Tomás Ó Flatharta

The British Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is a growing force.

It recently won the support of the UNITE trade union, which also organises in Ireland.

UNITE the Union votes overwhelmingly for strong solidarity with Ukraine

But some parts of the British left offer policies which pretend to be anti-imperialist, but they stink.

It reminds this writer of bad old days in the 1960’s and 1970’s when many left organisations – from the Labour party to Official Sinn Féin and the Communist party – refused to practice solidarity with comrades in the six-county part of Ireland because they disagreed with the policies of Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the main republican organisations which had a mass following.

We can not do anything about political mistakes made in the past – but we can learn from them and do better in the future. One big positive example from those days was the formation of the National H-Block-Armagh.

Readers interested. who like to burrow into useful political history, are invited to read this book review :

Smashing H Block:The Rise and Fall of the Popular Campaign Against Criminalization

In the meantime, congratulations to the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in Britain.

John Meehan October 28 2025

From Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers’ rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left: www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ysjFKK

First up – yes, Zelensky is no friend of Ukraine’s working class in the sense that his government pursues right-wing, neoliberal, anti-worker economic policies.

Unlike Zarah Sultana, we actually know something about this, since we are connected to Ukraine’s unions and have been actively involved in helping them fight these policies.