The Odessa massacre, Ukraine and anti-imperialism
TEN years ago today, 42 Ukrainian trade unionists were burned to death when Odessa’s House of Trade Unions was set alight by fascists.
They had taken refuge from a crowd of Ukrainian nationalists, opposing their protest against that February’s Maidan coup.
As Keith Barlow writes today, the date was no accident. May 2 1933 was the date on which Nazi Germany banned trade unions.
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