by Theo Russell
Protesters
gathered on Saturday 23rd February opposite Theresa May’s residence in Downing Street to send
a message of solidarity to anti-fascists in Ukraine and the Donbas who are
resisting the illegitimate government in Kiev, which has unleashed a war in
eastern Ukraine and a wave of fascist terror in the five years since the
US-backed coup on 22 February, 2014.
Members
of the New Communist Party, Socialist Fight, Posadists in Britain and
Solidarity With the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine also demanded that the
British government end its support for a government that continues to wage the
war it launched against the Donbas people’s republics in 2014, and bring home
the British troops sent to train Ukrainian army units.
Messages
were read out from Borotba (Struggle), the most active anti-fascist resistance
organisation in Ukraine, and from the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s
Republic.
Alexey
Albu from the Borotba (Struggle) Association said in his message:
“Dear
comrades and friends!
“The
current political regime is building a ‘new Ukrainian nation’ by falsifying
history. Supporters of Nazi collaborators are openly encouraged, national
policies are based on naked chauvinism, and even moderate alternative views on
what is happening and the Ukraine’s future are being censored.
“The
ruling class is suppressing any political opposition, even moderate
conservatives, and Nazi gangs have been elevated to official status and
integrated into the state structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the
Armed Forces of Ukraine and the SBU (intelligence service).
“The
war criminal Poroshenko, who has spurned the Minsk peace agreements and
continued the war against the Donbas, constantly tries to increase the
divisions between Ukrainians along political, religious, linguistic, ethnic and
class lines.
“War
is the only way Poroshenko knows to hang onto power, using militaristic
populism to distract people from Ukraine’s problems.
“Unfortunately,
the world community has closed its eyes to the continuing glaring examples of
the dehumanisation of Ukrainian society, the killing of innocent people, and
the existence of real Nazism not seen anywhere since 1945.
“Borotba has been banned, labelled
‘terrorist’ on national TV by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, and cannot
conduct public political activities. Our activists have been forced
underground, to organise in secret, aware that the country is in a state of
civil war with the support of the Western imperialism.
“We
are well aware of the true feelings of the Ukrainian people, and we know that
this regime of marauders and war criminals can only continue with foreign
support. We will never reconcile with the prepared destiny of the peoples of
Ukraine and we will fight for liberation for as long as we have the strength –
by all available means!
“Ukraine
will be free! Ukraine will be socialist!”
The
message from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Donetsk
People’s Republic read:
“Dear
comrades!
“On
14 April, 2014, the illegitimate Kiev regime, which came to power as a result of
a coup d’état, launched an aggressive war against the people of Donbas, who had
chosen the path of self-determination.
“This
has led to huge civilian casualties in the region, and massive destruction of
production facilities and infrastructure. The people’s republics of Donbas have
been living in incessant hostilities for more than four years.
“The
systematic violations of the truces by the Ukrainian side indicate that Kiev
and the Western imperialists behind it are not interested in a peaceful
resolution of the conflict.
“We
should respond to this with the strengthening of international workers’
solidarity and the strengthening of the co-operation of the world’s progressive
forces.
“Long
live peace between the nations! Long live anti-imperialist solidarity!”
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