#rememberodessa

To honor Odessa anti-fascists, stop weapons to Ukraine!

Statement by John Parker, Socialist Unity Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California, at a memorial in Moscow for victims of the 2014 Odessa Massacre on May 2. Parker is on a fact-finding trip to uncover the truth about the U.S./NATO proxy war on Donbass and Russia. Now more than ever, we must raise the reality of the nature of the Ukrainian government, to alert our class to the danger of U.S.-led NATO expansion, the greatest danger to humanity today.

The massacre at the Odessa House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014, was a war crime by proxy, with Nazi and other fascist gangsters following the script written for them by U.S. imperialism before 2014.

On May 2, the 8-year anniversary of the Odessa House of Trade Unions massacre was commemorated in Baltimore. The anniversary is particularly important this year as the U.S. corporate media continue to spread war lies about the situation in Ukraine.

By Greg Butterfield

This May, as U.S. imperialism wages a criminal proxy war against Russia on the territory of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, the workers’ movement should take steps toward organizing to defeat imperialist war and fascism. Three days of fight-back give us an opportunity to begin that urgent work.

May 1 is International Workers’ Day, commemorating the 1886 Haymarket protest and deadly police repression in Chicago. The day of international working-class solidarity is celebrated around the world. In the United States, anti-communism and anti-Sovietism nearly wiped out May Day for decades, until it was revitalized by the struggle of undocumented immigrant workers in the early 2000s.

May 2 marks the anniversary of another massacre: in Odessa, Ukraine, in 2014, carried out by U.S.-backed neo-Nazis. At least 48 anti-fascist protesters were killed when supporters of the illegal Maidan coup set fire to the House of Trade Unions and slaughtered those who tried to escape the burning building. This massacre isn’t yet well known in the U.S. but should be, since it illuminates the ugly reality behind Washington’s “Stand with Ukraine” war propaganda.

Remember Odessa: Solidarity with the Antifascist People of Ukraine and Donbass

Sunday, May 2 - 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Union Square, 14th St. & Broadway, New York City

Hosted by Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine

As part of the International Day of Action on the anniversary of the May 2, 2014, massacre in Odessa, Ukraine, we will hold a vigil and information-sharing event at Union Square. We will have signs and flyers to share, or bring your own!

No U.S.-Ukraine War on Donbass and Russia!

Stop the Drone Strikes on Civilians!

Stop Killing Children!

UN, May 5 - RIA Novosti. The reaction of Western delegations to the informal meeting of the UN Security Council about the crimes of nationalists in Ukraine left Russian diplomats with a nauseated feeling, said Dmitry Polyansky, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the organization.

Join the JUSTICE FOR ODESSA online day of action on Saturday, May 2

The Odessa Solidarity Campaign and Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine invite you to participate in an online day of action on Saturday, May 2, to honor those who died in the 2014 Odessa Massacre in Ukraine. 

Post a photo of yourself holding a sign. You can print out and use one of the signs below, or make your own. Post on social media using the hashtags #OdessaSolidarity and #Justice4Odessa. Also, email a copy to [email protected]

May 2 will mark the sixth anniversary of the massacre of nearly 50 anti-fascists in Odessa, Ukraine. Activists were attacked by a racist neo-Nazi mob, similar to those in Charlottesville in 2017 and Lansing in 2020. Activists were driven into the House of Trade Unions, which was then set afire. Some anti-fascists were burned alive; others were shot or beaten to death as they tried to escape the blaze. The youngest victim was just 17.

By Greg Butterfield

On May 2, five years after the massacre of 48 anti-fascists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, Struggle-La Lucha activists joined the Odessa Solidarity Campaign for a vigil outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

In 2014, shortly after a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the government of Ukraine, neo-Nazis were bused into the city of Odessa. They attacked a protest encampment on Kulikovo Field. When anti-fascists sought refuge in the nearby trade union building, the fascists set fire to the structure, shooting and beating to death those who tried to escape the inferno.

Many videos and photographs document the massacre and identify those responsible. But none of the perpetrators have been punished.

Communists in Donetsk honored the memory of the dead in the massacre at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. May 2, 2019

Remember and fight!