NEW COMMUNIST Party leader Andy Brooks and
Gerry Downing from the Socialist Fight movement joined other anti-fascist
picketers outside the Ukrainian embassy in London last week. The protest,
called by the New Communist Party, Socialist Fight and the British Posadists
was part of an international commemoration of the workers who died when
Ukrainian fascists torched the Odessa Trade Union House on 2nd May
2104.
Other events
included tributes and demonstrations in Odessa itself, Sevastopol in the
Russian Federation, Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, The Hague, Stockholm, New
York and Richmond, Virginia.
On 2nd May 2014,
only two weeks after the US-NATO backed fascist coup in Kiev, scores of
anti-fascist activists were massacred by a fascist mob who set fire to the
Odessa Trade Union House and then murdered people trying to escape in cold
blood.
On that day
violence erupted on the streets on Odessa between anti-fascist demonstrators
and the fascist gangs that had overthrown the legitimate government of Ukraine.
Later in the day, a mob of fascists and football hooligans marched on Kulykove Square
to break up the anti-fascist camp in the heart of the old city. The
anti-fascists were beaten with baseball bats and iron chains and their camp was
set ablaze, forcing many to seek refuge in the Trade Union House. That too was
torched.
Dozens of people
were trapped in the flames. Some jumped from the windows of the second and
third floor and were shot at as they fell. After they fell to the ground, some
were beaten to death. Others died from suffocation or were burned alive.
Unfortunately, it
is not known how many persons really died. Some eye witnesses say the number
could be over 100. But the Kiev regime claims that only 48 perished which is
conveniently is below the 50 mark that would have triggered an automatic United
Nations investigation. Needless to say not one of the thugs responsible for the
murders has been arrested or charged.
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