On the 2nd of May 2017, the Federation of Trade Unions of Lugansk People’s Republic is going to hold the International Forum “Our Strength in Unity”.

WORLD FAMOUS SKA/PUNK BAND COMING TO LUGANSK REPUBLIC !!!! BANDA BASSOTTI FROM ITALY !!!

If you or your group wants to apply for participation in the event, please fill in the following data.

Please note that only organisations and persons, who registered here can take part in the event. If you are planning to send more than one person of your organisation, please register each of them here. We will inform you about updates on the planning via email. Please consider that Donbass is still a war zone and fixed planning is not easy. However we will do our best. For any further questions you can also check out the F.A.Q. section or .

We hope to see you at the event. (LINK) https://antifascist-conference.antiimp.org/2017/en/participate

SCHEDULE :

1st of May 2017 – International Workers’ Demonstration and Concert

The delegations is participating together with the Trade Union of Lugansk People’s Republic in the big May Day workers’ rally to support the International Workers’ Day and the struggle of Donbass workers against fascism and capitalist exploitation. The rally is going to take place in the capital Lugansk, Lugansk People’s Republic.

After the May Day demonstration the delegation is going to participate in a concert of the Italian ska-punk band Banda Bassotti, which will be held for free for the people of Lugansk People’s Republic.

The territory of Ukraine became the battleground of the working class against the reviving Nazism. In 2014, an armed coup d’état took place in Kiev, as a result of which neo-Nazi groups came to power, diligently nurtured with the money of the American imperialists. In the country, such neo-Nazi organizations as the Right Sector, White Hammer, OUN-UPA and others have been completely legalized, and many external attributes of German fascism have been adopted. This is also the torchlight procession with the cries of “Ukraine over the mustache”. And black and red colors of flags. Destruction of monuments of the Soviet era, demonstrative burning of “wrong” books. Toughening of the law on the state language.

And these groups use the terrorism of the population to strengthen their power. They are ready to intimidate anyone who somehow tries to object to them in order to intimidate them. They, and the forces that support them, unleashed a civil war in the Donbass, the number of victims of which has already exceeded 10 thousand people.

In order to cover up the obvious aggression against the Donbass, mass hysteria over “Russian aggression” and “Russian occupation” was organized in Ukrainian and world mass media, just like 80 years ago, before the unleashing of World War II by fascist Germany. And on the basis of this hysteria, NATO began to draw armed groups to the state borders of the Russian Federation. In general, the position of stimulating a state armed coup in Kiev on the part of Western states and individual politicians of the first magnitude is not just bewilderment, but indignation. If it were not for the double, and sometimes even triple, standards of Western countries, the clear leadership of the actions of the leaders of the Maidan by the US Embassy in Ukraine, a coup d’état in Kiev would simply be impossible.

Just as in the case of the tragedy of the peoples of Yugoslavia, where nationalists and religious extremists have shed rivers of blood, and with regard to neo-Nazis of Ukraine, all these politicians are not only supportive, but also encourage and encourage their actions in every possible way. And in the case of blatant lawlessness, they prefer simply not to notice anything. Which, of course, can only give rise to impunity on the part of neo-Nazis.

As a result of direct aggression of the Kiev junta against Donbass, the economy of the industrial region was completely paralyzed. Thousands of workers were unemployed. The economic blockade was purposefully introduced. In this way, the Nazis hoped to bring the working class of Donbas to despair. But our people had the strength, the courage to stand in such a situation. More than two years, workers came to their workplaces, in fact, not receiving wages, but did not give up.

We are especially outraged by the cowardly and completely toothless position of the leaders and bodies of all kinds of trade unions in Ukraine: all kinds of “federations”, “branch”, “independent” and other organizations whose duty was precisely to protect the rights and interests of workers, the main of which are the rights to life and work. But in a critical situation, they all took the position of official authority, than betrayed the interests of labor collectives, which they must protect. They did not try to protest, appeal to the world public organizations, did not draw attention to the obvious growth of the Nazi threat.

Even the building of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, located on the Maidan, was officially used by the organizers of the future coup d’état, under the official consent of the leadership of the trade unions. And at the first threat of seizure of this headquarters and documents “Berkut”, the building was set on fire together with the people who were there. In the Luhansk region, almost all the leadership of the Federation of Trade Unions quietly left their jobs, cast labor collectives, and ran away to sit in Kiev.

We want to tell the truth about the civil war in the Donbass to all our colleagues from all over the world, to representatives of anti-fascist organizations. Nazism can be reborn in every country and the working class must be ready for it. Our strength is in oneness! And we must be ready to confront this danger for the entire working class!