Solidarity 322, 30 April 2014

Over 200 people turned up to the "Migrants Welcome, Bigots Aren't" protest outside UKIP's Nigel Farage North East rally. The protest was initiated by Workers Liberty supporters in the North East; it brought together political activists as well as artists, musicians, feminists and LGBT campaigners. A lively protest greeted those who came to hear Farage. Our protest included an open mic: over 20 local speakers outlined their opposition to UKIP's racism, and why migrants were welcome, as well as detailing the sexist, homophobia and pro-rich and pro-capitalist policies of UKIP. Many protesters...

A strike broke out on 22nd April in the coalmines belonging to Rinat Akhmetov in the Lugansk region (in the south-east of Ukraine). Two thousand miners besieged the management offices and demanded a pay rise. Is this a sign that the direction of the Ukrainian protests is changing? According to Andrei Ishchenko, a member of the united-socialist organization “Left Opposition” and co-ordinator of the Workers Defence Committee of Odessa: “Until now it was difficult to call the protests in the south-east class protests. They were dominated by Russian-nationalist slogans and reactionary-abstract...