The Odessa massacre, Ukraine and anti-imperialism
Odessa massacre
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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