The Ukrainian government accuses of terrorism the Italian music group Banda Bassotti after a solidarity caravan to Donbass ( ver en catalan mas abajo )

The executive of Kiev demanded collaboration from various EU governments to arrest and extradite fifty activists who have recently participated in a solidarity caravan to Donesk and Lugansk regions, organized by the famous Roman rock group.

Members of the Banda Bassotti and other activists of the Caravan Antifascist some families of Donbass who distributed the solidarity aid .

by VICTOR SERRI translated from La Directa

Bringing toys to children, doing concerts, showing internationalist solidarity. These are, in the opinion of the Ukrainian government, the crimes of the Antifascist Donbass Caravan organized by the famous Italian musical group Banda Bassotti.

The executive asked Kiev last week, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the active collaboration of the governments of the European Union to arrest and extradite fifty people of Italian, Greek and Spanish origin that, in his opinion, violated Ukrainian anti-terrorism laws: all participants in the latest edition of the Caravan, including the members of . Banda Bassotti

The antifascist caravan is a project of international solidarity with the people of Donbass ( territory situated to the west of the current republic of Ukraine), created by the musical group Banda Bassotti . The reasons go back to the events of 2014, when it set up a new government in Kiev thanks to a coup parties “ultra-nationalists and chauvinists, with the support of the EU, NATO and the United States and began violent repression of public protests in the eastern regions of Ukraine “according to Marco Santopadre, journalist of the Roman alternative media Contropiano.



Delegation of the Antifascist Caravan in the last May Day demonstration in Donesk

It was at that time that Banda Bassotti launched an international appeal to support the people of Donbass, who in the meantime had made popular republics Donetsk and Lugansk. Support was also addressed to all antifascists from all over Ukraine, subject to the repression of the regime. In the first caravan in May 2015 over a hundred activists, libertarian communists and environmentalists took part (many of them Italian).

Among the members of this caravan also appeared Eleonora Forenza, national secretary of the Communist Refoundation Party MEP for the European United Left

This year the caravan could carry only fifty participants, mainly Italian. At the same time, more and more has widened the base: both have participated members of the Trade Union Network Base as Communists. In addition, among the members of the caravan participants also appeared Eleonora Forenza, national secretary of the Communist Refoundation Party, MEP from the European United Left and member of the New Feminist Collective. Forenza is the first representative of the European Parliament to visit the territories of Eastern autodeclarats independent Ukraine in 2014.

In addition, members were added in September from the Spanish and Catalan Countries (Brigade Rubén Ruíz Ibarruri), two Greek and others from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Great Britain.

“Medicines, clothes, food, toys …”

One of the young participants from Spain, who prefers to remain anonymous, says the Direct that “the reasons for my involvement has been mainly humanitarian. We wanted to support a civilian hit by conflict, and more We wanted to truly understand what happened without the filter of the media. ” According to this testimony detailing the discovery of the caravan was due to the Banda Bassotti and their concerts, which were on promotion.

Before the caravan organized performances and talks to raise funds and materials for orphanages in the Donbass, material which was redistributed in the five days of travel medicine, clothes, food, toys and money collected in the countries of provenance of activists were delivered to the children of two orphanages, wounded in hospitals and a reception centre for refugees of the most bombed. In addition, organized lectures and discussions with the rector of the National Technical University of Donetsk, the President of the Republic of Lugansk Igor Plotnitsky, and militants of the communist parties in the region. The band also gave two concerts: one of them, this past May Day, after having attended the rally for day workers.

A member of the Banda Bassotti collected toys to give to children in orphanages received the Donbass

It is not the first time the Ukrainian government accuses of terrorism activists, trade unionists and journalists who have shown their solidarity with the people of Donbass, or who have been in these republics without the permission of Kiev, through Russia. Ukrainian authorities claim that these territories are occupied and stolen. “Stolen and occupied by whom? From the same people living there?” Asks Santopadre.

Activist from the state that “columns or symbols of the Russian army is not all. The presence of combatants would be equivalent to the International Brigades: individual and for personal reasons.” Santopadre corroborated stating that these have not been battalions of Russian soldiers, according to the current government of Kiev, have occupied the Donbass.

“If the troops of Kiev and the Nazis were unable to take control of the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk it is only because most of the population of this territory has prevented it,” he concludes.

by Banda Bassotti in Donbass, Ukraine with the Antifascist convoy

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original en català

El govern ucraïnès acusa de terrorisme el grup italià Banda Bassotti per una caravana solidària al Donbass