INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

  London comrades were back in Whitehall on Saturday 16 September demanding an end to British military aid to Ukraine. The protest picket, called by the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign (IUAFS) was covered by the Arab and Russian media. The Lebanese satellite TV news channel, Al Mayadeen, broadcast interviews with NCP leader Andy Brooks and Theo Russell, the national organiser of the IUAFS and Theo was later interviewed by Russia Today (RT). This is the Al Mayadeen report...

a New Worker editorial This year’s TUC annual conference summed up all that is rotten in the British labour movement. The bureaucrats, left-wing posers and the rest of the gravy-trainers were all there in Liverpool to pass the usual platitudes that pass for working class solidarity these days.      Sir Keir Starmer joined the assembled general secretaries for a back-slapping eve of conference dinner but left it to his deputy Angela Rayner to assure the union bureaucracy and the bourgeoisie as a whole that they can sleep soundly in their beds when Starmer gets to Downing Street. The most sickening episode was when delegates voted overwhelmingly for a motion backing the provision of “moral and material aid”, including arms, to the puppet regime in Ukraine.      Moving the motion, Barbara Plant, the president of the GMB, said Ukraine was fighting for its survival in the face of a brutal Russian onslaught and claimed that denying the Ukrainians of the means of self-defence would be li

  Dear Comrades Someone wants to kill you, to rob you, and you will be next! You are being addressed by Derzhava, a Ukrainian political party banned by the neo-Nazi government of Zelensky. Most of the media lies and hides from you the fact that your government openly supports Zelensky's fascists, openly helps neo-Nazis and actually preaches fascism itself, directing efforts to exterminate as many people as possible.  The political scientist Lawrence W Britt outlined 14 signs of fascism: 1 - A strong manifestation of nationalism; 2 – Contempt for human rights; 3 – Search for scape-goats; 4 – The supremacy of the military; 5 – Rampant sexism; 6 – Controlled mass media; 7 – Obsession with national security; 8 – Religion and the ruling elite tied together; 9 – Protection of corporate power; 10 – Suppression of workers' associations; 11 – Disdain for intellectuals and art; 12 – Obsession with crime and punishment; 13 – Rampant cronyism and corruption; 14 – Fraudulent elections.   

  FORUM of BALTIC COMPATRIOTS 10 July 2023 Meeting ahead of the NATO summit in the city of Vilnus on 11 July, 2023 Stating  that the modern world is going through a global historical process of transformation into a multipolar structure of international relations, which is inevitably associated with military conflicts, one of which is in Ukraine. Taking into account  that its root cause was the unbridled far expansion of NATO to East up to very borders of the Russian Federation, in gross and perfidious violation of the International Agreements reached in the 90 s . It was particularly the NATO that provoked this military conflict in Ukraine. Noting  the real background for the beginning of the Special Military Operation (SVO). The western mass media immediately formed a frenzied Russophobia, under the pressure of which were fell not only great Russian historical persons such as Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, but also even Russian folk musical instrument balalaika fell unde

  By Evgeny Glebov Prisoners of war are usually treated according to rank. Officers get better treatment. They can be used as camp supervisors. They can refuse to work at all. But other ranks often end up doing heavy, and sometimes meaningless jobs, poorly fed and treated quite cruelly. The Nazis and the Japanese militarists even carried out hideous experiments on them. POWs have, however, long been treated differently in Russia. In the 18th century Peter the Great set new standards. The Czar understood that they would have to be sent home when war ended . On his orders prisoners were well kept and paid the going rate for their work. Many retained fond memories of their days in captivity. It was the same in Soviet times. For example, there was a separate Main Directorate for Internees and Prisoners of War within the interior ministry (the NKVD) the GUIVP, and not the Gulag. The food standards in the GUIVP were higher than in the Gulag, set at the level of the norms for Soviet workers.

  By Theo Russell “ The immediate aim is the demilitarisation of Ukraine, and the removal of the current  leadership of Ukraine by any means” - Boris Litvinov On 28th May 2023 I met with Boris Litvinov, secretary of the Donetsk People’s  Republic (DPR) District of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), in  Moscow. His comments are reported below. “We have spent eight years fighting for the Donetsk People's Republic with volunteer detachments against the Ukraine Armed Forces (UAF). “ The Minsk and Normandy negotiations were cynically used by the Western Powers  to buy time for Ukraine to build up its armed forces, and in 2021 Zelensky declared  his intention to reoccupy the Donbas. “After 17 February 2022 shelling of the Donbas by the UAF greatly increased, and on  18 February the mass evacuation of children from the war zone to the Russian  Federation began. “The UAF launched an attack with 60,000 troops, and the Donetsk and Lugansk  people’s militias had to

We support the victory not of Russia, but of the world against resurgent fascism in Europe by Theo Russell I represented the NCP and the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign and met comrades and friends at a key-note conference in Moscow on the Ukraine crisis last month. I  joined campaigners from Holland, France, Austria, Italy, Brazil, the Basque Country and India, who overcame the difficulties in travelling to Russia imposed by the imperialist sanctions regime, to meet in the Russian capital for the sixth annual conference of the Red Square-Molotov Club. The Moscow conference which ran from the 23rd to 25th May  included members of Russian parties and Russian experts, Ukrainian political emigrants, and representatives from the Donbas  as well as members of the international peace, communist, socialist, and social democratic movements. The conference was organised by the M.A.R.T. Corp Radio & TV agency and the main topics were the conflict in Ukraine, poli