Moscow May Day: For a world without exploitation

On May Day, the communists will come to the people. ROT Front to organize action on the outskirts of the capital. The Moscow city branch of the ROT Front party (Russian United Labor Front) plans to hold a May 1 “March of Workers” in one of the peripheral areas of the city. As the press […]

Youth Solidarity Day in Donetsk features concert with Yulia Chicherina

On April 24, Lenin Square in central Donetsk hosted a rock concert dedicated to the International Day of Solidarity with Youth. In addition to local groups from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), there were guests from Russia: Vadim Samoilov (ex-member of the group Agatha Christie), 7-б, and Yulia Chicherina. It’s worth noting that the concert was […]

Kiev protesters burn Nuland photos outside U.S. Embassy

April 22 – Hundreds of residents demanded that Washington stop interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine outside the U.S. embassy in Kiev. During the rally, protesters burned photos of Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, reported Russian Spring. [Translator’s note: Nuland was one of the main architects of the Maidan coup that overthrew […]

Lugansk communists: We are true to our ideals & symbols

Lugansk People’s Republic, April 22, 2015.Photo: Lugansk City Communist Party April 22: The communists are not going to give up their ideas and symbols, said Maksym Chalenko, First Secretary of the Lugansk City Communist Party, at a rally commemorating the 145th anniversary of Lenin’s birth. According to him, the political decisions taken in Kiev, including the law on […]

Alexey Markov: ‘The war will continue until one side is defeated’

Interview by Ibai Trebiño for Berria April 11: Military incidents have increased significantly in eastern Ukraine in recent days. According to Commander Alexey Markov, Dobriy, open warfare will resume due to the constant violations of the ceasefire agreed to in Minsk. Markov is the political commissar and commander of Unit 404, which brings together communists […]

Communists in Kiev mark 145th birthday of V.I. Lenin

Communists and Komsomol members in Kiev celebrated the 145 anniversary of the birth of the leader of the world proletariat, Vladimir Lenin. Participants gathered in Bessarabia Square in Kiev, at the place where there was a monument to the architect of present-day Ukraine, liberator of peoples from capitalism, V.I. Lenin. On that very spot, neo-Nazi […]

Video: Kiev assassinations & why U.S. fosters fascism in Ukraine

Talk given by Greg Butterfield at the Workers World Party Forum in New York City, April 17, 2015.

Lugansk: Left forces unite, call international solidarity conference

By Greg Butterfield The unity of leftist forces in the embattled Donbass region, formerly part of southeastern Ukraine, took a big step forward April 9 with the founding of the Forum of Communist, Socialist, Workers’, Environmental and Anti-Fascist Forces in Lugansk, capital of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The forum was initiated by the Communist Party […]

Terror campaign targets opposition as U.S. troops arrive in Ukraine

By Greg Butterfield April 20 – In just four days in mid-April, three well-known critics of the U.S.-backed Ukrainian junta were murdered in the capital, Kiev. The deaths followed a spate of more than a dozen other suspicious deaths and suicides of regime opponents. Those killed were former parliamentary deputy Oleg Kalashnikov and journalists Sergei […]

Borotba on assassinations: ‘Fascism has come to our house’

No pasarán? They have already come… Over the past few days in Ukraine, there have been a number of high-profile murders of prominent politicians, public figures and journalists. We can state that this confirms our most pessimistic forecast — the ruling elite, which unleashed a fratricidal war, which pushed people into poverty, misery and injustice, cannot rely […]