The hegemony struggle between the imperialists has brought war also to the Caucasus. When Southern Ossetia, autonomous area in the Caucasus, announced its independence from Georiga, it was first occupied by the Georgian army. Followed by that, the Russian army entered Southern Ossetia, fought back the Georgian army and occupied Southern Ossetia. Taking the support of Russia, Abkhazia also announced that it will proclaim its independence. After the Georgian army was defeated by the Russian army and withdrew, a ceasefire agreement was signed by the two parties through mediation of the EU. However in spite of the ceasefire, the mutual strong statements above all by the USA and by Russia continued remind the time of the cold war. The imperialist competition went to a crisis in this region and the situation is still serious and the peoples of the region can found themselves in a new imperialist war at any moment. Like every war, also this one meant thousands of death for the peoples, tens of thousands of injured, destruction, migration, pain and tears.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Caucasus/Caspian Sea became one of the important areas, over which the imperialist states develop their hegemony struggles. The basis if this hegemony struggle is the existence of oil and natural gas in the Caucasus and to bring them to the world market.
The imperialist states continue their hegemony struggle to re-share the Caucasus with different means. After the Khrushchev modern revisionists seized power in the Soviet Union in 1956 and its dissolution in 1991, the policy of nationalism and to make the peoples enemies was developed in the Caucasus. Although the peoples of the Caucasus had after the October revolution in the period of socialism, like all other nations, nationalities and ethnic groups, according to the application of the policy of Lenin of the right of the nations for self-determination within the socialist relations the possibilities to develop freely.
After 1991, Russia tried as an imperialist power to keep its hegemony over the Caucasus meanwhile the US and EU imperialists tried to bring the countries of the region under their own hegemony. By means of political and economical support the US and EU imperialists brought in some countries of the region forces collaborating with them and dependant to them to power and thus they linked some of the countries to themselves. First of all there is a hegemony struggle between Russia and the USA and the EU countries, however today besides of imperialist forces like China, also the Turkish state, which is an appendix of the US policy in the Caucasus and an expansionist regional force, tries to become a part of this.
Georgia is a country, where today a puppet government controlled by the USA is in charge. Through Georgia the USA aims at limiting the sphere of influence of Russia in the Caucasus and to form a bridge with Azerbaijan between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea and to bring this corridor under its own control. The fact, that Georgia hinders Russia to reach from the Caucasus to the South and that it is like a bridge for bringing the oil and natural gas from the Caspian Sea to the world market, makes it important in terms of geo-policy. So they transport for example the Azeri oil via the Baku-Tiflis-Ceyhan oil pipeline passing Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea and thus to the world market. This way, Russia cannot control how the oils and natural gas from the Caspian Sea gets to the world market and this is a loss in disadvantage in terms of strategy for Russia, meanwhile it is a strategic achievement for the USA. This situation has made Georgia a strategic partner for the USA. The issue to make Georgia a member of NATO or not, continues to be a problem between Russia and the USA and EU. The reason why Georgia want to be in the NATO is that by including Georgia, the USA want to enlarge the borders of the NATO towards the Caspian Sea and take Russia into a military encirclement, which would be a danger for Russia. Russia considers this as a danger for itself and strongly opposes.
Moreover, the Turkish state, which thinks to be a regional power and tries to play a role in the developments in the region, gave a military support of 45 Million to the Georgian army. The efforts to reorganize and educate the Georgian army together with the USA and give it military presents does not mean, that the Turkish state is able to play a role independently from the USA in the region. In spite of the existing dreams of the Turkish state to expand in the Caucasus and especially to bring the Turkish states under its influence, it is a fact that the Turkish state is not able to do anything in the region without the permission of the USA.
We cannot consider the war in Ossetia independently from these relations of interest. Without taking into account Russia and the USA nor Ossetia would be in the situation to declare on its own independence neither Georgia would be able to undertake a military operation on its own. Southern Ossetia, which was an autonomous area within the borders of Georgia until today, declared its independence trusting Russia and Georgia militarily occupied Southern Ossetia trusting the support of the USA. Therefore, the war in Ossetia is not only a war between Georgia and Ossetia. This war is essentially a continuing regional war of hegemony between the USA and Russia because of the geo-politic position of the region.
While Georgia intervened in Ossetia trusting the support of the USA, Russia has shown by its counterattack and the occupation of Ossetia and also by taking under its control the majority of the Georgian cities on the highway from the Black Sea to Tiflis and by supporting the wish of independence of Abkhazia, that it will evaluate any possibility in the strongest way for its own interests.
The war in the Caucasus is a reactionary and unjust war. It drives the peoples of the Caucasus, which lived in the time of socialism in peace and brotherhood with their own identities and cultures, to death for the imperialist interests. The only way to real peace and the friendship of the peoples in the Caucasus, for the brotherhood of the peoples is that the imperialist forces leave the region and the peoples of the Caucasus get the opportunity for the right of self-determination.
Our party defends on the basis of the principle of the right of self-determination of the nations that the peoples of the Caucasus decide on their own about their destiny. Also the people of Ossetia, whose Northern part is within the borders of Russia and whose Southern part within the borders of Georgia, has the right of self-determination on the basis of this principle. When all foreign forces will get out of the region, the peoples of the Caucasus will have the opportunity for self-determination. Our party is of the opinion, that in order to save the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, which were turned into areas of war through the contradictions between the imperialists, from imperialist occupation and plunder and in order to throw imperialism out of the region it is inevitable that the peoples of the region act together. Imperialist oppression and occupation made the problems of the peoples of our region similar and united their destiny. The struggle against imperialism and the collaborators has to overcome "national" borders and has to be carried out in an organized way on a regional and international level.
Our party sees the need to create an anti-imperialist coordination of struggle in the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea for the coordination of the struggle against imperialism of the progressive, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces of our region and to continue it as a united struggle and tries to create such coordination.