Solidarity 324, 14 May 2014

Impasse in Ukraine

The coup-makers in the Donets region of eastern Ukraine ran a referendum on 11 May and declared a huge majority in their favour. The question was vague, asking people if they supported “the act of state self-rule”, and the figures given by the coup-makers are not to be trusted. Within hours, however, the coup-makers have taken the referendum as authority to declare the region independent and ask Russia to annex it. Russian president Vladimir Putin had said before the referendum that it would be best to postpone it, and may not move quickly to annex. This canny “moderation” gives him more...

Farage in Scotland

Over 300 activists turned up last Friday (9th May) to protest at a visit to Edinburgh by UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Farage’s last visit to Scotland – in May of last year – ended in a fiasco for the UKIP leader after protestors trapped him in a pub on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and police had to be called in to rescue him. This time Farage managed to avoid the same fate by bringing with him his own security team and creeping into the venue for his press conference and (very poorly attended) ‘rally’ through a rear entrance. Inside the venue, Farage spoke to a succession of small groups of carefully...

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