Кампанія Солідарності з Україною – The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign seeks to organise solidarity and provide information in support of the Ukrainian labour movement

VPZU

VICTORY AGAINST VICTIMISATION OF TRANSPORT UNION ACTIVIST

By Christopher Ford Nataliya Prystynsky VPZU representative Nataliya Prystynsky an activist of the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers of Ukraine (VPZU) has won a significant victory against her victimisation…

Ukrainian Trade Unons

Ukrainian health workers challenge low pay and poor conditions

Health workers in Ukraine have been protesting against the poor conditions and low wages. We republish the following by Hanna Sokolova from the Open Democracy site. It took only 24…

UKRAINIAN MINERS VICTORY BLOCKED IN COURT BATTLE

On October 15, 2020, the underground miners' protest at the public company "Kryvbaszalizrudkom"(KZRK) finished with the signing of an agreement. Miners' families and comrades in solidarity all over the world…

Luhansk Peoples Republic

Truth, Lies and the Morning Star on the death of Aleksey Markov

2 Nov 20203 Nov 2020

Aleksey Markov, commander of the "Prizrak" battalion, was killed in the occupied area of the Luhansk region of Ukraine on Saturday 24 October. The Morning Star has reported his death…

Victory to the Ukrainian miners

14 Sep 202014 Sep 2020

Solidarity with the Miners Strike in Kryvyi Rih Since September 3, iron ore miners’ have been on a wildcat strike at the mines of KZRK, PJSC (Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore…

John McDonnell MP…

MCDONNELL AND CORBYN CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH BELARUS FREEDOM STRUGGLE

10 Sep 202010 Sep 2020

Support John McDonnell’s Early Day Motion 850 on Belarus John McDonnell MP, a leading socialist Member of Parliament and former Labour Shadow Chancellor has lodged an Early Day Motion in…

Statement by Belarus socialists

17 Aug 202017 Aug 2020

Mass protests and strike action continue in Belarus. We republish a statement by the Belarus Left Party ‘Just World’ which campaigns for socialism in the Republic of Belarus- a society…

Partisans or Workers? Figures of Belarusian Protest and Their Prospects

by Volodymyr Artiukh This is an updated and revised version of the article that first appeared in Russian in Commons: Journal of Social Critique republished from Left East website: www.criticatac.ro These…

Belarus’ rigged presidential election must be re-run and police brutality must cease, demands ITUC

The ITUC has denounced the violent attacks by the police and the special security forces on demonstrators protesting over disputed presidential elections on Sunday evening in Belarus (9 August) and…

МКП: у Білорусі повинні бути повторні вибори, жорстокість поліції – припинена

17 Aug 202017 Aug 2020

Міжнародна конфедерація профспілок засудила жорстокі напади поліції та спеціальних сил безпеки на демонстрантів, що протестували проти спірних виборів президента в неділю ввечері в Білорусі (9 серпня). МКП закликала білоруський уряд…

HOLODOMOR

1 Aug 20201 Aug 2020

QUESTION NATIONALE, STALINISME, UKRAINE Par Vincent Presumey. Étymologiquement, le mot ukrainien Holodomor contracte holod, la faim, et demoryty, qui n’a pas d’équivalent direct en français et peut se rendre par « laisser périr délibérément ». L’intentionnalité…

Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine

We are pleased to announce the publication of an exciting new book by the veteran Ukrainian socialist Marko Bojcun - Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine Selected Essays 1990–2015. Part…

Anti-Union Laws…

Ukrainian trade unions under the guillotine

The labour market will get rid of trade unions Vitaliy Dudin Under the slogan of getting rid of old Soviet junk, Ukrainian parliamentarians want to “reform trade unions”. This reform…

Luhansk Peoples Republic

Miners protesting over pay arrears arrested and tortured in Russian-controlled Luhansk ‘republic’

From left Ihor Yefanov, Vitaly Yefanov, Yevhen Mykhailichenko We republish a below an important report by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group of the ongoing repression against mineworkers in the…

Anti-Union Laws

new anti-union law threatens Ukrainian trade unions

15 Jun 202015 Jun 2020

The Ukrainian trade union movement joined by an international campaign of solidarity recently pushed back proposed anti-union legislation, now the government proposing a new anti-trade union law. We publish this…

Luhansk Peoples Republic

LUHANSK MINERS PAY VICTORY – but activists still under arrest

The protest action miners "Krasnolimanska" in the Russian occupied area of Luhansk Mineworkers have ended an underground occupation in separatist-controlled territory in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, after bosses paid most of…

Luhansk Peoples Republic

Luhansk miners occupy pit and defy security forces

Since 5th of June mineworkers in the occupied Luhansk region Ukraine have been occupying the ‘Komsomolska’ mine in Antracyt (town in “Luhansk People’s Republic”). Fighting for their right to get…

STEFAN MELNYK 1966 – 2020

11 May 202012 May 2020

We are extremely saddened of the news of the tragic death of Stefan Melnyk (Стефан Мельник ). Christopher Ford pays tribute to our friend Stefan. A founding member of the…

REFORM DURING THE PLAGUE. WHY MEDICAL STAFF ARE AGAINST THE REFORMS OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM

by Kostyantyn Maleoniuk A second phase of the medical reforms has begun in Ukraine in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reform will cut off some hospitals from funding…

SDPU

УХВАЛА ХХІІІ З’ЇЗДУ СОЦІАЛ-ДЕМОКРАТИЧНОЇ ПАРТІЇ УКРАЇНИ

21 Feb 202021 Feb 2020

1 лютого 2020, Київ Україна знову робить вибір. Чверть сторіччя тому вона була однією з провідних країн Європи і світу. Але пішла по шляху неолібералізму. Соціал-демократична партія України попереджала про…

History of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925

16 Feb 202016 Feb 2020

Review of Stephen Velychenko, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red: The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine 1918-1925. University of Toronto Press, Buffalo and London, 2015. 277 pp.…

Anti-Union Laws…

THE CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS OF UKRAINE DECLARATION ON THE ATTACK ON SOCIAL AND WORKER RIGHTS

The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) continues to oppose the legislative attempts to radically narrow the labor and social rights of citizens and undermine the role of trade…

Anti-Union Laws

Ukraine’s government puts oligarchs and multinationals ahead of its own people

International Trade Union Confederation Protests New Labour Laws To: Mr Volodymyr Zelensky President of Ukraine Mr Dmytro Razumkov Chairman, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mr Oleksiy Honcharuk Prime Minister of Ukraine …

Anti-Union Laws…

European education unions in solidarity with Ukrainian workers

10 Feb 202010 Feb 2020

For more than a month Ukrainian trade union have been struggling against the changes proposed by the Government to the legislation on employment rights, trade unions, social insurance and social…

Anti-Union Laws

UKRAINIAN UNIONS UNITE AGAINST ANTI-WORKER LAWS

4 Feb 20204 Feb 2020

ALL-UKRAINIAN TRADE UNION FORUM IN KYIV On January 16, representatives of more than 60 thousand primary trade union organisations from all over Ukraine, delegated by 7 million members of trade…

Auschwitz 75th Anniversary: A memoir by Roman Rosdolsky

27 Jan 202027 Jan 2020

Seventy-five years ago Auschwitz was liberated– the first to enter the camp was a battalion led by the Major Anatoliy Shapiro, a Jewish Ukrainian of the Red Army’s, First Ukrainian…

Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine…

UKRAINIAN UNIONS TAKE TO THE STREETS FOR FREEDOM

15 Jan 202015 Jan 2020

On 15 January thousands of trade unionists and social activists took to the streets of Kyiv and picketed the Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Kyiv. The mass protest…

Anti-Union Laws

Ukrainian unions urgent appeal for solidarity

14 Jan 202014 Jan 2020

👉 On 28 December 2019, on the eve of the New Year holidays, without any warning and agreement with social partners, without timely publication and wide discussion, Honcharuk’s Government attacked labour…

Anti-Union Laws

Ukrainian workers face major attack on their freedom

A new labour law is being introduced in Ukraine which represents a major attacks on workers freedom and democracy as a whole. The Ukrainian trade union as whole is engaged…

Russo-Ukraine War…

FEAR AND HOPE IN UKRAINE

28 Oct 201928 Oct 2019

We publish below the observations of Maksym Kazakov in Kyiv about the demonstrations in October against President Zelensky’s attempt to restart the peace process and bring the war in Eastern…

Russo-Ukraine War

Ukraine, Peace, oligarchs and big power manoeuvres

Capitulation NO! - Protester against the peace plan. A new peace plan has been floated to end the Russo-Ukraine War begun in 2014. But at what price? Ten thousand have…

Reinterpreting the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014

Starting in November 2013 mass protests began in Ukraine leading to what became known as the EuroMaidan or the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. It has been argued that Ukraine experienced a…

Ukrainian Elections

Ukraine: the elections and after, Interview with historian serhiy hirik

13 Aug 201913 Aug 2019

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign interviewed the historian Serhiy Hirik about the recent round of Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections and the current situation. Sergiusz Hirik 1. Why did the Ukrainian voters…

Lessons from the election in Kryvyi Rih

29 Jul 201929 Jul 2019

Ukrainian socialist Vitaliy Dudin recently stood in the Parliamentary elections in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih. Standing on an openly left-wing program as an activist of the "Social Movement"…

Ukrainian Elections…

UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: A VOICE OF LABOUR

Elections to the Ukrainian parliament will be held on 21 July, once again various oligarchic candidates will compete. This time however in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih there will…

Deportation, genocide, and Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars

18 May 201918 May 2019

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. A painting by Crimean Tatar artist Rustem Eminov On May 18, Ukraine marks the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea that took…

MAY DAY IN UKRAINE DEMANDS END TO POVERTY WAGES

The biggest action on Mayday in Ukraine this year - 500 local workers, trade union members and young left activists from march in Kryviy Rih, centre of iron ore mining…

Ukrainian Elections

People are very tired of the neoliberal mainstream

29 Apr 201929 Apr 2019

What will happen now in Ukraine after the Presidential election? Christopher Ford organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign interviewed Vitaliy Dudin an activist of the NGO 'Social Movement' and leading…

UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION AND RECONFIGURATION OF OLIGARCHIC POWER.

22 Apr 201928 Apr 2019

Interview with Yuliya Yurchenko The elections in Ukraine have come a shock and will have an impact not only in Ukraine and East Europe but globally. What does this mean…

Ukrainian Elections

President-Elect Zelenskiy and Multiple Questions Still Unanswered

22 Apr 201922 Apr 2019

Halya Coynash , republished from Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group On 21 April Ukraine voted in fair and democratic elections to elect a new President, ousting the current President Petro…

Ukrainian Elections

Ukraine election: Voters protest the oligarchic system

Analysis of the Ukrainian Social Democracy The Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a run-off election to become the country's next president by a landslide, exit polls suggest. Sitting president…

KVPU

UKRAINIAN railways workers DEMAND JUSTICE

On 19th March members of the Free Trade Union of Railway workers of Ukraine (VPZU) picketed the central office of the PJSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" (Ukrainian railways). The VPZU demanded to raise…

National Question

Lenin’s Theory of the National Question and its Contradictions

5 Mar 20196 Mar 2019

The era of global capitalism did not bring an end to nations and nationalism; indeed our current period has very much seen a return of the national question. Movements for…

Crimea

The Political Repression of the Radical Left in Russian Occupied Crimea

25 Feb 201925 Feb 2019

Armed Searches, Abduction and Arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea Russia’s annexation of Crimea was purportedly an exercise in free political expression, a watershed moment in history when a historic part of…