Pro-independence socialists march in Odessa, Ukraine last month. Image courtesy of Workers.org.
From their national headquarters in Michigan, the Socialist Equality Party strongly believes that the US should stay out of the controversy over Crimea. In fact, they view the recent series of events as a popular revolt by the whole of the province’s citizens against the International Monetary Fund and the rest of the West’s corrupt global governments.
‘Are we standing on the brink of a nuclear war?’ the Socialist Equality Party website asks, ‘That is the question that everyone should be asking. The US-backed coup in Ukraine has triggered the most dangerous international crisis since the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. American and European officials are denouncing Russia for sending troops into Crimea in response to the installation of an anti-Russian regime in Ukraine that has seized power through a coup d’état staged by fascist militia.’
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Another one of America’s socialist parties that has taken a vocal stance in support of Russia’s actions over Crimea is the Party for Socialism and Liberation. ‘The same countries that dropped 23,000 bombs and missiles on Yugoslavia in 1999 demanding that Kosovo be separated from Serbia and Yugoslavia – and also invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and bombed Libya in 2011 – are crying about Russia’s flagrant “violation” of Ukraine’s sovereignty by virtue of encouraging and supporting the Crimean referendum,’ Brian Becker wrote for the PSL website.
Illustrating how a million regular working class people on the other side of the planet derailed the West’s plan for empire expansion in Ukraine, the party writes, ‘Provocateur neocon militarists like John McCain and his feckless counterpart who holds the position of Secretary of State have overplayed their hand by facilitating and congratulating a fascist-led anti-Russian coup d’etat against the corrupt but elected government of Ukraine. They thought they were on the road of absorbing the second largest former Soviet Republic into NATO – lock, stock and barrel. They did not anticipate that the Crimea would hold a popular referendum and declare its independence.’
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