Is Stepan Bandera’s birthday celebrated as a national holiday in Ukraine?
Every new year’s day far-right nationalists in Ukraine hold a torchlight march in Kiev to mark the birthday of their…
Author: bobpitt (page 4)
More disinformation on Ukraine: How fake news about a Shukhevych stamp went viral
This image, which depicts a Ukrainian stamp marking the 30 June birthday of notorious World War 2 Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych,…
Media coverage of fascism in Ukraine: Who’s to blame for ‘disinformation’?
For all its dodgy Cold War origins, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty once had a good record of exposing the role…
Fascists in defence of ‘democratic values’? The whitewashing of the Ukrainian far right continues
With the Azov regiment having finally accepted defeat and surrendered the Avostal steel plant to Putin’s forces, abandoning the last…
Confusion over the Ukrainian far right: Billy Bragg and the Banderite band
There was a time when the mainstream media were prepared to report accurately and in some detail on the disturbing…
Ukraine and the Bandera cult
After pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was brought down in 2014 by the Maidan protest movement, in which a decisive part…
On the ‘doxxing’ of J.K. Rowling
Last Friday comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy staged a small-scale demonstration outside the Edinburgh…
New wave of disciplinary action against Labour members: A rightwing campaign to purge the left
A fortnight ago I finally got a letter from the Complaints Team in the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit…
John Pilger’s fantasy history of Afghanistan
Last week the veteran leftwing journalist John Pilger published an article titled “Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries”, which…
Cable Street, the Left and antisemitism
The Jewish Labour Movement’s trade union officer Miriam Mirwitch published a blog post on the Jewish News site last week,…