INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

It is good that trade unionists are meeting to debate the attacks on working-class people resulting from the war NATO has been waging in Ukraine, and the war itself. But to be effective, we need a better understanding of what is at stake.      The government has been banging a jingoistic drum, denouncing strikers as doing “Putin’s work”. They only dare try this because of censorship of the real nature of the war. But truth is leaking out. The warmongers are increasingly not trusted. Too many lies.       This is not a predatory war by Russia against ‘poor little Ukraine’ but the result of a 2014 coup by the US using Neo-Nazis as their weapon. They started a war against almost half of the population: the Russian speakers in the South and East of Ukraine. This war has been going on since then: Russia’s intervention was simply defensive against a massive escalation of those attacks in mid-February. Biden ‘predicted’ the intervention at the end of the month because the US had planned an at

   Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega   "With all the sanctions they've imposed on the Russian Federation, which is waging a just war against fascism, against Nazism, which is entrenched in the power of the golpistas in Ukraine, they are destroying the European economy".  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro  “The war in Ukraine is not a local military war, it is a global war, an economic war. Indeed, it is a world war. It is a war against Russia, its goal is to destroy Russia.”  Khulekani Skosana, ANC Youth League “Our position is that we side with the oppressed people of Donbas who have been bombarded for the past eight years, and they don't have the opportunity to appear every day on CNN, therefore it is our responsibility to speak for them. We commend President Putin and we commend President Cyril Ramaphosa for taking this posture and standing up against bullies who for years have thought the world belongs to them. For us it's very clear, NATO is re