No British arms to Ukraine!

by New Worker correspondent

Activists from International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) gathered opposite Downing Street in London's Whitehall last week to demand an end to British weapons supplies to Ukraine. They carried placards including "No more more British weapons for Ukrainian Nazis!", "No more Challengers -  No more depleted uranium - No more Stormshadows", "No British boots on the ground in Ukraine", and "British troops and Spooks out of Ukraine!". The protest was joined by members of No2NATO - NO2WAR, and the No2NATO banner was displayed alongside the Solidarity with the Anti Fascist Resistance banner and a banner demanding freedom for Ukrainian political prisoners. The protest was covered in a report by the RT News English language Moscow studios, which included contributions from several members of IUAFS. IUAFS has now decided to hold protests in Whitehall on every last Thursday of the month, with the next protest scheduled for 27th July, 6.30-8pm.

Eco-protesters in Westminster

by New Worker correspondent

Just Stop Oil campaigners were in Westminster last week making the case for an end to new oil, gas, and coal projects in the UK.  While one group of student supporters disrupted traffic in Waterloo others defied  draconian bail conditions to hold a protest sit-down picket outside the Houses of Parliament.
Three students defying their bail conditions banning them from ‘protesting without police permission’ for the next three months. The students then sat down on the pavement outside Parliament with placards and gave speeches through a megaphone. 
The repressive bail conditions had been imposed on the three after they were arrested for peacefully sitting outside Total Energies headquarters last week. 27 students were arrested that day, many of whom have had similar bail conditions imposed despite not being charged with any offence.
A Just Stop Oil Spokesperson said: “This criminal government is threatening young people’s lives by encouraging new oil and gas and changing the law at the behest of big oil corporations to ensure that no-one can stop them.” 
“The Met Police’s arbitrary imposition and enforcement of vague bail conditions is part of a campaign of intimidation to silence young people, who have every right to defend themselves against a government that is intent on annihilating their futures. The Police’s failure to arrest these three breaking bail is a tacit acknowledgement that they have overstepped their authority”.

US out of Korea!

 By New Worker correspondent

NCP leader Andy Brooks joined a Korean solidarity protest picket outside the American embassy in London last Saturday to mark 73rd anniversary of the Korean war and to call for the end of the American occupation of south Korea.
    On 25th June 1950 the US imperialists and their south Korean puppets launched an attack on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that devastated the entire peninsula. The Americans and their lackeys, flying the false flag of the United Nations, were beaten to a standstill and were forced to sign an armistice in 1953. They promised to hold free elections in south Korea to lead to the reunification of the country. Seventy years later the Americans still occupy south Korea, propping up a puppet regime that rejects all DPRK proposals to ease tension on the divided peninsula.
    Dermot Hudson, the chair of the Korean Friendship Association that called the protest, said that US imperialism had not abandoned its dreams of conquest. “This year reactionary warmonger Biden threatened People's Korea with nuclear annihilation saying it would be the 'end of whatever regime'. The US imperialists and south Korean puppets are stepping up their war moves plus the US is openly deploying strategic nuclear assets,” Dermot said. “The US and south Korea have this year carried out massive war exercises that were suspended by Trump . US troops and nuclear assets should be withdrawn from south Korea and a permanent peace treaty signed”.
    Messages of support were received from KFA Germany, KFA Switzerland, the International Central Committee for Songun Study, the Bangladesh Songun Politics Study Group and the People's Korea Initiative of Poland.