-Jasim, who has been reportedly living in Odesa city for more than year now, is also the cousin of HTS Emir Mohamad al-Abd. Emir is an Arabic term usually used by radicals to describe senior leaders.
The Telegram channel, known as Muzamjer al-Thawra al-Suriyah, also revealed that the so-called businessman is in fact a drug dealer who used to work as a trafficker in Russia.
According to the Abkhazian Network News Agency, al-Jasim is currently preparing to funnel militants from Syria to Ukraine, where they will be thrown against Russian forces. Al-Jasim is working on this with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
Around 200 militants from the Sultan Morad Division and the al-Shamiya Front have already signed up. They are reportedly amassing now in the Turkish-occupied northern Syrian area of Afrin.
The Russian military kicked off a large-scale special operation to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine on February 24 following Kiev failure to implement the 2014 Minsk agreement.
Syria: ‘Unlawful’ civilian deaths in Afrin”
Kiev is apparently planning to use al-Jasim to funnel Syrian militants from SNA factions and even HTS to Ukraine. This can’t happen without help from Turkey who controls and commands these militants. Russia, who maintains a large force in Syria, will not likely tolerate this.
ANNA-NEWS|News|Syria|Donbass|Nagorno-Karabakh forwarded from Rybar ⚡️🇸🇾🇺🇦 In Syrian Afrin, in the territories controlled by Turkish formations, a selection point has been set up for those who wish to be sent to Ukraine as part of the detachment of the Syrian-Ukrainian businessman and local crime boss Tariq al-Jasim.
On Sunday 27.02.2022 about 60 people met for an anarchist rally in Arivati Park/Neuer Pferdemarkt Hamburg to take to the streets againstthe war in Ukraine and all militarism.
Banners (“Stop war!( in Russian) -Against the war in Ukraine! Against any war! Against any militarization!) were hung up and a speech was given. An anarchist anti-militarist poster was distributed and a solidarity photo was taken for the anarchist comrades in Ukraine.
Afterwards there was a spontaneous demonstration in the direction of Sternschanze, which was stopped by the arriving cops and then registered.
Already on the evening of 26th February, an unannounced demonstration against Fortress Europe took place in Hamburg-Ottensen. About 30 people took their anger about the current situation at the Polish-Belarusian border to the streets.
Flyers flew over the Alma-Wartenburg-square and in front of the Haspa (local Bank) a barricade caught fire. With a lot of pyro as well as slogans against borders and nations, the street was confidently taken.
On the Flyers under the slogan “Against states and their wars” reference was made to the war in Ukraine, other leaflets criticized above all the situation at the Polish-Belarusian border and positioned themselves against borders and Fortress Europe.
Before the cops arrived, the participants were already scattered to the winds.
It is important in these days to make anti-authoritarian and anti-militarist positions visible to oppose the militaristic and nationalistic hegemony that is spreading.
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On Thursday morning, 24.02.22 around five Putin started invading Ukraine. Explosions have been reported from major cities. Which made clear it is not only about the eastern regions of Lugansk and Donezk.
Now we need to support our friends and comrades. People started organizing to support people.
You can help people to bring their relatives and friends in safety, support people who need to leave the country and establish a place to live, organize resistance to protect their neighborhoods, get needed goods and medical supply to survive.
There are also a lot of people from other countries in the region like Belarus and Russia who seek in the last years refugee in Ukraine. With a Russian invasion they are threatened in Ukraine and are not safe anymore.
Please DONATE to support our comrades in Ukraine or here via bank account with the subject UKRAINE.
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