Version imprimableAt the same time, the Zelensky government’s requests for aid are increasingly part of a neo-liberal policy subservient to the West. And the misguided policy of recruiting for a Ukrainian national defence system exhausted by two and a half years of war is contributing to a demoralisation that is being expressed publicly, over and above the extraordinary mobilisation of the Ukrainian people to defend their freedoms.
As our comrades from the revolutionary left-wing organisation Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) put it, ‘Ukraine’s uncertain prospects of victory are due to the fact that the only reliable strategy for opposing the aggressor - mobilising all available economic resources to support the front line and critical infrastructure - was at odds with the interests of the oligarchy. Because of the free market, Ukraine is a caricature of a war economy, and the concentration of luxury amidst poverty is becoming explosive. The refusal to nationalise the production infrastructure, to tax big business and to allocate the necessary budget for rearmament means that the war continues at the cost of huge human losses and relentless mobilisation’. [1]
In this terrible situation, international people-to-people solidarity exists and is essential to develop, as the ENSU2 network is doing with its links from below with Ukrainian progressive associations - political, feminist, trade union, LGBT - fighting against Russian aggression, for the defence of social gains and in defence of egalitarian rights. [See the ENSU website]
