Category Archives: Solidarity

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

Posted on May 4, 2016 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

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. 

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London: protesters attack ban on Communist Party Ukraine’s

Posted on January 22, 2016 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

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

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

Posted on January 22, 2016 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

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 … Continue reading →

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Ukraine bans Communist Party

Posted on December 17, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

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.

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Communist Andrei Sokolov held in captivity by Ukrainian courts

Posted on August 5, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

Our comrade, communist Andrei Sokolov, is already in his 8th month as a political prisoner of the Ukrainian junta. His trial continues. He is accused of “forming a terrorist organization” (art. 258-3 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, 8 to 15). 

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UKRAINE PROTESTS IN LONDON & EDINBURGH: First They Came For The Communists

Posted on July 27, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

Protestors in London this week called for the scrapping of Ukraine’s new laws banning Communist “symbols and ideology” and honouring war-time, Nazi collaborators. On Saturday 25 July protestors at the Embassy of the Ukraine in London’s Holland Park heard representatives of … Continue reading →

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SARU conference calls for withdrawal of UK troops from Ukraine

Posted on July 3, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

One year after the campaign’s foundation, Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine held its Annual General Meeting at University College London on Saturday, 13 June 2015.

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British transport workers renew support for anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine

Posted on June 24, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

TRANSPORT workers threw their weight behind a call for their union RMT to continue its commitment to Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine (Saru).

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The past informs the present in rebel-held eastern Ukraine

Posted on June 22, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

In May EDDIE DEMPSEY joined the people of Alchevsk in their celebration of the 70th anniversary of the defeat of fascism. Here he recounts his emotional experiences (from the Morning Star)

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[VIDEO] SARU Conference and AGM

Posted on June 19, 2015 by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

We publish here the videos of some of the interventions at the Conference and AGM of the Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine campaign. These are Andrew Murray (Communist Party of Britain), Jorge Martin (International Marxist Tendency) and Davey … Continue reading →

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