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| Dermot Hudson and Andy Brooks on the line |
by New Worker
correspondent
Anti-fascist campaigners returned to the
streets of Whitehall in force last weekend in solidarity with the people of the
Lugansk and Donetsk republics, and to call for an end to British military aid
to the Kiev regime. Eighteen demonstrators including NCP leader Andy Brooks
joined the picket opposite Downing Street called by the New Communist Party,
Socialist Fight and the British Posadist movement, which was also supported by
the British branch of the Communist Party of Italy and the Solidarity with the
Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine (SARU) campaign.
Gerry Downing of
Socialist Fight took the microphone along with Dermot Hudson from the NCP
whilst others gave out leaflets to the passers-by on this busy thoroughfare
between Trafalgar Square and Westminster. Many agreed with the sentiments and
some even joined us to briefly stand in solidarity with our demands.
The British
government has provided military trainers for the Ukrainian army, which
includes the fascist militias that were integrated into Ukraine’s armed forces
with the blessing of US imperialism.
In February 2014 a
fascist-backed coup took place in Ukraine. Two months later neo-Nazi thugs
besieged pro-democracy protesters inside the Trade Union House in Odessa before
torching it, blocking the exits to trap the victims in the blaze. The Kiev
regime says 50 were killed but eyewitnesses believe the true number is well
over 100. Not one of the thugs responsible for the murders has been charged
because they are followers of the neo-Nazi militias that prop up the corrupt
Poroshenko regime that does the bidding of Anglo-American and Franco-German
imperialism.
Soon afterwards
the people in eastern Ukraine took up the gun to defend themselves from the
fascist onslaught and set up their own people’s republics in the Donbas. Almost
4,000 Donbas civilians have been killed by the fascists and the Ukrainian army
in the struggle to defend their new-born freedom.
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