Why, exactly, was 'Azov' chosen to take part in the state funeral of Nazi collaborator Andriy Melnyk?
Ukraine officially fields an army approaching one million personnel, spread across roughly 120 brigades.
Yet only one unit was granted the exceptional privilege of appearing at an event attended by the president, the speaker of parliament, government officials, and the military high command: the Azov-rooted Third Assault Brigade.
That choice was no coincidence.
The brigade openly presents itself as the heir to the tradition of OUN integral nationalism and as a glorifier of the UPA legacy — without condemning the ethnic violence against Poles that claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives: children, women, and men butchered in the name of ethnic purity.
Another defining feature of the brigade’s ideology is its denial or minimization of Ukrainian nationalist participation in the Holocaust, coupled with the glorification of collaboration with Nazi Germany, including service in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.
This is not hidden at the margins. It manifests itself in annual commemorative ceremonies, public exhibitions, and carefully curated historical narratives.
And the Ukrainian state does not merely tolerate these initiatives — it actively legitimizes them. It provides institutional backing, media amplification, and diplomatic cover.
In doing so, it fuels Holocaust revisionism in Ukraine: a process that recasts the murderers of Jewish neighbors as noble patriots and “freedom fighters.”
The bitter irony is almost too grotesque to process: this campaign of Holocaust revisionism is being driven by military men flaunting Wolfsangel and Dirlewanger insignia, operating under the supreme command of a Jewish president, in a country that suffered unimaginably under Nazi occupation.
This week, the ICC requested an arrest warrant against Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
In response, he ordered the forcible evacuation and demolition of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank.
This is ethnic cleansing. When will our government end its complicity?
without class consciousness & political education, the masses in the imperial core will continue to self id w the politics of liberalism even if their desires for change go far beyond.
most communists/socialists in the us went on their ideological journey because of bernie’s insurgent “democratic socialist” campaign in 2016 when he ran as a democrat against hillary clinton. the electoral system is a viable route to reach the masses w an alternative. this is what the moneyed interest in both parties fear, this is why they spend against their left flank & fight it tooth and nail.
we must continue helping people awaken to the reality of this systems design that creates such inequality, it is not the migrant workers, nor trans people, or muslims or jews- but the billionaires and the parasitic forces of capital and its servants that are responsible for the deteriorating material conditions.
BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.
Together we are One.
The next Labour leader must move decisively away from the status quo to beat Reform.
That means giving power and wealth to working class people. It means a democratic revolution, rent controls and public ownership of water.
It means someone who isn't Wes Streeting.
Translation: A group of housemates split the rent on a multi-room house in which he has a room. In the same sense he travels in a 10 million pound vehicle (he takes the tube).
Cathy Newman: "... meanwhile the bond markets will go into a hissy fit"
@HackneyAbbott: "British politics & British parliament can't be run at the behest of the bond markets.. if the British govt is going to be completely dominated by the bond market MP's might as well go home"
When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.
Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.
We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.
We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.
Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.
That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.
Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez has awarded the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, for her advocacy throughout Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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In 2016, Zack Polanski hosted and spoke at fundraisers for the Red Cross.
In 2017, Nigel Farage gave speeches for the AFD, who the German authorities have designated an extremist organisation, and which uses Nazi slogans.
Which do you think UK Press is attacking right now?
"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage.
It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it."
- David Graeber (from 2020)
"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage.
It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it."
- David Graeber (from 2020)
This deserves to be circulated.
A former Red Cross staff member got in touch.
She testifies about @ZackPolanski's role.
For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau.
The whole thing is a desperate smear.