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 

ukrainesolidaritycampaign Trade Union, Trade Union Solidarity with Ukraine

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

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SOLIDARITY WITH THE GMB STRIKES AT BEITH MUNITIONS DEPOT

Stand with those who are standing by Ukraine! The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland joined GMB union members in a show of solidarity it their strike at the Defence Equipment and Support) depot in Beith this week. Workers at a munitions depot in Ayrshire are campaigning against the appalling low wages being paid to the workers. … Continue reading SOLIDARITY WITH THE GMB STRIKES AT BEITH MUNITIONS DEPOT

ukrainesolidaritycampaign NGPU

SOLIDARITY AID DELIVERED TO RESCUE SQUAD IN DONBAS

Aid organised by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign has reached NGPU miners’ union rescue workers helping victims of Russian bombing In May the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign received an appeal for help from the Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine (NPGU) of the 10th Mining Rescue Squad in the Donetsk region.   The Mining Rescue Service … Continue reading SOLIDARITY AID DELIVERED TO RESCUE SQUAD IN DONBAS

ukrainesolidaritycampaign Viktoriya Ball

Ecocidal corporations lining up to profit from Ukraine’s reconstruction spells deeper environmental disaster

By Viktoriya Ball A shameful lack of Ukrainian civil society involved in Ukraine’s recovery planning means disaster capitalism going unchecked. When we talk about rebuilding our country, Ukrainians envisage a place where communities and environment thrive, free from the shackles of Russia’s political influence and oligarchy. For me as a Ukrainian girl who grew up … Continue reading Ecocidal corporations lining up to profit from Ukraine’s reconstruction spells deeper environmental disaster

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Our close friend, comrade and editor of “Commons” Oleksandr Kravchuk died

Editorial board of Commons We lost our close friend, comrade and colleague Oleksandr Kravchuk, an economist and Commons editorial team member. For years, he has been a permanent editor and the soul of our journal. Oleksandr (Sasha) was into hiking in the mountains, dancing and playing volleyball; it always seemed that he had more health … Continue reading Our close friend, comrade and editor of “Commons” Oleksandr Kravchuk died