Speaking at the Toronto picket, Laurent Lafrance, a leading member of the SEP, said: “While today’s protest is focused on the Ukrainian consulate, we also hold the Canadian government responsible for Bogdan’s detention and physical and mental well-being.”
Join the campaign to win Comrade Bogdan’s freedom. Securing his release is a crucial element in the fight to develop a working class-led movement against the global war that US and Canadian imperialism are waging against Russia and China and in the Middle East.
Their refusal to accept the letter only further exposed the anti-democratic character of the regime they serve—a regime that rules through martial law, has cancelled all elections, and seizes workers off the streets to serve as cannon fodder in NATO’s war. https://t.co/46FPHtUV1o
Like pickets were held in Berlin, Paris, London, Istanbul and elsewhere. Ukrainian embassy officials in Europe refused to accept a letter refuting the trumped up charges against Bogdan, including the Stalin-style smear that he and the WSWS are pawns of Putin's reactionary regime.
The Socialist Equality Party (Canada) organized a powerful picket today outside the Ukrainian consulate in Toronto to demand the Zelensky government and its secret police, the SBU, immediately release our jailed comrade, 25 year-old YGBL leader Bogdan Syrotiuk.
Comrade Bogdan is being persecuted for opposing the NATO-instigated war with Russia, and for fighting for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against all the belligerents. The Toronto picket was part of a coordinated day of international action to secure his freedom.
Hear WSWS Chairman David North explain the facts behind Bodgan’s arbitrary arrest and detention on trumped up charges and sign the petition to demand his immediate freedom. https://t.co/D4Pw72h9gm
All workers and youth must defend Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk. The far-right Zelensky regime has jailed Bodgan for opposing the US-NATO instigated war and fighting to unite Russian and Ukrainian workers against the oligarchic regimes that rule both Russia and Ukraine.
The Socialist Equality Party has selected Joseph Kishore and Jerry White as its presidential and vice-presidential candidates. This is the socialist alternative in 2024 to Biden and Trump, the corporate candidates of war and dictatorship. #Socialism2024 https://t.co/bXWdMRYhkN
The Socialist Equality Party has selected Joseph Kishore and Jerry White as its presidential and vice-presidential candidates. This is the socialist alternative in 2024 to Biden and Trump, the corporate candidates of war and dictatorship. #Socialism2024 https://t.co/bXWdMRYhkN
The Socialist Equality Party (Canada) welcomes the announcement of our US sister party that it is intervening in the 2024 US Presidential elections, standing Joe Kishore for president and Jerry White for vice-president.
“This great historical task,” continued North, “can only be achieved by adopting a global strategy aimed at the mobilization of the power of the American and international working class in a unified struggle against the world capitalist system.”
Read this World Socialist Web Site article that outlines the way forward for the BC dockers and their supporters in defeating state strikebreaking. https://t.co/VODaSmycJA
At the behest of the Trudeau government, the BCMEU, and corporate Canada as a whole, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has ruled the resumed BC dockworkers’ strike “illegal” and ordered the union to immediately order workers to return to work.
The CIRB justified its anti-democratic ruling with the claim that the union did not give the requisite 72-hour notice of a strike. This is a sham. The only reason workers were back on the job, is because the ILWU top brass surrendered to state intimidation.
A special appeal should be made to the 22,000 US West Coast dockers, who have been without a contract for a year and similarly face the threat of government action to illegalize any strike.