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Ukraine : March 9. Kharkov, Liberty Square, this speech of Sergei Kirichuk is for comrades in Ukraine and Russia.

Red Salute to comrades wounded in Kharkov on the 9th March and the death by stabbing of female comrade of 65 years old.

Fascism and Nazism in the Ukraine will never succeed if we have comrades like you.

Red Salute from Democracy and Class Struggle.

Long Live Borotba !

While we do not endorse everything in this report on Svoboda it provides some of the
essential background and therefore is worthy of publication.

Historian Per Rudlging discusses the influence of the Ukrainian right-wing nationalist party Svoboda and the historical roots of Ukrainian nationalism

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The West’s interests in Ukraine may be part of a much bigger picture.

That’s according to former German MP and Vice President of the OSCE Assembly, Willy Wimmer. Back in 90’s, he expressed alarm over NATO’s expansion plans during the alliance’s bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.

In fact, he was so concerned – he wrote a letter to then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Now Willy Wimmer believes that

Salt Lake City, UT – Four women leaders spoke to a room full of activists, March 8, at an International Women’s Day event hosted by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Across the country, FRSO joined the Committee to Stop FBI Repression in demanding justice for Rasmea Odeh and is circulating a petition to drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh.

Summer Smith, a member of Worker’s World Party and Women for a Change, talked about the importance of recognizing “women’s rights are workers’ rights.” She stressed that while reproductive rights are important to women, women are also at the forefront of other struggles such as the immigration rights, education and anti-war movements.

Alicia Cervantes gave an emotional account of her service with Border Angels, “There are 700 bricks in a cemetery representing unidentified men and women who died crossing the border.” Border Angels looks after Mexican and Central American immigrants who cross the border by leaving supplies, such as water and blankets, in the desert. The U.S. Border Patrol often harasses these human rights heroes. Cervantes said, “We wrote messages on bottles of water such as ‘Don’t lose faith,’ ‘You are not alone’ and ‘We are with you.’”

Sarah Simmons, the president of the Salt Lake Community College Revolutionary Students Union, gave an account of the history of International Women’s Day and affirmed its socialist roots. Simmons described women’s organizing for equality and against discrimination since the early 1900s. For example, women textile workers in Saint Petersburg went on strike on March 8, 1917, calling for “Bread and Peace,” to end World War I and food shortages. This initiated the February revolution in Russia. Simmons emphasized that unlike other holidays, International Women’s Day, “encourages women to stand in solidarity with other women.”

Next the room was awestruck when Victoria Sethunya, with the accompaniment of David Owens, sang a rendition of Lascia ch’io pianga by George Frederic Handel. This describes the feelings of being a hostage, a sentiment Sethunya relates to. Sethunya left an abusive spouse in the Kingdom of Lesotho in South Africa and came to the U.S. She then struggled to correct a clerical error jeopardizing her immigration status and tried every legal means possible. She even wrote to President Barack Obama pleading her case and received no response. However she did gain the attention of local church authorities. Instead of helping her, they barred her from participating in church activities, groups and the church buildings, under threat of being charged with trespassing. Through it all, Victoria Sethunya was able to achieve victory, to maintain her life here, and she continues to protest against injustice.

Andrea Canedo, a member of the Revolutionary Students Union, said, “I thought the turnout was great. I’m glad so many people came to hear about different people’s everyday struggles along with, like Sarah said, the real history of International Women’s Day.”

Tampa, FL – Activists from Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered here, March 8, to celebrate International Women’s Day. At this event, representatives from each group talked about the radical roots of International Women’s Day and spoke about Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian-American leader facing jail and deportation for on trumped-up immigration charges.

Jessica Schwartz from SDS presented on the history of women’s resistance in the U.S. “When teaching women’s liberation or feminism in the U.S., the starting point cited tends to center on women’s suffrage, but indigenous women in the Americas who fought against colonialism and continue to fight against white supremacy are the true foremothers of women’s liberation,” she said. “We cannot detach the struggle of the workers, oppressed nationalities and others from women’s liberation.”

Marisol Marquez from the FRSO delivered a passionate speech about the importance of International Women’s Day. Marquez mentioned the fact that the day was started in 1910 by German socialist Clara Zetkin and reminded listeners that this day should not be co-opted by the rich and powerful.

“We hear in the U.S. how women like Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and even Laura Bush are women that we should all strive to be. To that, I have one very important fact to note: all of these women represent an extension of their partners; the promoters of the U.S. imperialist-driven agenda of taking over oppressed countries like Palestine, Colombia, the Philippines and Mexico to name a few.” She also talked about how, out of the 23 activists who were raided by the FBI or subpoenaed to a grand jury in 2010, many were women.

Everyone in attendance signed the Committee to Stop FBI Repression’s petition to drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh.

        On the NH-8 stretch from Gurgaon to Manesar, the largest concentration of two-wheeler production in the world, the workers of Bajaj Motors are on sit-down protest at the factory gate since the morning of 24th February. Day and night through the last two weeks, workers have held through their unity emerging even stronger in […]

Part 1 of interview here :http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/professor-aleksandr-buzgalin-crimean.html

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