Moldova: Red Bloc slams police repression of anti-oligarchy protesters

Statement of Our Home is Moldova (Red Bloc) on the illegal actions of police and the criminal orders of Zhizdana and Pynzar Massive police presence outside home of oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc during April 24 protest in Chisinau.Photo: Alexandr V. Gutovski The party Our Home is Moldova (Red Bloc) strongly condemns the illegal actions taken by […]

Hero City under siege: International activists back May 2 memorial in Odessa, Ukraine

By Greg Butterfield, Workers World On May 2, 2014, at least 48 anti-fascists and trade unionists were killed when neo-Nazis attacked a protest encampment in Odessa, Ukraine, and set fire to the nearby House of Trade Unions. Hundreds of survivors were injured. Many of the victims were forced to flee the country. Others were arrested […]

Donetsk communists mark Lenin’s 146th birthday

By Committee for Social Communications (KSK DPR) April 22: On the birthday of the leader of the world proletariat, Donetsk communists and left-wing forces placed flowers at the monument to V.I. Lenin on the central square of the Donetsk, capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Source Translated by Greg Butterfield

Alchevsk, Prevalsk communists celebrate Lenin’s birthday in Lugansk People’s Republic

On April 22, Alchevsk Communists laid flowers at the monument to V.I. Lenin. Source Perevalsk Communists and citizens laid flowers at the monument to V.I. Lenin on April 22. Source Translated by Greg Butterfield

Lugansk Communists laid flowers at the monument to V.I. Lenin

Today, April 22, 2016, Lugansk Communists laid flowers at the monument to Vladimir Lenin in honor of the 146th anniversary of the birth of the first Soviet head of state. Maxim Chalenko, leader of Lugansk Communists: “There are dates that people will always honor. In war or peace, we will always remember the legacy of […]

Moldova: Regime fears Petrenko’s participation in April 24 protest

April 20: The Plahotniuc regime, to avoid the release of political prisoner Grigory Petrenko against the background of pressure from international organizations, has resorted to “banal tricks” to keep the leader of the opposition party Red Bloc under arrest. Petrenko Group political prisoners This was stated by his attorney Ana Ursachi to MoldNews agency, commenting […]

Petrenko: Everyone should come out April 24 to protest Moldova’s oligarch regime

April 20: Leader of the opposition party Red Bloc and political prisoner Grigory Petrenko urged citizens to participate en masse in the anti-oligarchy protests which will be held on Sunday, April 24, in Chisinau, Moldova. Grigory Petrenko “I want to appeal to all citizens of the Republic of Moldova, to all supporters, regardless of political […]

PACE deputies urged to take action against arrest of Petrenko Group in Moldova

April 18: The problem of the Petrenko Group political prisoners, under arrest since September 2015 for taking part in anti-oligarchy protests in Chisinau, Moldova, was again in the field of view of members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. PACE members expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the persecution of the political […]

Ukraine: Dneprodzerzhinsk communists freed after 19 months in jail

By Dnepropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party On April 19, 2016, thanks to the principled position of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a professional defense, political prisoners and communists Sergei Tkachenko and Denis Timofeev were released from custody in the courtroom. Recall that the Dneprodzerzhinsk Communists were arrested September 1, 2014, and have […]

Support Lugansk People’s Militia sports team

By Evgenij Wallenberg Dear friends! Among the army in Lugansk we have organized a football club, “FC CSKA People’s Militia of Lugansk People’s Republic.” The team claimed the Championship Cup in LPR football. The team represents the troops on the football fields of the Republic! We invite soldiers and residents of the Republic to support […]