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Solidarity with Ukrainian Miners

Holborn, London. Fri 23 May 2014

 

 
 The Ukrainian miners are suffering from huge inflation and attacks on wages

 They work for London registers mining company Evraz, owned by Russian Oligarchs

 Roman Abramov and Alexander Abramovitch. They were promised a rise in April,

 but instead got am 'insulting' one-off handout

 The Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine say the oligarchs are greedy and pay a beggar's wage to miners

 Abramov and Abramovitch send their money offshore, pay no taxes in Ukraine. Sounds familiar?

 

 Ukrainian Socialist Solidarity - Justice for the Kryvyi Rih Miners - End Slave Labour

 

 

 

 

 
 
Police talked with the protesters and confirmed that these offices are only a front for EVRAZ 

whose actual business is opaque 

It seems to be exactly kind of thing that gives the City of London a bad name

The protesters should have had the City regulators protesting with them! 

But the City has a very large carpet that accomodates all kinds of nasty business swept under it 

 

The 'A World to Win' banner 

 

and also the Independent Workers Union at the protest 

But many on the British left have not shown solidarity,

as the miners support the Maidan and are opposed to the Russian intervention in the Ukraine  

 

 
 

   

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