By Greg Butterfield As activists, students and workers gather in Washington, D.C., for the Spring Rising antiwar mobilization March 18-21, many are probably unaware that 300 U.S. troops arrived in Ukraine this month, with another 300 expected to join them shortly. The soldiers are stationed at the Yavoriv Training Area in Lviv, near the Polish […]

Read More U.S. in Ukraine: Watch what they do, not what they say

By the Editors of KlassprofKazakh workers’ union ‘Zhanartu’ Unfortunately, among trade unionists there have been some pacifist misconceptions, especially in the analysis of events in Ukraine and Donbass, when making abstract conclusions and calls, at first glance quite correct, about the need for an immediate end to the fratricidal war, disarmament and “pacification,” but at […]

Read More The danger of bourgeois pacifism in evaluating events in Donbass

Today, March 12, 2015, at about 15.00 in the center of Lutsk, near the cinema “Promin,” in front of his wife, the second secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Volyn, leader of the Volyn Komsomol, and chair of the regional branch of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Ukraine Alexandr Kononovich was kidnapped. […]

Read More Communist Alexandr Kononovich kidnapped in Lutsk

Union Borotba (Struggle) expresses its solidarity with the Spanish antifascist fighters who joined the popular uprising in the Donbass and participated in the resistance to the reactionary regime in Kiev. We also call on the Spanish authorities to stop the persecution of antifascists on trumped-up charges of violating the country’s neutrality. Spain is a member […]

Read More Borotba: Solidarity with Spanish antifascists!

By A.C. Madrid, February 27, 2015: Just 24 hours after the National Police detained eight Spaniards for their involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the Madrid Committee to Support Antifascists in Ukraine confirmed it is sending a new internationalist brigade to the Donbass and has posted a video on YouTube calling for participation, either […]

Read More Madrid activists to join Antifascist Caravan to Donbass

By Alexey Albu, Odessa Regional Council Deputy On March 3, 2014, I introduced the question of holding a referendum “On Creation of the Odessa Autonomous Republic within Ukraine” to the Odessa Regional Council. At that time, the majority of Odessa citizens still had no desire to separate, but wanted autonomy and more freedom – nobody […]

Read More Odessa: A year ago, there was a chance to change everything

Interview by Ibai Trebiño for Argia Eight youths were arrested and accused of terrorism in a police operation ordered by Judge Santiago Pedraz, which took place Friday in the provinces of Asturias, Catalonia, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia and Navarra. They were released the same day. One of them is Madrid’s Sergio Becerra. We spoke with him […]

Read More Arrested Spanish volunteer: ‘The terrorists are governments that arm Ukrainian Nazi battalions’

March 2, 2015: Today marks 10 months since that terrible day when Odessa lost 48 of its children. Ten months ago, many residents of Odessa lost their daughters, sons, husbands, wives, grandparents, brothers and sisters. Ten months ago, neo-Nazis burned alive almost 50 people just because of their opposing views. Odessites gathered on Sunday, March […]

Read More 10 months after Odessa tragedy, rally, tears and a brawl

On March 1 in Moscow, during the memorial march for Boris Nemtsov, police detained Alexey Goncharenko, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This information was confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, RBC reports. “Moscow police confirmed that Goncharenko was detained. He will be handed over to representatives of the TFR [Investigative Committee of […]

Read More Odessa massacre organizer Goncharenko detained in Moscow