Кампнія Солідарності з Україною

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…

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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…

Crimean Tatars

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

MAY DAY IN UKRAINE DEMANDS END TO POVERTY WAGES

7 May 2019

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…

Elections

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

21 Apr 2019

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

26 Mar 2019

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…

Crimea

Crimean left activist arrested, drugged and charged with ‘extremism’

25 Feb 201925 Feb 2019

Valery Bolshakov, Chairman of the Workers’ Union of Sevastopol outside the 'court' in Sevastopol on 22.02.2019 Photo Krym.org The ‘trial’ is continuing in Russian-occupied Crimea of Valery Bolshakov, a left-wing…

History of the Ukrainian Revolution…

BOROTBISM

29 Jan 201929 Jan 2019

The Classic History Of The Ukrainian Revolution The 1954 classic study of the Ukrainian Revolution, Borotbism by Ivan Maistrenko has just been republished in a new edition. It was one…

Donbas…

Woman Workers Hunger Strike in Donetsk Region

16 Jan 2019

Dear Colleagues!On behalf of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, I want to share the update information about female employees hunger strike in Donetsk region. In the Donetsk region,…

Russian Anti-Fascists

Russian anti-fascists under attack: Solidarity demo

16 Jan 201916 Jan 2019

Russian anti-fascists and anarchists are being arrested, framed and tortured in a brutal wave of repression which has put eleven Russian anti-fascists behind bars, facing obviously fabricated charges which could…

History of Ukraine…

Ukraine in the Second World War

1 Jan 20191 Jan 2019

Events in Ukraine during World War Two have come to feature greatly in analysis and commentary since the Russo-Ukraine war began in 2014. The Kremlin has revived Stalinist narratives of…

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Moscow assault on Ukraine access to Sea of Azov

1 Jan 2019

Russian fighter jets fly over Kerch bridge with Russian tanker blocking access to Sea of Azov during assault on, seizure of three Ukrainian naval boats and their 24 crew members…

Uncategorized

MARTIAL LAW AND LABOUR RIGHTS IN UKRAINE

19 Dec 2018

Tensions continue to mount following the attack by Russia on Ukrainian navy ships on the Sea of Azov on 25 November. The Kremlin announced on Monday that it was sending…

SPDU

MARTIAL LAW, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AND DEMOCRACY

17 Dec 201817 Dec 2018

Published below is a statement of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine ( Соціал-Демократична Партія України ) in response to the Russian aggression in the Sea of Azov and deceleration of…

Ukrainian Miners…

Miners Continue Underground Protest in Ukraine

6 Nov 2018

The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has called for solidarity with their members who are on strike and protesting underground at the mine Kapustin in Luhansk Oblast.…

DNR…

Putin Aide promises Donbas Proxies higher ‘pay’ & help with ‘elections’

25 Oct 201825 Oct 2018

So much for Moscow’s claim that the events in Donbas are a ‘civil war’ in Ukraine that Russia is not a party to. On 10 October the Russian state news…

C14…

Neo-Nazi C14 vigilantes appear to work with Kyiv police in latest ‘purge’ of Roma

25 Oct 2018

Members of the neo-Nazi C14 movement, together with the ‘Kyiv Municipal Watch’ civic organization which is led by C14 activist Serhiy Bondar, have carried out another raid, driving Roma citizens…

Ukrainian Trade Unons…

MASS PROTEST OF TRADE UNIONS IN UKRAINE

23 Oct 201823 Oct 2018

Mass Demonstration in Kyiv and Strikes in Donbas The U.N International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17) was marked in Ukraine by a massive demonstration of trade unionists…

Denis Gorbach…

Entrepreneurs of political violence: the varied interests and strategies of the far-right in Ukraine

23 Oct 2018

For Ukraine's far right, violence has become a source of influence and power DENYS GORBACH The recent wave of anti-Roma pogroms in Ukraine has spawned a new series of texts on…

ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih…

ArcelorMittal Dispute: Despite Shenanigans in Court the Struggle Continues

30 Aug 201830 Aug 2018

Ukrainian Trade Unions Need Solidarity The struggle of the Ukrainian trade unions with the global corporation ArcelorMittal continues despite a day of farce and delay in an ongoing court case…