INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

 As the tide turns in Ukraine, is the US preparing to throw Zelensky under the bus? With Kiev’s defenses unraveling, the narrative surrounding the country’s leader has suddenly changed in Western media By Glenn Diesen Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal In a display of support, the US has protected Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky from any criticism ever since Russia attacked Ukraine in February. As it becomes evident the war has been lost, someone will have to take the fall, and it appears that Washington is preparing to throw the leader in Kiev to the wolves. The beginning of the end The US proxy war against Russia was beneficial for Washington as long as there was a stalemate that was draining Moscow’s military, economic and human resources, even threatening to demote Russia from the rank of a great power. For example, Congressman Dan Crenshaw justified his support for the process by arguing that “investing

 Zombified Nation: How Young Ukrainians Were Taught to Hate Russians The psychological warfare front in Ukraine was opened decades ago, but the distortion of history became a key strategy after the 2014 Maidan coup.        Western consultants distributed budgets in a diversified manner. Information strategies directed at children became a key focus of their work, regardless of the harm caused to children’s psyche.      Invincible Ants by Larisa Nitsoy is a national bestseller – a brightly coloured book with good printwork and printed on quality paper telling the story of an ‘invincible ant’. The book is meant for children ages five and up.      The book is about an ant community that lived, worked, and knew no sorrow before getting attacked by a neighbouring insect colony who had beforehand sworn their fraternal affection. The neighbours attacked and destroyed the anthill and ruined their happy life. However, in the end the good ants unite, defeat the invaders, and drive them from thei

  Long live workers' solidarity and a multipolar world! On 28 July 2022, Muscovites and residents of the Moscow region gathered in front of the US Embassy in Moscow to meet with Communist deputies in support of the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine as well as in protest against the aggressive policy pursued by the United States and its satellites against Russia.      The second part of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century were characterised by unrestrained American expansion along with, the policy of inciting local wars, inspiring "colour revolutions", unrestrained exploitation of people and resources initiated by them.      After the treacherous destruction of the USSR, the undivided domination of the world oligarchy, carried out through the policy of the United States has been established over humanity for some time.      The Ukrainian events have clearly demonstrated the destructive nature of imperialist policy pursued by the major

Kiev is routinely using schools and hospitals as military bases, the rights group says Ukrainian forces appear to have a pattern of placing troops and military vehicles in residential areas, including using hospitals as de facto military bases, Amnesty said on Thursday. Such actions violate international humanitarian law and put civilian lives at risk, the human rights NGO said.      The accusation is based on research that Amnesty conducted between April and July in the east of Ukraine. In 19 towns and villages, it found evidence that Ukrainian forces launched strikes from within residential areas. In several cases they were targeted by retaliatory Russian attacks, some of which killed civilians, the report said.      In 22 out of the 29 schools visited by Amnesty they said they found evidence of current or prior military activity. In five locations they witnessed Ukrainian troops using hospitals as bases, which was “a clear violation of international humanitarian law.”      Most resi

Moscow has scrupulously observed the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners, while the government of Ukraine has tortured, starved and deprived of medical care the Russian soldiers in its captivity, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday. The West’s unwillingness to hold Kiev accountable has resulted in violations and outright crimes, Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin told reporters.      Russia has taken “painstaking” steps to observe the Geneva Convention on the treatment of POWs, among them holding more than 40 weekly meetings with representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and establishing a medical commission on seriously ill and injured prisoners. So far, 18 such prisoners have been sent back to Ukraine, General Fomin said.      There have also been 27 exchanges of POWs and the bodies of dead servicemen, while the ICRC has received more than 1,500 letters home from the Ukrainian prisoners. Detained Ukrainian soldie

 All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack There is every reason to believe that the July 29 bombing of a detention centre holding Ukrainian POWs was carried out on Kiev’s orders by Eva Bartlett It was extremely difficult to witness the charred and twisted remains of Ukrainian POWs in the Yelenovka detention centre at first hand. The stench of death was overwhelming. Bodies remained in the ruins and melted into the metal bunk beds they were on at the time of the bombing.      Other corpses, presumably killed by shrapnel instead of burning to death, lay outside. A soldier was inspecting them, presumably in order to determine the exact cause, and the victims’ identities. Even if the Ukrainian side killed its own soldiers, it was the Russians who took care to identify the remains.      The next morning, I went around Donetsk to document the extremely dangerous “petal” mines Ukraine has dropped on the city. According to DPR Emergency Services, eight civilians had been killed by t

 Kiev’s crimes against the Donbas By Vladislav Ugolny The Ukrainian regime has long treated the people of the Donbas as sub-humans. The military conflict in Ukraine that began on 24th February was preceded by a much older conflict. Over the course of eight years, it claimed the lives of at least 14,200 people, over 37,000 were wounded, hundreds of thousands became refugees or had their homes destroyed. A de-escalation was achieved in February 2015, as both sides realised that a bad peace was better than a good war and attempted to find a political resolution on the basis of the Minsk agreements. That, however, failed to bring peace to Donbas, which instead faced eight long years of economic and legal blockade, compounded by chaotic shelling of areas near the front-lines.      They were eight hard years, which involved rebuilding bombed schools, hospitals and houses, a rather humiliating dependence of formerly well-to-do people on humanitarian aid, an economic slump due to the economic

 by Dr. Leon Tressell The philosopher and darling of the Western intelligentsia, Professor Slavoj Zizek, recently wrote an article for the Guardian on Ukraine. Professor Zizek, uses the platform provided by the Guardian , to launch an attack on anyone on the Left who dares to question the American narrative regarding Ukraine.      In this article Zizek declares that the wrong response to the war is pacifism and that all Leftists should uncritically support Ukraine. It gets better. He also declares that we need a stronger NATO to counter those evil Russian hordes which threaten Western democracy. This ignores its history of bloody interventions in countries such as Libya and Afghanistan. Never mind the fact that NATO, since its inception, has been an offensive military alliance geared for war against Russia.      In his article, which is typical of Guardian pieces on the subject of Ukraine, Zizek supports the rampant Russophobia of the Western imperialist states. This Russophobia is ra

Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Luxembourg The war in Ukraine, which is increasingly becoming a proxy war of the US and NATO against Russia, has increased the danger of a new world war and the use of nuclear weapons. This war did not start only since Russia's intervention on February 24, 2022, but has been raging since 2014, when the Kiev regime – coming to political power through the "Maidan coup" orchestrated by Ukrainian fascists, the US, the EU and NATO – started a war called "anti-terrorist action" against its own population in the Donbass. Already 15,000 people have died in this war.      A brief willingness by the Ukrainian leadership to negotiate terms with Russia to end the war was quashed within hours in early March at the instigation of the United States and the West. Instead of using the tried and tested means of diplomacy to seek a solution to end the war, some 30 Western states, including Luxembourg, are steadily supply

Our case is completely fabricated from start to finish The trial of Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich began in the Solomensky District Court of Kiev on July 1st, without the physical presence of the defenders but via teleconference. Under the pretext of false and groundless accusations, the two brothers, members of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine were arrested on 7th March 2022 and tortured in a Kiev detention centre. Since then, numerous Communist Parties and Youth organisations from all over the world, including the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) have demanded their immediate release. The EU Parliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has already submitted two written questions (first and second) to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs concerning the case of Kononovich brothers. In their first speech to the courtroom, Mikhail and Alexander talked about the fabricated nature of the accusations, expressed appreciation for the internation

By Fyodor Lukyanov  Editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs , Chair of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club  The West has failed to get the rest of the world on board to support its confrontation with Russia.  The US-led bloc no longer offers the only viable model for development, which means its ability to impose its will is fading      The recent festival of big Western politics – which began with a meeting of the European Council, continued with the G7 Summit, and ended with a major NATO gathering – provides plenty of food for thought about the fate of the world.      On the surface, what we have seen is impressive: The West is showing unprecedented unity in the face of the Russian campaign in Ukraine.      America has gathered almost all of its allies. Right now, from Australia to Norway, from Singapore to Portugal, and from Japan to Iceland, the agenda is the same – to prevent the success

 The Russian language in post-Soviet Ukraine by Olga Sukharevskaya, a former Ukrainian diplomat If you go to Ukraine and walk through the streets of Kiev, Vinnitsa, Chernigov, or Kharkov, it may seem like you’re in Moscow or Rostov-on-Don, as the majority of the people in these cities speak Russian. At the same time, Ukraine is a country with one of the harshest language law regimes in the world. Russian, which is spoken by the vast, vast majority of the country’s population, is almost de jure banned there. How did this happen? You can, but you can’t One of the favorite phrases of Ukrainian nationalists is the sarcastic: ‘Who says you can’t speak Russian? Until 2019, when the law ‘On Ensuring the Functioning of Ukrainian as the State Language’ was adopted, this sarcasm was partially justified. Officially, Ukrainians were obliged to speak Ukrainian, but, in fact, they spoke whatever was convenient for them. And no one paid much attention, at least in the first couple of decades of indep