News From the Soviet Union
From Newspaper
"Bolshevik"
Odessa, Ukraine
The newspaper "Bolshevik" wrote a long article about the May Day parade in Odessa and it showed graphically the crisis inside the left-wing movement in Ukraine.
Imagine if you can, Ukrainian nationalists with their fascist symbols on their flags, that were used by the Ukrainian fascists during World War Two while helping Hitler to murder their own people… marching together with the members of the Communist Party of Ukraine – as brothers – on this May Day!!!
The speakers, both Ukrainian nationalists and members of the Communist Party of Ukraine, shared the speakers rostrum and only criticized Kuchma, but not a word of criticism against the present capitalist Mafiosi regime. This is the result of cooperation by the CPU and the nationalists-fascists. Other communists from All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and many other left-wing people left the marching columns in disgust.
Below we publish a couple of photographs of this "love-in" between the CPU and Ukrainian nationalist-fascists! It’s enough to make you puke in disgust!
By Tengiz Pachkoria
According to Itar-Tass news agency, there took place a multi-national military exercises sponsored by NATO last month. Originally scheduled for last week of May, the exercises were postponed due the war in Iraq.
Alongside USA and Georgia taking part in the exercises, there were military personnel from Albania, Bulgaria, Germany, Moldova, Ukraine. Estonia and Turkey – a total of 700 Special Forces. Georgian police and state security service personnel, military and civilian doctors participated also.
YES…US dollars buys participation of this US Foreign Legion!
By JOHN CATALINOTTO
This month, 10 members of the Young Communist League of Ukraine face a secret trial for alleged "terrorist activities". While the case has received little publicity in the West, some progressive forces, including the International Action Center, have taken it up as a severe violation of human rights.
Ten of the youths were arrested on December 13, 2002 and over the next two weeks, starting with a raid by the Ukrainian State Security on a house in the city of Nikolaev. Searches and arrests followed in Odessa, Kiev and Dneipropetrovsk.
Security agents used explosive devices to blow down the door in the Nikolaev apartment and according to one report, the fourth youth there attempted to defend himself.
Some of the young communists arrested were involved in publishing a communist Internet newspaper – Left.ru. If Ukraine is accepted into NATO, as it surely will, Ukrainian youth can become cannon fodder for US imperialism - for the occupation armies in Afghanistan and other imperialist-occupied countries.
Living conditions in Ukraine have deteriorated for the majority of the people since the collapse of the USSR. This summer, being hot and dry has wiped out over 75 per cent of the summer crops in what was once considered the bread-basket of the USSR.
Supporters of the Young Komsomols, said that torture was used to wring confessions from them. Some had their ribs and other bones broken.
One of those arrested, Evgeny Semenov, was able to get a letter out of prison last June. He wrote: Here, in the Odessa prison, with me there nine of my comrades, arrested and tortured systematically throughout the six months of interrogation. Now the case is closed and the secret trial will begin this fall.
In order to cover up the tortures we were subjected to, the Ukrainian Department of Security is planning to keep our trial secret, with no defense lawyers for us and without the presence of the public, let alone any journalist or observer."
Semenov stated also that he and his comrades are going on a hunger strike.
These young Komsomols are asking that people who support human rights, write letters of protests to the Ukrainian Parliament-Rada in Kiev 008, Grushnevskaya St. #5 – Litvin V.M. or e-mail at: www.rada.ua. Other addresses can be found at Left.ru
The Editorial Board and International Council have sent protests to Kiev. We urge our readers to do likewise.
From the newspaper
Socialist Latvia
In one of his speeches in the Latvian parliament, our president E. Repshe complained how it was for Latvians to live under such "tyranny". Let us look at how in fact our Latvian people really lived. I am rewriting his speech of course.
"We did not want to go to school and learn without paying for it, but the Bolsheviks made our children go to school and they insisted that every child must have a secondary school education on their way towards university.
We did not want to have free medical care, we wanted to pay for it. But the Bolsheviks gave us free health care, rest in sanatoriums and even sent us to rest and get well on the Black Sea resorts, whether we wanted to or not.
We wanted to pay for our medicines, but the Bolsheviks gave us free medicines.
We did not want to have very affordable apartments and all the community services, without paying for them as we do now. But the Bolsheviks took only 12 rubles out of our 150 rubles pay for all these services.
We did not want to pay only 3 kopeks for transportation, but the Bolsheviks made us use the transport, railways, busses and planes to travel and fly anywhere in the USSR.
We did not want to get our apartments free, with all the utilities, but the Bolsheviks made us occupy these free apartments, but worse still, these Bolsheviks build cities, towns, villages, parks, entertainment areas whether we liked it or not.
We wanted to be unemployed as we were before in capitalist Latvia and as we are now, but the Bolsheviks found us jobs, good pay, benefits, education, trade schools, holidays, pensions and everyone could buy whatever he or she wanted with his or her pay.
We did not want free or cheap newspapers, books etc. But the Bolsheviks made us read books, newspapers, go to the theatre, the cinema and concerts.
We did not want to have our streets or roads paved, we wanted to walk on the dirt as our fathers and mothers did before us. But the Bolsheviks never listened and paved the roads and streets.
We did not want that our preschool children should have their childcare centers free, or have our children join the Pioneers and go to summer camps on the Black Sea or in other resorts, but as usual, the Bolsheviks saw to it that our children had all the things that they needed.
I could go on and on, but I’m sure that these "terrorist and tyrannical" things that Socialism did for the Latvian people, is still remember by even this present president, after all, he did receive and enjoyed free education and all other benefits that the majority of the Latvians do not have today.
The more I think of the "tyrannical help" the more I want to go back to what it was before and that the Bolsheviks would again make me enjoy these "tyrannical" services that I enjoyed before.
V. Britikov
Liepaja
Dear comrade Lucas – Editor:
On behalf of the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks I greet you and other comrades of the Editorial Board, and the readers of NSC on this the 11th Anniversary when the very first NSC journal was published.
We are very happy to notice that, your journal, with every issue is read by more and more countries of the world, and this is noted in articles from many parts of the globe, which before were not able to read your important information about the on-going struggles. In this, you deserve the praise for this!
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| Nina Andreeva marching in a demonstration in Leningrad |
Every issue of NSC is filled with very important agitational and propagandist materials against world imperialism, racism, fascism and the influential – world Zionism, today dictating its policies to the imperialistic countries, including the United States of America.
The most important value, from our point of view, are the many special Supplements that are sent out to the readers, which are done very professionally by the Editorial Board and which explain and analyze the most important and pressing problems of the moment.
On the occasion of the 11th Anniversary, we wish you comrades, new successes in enlightening the readers of your excellent journal about the ongoing Communist movements and the struggles of the people for their independence. We also wish you great health and happiness.
With sincere respect
Nina A. Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee
All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
Dear comrades:
On behalf of the International Association of Workers Union "Zashchita Truda" (Defense of Labour) we warmly greet the participants at the gathering on the 11th Anniversary of Northstar Compass. We regret not being able to send our representative to your anniversary celebrations. We acknowledge and strongly support the glorious role played by Northstar Compass in upholding internationally the just and progressive struggle for the restoration of the Soviet Union. The collapse of Russian capitalism is approaching fast. Russian capitalism is an economy based on extreme capitalist exploitation of the working masses, combined with the catastrophic lack of internal investment, huge outflow of capital and extreme dependence of the State budget on the export of oil and gas. A new breakdown of the Russian economy, similar to the crisis of August 1998, is expected to occur very soon.
A wave of strike movements and economic struggles of the working class is awakening as a result of the economic crisis. With the adoption by the bourgeois State Duma of the new labour legislation, the struggles of the working class has become even harder. However, the bourgeoisie has failed in crushing the trade union movement. Much on the contrary, the trade union movement today is more cohesive than ever before. Trade union activists have understood that there is no alternative to militant union activism within the organized struggle of the working class.
We call on the participants at your anniversary celebration to support the struggles of the Russian working class in general, and the struggle of the activists of "Zashchita Truda" as the vanguard organized working class in Russia.
Anatoli Pizhkov
Secretary of International Relations
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