Andrew Murray is chief of staff of Britain’s
largest trade union Unite
Mr Murray was chairman of the Stop the War
Coalition from 2001 until 2011
‘We must demand that our government stops
supporting EU and Nato expansion'
The chief of staff of Britain’s largest
trade union Unite has launched a group supporting pro-Russian separatists in
Ukraine.
Rebel groups are now widely suspected
of shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in the east of the country.
Andrew Murray, right-hand man to the
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, spoke at the inaugural meeting of a
campaign called Solidarity With The Antifascist Resistance In Ukraine (SARU) in
June.
‘We must demand that our government
stops supporting EU and Nato expansion and stops supporting the Kiev
government.’
Since the airliner was shot down last
month, with the loss of all 298 people on board, SARU has held a demonstration
outside the Ukrainian Embassy in London, against ‘repression in Eastern
Ukraine’.
A posting on the SARU website read:
‘Protesters also spoke up against the media coverage of the downed Malaysian
flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine, criticising the haste [sic] attribution of
guilt to Russian President Vladimir Putin.’
Elsewhere it suggested that the
airliner flew ‘lower than usual over the danger zone at the request of the
Ukrainian dispatchers’.
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