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Building solidarity with the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine
by David Ayrton

THE TUC conference in Liverpool last month adopted an emergency motion from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) opposing Nato’s war drive in Ukraine.

This decision provides the basis for developing a better understanding of the emergent danger of fascism in Europe, through the most glaring example currently in Ukraine.

RMT is the first British trade union to clearly identify the fascist-backed coup this year in Kiev as the mechanism of monopoly capitalists of the EU and US to pursue their drive towards super-exploitation, imperialism and war.

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