by New Worker
correspondent
DOZENS
of anti-fascists, communists and trade unionists gathered last Wednesday (14th
May) outside the Ukrainian embassy in Holland Park, London to protest at the
brutal war being waged by the Kiev junta on Ukrainians who are refusing to
accept its undemocratic seizure of their country.
Many
regions of Ukraine, especially in the east and south of the country, are now
endeavouring to separate themselves from the new regime that is supported by
the United States and the European Union and by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, who have
been responsible for a number of atrocities.
Similar
demonstrations have been taking place across the globe:
• In the United States the United
National Anti-War Coalition has organised demonstrations across the US from 9th
to 26th May.
• On 15th May in Pisa, Italy,
anti-imperialist and anti-fascist organisations gathered to demonstrate
solidarity with “anti-fascist Ukraine” and to oppose intervention by the EU, US
and Nato. Since then further protests have happened in Rome, Turin and other
Italian cities.
• In Spain demonstrations in solidarity
with Ukrainian anti-fascists have taken place outside the Ukrainian embassy in
Madrid on 10th May and in Salamanca and Bilbao on 12th May.
• In Denmark the Peoples Movement Against
Nazism of Denmark (FMN), which signed the UNAC appeal, also held a protest
outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Copenhagen on 8th May.
• In Finland, the Communist League
expressed its opposition to the “dangerous fascist developments” and “oppose[s]
the US-EU-Nato intervention” in Ukraine.
• And in Sweden more than 100 people
demonstrated in Stockholm on Victory Day — 9th May, the day the USSR defeated
Germany in 1945 and ended World War II in Europe — to denounce fascism in
Ukraine and link it to the struggle against resurgent fascism throughout
Europe.
The
RMT transport union was out in force at the London demonstration supported by
members of Paddington branch RMT present with their banner.
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