Solidarity with Ukrainians in Russia!
November 20 marked 1,000 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. This war caused not only enormous damage to the population of Ukraine, but also to that part of the Ukrainian people who permanently reside in the Russian Federation.
For centuries, Ukrainians, oppressed by the dictatorship of landowners and tsarism, suffering from hunger and land shortage, left their places of residence in search of land and freedom. This is how huge Ukrainian colonies arose.
Since the late 2000s, the Ukrainian national cultural movement in the Russian Federation has faced systematic repression by state authorities.
Of the more than thirty Ukrainian cultural autonomies and organizations that existed at the end of the 2010s, only a few continue to function actively. Most of them exist solely due to their complete loyalty to the state authorities.
In 2024, the Russian government initiated a bill to denounce the agreement with Ukraine that regulated the activities of information and cultural centers. This decision was the final blow to the National Cultural Center of Ukraine in Moscow - one of the last legal centers of Ukrainian culture in the Russian capital. Activists who tried to continue working to preserve Ukrainian culture and identity are under constant threat of detention, fines, or other repressive measures.
In these circumstances, ICOR member organizations demand:
Call on the masses of the world:
Support the legitimate concerns of oppressed Ukrainians in Russia!
Demand to the Russian Federation:
To stop repressive measures against Ukrainian national-cultural autonomies and communities, and to cancel decisions to liquidate organizations whose activities were terminated on the basis of politically motivated charges.
Demand to Ukraine:
To actively support Ukrainians living in the Russian Federation!
Demand to the European Union to:
Expand support programs for the Ukrainian diaspora in Russia!
The ICOR opposes in an anti-fascist sense any nationalist suppression of Russian culture in Ukraine.
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Status of the signatories 06.01.2025. Further signing possible. Current list of signatories at www.icor.info
1. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. UPC-Manidem Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)
3. SPB Socialist Party of Bangladesh
4. RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal
5. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
6. Krasnyj Klin Gruppa Kommunistov-Revoljucionerov „Krasnyj Klin“ (Group of Communist Revolutionaries “Krasnyj Klin” [Red Wedge]), Belarus
7. PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)
8. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
9. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
10. RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)
11. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)
12. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine
13. UMU Union of Maoists of the Urals (Union of Maoists of the Urals), Russia
14. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))
15. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic
16. SUCI (C) Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)
17. CPPDM Chinese People's Party for the Defense of Mao Zedong
18. Chinese Communists (MLM) Chinese Communists (Marxist Leninist Maoist)
19. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)