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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/donetsk-barricades-kharkiv-protest-ukraine-russia The key quote: "The Donetsk protesters based their call for independence from Kiev on charges that the post-Yanukovych government was serving western interests and ruining the economy. 'Now the economic problems are only starting, and more people will come here,' Alexander [an unemployed Donetsk resident] said. 'They need to put their energy towards something. That's why I'm for federalisation and a referendum.'" Nonsense, of course (although the jobless man quoted may really believe it), as "federalisation" will do nothing to free Ukrainian or Russian workers on either side of the border from austerity, whether imposed by the EU/IMF or Moscow. Clearly what is needed is a revival of the Moscow antiwar protests with an explicitly articulated anti-oligarch message, and with support demos in Kiev, Donetsk, New York, etc. etc. Andy ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
