Ivana Hoffmann: On the right side

By Nick Braun, Junge Welt March 16 – Among a sea of red flags on Saturday in Duisburg [Germany] about 5,000 people paid their last respects to internationalist Ivana Hoffmann, who fell in the fight against the so-called Islamic State (IS). The 19-year-old Afro-German was killed in Rojava in northern Syria a week ago in […]

Spanish court orders testimony from arrested Donbass volunteers

By Nahia Sanzo More than two weeks after their arrests, Eldiario.es reported yesterday that the eight Spaniards detained on February 27 have been subpoenaed to testify before a judge. Three of them, residents of Madrid, must appear before Judge Santiago Pedraz, who ordered the investigation but not the arrests. Eldiario.es, citing court sources, reports that those arrested in […]

Assassination attempt on Givi near Donetsk airport

March 19: In the area of Makeyevka, Donetsk People’s Republic, an assassination attempt was made against Somalia Battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Tolstoy, known as Givi. Unidentified persons fired at the lieutenant colonel’s car when he was driving to a militia position near the Donetsk airport. “The attack damaged the car of Lieutenant Colonel Tolstoy. […]

Free Alexander Bondarchuk!

War against dissidents Yesterday, March 18, 2015, the security services of the oligarch-fascist regime arrested the leader of the Workers’ Party of Ukraine and editor of the newspaper “Working Class” Alexander Bondarchuk. He is accused of writing articles supporting the Donbass rebels. Alexander Bondarchuk We in Union Borotba (Struggle) consider this arrest a continuation of […]

Alexey Markov: We have raised the red flag over Debaltsevo

Interview by Yury Nersesov for APN Northwest March 17: Fighting has been going on in “hot spots” of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia for a quarter-century, but little is known about the participation of Communist divisions. If the Russian, Ukrainian and European nationalists sent groups of volunteers across the arc of fire from the former […]

Rally in Odessa: Afterword

By Alexey Albu, Committee for the Liberation of Odessa March 17: I learned from the media that in the heart of Odessa, right on Deribasovskaya Street, people gathered to protest against the hike in transportation fares. At first I was very happy that people from Odessa have ceased to be silent and are starting to […]

Crimea: Rebirth

By Alexey Albu, Odessa Regional Council deputy March 17 – It so happened that because of my political struggle I had to leave Ukraine. I, together with close friends and comrades in the struggle, was forced to emigrate to Crimea. My eyes saw the formation of the Republic, the spread of Ukrainian myths and the […]

Moscow protest slams Latvian fascist march

March 16: A picket was held in front of the Latvian Embassy in Moscow to protest the Nazi Legionnaires procession in Riga. The action was attended by supporters of the United Communist Party (OCP), the Left Front, RotFront, Russian Communist Workers Party (RKRP) and others. The amount of protesters who came out for the event […]

Donetsk rally in memory of children killed in Donbass

Today, March 17, at 18.00 hours, a rally will be held on Lenin Square called “Interrupted Flight …”, dedicated to the memory of Donbass children killed at the hands of the Ukrainian army. Yesterday in Kostyantynivka, 8-year-old Polina (Pauline) died under the treads of an armored vehicle driven by Ukrainian soldiers. Residents of the Donetsk […]

Rebellion in Kostyantynivka

March 16: A rebellion is underway in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk, a town occupied by troops of Ukraine’s fascist junta, after drunken soldiers ran down a mother and child on the street with a tank. Polina, the child who was killed. People came out en masse in protest. Police cars were overturned and the Ukrainian Armed Forces barracks was […]