The following letter was sent on the 3rd April 2020
We send
solidarity greetings from the UK to all
those living under a fascist-infested illegitimate
government in Ukraine, defending and building the anti-fascist people’s republics in the Donbas, and to the hundreds of
thousands forced into exile by political repression, attacks by fascist gangs
and economic austerity.
Although
we have had no recent Ukraine anti-fascist solidarity actions, we have by no
means forgotten your struggle and the sacrifices
you are making.
We were intending to begin organising another Ukraine
anti-fascist solidarity protest in London in the near future, but unfortunately
events in the form of the Covid-19 pandemic have overtaken us.
All
of us have been working hard on other
political issues, including helping to organise a very successful meeting attended by 400 people in central London on March 3rd which exposed the lies, tampered and falsified
evidence being presented at the current MH17 trial in The Hague.
Ever since the February 22 2014 Ukraine coup we have been
aware of the illiegal nature of that regime change, the open involvement of actual fascists in the government, police and armed forces, the
complete suppression of democratic rights and freedoms in Ukraine, and the
physical attacks on political parties, trade unions and even the courts.
We have not forgotten the heinous crime at the Odessa Trade
Union House on 2nd May 2014
and the many other outrages perpetrated by the fascist bands, and we have not
forgotten the criminal, barbaric ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ launched in April
2014, unleashing all-out war against civilian anti-fascist protestors in Donetsk and Lugansk.
We know that the fighters of the people’s Donbas and Lugansk People's Militias are making daily sacrifices in the front-line trenches,
and that civilians – women and men, children and the elderly – are
being killed and injured every day in attacks by the Ukraine armed forces and
the fascist brigades.
In our solidarity work for the anti-fascists in Ukraine we
are also faced with confronting the lies and whipped up hysteria against the Russian
Federation and Vladimir Putin, which have continued for almost a decade.
We have no illusions about the capitalist, oligargic nature
of the Russian Federation, but we reject the attempts to portray it as totally undemocratic,
and we call for an end to the trade sanctions the constant western interference
designed to economic instability and provoke protests. And this coming from
governments which kiss the feet of the reactionary fuedal monarchs of the Middle
East, and instigate coups and regime change from Brazil and Bolivia to Hong
Kong.
Above all we are aware of the vital support given by the
Russian Federation to the Donbas people’s republics, the
generous hospitality extended to large numbers of Ukrainian exiles, and its open
condemnation of the fascists in Ukraine.
We also applaud the the sacrifices made by the Russian volunteer
fighters in the Donbas, by the Russian Federation’s armed forces to defend the
popular front government in Syria, and the
strong support the Russian Federation has extended to
Cuba and Venezuela.
This anti-Russian hysteria has created a poisonous atmosphere
in which anyone challenging the lies and false flag
operations of of US-EU-NATO imperialism risks being labelled as a Russian
asset, in a repeat of the anti-communiist witch-hunts of the 1950s.
Unfortunately many progressives, social democrats, trade
unionists, and even the anti-fascist and anti-racist organisations on Britain, have
fallen for this demonisation, even though it is clearly a repeat of the lies
and fake news used against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadaffi and Hafez al Assad. This
has prevented them from even discussing the most dangerous revival of fascism
in the whole of Europe.
Once again we renew our support and solidarity with your organisations,
which will continue as long as it takes until democracy has been restored
throughout Ukraine, and communists, socialists and anti-fascists are allowed to
operate freely again.
Andy Brooks
New Communist Party of Britain
Ian Donavan
Trotskyist Faction of Socialist Fight.
Gerry Downing
Socialist Fight
Bridget Dunne
Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine (SARU)
George Shaw
Posadists in Britain
As well as:
Frente Comunista Dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)
Tendencia Militante Bolchevique (Argentina)
Socialist Workers League (USA)
The letter was sent
to the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic; Borotba, the
underground Ukrainian anti-fascist resistance movement and the Union of Ukrainian Political Refugees
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