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Africa’s freedom struggles, Russian imperialism and the war on Ukraine

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign - On-line Forum On Monday 4 September, join us for an online discussion of upheavals in Africa, the role of various imperialist powers - including Russia - and how it relates to the war in Ukraine Register via eventbrite here: Africa Freedom Struggles Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/africas-freedom-struggles-russian-imperialism-and-the-war-in-ukraine-tickets-705878881737

ukrainesolidaritycampaign Christopher Ford

Ukraine’s history of struggle

By Christopher Ford Ukrainian demonstration in Kyiv in 1917 Christopher Ford looks at the Ukrainian socialist tradition  The rediscovery of the Ukrainian socialist tradition is a key part of building solidarity with today’s Ukrainian freedom struggles. Ukraine’s vernacular left suffered not only extermination under Stalin and Hitler but a long succession of retrogressive approaches to the … Continue reading Ukraine’s history of struggle

ukrainesolidaritycampaign Yuliya Yurchenko

Weapons to fight for peace

By Yuliya Yurchenko Yuliya Yurchenko explains why appeasement, ‘peace now’ and other positions on Russia’s war against Ukraine are dangerous defeatist views   Ukrainians fight to survive and exercise national self-determination while Russia carries out its imperialist nationalism project, where the space it deems itself entitled to is absorbed and people are either assimilated or annihilated, thus denoting … Continue reading Weapons to fight for peace

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EDUCATION WORKERS FACING THE CHALLENGE OF RUSSIAN INVASION 

Interview with activists of the Free Trade Union of Education and Science of Ukraine On 23 August Russia bombed a school in Romny killing four innocent people,   two teachers, a school secretary and the school director.  It was the latest atrocity in a long series of deliberate attacks on schools. In the first year of … Continue reading EDUCATION WORKERS FACING THE CHALLENGE OF RUSSIAN INVASION 

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TUC Congress must side with Ukraine!

Three trade unions with a strong record of Ukraine solidarity campaigning - general union GMB, train drivers' union ASLEF and the National Union of Mineworkers - have submitted strong pro-Ukraine text to the upcoming TUC Congress (10-13 September, Liverpool). We congratulate them for doing so. See below for what these unions have submitted. It is … Continue reading TUC Congress must side with Ukraine!

ukrainesolidaritycampaign John-Paul Himka

RUSSIFICATION IN SOVIET UKRAINE AFTER STALIN

John-Paul Himka The difference between the Stalinist and post-Stalinist policies of Russification is that Stalin dealt a series of spectacularly violent blows to the Ukrainian nation, while his successors intiated a relatively nonviolent but relentless and systematic program of reducing the sphere of Ukrainian language and culture and raising the prestige of Russian language and … Continue reading RUSSIFICATION IN SOVIET UKRAINE AFTER STALIN