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Mourners gather in 2019 to mark the fifth anniversary of the Odessa House of Trade Unions massacre, where 42 socialists were burned to death by a fascist mob in the trade union building
Waiting for the grander vision to emerge
TEN years ago today, 42 Ukrainian trade unionists were burned to death when Odessa’s House of Trade Unions was set alight by fascists.
They had taken refuge from a crowd of Ukrainian nationalists, opposing their protest against that February’s Maidan coup.
As Keith Barlow writes today, the date was no accident. May 2 1933 was the date on which Nazi Germany banned trade unions.
Poland’s anger over Ukraine’s celebration of the Nazi collaborationist UPA reflects more than historical grievance, says KENNY COYLE
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES