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Kiev anti-left laws threaten vital freedoms

LABOUR MP Paul Flynn and his parliamentary colleagues are to be congratulated on the early day motion condemning the ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU).

Last December’s ruling by the Kiev District Court rests upon the spurious legal basis of a series of anti-communist laws and decrees promulgated last year.

They branded the former Soviet Union as a “criminal” entity that pursued a policy of “state terror.”

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