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...

 by Theo Russell An IUAFS member recently attended a meeting organised by the Jewish Vegetarian Society for Refugee Week. The topic was the 'Kindertransport', a British scheme to rescue nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi occupied territories during the Second World War. However the meeting then turned to the question of "rescuing" children from Ukraine today. The meeting chair expressed in no uncertain terms his support for Ukraine in the current war with the forces of Russia and the former Donbas republics. The meeting was then addressed by a Ukrainian refugee who was given accommodation by an ex-Kindertransport survivor, who suggested that the Jewish community in Britain could "return" the favour by helping Ukrainian children and their families. A discussion then took place about the practicalities of Jewish people in Britain accommodating Ukrainian child "refugees". When the issues of the many historical pogroms against Jews i...