INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

    Thursday 25th August   CLICK ON THIS LINK TO JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING AT 7PM BST, THU 25 AUGUST:   Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82347234197?pwd=NXQyUTdhdUpPRmtKaGVoT1NHSVJ1dz09 (The meeting will open 30 minutes early so that participants can be ready for the start)   Free the Kononovych Brothers! Free all Ukrainian Political Prisoners! Restore political and media freedoms in Ukraine! S peakers from the UK, US and Ukraine Chris Williamson, Trade Union & Socialist Coalition (UK), ex-Labour Party MP and Shadow Minister Alexey Albu, Borotba (Struggle), survivor of the 2014 Odessa Trade Union House Fire massacre Steve Sweeney, former International Editor, The Morning Star Dmitry Dezhnev, Union of Ukrainian Political Emigrants and Refugees (depending on communication availability with eastern Ukraine) Phil Wilayto, Odessa Solidarity Campaign (Virginia, USA) Organised by: International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity Facebook: tinyurl.com/

Free the Kononovych Brothers!  Free all Ukrainian Political Prisoners!  Restore political and media freedoms in Ukraine! Speakers from the UK, US and Ukraine Mikhail and Alexander Kononovych brothers, members of of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), were arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on 7th March 2022, and tortured in a Kiev detention centre.  The SBU have charged them with being “propagandists” aiming to “destabilise” the internal situation in Ukraine.  Their trial began in Kiev on 1 July via teleconference. In their first speech to the courtroom, the brothers said their charges had been fabricated, and appeal to the European left:  "Comrades, we appeal to you and we want the deputies of the European Parliament to visit Ukraine and be present at our court session so that they see with their own eyes and tell the whole world how the court is arranged." The Kononovich Brothers have become symbolic of the thousands of victims of a bruta