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Donetsk, a city in south-eastern Ukraine was the scene of clashes between pro-Russian
separatists and Ukrainian population. A libertarian communist activist who lives there and
campaigning gives us some tools to understand what forces and the reasons for the weakness
of the libertarian movement. ---- What is the situation in Ukraine? ---- Life continues
with two parallel realities: people continue their daily life, with children around, with
the same place of the dead, violence, hatred. The division of society grows stronger every
day. It is a political revolution of the national bourgeoisie in the context of civil war
and ill-disguised Russian intervention. ---- What is the social composition of the
protesters Southeast and those of Maidan? ---- Maidan and separatist South East does not
greatly differ from one another. Both bring together a variety of social classes,
intellectuals, employees, contractors, rural, students, lumpenproletariat, former
military... All become hostages and puppets economic clans.
Maidan people have the power of new oligarchs, and the people of Southeast ensure the
order of the family of deposed President Yanukovych and his master's in Moscow. All this
rhetoric is flavored with nationalism. With the result of bloody wounds and anger for
decades. In fact, the enemy is the Kremlin, the Capitol and the Bundestag. Leaders Maidan
as the separatist leaders are fractions of the national bourgeoisie and its radical elements.
In the East, they scare people with Pravyi Sektr ("Sector Law") and the call to fight
fascism, as they are inspired by the imperial fascism of the Russian nation. In Donetsk,
according to their logic, you have the choice between being Russian or be a fascist. For a
Ukrainian word, you are beaten or killed. It happened at Maidan and it happens now in the
Southeast.
What about the referendum of May 11 [1]?
This is a referendum marked by its polling without observers and under the watchful eye of
masked person. It was a farce is part of a strategy aimed at creating popular independent
republics, and then apply for admission in the Russian Federation. But there is a lot of
people from Donetsk and its region who favor a united Ukraine. The separatists are better
organized, have better administrative resources and support from the neighboring state,
that's all.
Do you think that there are Russian experts in the Southeast?
I do not think, I can confirm. And many of them are in training bases in the Donetsk and
Lugansk, where groups of 400 to 500 local volunteers and Russia are coached by military
instructors direction. (...) The majority of people who are fighting under the flag of the
separatists are local, ordinary workers or military veterans. But a significant number and
authoritative is trained volunteers who organize the Russian process. Supplies, weapons
and money from Russia. The current head of government of the self-proclaimed "People's
Republic" in Donetsk Boroday strategist appointed by the Kremlin administration.
Will it a possibility that the protests turn into a social revolution?
For now, this is an unlikely scenario. A social revolution is possible only in the
presence of two factors: a massive demand for radical change and the political
organization of the revolutionary wing anarchists, who will be able to defend the change
process.
In reality, there is no demand for a social revolution. The only change is conceived
within a political framework. And even those timid shoots anti-autoritaritarisme that may
have arisen, as they are not supported by a strong anti-authoritarian revolutionary
organization will be destroyed by the political agenda of the bourgeois and nationalist
parties.
What are the prospects for anarchists in the current context?
The main problem of the anarchist movement is the lack of an anarchist organization. The
anarchists were unable to use the situation because they were captives of
anti-organizational illusions.
The organization is an incubator, a school, a mutual aid society and a productive platform
for ideas and projects; but most importantly, it is a tool for the realization of ideas,
it is an instrument of influence and control instrument. It can not be replaced by peer
groups.
Anarchists today as in 1917, missed the opportunity to be influential in the process. The
RKAS [2] claiming anarchist Makhno reformist platform has survived many crises, was
involved in the miners' strike, and had several long-term projects, but were not without
quarrels and divisions internal.
We can remember the anti-electioneering splitting the RKAS the Mezhdunarodnyj Souz
Anarkhistov [3] in Donetsk. The separatists argued the alleged authoritarianism RKAS. Once
freed from the "dictatorship of organizational office RKAS" which was to go into the mines
and factories, the newspaper spread anarchy, and discuss with the unions and
cooperatives, and was building a "black guard" self-disciplined, they showed their
strategic and ideological capacity pasting posters made by hand, with the message "Do not
go to elections, eat vegetables. "
All attempts to build the organization through the RKAS project resulted in a crusade
against "authoritarianism and extremism." Finally, anarchists have become the main
obstacle to anarchy. I used this paradox to bring your attention to this old disease
"anti-corporate" destructive and irresponsible (...). Perhaps the RKAS reborn taking into
account all the errors and modernizing; we can create something new. (...) We will not
give up and we do not disappear.
In what are you involved in now?
Unfortunately, I can not tell you everything. Otherwise, a lot of good people and I have
multiple problems, and we have a lot of project in the future. RKAS officially was
dissolved, but its core has shifted in illegal actions.
This is a summary, reshaped by Jacques Dubart, interview an activist RKAS - Revolutionary
Confederation of anarchist-syndicalists - available on anarkismo.net translated text
published in English on August 9
[1] 1. As a reminder, it is the self determination referendum in Donetsk which has "asked"
for unification with Russia.
[2] International Confederation anarchist association.
[3] International Union of Anarchists.
