INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

by John Maryon Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are predominantly from the East Slav sub-group of the Slavic people.  Crimean Tatars form an important ethnic group of the population of Crimea.  The fertile lands of mineral rich Ukraine were for centuries shared between the Poles and the Mongols.  By 1500 the Ottoman empire had expanded and taken over South East Ukraine and Crimea.  In 1654, following years of conflict with the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Cossack leader of Ukraine pledged allegiance to the Czardom of Russia in exchange of protection. Russian influence increased and in 1797 Catherine the Great established the port city of Odessa and the region became an important part of the Russian Empire.  Today most people have heard of the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale, Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.   It was an imperialist conflict for Middle East influence between Russia and an alliance of France, Britain and Turkey....

by a Kiev observer Children’s paramilitary organisations have always been a tool in the hands of dishonest and powerful imperialists. Let us recall one very well-known youth movement, the Hitler Youth, which also had a wing called the League of German Girls. The Hitler Youth was open for young people between the ages of 14 and 18. For children aged 10 to 13, there was a junior wing called the German Young Youth.  Anyone who does the dirty job of killing people for money is called a murderer. Organised groups of people who commit murder for money are usually called bandits and gangsters. When an organised group kills people to carry out racial or ethnic cleansing they are called fascists. To justify their pay they always declare the need to purify the race, language and nationality, and sometimes even openly call themselves Nazis. In the modern post-World War II era, such people are commonly referred to as Neo-Nazis, Zionists, and Banderites, that is, those who use brutal methods of...

International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity statement on the Galloways’ detention The detention of George and Gayatri Galloway on 27th September is an outrage against civil liberties and basic democratic rights, and a very sinister attack on one of the best-known left-wing politicians in Britain, and his family. It is an attack on the democratic rights of all working-class people and the labour and anti-imperialist movement generally by the pro-NATO, anti-Russian militarist and Zionist government of Starmer. IUAFS condemn this act utterly and declare our full solidarity with George and Gayatri against this sinister attack. After arriving in Gatwick Airport on a flight from Abu Dhabi on 27th September after celebrating their wedding anniversary in Moscow, George and Gayatri were picked up by armed “anti-terrorist” police. They were told “you are not under arrest, but you are not free to leave. You do not have the right to remain silent. If you do not comply and cooperate, and answer a...