Report and photos from Bristol Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity meeting

Last Saturday, June 18th, Bristol Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (BUAFS), held a public meeting to give an update on the current situation in Ukraine and fascist activity in Europe.

[VIDEO] Alexey Albu: on the Odessa massacre 2nd anniversary

This is a video message from Alexey Albu on the second anniversary of the Odessa massacre. Alexey is a member of the Marxist Organisation Borotba (Struggle), a survivor of the massacre and was at the time  an Odessa Regional Council Deputy. His message was recorded for the commemoration organised by SARU in London.

Two years after the massacre, campaigners say: Justice for Odessa!

On the second anniversary of the Odessa massacre, in which dozens of people were killed at the House of Trade Unions by far right nationalists, anti-fascist campaigners in London rallied at the Ukraine embassy to demand justice. 

Odessa: neo-Nazis attack commemoration of city’s Liberation

April 10 marks the anniversary of Odessa’s liberation from Nazism during World War 2. This year, neo-Nazi thugs from the Right Sector, Svoboda, Automaidan and the Maidan Self-Defence attacked those who wanted to commemorate the event and destroyed the Memorial at Kulikovo Field to those who died in the House of Trade Unions on May 2nd, 2014. 

UK government whitewashes the fascist Bandera cult in Ukraine

The UK government through its Embassy in Kiev is funding a so-called ‘Peace-building school’ in Ukraine. As the following video reveals, the so-called ‘peace building’ that British tax payers are paying for  consists of sanitising and glorifying the historical role of WW2 Nazi-collaborator, Stepan Bandera, whose crimes against humanity – not least Polish, Jewish & Russian peoples – are well documented.

London: protesters attack ban on Communist Party Ukraine’s

CAMPAIGNERS rallied outside the Ukrainian embassy yesterday [January 19] in protest at Kiev’s ban on communist politics. [Morning Star report]

Early Day Motion in the British parliament against Ukrainian Communist Party ban

Four members of the British parliament, two Labour and two SNP, have tabled an Early Day Motion to raise concerns about the banning of the Ukrainian Communist Party. The motion calls on the UK government to raise the issue with the Ukrainian government and also for “the ban to be addressed by the EU-Ukraine Association Council as it violates the terms of the EU Association Agreement regarding good governance”.

Ukraine bans Communist Party

As a culmination of a campaign of legal harassment and physical attacks which started with the victory of the Maidan movement in February 2014, on December 16, the District Administrative Court of Kiev banned the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Rivne: Local head of Trade Union Federation attacked by fascist thugs

On December 8 a group of “Maidan activists”, including members of the far right UNSO organisation (Ukrainian National Self Defence) attacked the local head of the Trade Union Federation in Rivne, Mykola Shershun, and forced him into a rubbish container. 

May 2 massacre remembrance attacked by Automaidan thugs in Odessa

On November 2, relatives and friends of the victims of the Odessa massacre gathered at the Kulikovo field in remembrance as they do on the second of every month to mark the events on May 2, 2014. This time they were attacked by thugs from Automaidan who assaulted them and burnt down a poster with pictures of the victims. The Automaidan “activists” were led by Eugene Rezvushkin, a leading member of this paramilitary organisation which is supposed to be under house arrest.