INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

On 9th October 2023, the Donetsk Declaration was adopted in the city of Donetsk. We call on all political parties, trade unions, public organizations and movements to discuss the text and join the Donetsk Declaration. Today the world is in grave danger. The financial capital of the United States and the NATO countries, acting together with the Ukrainian oligarchy, brought the Ukrainian bourgeois nation to the state of Nazism, provoked the war in Ukraine, using its people as a battering ram directed against Russia. The imperialist goal of the United States is the weakening and dismemberment of Russia into a number of warring entities. All this was supposed to make it possible to seize the economic territory and natural resources of Russia, as well as to establish control over political processes with the help of a puppet government.  At the same time, the imperialist efforts of the United States are aimed at maintaining its hegemony by unleashing bloody conflicts in different part

Steve Sweeney third from left at the top by New Worker correspondent A video conference was held last week between Steve Sweeney, a reporter for RT News now based in Moscow, and members of International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) in the UK. Steve was previously International Editor of the Morning Star , and is also a member of IUAFS. He regularly reports from the Donbas and other regions of Ukraine which recently joined the Russian Federation. Steve visited polling stations in Donetsk during the recent elections for local and Duma representatives in the people’s republics which recently joined the Russian Federation, and said they appeared to be open, free and fair. He said he had witnessed "a return to democratic life".  He spoke to an old man who was in tears and said that it was the first time in nine years he'd been able to vote. However the Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately targeted polling stations, and in one strike two civilians were killed.

  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.