RALLY FOR A FREE, UNITED AND DEMOCRATIC UKRAINE

On 28 July, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign will launch its new initiative: Another Ukraine is Possible – Free from Occupation. This campaign offers a clear alternative of solidarity against Russian occupation —and a vision for a free, united, democratic Ukraine.

The launch event at Hamilton House in London will bring together voices of resistance and solidarity. Chaired by Mick Whelan, General Secretary of ASLEF, the rally will feature powerful addresses from Ukraine’s democratic socialists Social Movement, speaking live from the frontline, and Vermont state senator Tanya Vyhovsky.

Among the prominent supporters backing this plan are former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, Labour MPs Nadia Whittome, Clive Lewis, Ian Lavery, Rachael Maskell, Margaret Mullane, and Baroness Christine Blower. Mick Antoniw MS, currently delivering aid in eastern Ukraine, has endorsed the platform.

The campaign is supported by a diverse coalition—UK and Ukrainian trade unionists, socialists and social democrats, human rights groups, and public figures—including Peter Tatchell, journalists George Monbiot and Andrew Fisher, and signatories from ASLEF, NUM, PCS.

This intervention comes at a critical moment. As Ukrainian civil society protests against democratic rollbacks and threats to anti-corruption independence, Russia escalates drone strikes on cities like Kyiv. Meanwhile, Trump’s goal is a to carve up Ukraine for oligarchic interests in a potential deal with Putin.

The campaign is underpinned by seven concrete demands—for a peace rooted in justice, not appeasement. It rejects both authoritarianism and occupation, and calls for international solidarity with Ukraine’s democratic movements.

If you reject the tyranny of oligarchs east and west—if you believe another Ukraine is possible—then the time to act is now. Join the call. Stand for freedom. Organise.

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