100 years since the beginning of the World War I and 75 years since the outbreak of the World War II, the intensifying bloodletting in East Ukraine demonstrates that the imperialist war is again present inEurope.

The thousands of dead and injured people in Eastern Ukraine and the hundreds of thousands of refugees are the result of the overt intervention of the USA and the EU in this country in the framework of their fierce competition with Russia over the market shares, the energy transportation networks, other natural resources, and the accession of Ukraine into the one or the other capitalist interstate union.

The reactionary government of Kiev which is also supported by fascist forces has no hesitation in transforming thousands of young people in the Ukraine into “cannon fodder” sending them to a fratricidal war in the name of the alleged patriotism which actually serves foreign interests i.e. those of the USA, the EU and that section of Ukrainian capital which has chosen the strategic alliance with these imperialist powers. This belligerent attitude is inextricably linked to anticommunism and the effort to outlaw the communist party.

In these conditions nationalism which is being developed by both sides of the conflict constitutes the worst “adviser” for the working people. The division of the people ofUkraineon an ethnic basis leads them to an enormous slaughter with incalculable tragic consequences for the people and their country. The measures taken by theUSAand the EU againstRussia, as well as the new ones which they intend to take, affect above all the popular strata and the working people and they clearly do not contribute to the solution of the problem.

The aim to supply the nuclear power plants of theUkrainewith US nuclear fuels entails great dangers for the peoples acrossEuropeas there is speculation that they are not suitable for them. Likewise a more active military involvement of NATO in the crisis ofUkrainedoes not constitute any positive development.

The KKE in the framework of these worrying developments denounces the foreign interventions in the internal matters ofUkraine. We express our solidarity with the communists and the working people of Ukraine and our conviction that they must organize their own independent struggle, which has nothing to do with the plans of the bourgeois classes and the imperialist powers, with their interests as the criterion and not the criterion of which imperialist the one or the other section of the Ukrainian plutocracy chooses. The peoples particularly of the countries of the formerUSSRlived in peace and prosperity in the years of socialism and it is no accident that they fondly recall this period today. Socialism is the only alternative solution to war and to the other impasses of the capitalist path of development.

The KKE in particular stresses that Greece should have no further involvement, no participation in the plans of the EU, USA and NATO in Ukraine.

ATHENS29/8/2014 THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE CC OF THE KKE