INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

  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

  No No2NATO Platform for Fascist David Clews! Since 2014 the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS), and its predecessors have campaigned in solidarity with the people of the Donbass, and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics they created after the fascist Maidan coup backed by US imperialism. As part of the struggle against imperialism and its Ukrainian fascist puppets, we defend the Special Military Operation of Russia to crush the fascist threat from the US backed Azov, Aidar, Kraken, Svoboda and other such fascists who are the dominant forces in the Maidan Ukraine state apparatus. We support the defeat of this regime and the “Denazification of Ukraine” as the Russian government rightly set out as a key war aim. Opposition to the NATO proxy-war in Ukraine is not confined to internationalists who act in solidarity with the victims of imperialism.  Most of the far right are showing solidarity with the NATO-funded Nazis who infest and dominate the Ukrainian regime,

by New Worker correspondent The howl of air raid sirens sounds every night as Russian drones and missiles pound strategic targets right throughout Ukraine. Kiev has been rocked by blasts that continued for several hours in an attack on the capital that the local military administration called “exceptional in its density”. And now Ukrainians are rushing to buy iodine pills following a devastating Russian raid on an ammunition depot containing depleted uranium shells that may have released deadly radiation into the atmosphere.      Russia first unleashed its Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles on Ukraine in March. They fly at Mach 10, ten times the speed of sound, and are virtually unstoppable, as the Ukrainians found out for themselves this week when their capital was hit by a wave of these deadly rockets. A radar station and five US-made Patriot air-defence missile systems were destroyed during the 16th May attack. Overall, the Russian missile strike against the Patriot system was a major blow t

The Kremlin warned Britain of the grave consequences of supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) shells. Some said this simply meant escalation. Others, the gurus of the bourgeois media who pose as ‘military experts’, told us that they posed no danger to Ukrainian civilians and that, in any case, this was just another empty threat from the Russians who would soon be on their knees following a Ukrainian spring offensive. What none of them foresaw was that the “grave consequences” that would follow would be the taking out of the DU ammo dumps and the possible release of deadly radiation into the air.      That’s exactly what happened when a Ukrainian military depot was totally destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile this week. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says reports that radiation levels have risen in the aftermath of the Russian strike are wrong. Whether deadly gamma rays really were released when the warehouse went up is a matter of indifference to the hapless c