A Conference on Resistance, Reconstruction and Transformation of Ukraine

Ukraine’s courageous struggle for freedom from Russian imperialism is central to European and global politics today. An important international discussion is underway on Ukraine’s economic, social and ecological recovery from the effects of war.

The UK government is hosting an international Ukraine Recovery Conference in London on 21-22 June, already a vision taking shape of a recovery in the interests of big business with the danger of corporate elites exploiting a war damaged economy. But just as progressive reforms in post-war Britain showed after 1945 that reconstruction can be in the interests of the many, not the few, then Ukraine doesn’t need to return to the exploitation of oligarchs – another Ukraine, and another world, are possible.

Join us at a day of discussion and debate with Ukrainian and UK social activists and academics, trade unionists and MPs on the key issues of Ukraine’s struggle for freedom and reconstruction.

Register:  https://bit.ly/anotherukraine

Contact : info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org

Crowdfunder:  https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ukrainian-workers-fight-for-just-reconstruction?fbclid=IwAR1134RJxxE50bfrU_-24Hrgchs2a1ADgC05K-45rU0g54OD20fWhaDGJjM

Opening Plenary – FROM RESISTANCE TO RECONSTRUCTION – how the war ends can shape the reconstruction?

Chair/Speaker : Julie Ward, former Member of European Parliament

Mick Antoniw  Member of the Senedd

Luke Cooper LSE, Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Director of PeaceRep’s Ukraine Programme

Vitaliy Dudin , Sotsialny Rukh 

Andy Kilmister Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes Business School

Oksana Potapova

Session 1 –  The Political Economy of Reconstruction

Chair – Maria Exall President of TUC

Yuliya Yurchenko University of Greenwich.

John McDonnell MP, former Shadow Chancellor

Pavlo Holota NGPU Independent Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine

Nick Dearden Global Justice Now

Simon Pirani   Senior Research  

Session 2 – The Social Reconstruction of Ukraine –

Chair – Alena-  

Natalie Kopytko  Deputy Director Sustainability Research Institute University of Leeds

Oksana Holota KVPU Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine

Alex Sobel MP,  Shadow Minister for Nature

Thomas Rowley Lead Editor, openDemocracy

Iris Del Sol from Free Svydovets Group

Final Plenary – Building Solidarity

Chair/Speaker Greg Schwartz, University of Bristol/USC

Bohdan Ferens, SD Platform

John Moloney Assistant General Secretary PCS