http://www.comunistas-mexicanos.org/partido-comunista-de-mexico/2292-declaracion-del-bp-del-pcm

The Communist Party of Mexico calls on the Mexican workers to oppose the imperialist war that has its formal beginning in the conflict being waged between Russia versus the US and the European Union in Ukraine, after years of diplomatic, economic and commercial tensions, maneuvers and the constant accumulation of “explosive material”.

The special military operation, the attack on Ukrainian targets by the Russian Federation is inadmissible, as the real goal is to secure the interests of its monopolies. Just as the US and the European Union through NATO seek to secure the interests and profits of their monopolies. And no matter how many costumes both parties to the conflict put on, no matter how much they allude to the “defense of democracy”, “sovereignty”, “human rights” or even the fight against “fascism”, the only certainty is that it is the logic of profit, of advancing in capitalist competition and having a better position in the imperialist system that moves them. The conflict is based on the acute competition in the imperialist system between the pole of the USA and the European Union against Russia and China.

Thus, in order to justify themselves, they resort to lies, demagogy and historical misrepresentation. While Biden, co-responsible for the crimes against Yugoslavia, Libya and the aggressive expansion of NATO, as well as for a fierce anti-immigrant policy, hypocritically presents himself as the world champion of freedom, Putin distorts history by attacking Lenin, Bolshevism and the socialist construction in the USSR as if they were at the basis of these contemporary problems. Both anti-communists fail to obscure the fact that during 70 years of socialism and the Soviet Union the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, and those of other nationalities, lived together in harmony, worked for common goals, fought together against Nazi-fascism, progressed socially, confronted the Great-Russian chauvinism of Tsarism; and it is precisely the overthrow of socialism that leads to this tragic point of bringing them into confrontation.

It should also be clear that since 1991, when the USSR ceased to participate, the UN is no longer an instrument for settling conflicts, where the oppressed peoples can have a tribune or count on allies to stop aggressions, but an instrument that serves the interests of a group of imperialist countries that justifies interventions against the peoples, or as in this case, sides with the US/EU in the current conflict. Therefore there should be no illusion about the role played by the UN, since it is as useless as the League of Nations was in the run-up to the Second World War.

Having clear the imperialist character of the conflict, the Communist Party of Mexico insists that both sides defend the interests of their own monopolies and that these are antagonistic to the working class of all countries. In no way should the working class, the peoples, place themselves behind interests that are not their own, that are antagonistic to them, that lead them to barbarism, to death.

We express our solidarity with the workers and peoples of Russia and Ukraine who are suffering at this moment the consequences of the inter-imperialist dispute. Their living conditions will be aggravated, new sacrifices are underway such as forced displacement, famine and living under constant terror. We condemn the outlawing of communists in Ukraine by a reactionary and pro-war government, and we also condemn the criminalization in Russia of those who oppose the imperialist war.

We condemn the sanctions announced by Biden, and the determination of the U.S. and the EU to move towards a generalized military confrontation.

We oppose any participation of the workers of Mexico in this imperialist war, and therefore we condemn the position of the social-democratic government of López Obrador that places itself without hesitation alongside the U.S. and the European Union, and that declares through Foreign Minister Ebrard that Mexico and Biden are principal allies in defense of the UN, that is, in defense of everything that protects and sustains one of the aggressive imperialist poles. All flirtation by the Mexican government with NATO must cease, and in no way should it participate in joint exercises with that aggressive instrument of imperialism or any kind of UN mission. We call on the workers to rebel against any decision by the Obrador government to engage in that imperialist war, to sabotage any attempt in that direction. No one to war, no penny to war, not a drop of oil for war, no piece of territory for war. Our struggle against imperialism and imperialist war begins in the struggle against the Mexican monopolies, against the Mexican government which is their mouthpiece and their firm alliance with the U.S. with the T-MEC. Furthermore, the government of López Obrador acts in defense of the interests of the Mexican monopolies with investments in Ukraine, like Bimbo (the main monopoly of the bakery industry in Mexico and Spain) or Gruma.

We call on Mexican youth to refuse any attempt by the Mexican government to get involved in the war. We call on trade unionism to be vigilant against any attempt to curtail labor rights, such as the right to strike in so-called strategic enterprises or those involving “national security.”

As part of the international communist movement we call to keep the red flag of proletarian internationalism high, developing the class struggle independently of the interests of the imperialist countries in conflict. It is not easy, history gives us lessons of the nefarious role of opportunism, for example during the First World War.

Down with imperialist war!

Down with the Mexican bourgeoisie!

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee

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