By New Worker
correspondent
A
protest was held on 12th July in Whitehall, London, opposite the
prime minister’s residence in Downing Street, in solidarity with anti-fascists
in Ukraine. The protesters called for the British government to end its support
for the fascist-infested government in Kiev such as sending military personnel
to train members of the Ukrainian army, including those currently engaged in
the four-year-long conflict in Donbas.
The protest was organised by the New
Communist Party of Britain, Socialist Fight, Posadists in Britain and members
of Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine. They pointed out
that residents of the anti-fascist Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics have
been subjected to constant military attack and economic blockade since April
2014.
Despite the 2015 Minsk Agreements
negotiated by the ‘Normandy Four’ (Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France), which
promised peace and semi-autonomous status for the Donbas republics of Donetsk
and Lugansk, Kiev, egged on by Washington, has slammed the door on any peaceful
outcome to the conflict.
The conflict continues day after day,
month after month, whilst the western media only reports from the Kiev side and
is still recycling fake NATO claims – based on satellite images and photos from
different regions and dates – of an alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The protesters highlighted the role of the
openly fascist Right Sector and the far-right, openly anti-Semitic Svoboda
Party in the February 2014 violent coup in Kiev, and said that the ‘Euromaidan’
protests received massive support from Washington and European leaders to the
tune of billions of dollars.
The Right Sector is an openly Nazi
organisation that displays the red and black flag of forces which collaborated
with Nazi Germany during the Second World War along with White Power and
Hitler-loving images, and Svoboda has links with the British BNP and Hungarian
nazi Jobbik Party.
Since 2014 trade union offices have been
ransacked and burned, Second World War Holocaust memorials have repeatedly been
vandalised, the Communist Party of Ukraine (the largest opposition party)
banned, communists, socialists, Jewish and gay people have been attacked, and
members of the judiciary intimidated by fascist hooligans.
The war in the Donbas that began in 2014,
in which 10–15,000 have been killed, mainly civilians, is still continuing, and
men, women and children in the Donbas are being killed or injured daily.
This war in Ukraine has been all but
blacked out in the western media, and in recent months the main source of news
and comment from the Donbas itself, Donbass International News Agency, has been
shut down on its website, Facebook and Twitter platforms with visitors getting
the message “Attackers might be trying to steal your information”.
The protestors defended Russia against
being blamed for the war in Ukraine, and said that Russia’s humanitarian and
economic support, including giving thousands of Donbas children breaks in
holiday camps, had greatly aided the Donbas republics to survive four years of
war and blockade.
The British government continues to
support the illegal fascist-backed Poroshenko regime in Kiev, including sending
military personnel to train Ukrainian troops. The protesters called on the
British government to end all support for the current government in Kiev and to
back a peaceful, negotiated end the war in Ukraine.
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