Just to make it clear about the Communist party of Ukraine possible ban. The CPU is a reactionary, bourgeois, culturally conservative, Russian nationalist party. It is not a communist party at all and it can be considered as a left party only by tradition or genealogy. It used to be interested more in cultural wars around identity, language, politics of memory, geopolitical orientation, even church split in Ukraine than in social-class issues while retaining quite a little contact with the organized labor. It was defended as the only left parliamentary party only by those who tried to prevent emergence of a genuine left party following a twisted sectarian logic. Sometimes the CPU was obscurantist and clerical even allowing to publish overly racist articles in the official party press. It used to sell the top party list positions to the grand bourgeoisie. The richest woman in the parliament (multimillionaire) was a member of the Communist group. The CPU unanimously voted for infamous repressive laws rushed through the parliament by Yanukovych on January 16 when not even all Party of Regions (ruling pro-presidential party) MPs voted for them. But now may be banned not for being a reactionary, bourgeois, culturally conservative party. It is true that some local cells participated in the anti-Maidan movement in an organized way, and it is possible that individual members even participated in armed separatist militia groups (like it is also possible for Donbass individual members from any other party especially if they used to join that party on a pay-roll or it was just a paper membership). In the same time CPU leadeship is unequivocally supporting united Ukraine. The allegations agaist the CPU voiced by the Ministry of Justice officials include, for example, the statements like this: [individual CPU representatives] overtly expressed negative attitudes to the actions of our military in the Eastern Ukraine (korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/3396786-protyv-chlenov-kpu-vozbudyly-bolee-trekhsot-uholovnykh-del). If interpreted literally, it means a plain and simple attack on the freedom of speech. A large share of Ukrainians are expressing now overtly negative attitidues to so called Anti-terrorist operation which leads to large destruction of the infrastructure, everyday victims among civilians and humanitarian catastrophe in Donbass. Should they be punished for this justified criticism? The ban of the CPU will only push away Donbass people (and not only CPU voters) even far away from Kiev government. It will radicalize the commited rank-and-file CPU members who will have even more motivation to join the separatist movement. It will even more discredit Kiev government among international progressive public. If this is not an act of extreme political idiotism, then it is a step in general strategy of increasing chauvinist hysteria and criminalizing political opposition in Ukraine together with attempts to discredit the coming social protests by top Ukrainian officials, Ukrainian media attacks on human rights activists and independent journalists as being allegedly pro-Russian and other shameful moves. Therefore, we must actively oppose this anti-democratic assault on political freedom by even more reactionary, bourgeois, conservative and nationalist forces.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:15:31 +0000
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