Red Army: Made in Ukraine!

In honor of Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Day, a report from an action held in Kiev, Ukraine, one year before the fascist Maidan coup: On February 23, 2013, the 95th anniversary of the Red Army, activists of Union Borotba (Struggle) reminded their compatriots of the events of distant and terrible 1918, when, in the […]

Urgent message from Kharkov guerrillas

February 23: “We Kharkov guerrillas, leading a guerrilla war on the territory of Kharkov and the Kharkov region Kiev against the junta, were not involved in the explosion of Feb. 22, 2015, during the march of supporters of the ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation, Kiev’s euphemism for war against Donbass]. We Kharkov guerrillas did not plan and do […]

Stop fascism and racism — from Ferguson to Kiev

‘The bombs dropped on Vietnam explode in Harlem.’ – Martin Luther King Jr. On February 17 in New York City, near the office of CNN, a picket was held demanding an end to the shelling of Donbass and to stop the provision of $3.5 billion in military aid from the United States to Kiev. “Say […]

Bloody War: Obituary for 29-year-old anti-fascist Vsevolod ‘Seva’ Petrovsky

By Susann Witt-Stahl February 18: He was a journalist, poet and anti-fascist activist. The bloody war in the Donbass also made Vsevolod “Seva” Petrovsky a soldier. I first met Seva in April 2014 in Donetsk, shortly after the founding of the People’s Republics and the outbreak of heavy fighting in Slavyansk. We talked about the threatening advance of […]

Anti-war leaflets appear in fascist-occupied Odessa

Supporters of the Committee for the Liberation of Odessa and its left wing, Union Borotba (Struggle), pasted up leaflets calling on residents not to fight for the interests of others, and to protect their lives for the liberation of their native city. Here is the leaflet’s text in full: Odessa! Do not go to war! Stop […]

Ukraine military bombards Donetsk hospital during Minsk negotiations

February 11: At 9 pm, a new attack began on the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Eyewitnesses have reported shelling of several areas of the city. Information from militia fighter, call-sign “Steppe”: “Right now, from Donetsk. While there are peace talks in Minsk, Donetsk is shelled with mortars, howitzers and self-propelled guns by the […]

Chinese media ask: Why does CNN call Ukrainian troops ‘pro-American’?

Beijing, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) – On Monday, U.S. broadcaster CNN called Ukrainian troops “pro-American,” saying that the U.S. president is considering the possibility of supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine. The largest U.S. television news network called the troops of Ukraine “pro-American” because from the very beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, the United States has played a […]

Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic: The importance of united struggle

On February 8, under artillery fire near the village of Komissarovka, one of the writers of our publication was killed — Vsevolod Petrovsky, a Marxist historian, organizer of the anti-fascist movement, and one of the best left-wing journalists of Donbass and Ukraine. As a strong opponent of any social injustice and any nationalism, Vsevolod always acted with harsh […]

Protest: STOP $3.5 billion in U.S. weapons to Ukraine

‘Every bomb dropped on Vietnam explodes in Harlem.’ – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967Say NO to another U.S. war based on liesSTOP $3.5 billion in weapons to Ukraine government that includes NazisIn New York: Join the PROTESTTuesday, Feb. 175:30 pmCNN – Time Warner Center10 Columbus Circle at W. 59th St., ManhattanMillions of people around the world […]

Borotba comrade Vsevolod Petrovsky falls in battle

On the night of February 8, Vsevolod Petrovsky died under artillery fire near the village of Komissarovka, Lugansk People’s Republic — an honest and intelligent comrade, a Marxist historian, and one of the few professional Ukrainian journalists who could really be called a leftist. Vsevolod evolved from a liberal and supporter of the “Orange Revolution” […]