Left Again Attacks Establishment

On November 24 the third stage of the Left's all-Ukrainian protest action took place with the All-Ukrainian Union of Workers, Socialist Party of Ukraine, and other representatives of the Bloc of Left Forces taking part. No more than 400 persons, a far cry from the 10,000 expected, marched with red flags from Maidan Nezalezhnosty (Independence Square) to the Presidential Administration. The picketers' demands were not new: removing the President and changing the government's basic political course. The Presidential Administration was picketed only briefly due to the cold and advanced age of most of the participants. Vasyl Arestov, Kyiv coordinator of the Left Bloc, promised that this action will not be the last.