The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 28th July 2023
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 28th July 2023
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
The Russian Black Sea blockade in back into full swing following the collapse of the grain deal that the Zelensky regime and the imperialists never honoured. Russian missiles are pounding the Odessa docks and the Ukrainian ports on the Danube whilst their troops push the Ukrainians back in the northern Donbas whilst holding the line along the rest of the front.
The Ukrainian “summer offensive” seems to have run out of steam, with little to show for it apart from a few small villages taken at great cost over the last six weeks. But his may only be a tactical lull as the Ukrainians mobilise for another big push in the south.
Meanwhile the Ukrainians are stepping up their drone attacks. Last week they hit the Crimean Bridge with Ukrainian drones and this week they struck Moscow again, hitting two non-residential buildings in the Russian capital.
The 12-mile-long Crimean Bridge is Eu- rope’s longest and it is a key supply route for Russian forces on the southern front. This is the second time the Ukrainians have tar- geted this key artery. American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the Biden administration of played a significant role in both attacks.
“Of course it was our technology,” a US of- ficial told Hersh. “The drone was remotely guided and half sub-merged – like a torpedo.” When Hersh asked if there was any thought about the possibility of Russia’s retaliation the unnamed source said: “What will Putin do? We don’t think that far. Our national strategy is that Zelensky can do whatever he wants to do. There’s no adult supervision.”
The USA has “no real idea of what Zelensky and his crowd are thinking” the official added, asserting that the Ukrainian leader “has no plan, except to hang on”. He also speculated that US support for Kiev is due to “Zelensky’s knowledge of Biden, and not just because he was taking care of Biden’s son Hunter”.
Back in Moscow, Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov repeated the CPRF demands for social justice to unite the country in the struggle to defend the Donbas.
Zyuganov told the Duma, the Russian parliament, that: “Before the treacherous collapse of the USSR, the population of Russia was almost three per cent of the world’s population. Now this figure has halved, and we continue to decline at an accelerated pace. The causes of extinction are social injustice, lack of perspective, and the thieves who have fabulously enriched themselves by exploiting our resources, but do not want to help their poor fellow citizens. We believe that this is absolutely unnatural. The oligarchs must be forced to pay normal taxes, especially in conditions of war!
“This war was un leashed against the entire Russian world and acquired an openly threatening character. When drones reach the Kremlin and nuclear power plants, when the Nazi-Bandera regime in Kiev turns terrorism into state policy, no one can feel safe.
“In this regard, the question inevitably arises: where is success for us and where is victory? “We have been fighting for more than 500 days – a third of the time it took to win the Great Patriotic War. And in the current situation, we can only be satisfied with victory.
Our faction, the left-wing patriotic forces, have been actively working on this task all this time. “The Duma as a whole showed character. We have adopted almost 200 laws that help conduct a special military operation and pull the country out of the crisis. Twenty-four ‘government hours’ took place. It should be noted that the current government reports to the Duma more professionally than the previous one. But this alone is not enough. To win, we vitally need a new course!