Russian Political Prisoner JOHN MCDONNELL MP JOINS CALL TO FREE DARYA POLYUDOVA 17 Jun 202117 Jun 2021 Imprisoned Russian Socialist Who Opposed Putin's War Against Ukraine JOHN MCDONNELL MP John McDonnell MP, a leading socialist Member of Parliament and former Labour Party Shadow Chancellor has lodged an…
Russian Left… 8 Jun 20219 Jun 2021 FREE DARYA POLYUDOVA RUSSIAN SOCIALIST IMPRISONED FOR SIX YEARS FOR OPPOSING PUTIN AND THE WAR ON UKRAINE Darya Polyudova a Russian socialist activist and leader of the organisation ‘Left Resistance’…
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Socialist who exposed Russia’s hypocrisy about Ukraine gets 6-year sentence for social media posts 7 Jun 20217 Jun 2021 Darya Polyudova in 2014 with a placard reading Ukraine, we are with you, in court in 2021 (second photo from Grani.ru) By Halya Coynash - republished from Kharkiv Human Rights…
May Day NO TO CORPORATE DICTATORSHIP! MAY DAY RETURNS TO CITIES IN UKRAINE 11 May 202111 May 2021 «Соціальний рух» The international day of workers' solidarity was marked in the biggest cities of Ukraine, returning it to its social-liberation meaning. The slogan of the rally in Kyiv in…
Russo-Ukraine War WHAT IS BEHIND GROWING RUSSIA-UKRAINE TENSIONS 29 Apr 202129 Apr 2021 Russian Army on the border with Ukraine Tensions have been growing between Russia and Ukraine, what is behind this recent escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Ukraine Solidarity Campaign spoke with…
Russian Left Left Against Russian Imperialism 25 Apr 2021 Левые - против российского империализма! We have recently seen a build-up of Russian armed forces on Ukraine's borders. There has been an escalation of attacks in East Ukraine since January. …
Trade Union Rights New Move to attack workers rights in Ukraine 14 Apr 2021 Inna Kudinska and George Sandul, Labor Initiatives legal experts On April 13, a group of 62 MPs registered at the parliament a draft law No.5371 “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts regarding…
Social Movement A year of pandemic capitalism in Ukraine: 5 aspects 6 Apr 2021 We republish an analysis/position statement by «Соціальний рух» - Social Movement (rev.org.ua) on the results of Covid-19 in Ukraine over the last year. A year of the covid-19 pandemic has…
Belarus The Belarusian Revolution: Lessons, Perspectives and Tactics of the Radical Left 30 Mar 2021 by Pavel Katarzheuski In 1991, after the collapse of the bureaucratic model of “socialism” in the Soviet Union and in the Warsaw Pact countries, Belarus became independent. A liberal-democratic regime briefly…
Health Workers Be Like Nina 5 Jan 2021 Ukrainian healthcare workers demand justice The unwillingness of the oligarchic authorities to provide the necessary funds to protect people’s health under the pandemic has driven healthcare workers to the streets. …
VPZU VICTORY AGAINST VICTIMISATION OF TRANSPORT UNION ACTIVIST 28 Dec 2020 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 24 Dec 2020 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…
Miners… UKRAINIAN MINERS VICTORY BLOCKED IN COURT BATTLE 20 Nov 2020 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…
Kryvyi Rih… 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…
Social Movement AGAINST THE ANTI-SOCIAL DICTATORSHIP IN BELARUS 5 Sep 20205 Sep 2020 Statement of Solidarity by the Social Movement - Ukraine The bloody repression by the Belarusian government of the protests against the rigged elections shook the world. It is noteworthy that…
Belarus 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…
Belarus Partisans or Workers? Figures of Belarusian Protest and Their Prospects 17 Aug 2020 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 Belarus’ rigged presidential election must be re-run and police brutality must cease, demands ITUC 17 Aug 2020 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…
Belarus 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 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…
Marko Bojcun Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine 25 Jul 2020 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 29 Jun 2020 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’ 16 Jun 2020 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 15 Jun 2020 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 10 Jun 2020 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…
Uncategorized 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…
COVID-19 REFORM DURING THE PLAGUE. WHY MEDICAL STAFF ARE AGAINST THE REFORMS OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM 22 Apr 2020 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…
SDPU Ukrainian social democrats on the struggle between progress and reaction today 21 Feb 202021 Feb 2020 Published below is a key Resolution of the 23rd Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (Соціал-Демократична Партія України). This comes at crucial moment in Ukraine of a major…
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 10 Feb 2020 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 10 Feb 2020 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…
Labour Code Wave of Anger – mass trade union protest in Ukraine 6 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 Kyiv protesters on 30 January: “A Red Card for the Government’s Law On Labour No. 2708” A report from the Kyiv organization Social Movement about the growing opposition to the…
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… 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 14 Jan 2020 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…
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine Війна і окупація: життя і смерть по другій стороні фронту 15 Nov 2019 Шукаючи кращого розуміння війни на Сході України та перспектив її мирного врегулювання, Кампанія Солідарності з Україною запрошує спостереження та аналізи людей, близьких до центру конфлікту. Нещодавно ми попросили Олену Скоморощенко…
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine War and occupation: life and death across the front line 14 Nov 201915 Nov 2019 Interview with Olena Skomoroshchenko of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine In search of a better understanding of the war in Eastern Ukraine and the prospects for its peaceful settlement,…
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 7 Oct 2019 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…
EuroMaidan Reinterpreting the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 22 Sep 2019 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…
Vitaliy Dudin 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 11 Jul 2019 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…
