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| Dermot Hudson, Gerry Downing, Andy Brooks and Theo Russell on the line |
by New Worker correspondent
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Communist Party leader Andy Brooks and Gerry Downing of Socialist Fight joined
other London comrades demonstrating in Whitehall for justice for the victims of
the Odessa trade union house massacre in 2014. Nearly 50 people were killed
when neo-Nazi thugs besieged pro-democracy protesters inside the building
before torching it, blocking the exits so that they couldn’t escape. The Kiev
puppet regime says 48 people were killed but eyewitnesses say the true number
could be well over 100.
Not one of the neo-Nazi thugs responsible
for the murders has been arrested or charged. But the families of the victims
are continuing to campaign for a full United Nations investigation into the
massacre, which was the decisive factor in the decision by the peoples of the
Donbas to withdraw from Ukraine and set up their own break-away republics
rather than be ruled by fascists in Kiev.
Theo Russell and Dermot Hudson from the
NCP and Gerry Downing of Socialist Fight regularly took the mike during the
early evening protest called by the NCP with the support of Socialist Fight and
members of Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine (SARU).
Others leafleted the passers-by with demands to end British and other NATO
support for the fascist regime in Kiev.
A
group of Malaysian tourists and a Serbian visitor expressed support for the
picketers, as well as a Ukrainian, in London to see Wladimir Klitschko take on
Anthony Joshua for a world boxing title in Wembley, who even joined the
protesters for a short while in solidarity with those who died at the hands of
Ukraine’s fascist gangs.
