Britain, Organise Solfed Ireland - Crisis in the Ukraine ?No War Between ?Nations? - No Peace Between Classes!?

Russia?s deployment of troops in Crimea, formerly an 'autonomous' region of the Ukraine, 
has caused much consternation to the USA and fear of escalating conflict for working class 
people throughout the region. ---- This came in the wake of a rightwing and fascist 
'revolution', supported by the west, that saw control of the Ukrainian state being taken 
by hard-line nationalists, the far right Svoboda party and the paramilitary Right Sector. 
The political upheaval, and the fears of ethnic Russian's in the Ukraine, gave Putin's 
regime the opportunity:to implement their long-standing imperial and expansionist 
aspirations in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine where it has strong economic, financial and 
political interests (from the Declaration of Internationalists against the war in Ukraine).

Upwards of 6,000 Russian troops have been deployed in Crimea, the Ukrainian military have 
been deployed and reservists called up.

Some responses to Russia's invasion and western interference in the region from the 'left' 
seems to either imagine Russia as the USSR facing down US imperialism or describe Russia 
as a 'former power eager for a piece of the pie'. This betrays wilful misreading of the 
situation and an extremely crude understanding of what imperialism actually is. While the 
USSR is no more (to the inexplicable dismay of some on the 'left') Russia does not 
represent a 'former power'. It is the major imperialist economic and military power in the 
region.

Much of Europe?s economy is also highly dependent on Russia. As a result the US looks 
unlikely to get support even for economic sanctions.

On the ground Ukrainian and Russian nationalism have been whipped up, the new Ukrainian 
government immediately attacked Russian and other minority language rights and there have 
been armed clashes between nationalist groups. While Kiev has installed a reactionary 
pro-western government the:

political elite of Crimea and eastern Ukraine does not intend to share their power 
and property with the next in turn Kiev rulers (ibid)

and are instead placing their faith in the Russian government.

Those who will pay for any escalation of this conflict, those who have paid so far, have 
and will be the regions working class, no matter their ethnicity:

Warring cliques of bosses, as usual, force us ordinary people to fight for their 
interests: wage workers, unemployed, students, pensioners... Making us drunkards of the 
nationalist drug, they set us against each other, causing us to forget about our real 
needs and interests: we don't and can't care about their "nations". We are concerned with 
more vital and pressing problems ? how to make ends meet in the system which they found to 
enslave and oppress us.
We will not succumb to nationalist intoxication. To hell with their state and 
?nations?, their flags and offices! This is not our war, and we should not take part, 
paying with our blood for their palaces, bank accounts and the pleasure to sit in soft 
chairs of authorities. And if the bosses in Moscow, Kiev, Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and 
Simferopol start this war, our duty is to resist it by all available means!
NO WAR BETWEEN ?NATIONS? - NO PEACE BETWEEN CLASSES!