While racists rallied in central London to listen to the likes of Tommy Robinson last weekend the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign returned to south London to picket in the working-class district of Brixton, calling on the Starmer government to stop sending weapons, money and military personnel to Ukraine and to end its disgraceful alliance with the Nazi Banderite gangs.

The protest took place against a background of Britain and its allies in the “Coalition of the Willing” desperately trying to put together a so-called ‘reassurance force’ to be sent to Ukraine after a peace deal has been agreed.

They carried placards saying “Spend £21.8 billion on housing, not on Ukraine”, and condemned Starmer’s plans for massive increases in military spending and the whipping-up of a war mentality in Britain – plans which will not go down well with millions of working people struggling with the ever increasing cost of living.

It also took place shortly after the hysteria over claims of a Russian “drone invasion” of Poland – clearly being seized on by the NATO leadership – with evidence emerging that it was very likely a British–Ukrainian false flag operation, with Polish citizens whose homes, allegedly “destroyed” by Russian drones, now coming forward to say that they were damaged months ago by severe storms.