Statements from various sources on the Ukrainian fraud

NB: All internet material listed here has been mirrored on the IBT website to ensure the integrity of the information collected in our investigation. Original web addresses have been included for the reader's reference.


2003

26 July: Minutes of the executive of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB)
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spintcom/message/2767)

5 August: Initial CWI statment announcing the launch of an enquiry

21 August: IBT - “Fraud against the workers’ movement: IBT Conned in Kiev”

21 August: LRP/COFI Statement on the Ukrainian “RWO”
(http://www.lrp-cofi.org/statements/RWO.html)

22 August: Workers Power - “Ukraine: rogue CWI group deceives international left”
(http://www.workerspower.com/wpglobal/RVstatement.html)

27 August: Alliance for Workers' Liberty - “Scam in the Ukraine”
(http://www.workersliberty.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1165&mode=thread&order=0)

27 August: Internationalist Group - “Band of Political Imposters and Swindlers in Ukraine”
(http://www.internationalist.org/ukraineimpostors0803.html)

28 August: CPGB article “Attack of the clones”
(http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/493/clones.html)

29 August: CWI Statement announcing the suspensions and expulsions of their members in Kiev

29 August: Workers Vanguard No. 808 - “Con Artists Get Conned - Chickens Come Home to Roost in Kiev”
(http://www.icl-fi.org/ENGLISH/Kiev-808.htm)

1 September: A posting by A. Medvedev on the Swedish CWI website claiming that Ilya Budraitskis is involved in the Ukrainian scam.
(http://www.socialisterna.org/talkshop/messages/3664.html)

4 September: IBT letter to Weekly Worker
(http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/494/letters.html)

4 September: CPGB article “Global party, not international fraud” that identifies Ilya Budraitskis as part of the fraud.
(http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/494/fraud.html)

4 September: Second Statement by the LRP and COFI on the Ukrainian Fraud
(http://www.lrp-cofi.org/statements/uafraud.html)

9 September: Statement from the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
(http://www.ibrp.org/)

11 September: Letter to Weekly Worker from Chris Ford of the London Corresponding Committee
(http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/495/letters.html)

11 September: CPGB article “Ukranian scam: what are the real lessons?”
(http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/495/Ukranian%20scam.html)

18 September: Letter to Weekly Worker on the scam
(http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/496/letters.html)

Editorial in the September/October issue of The People, organ of the De Leonist Socialist Labor Party of the United States
(http://www.slp.org/09_10TP03.pdf)

30 September: Unanswered IBT Letter to the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) asking for information on the Ukrainian Scam, 9 September 2003

4 October: LRP/COFI open letter to CWI “Materials Relating to the Fraud in Ukraine”
(http://www.lrp-cofi.org/PR/CWIPR69.html)

12 October: “Brother, Can You Spare A Ukrainian Section?” - from Red & Black Notes #18
(http://ca.geocities.com/red_black_ca/brother_u.htm)

20 October: “The Unanswered Question of the Budraitskis-Vernik Affair” - statement by Burtsev.ru, the investigative branch of Russian weekly Left.ru
(http://www.left.ru/inter/2003/oct/question.html)

5 November: List of defrauded organisations on the Leftist Parties of the World web site
(http://www.broadleft.org/ua.htm)

24 November: CWI statement on Ilya Budraitskis
(issued after the CWI IEC meeting of 19-24 November, emailed to IBT on 9 December)

2004

8 March: 1917 No. 26 article  “No Innocent Explanation”

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Posted: 3 September 2003, Updated: 8 March 2004