PCS national executive members and conference delegates promoting the 1 June 2025 protest in London for release of the Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

We wanted to share this motion passed at the August 2025 summer gathering of PCS Independent Left (IL), a network organising within civil service trade union PCS that has been heavily involved in Ukraine solidarity work within the union. USC obviously works with a range of people from a variety of affiliations and viewpoints within PCS (and all unions). However we do appreciate IL’s consistent support – hence publishing their motion.

PCS was the first union to pass strong pro-Ukraine policy at its conference after the full-scale invasion in 2022; this was reaffirmed in 2023; and in 2025 an attempt to overturn it was seen off. The union has organised extensive practical solidarity with Ukraine’s labour movement. It is affiliated to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, with a representative on our steering committee (at time of writing a comrade from a different political wing of the union than the one discussed here, to illustrate the point above about how we organise).

If you’re a PCS branch or member and want to get involved in building solidarity, wherever you stand in the union’s internal debates and organisations, please do get in touch so we can help you connect: info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org

PCS Independent Left notes:

• Russia’s continuing and escalating war of aggression against Ukraine;

• that Ukraine’s labour movement, supporting the country’s resistance to Russian imperialism while opposing the neoliberal and anti-union policies of the Ukrainian government, continues to appeal for solidarity;

• that recent mass youth protests that stopped the weakening of anti-corruption bodies showed the vitality and power of Ukrainian civil society activism;

• the central role IL activists have played in winning and maintaining PCS’s stance of support for Ukraine and its labour and social movements, and translating this into practical solidarity.

PCS Independent Left resolves:

• to encourage IL members and other PCS members to

i) invite Ukrainian labour movement speakers to branch meetings and events;

ii) build direct links with Ukrainian trade union organisations;

iii) Build political and practical links with UK unions and union branches that have taken decisions to support the right of Ukraine to militarily resist the Russian invasion and to work with those trade union bodies to build support for Ukraine within the trade union movement, Labour Party, and Your Party

iv) contribute to and promote financial and material aid appeals;

v) propose their branches affiliate to and work with Ukraine Solidarity Campaign.

• to carry more material on Ukraine and its workers’ and social movement on the IL website;

• to invite Ukraine Solidarity Campaign to a meeting to discuss collaboration.

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