BY Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Russia’s Foreign Ministry is again aware of ‘pogroms’ that experienced researchers of anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Ukraine and human rights groups would seem to have not noticed. The ministry’s keeping the details to itself however The BBC Russian Service reports that Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Human … Continue reading “Jewish pogroms in Ukraine” that we all missed
Ukrainian syndicalists: the biggest fascist threat is concentrated in Russia and in the occupied territories
Interview with AWU activists, made by Danish left-wing portal Modkraft.dk in December 2014. We publish here the original text in English and in Russian. What kind of an organisation is Autonomous Workers Union and how are you organised? AWU is a class union organized along the lines of federalism and direct democracy. Among our members … Continue reading Ukrainian syndicalists: the biggest fascist threat is concentrated in Russia and in the occupied territories
Constitution of Donetsk People’s Republic: Russian nationalism, clericalism and capitalism
The essence of the whole project of Donetsk People’s Republic can be put in one paragraph , taken from the end of the preamble of the Constitution: “…establishment of a sovereign independent state, based on the restoration of a unified cultural and civilizational space of Russian World, on the basis of its traditional religious , … Continue reading Constitution of Donetsk People’s Republic: Russian nationalism, clericalism and capitalism
Donbas Seperatist leaders brand ’Kyiv Junta’ “Miserable Jews”
03.02.15 | Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Distasteful anti-Semitism demonstrated by Kremlin-backed militant leaders Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky in Donbas on Monday received wide but typically inadequate coverage. The attack made by the leaders of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ on the ‘miserable’ Jews running Ukraine was not proof that … Continue reading Donbas Seperatist leaders brand ’Kyiv Junta’ “Miserable Jews”
St. Petersburg Neo-Nazi Sadist in Donbas – ‘Russia’s Pride and Glory’
Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group From torturing puppies and calling on fellow neo-Nazis to kill down-and-outs and animals in St. Petersburg, Alexei Milchakov turned to killing Ukrainians in Donbas. Graphic pictures of his time fighting together with Kremlin-backed militants can be found on his VKontakte page – “Alexei Milchakov - Russia’s Pride and … Continue reading St. Petersburg Neo-Nazi Sadist in Donbas – ‘Russia’s Pride and Glory’
THE RUSSIAN FAR RIGHT
By Ben Neal The current crisis in Ukraine has, among other things, highlighted the issue of nationalism in the former soviet republics, and in particular extreme right nationalism. The politics of the Euromaidan movement, which toppled President Yanukovich are overwhelmingly those of Ukrainian nationalism in various forms, and far right organisations such as the Right … Continue reading THE RUSSIAN FAR RIGHT
A Popular Front for Russian Nationalism
A Popular Front for Russian NationalismThe “Manifesto of the Popular Front for the National Liberation of Ukraine, Novorossiya and Transcarpathian Rus’.” (1)by Dale StreetThis is the title of the manifesto adopted at a conference – attended by people who regard themselves as being of the left, and by representatives of various brands of Russian nationalism, … Continue reading A Popular Front for Russian Nationalism
Russian White Guards in the Donbass
Friday 4 July 2014, Zbigniew Kowalewski was in 1980-81 a member of the regional leadership of Solidarnosç in Lodz. As a delegate to the First Congress of Soldarnosç, he took part in the elaboration of the programme that was adopted. He was in Paris at the invitation of French trade unionists when the state of siege … Continue reading Russian White Guards in the Donbass
The Donetsk revolt and the “people’s governor – commander Pavel Gubaryov”
Following the fall of President Yanukovych on 22 February 2014, and the occupation of the Crimea four days later, pro-Russian demonstrations erupted across eastern and southern Ukraine. They all read from President Putin’s script that the new government of Ukraine was anti-Russian and illegitimate, and called for following Crimea into Russia. The success or failure … Continue reading The Donetsk revolt and the “people’s governor – commander Pavel Gubaryov”