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УКРАИНА: НАЦИОНАЛЬНО-ДЕМОКРАТИЧЕСКАЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИЯ
УКРАИНА: НАЦИОНАЛЬНО-ДЕМОКРАТИЧЕСКАЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИЯ И ПРАВЫЕ РАДИКАЛЫ Олег Дубровский Автор данного текста, опираясь на идейное наследие украинской социал-демократии первой половины XX в., исходит из следующих положений: В составе Российской империи Украина была колонией. В 1917 г. в обстановке Всероссийской социальной революции в Украине началась национально-демократическая революция. По отношению к этой революции и российский большевизм, и российское […]
UKRAINE AMONG WORST COUNTRIES FOR WORKERS
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the global confederation of national trade union centres, has published its annual Global Rights Index – and Ukraine comes out badly
A Revolutionary Classic: On the Current Situation in Ukraine
One of the most important and influential books published during the revolutionary period was the До хвилі – On the Current Situation: (What is Happening to and in Ukraine?), published at the beginning of 1919 by Serhiy Mazlakh and Vasyl Shakhray.
Crimean Tatars – The Nation Stalin Deported
The Crimean Tatars faced deportation from the peninsula under Stalin in 1944. Today, they are facing a new policy of persecution. The Crimean Tatars have existed as a community for over 700 years, after the revolution in 1917 they formed the first democratic republic in the Islamic world , the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic existed until […]
Ukraine: ‘We need new ways of organising’
The Eastern Human Rights Group (EHRG) – a lawyers’ collective that gives support to individuals, workplace collectives and community groups – is working with other activists to set up territorially-based workers’ organisations that will embrace the employed, unemployed and precariously employed.
Miners, rail workers in Ukraine fight attacks
BY PATRICIA MARSHALL Over the past year tens of thousands of workers in Ukraine have been involved in strikes and protest actions against deteriorating living and working conditions, unpaid wages, and harassment and firings of union activists. In February 2014 sustained popular mobilizations by workers and others, known as the Maidan, toppled the pro-Moscow regime […]
RECONSIDERING THE UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION
As part of our series of articles to mark the Centenary of the Ukrainian Revolution the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is pleased publish for the first time this essay by the historian John-Pual Himka.
