ANTI-FASCIST protesters gathered outside the Ukrainian embassy in London and the Ukrainian consulate in Edinburgh at the weekend to protest against the deepening crisis in Ukraine.

The demonstration highlighted the new laws banning communist symbols while at the same time honouring second world war nazi collaborators such as Stepan Bandera.

Speakers at the event extended their solidarity to the Communist Party of Ukraine and other progressive forces in the face of extreme state repression and violence.

London district secretary Steve Johnson said: “In the 80th anniversary year of the defeat of fascism it is shameful that a government in Europe is rewriting history and resorting to state repression against communist, left and anti-fascist organisations while rehabilitating organisations that collaborated with the nazis in massacring Jews in the Ukraine.”