The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Switzerland (Red
Faction) adheres to the joint international statement, "Let's Develop
the Revolutionary Struggle Against the Imperialist War Preparations!",
and wishes to be added to the list of signatories, with the following
reservation that it wishes to have published as a note to the statement:
"It is the position of the Communist Party of Switzerland (Red Faction)
that the principal contradiction in Ukraine today is between Russian
imperialism and the Ukrainian nation, although the inter-imperialist
contradiction plays an important secondary role. The Russo-Ukrainian War
should therefore not be understood principally as a proxy war between
two imperialist superpowers, but as Ukraine's war of national liberation
against the Russian war of aggression. The Kyiv regime currently wages
this war of national liberation due to it representing the pro-Western
faction of the Ukrainian big bourgeoisie, while the pro-Russian faction
supports capitulation to Russia, and Kyiv should be supported on this
basis. This is in no way different from the support given to the
Nationalist regime in China by Comrade Mao Zedong during the War of
Resistance Against Japan, when the pro-Japanese faction of the Chinese
big bourgeoisie, as represented by Wang Jingwei, capitulated to Japan,
and the pro-Western faction, as represented by Jiang Jieshi, resisted
Japan to a certain point. Mao pointed out:
"The Chinese big bourgeoisie, which is comprador in character, is a
class which directly serves imperialism and is fostered by it. Hence the
comprador Chinese big bourgeoisie has always been a target of the
revolution. However, different groups within this big bourgeoisie are
backed by different imperialist powers, so that when contradictions
among these powers become sharper and when the edge of the revolution is
mainly directed against a particular power, the big bourgeois groups
dependent upon the other powers may join the struggle against that
particular imperialist power to a certain extent and for a certain time.
At such times, in order to weaken the enemy and add to its own reserves,
the Chinese