Leaked documents show UK government supports anti-union labour reform Ukraine European Public Service Unions reports: These leaked documents show that the UK government via its development aid arm (UK Aid) and the UK embassy in Kiev is funding consultants to assist the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy in selling its neo-liberal market reforms to the Ukrainian people. EPSU … Continue reading Leaked documents show UK government supports anti-union labour reform Ukraine
EXPOSED: BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE FUNDING ATTACK ON WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN UKRAINE
The British state is directly involved in funding a project to transform laws in Ukraine which will reduce workers rights. Legal changes already condemned by Ukrainian trade unions as contravening the International Labour Organization. Republished below is an article by Thomas Rowley of Open Democracy. Demonstration of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine … Continue reading EXPOSED: BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE FUNDING ATTACK ON WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN UKRAINE
FREE RUSSIAN SOCIALIST IGOR KUZNETSOV
Journalist and anti-war activists faces five years in prison! On 16 September an activist of the Russian socialist organisation ‘Left Resistance’ Igor Kuznetsov, known on-line as ‘Yaroslav Solntse’, was arrested in Tomsk. Kuznetsov has repeatedly spoken out on-line and at public events against Russian imperialism and the aggression against Ukraine, for the right to self-determination … Continue reading FREE RUSSIAN SOCIALIST IGOR KUZNETSOV
Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust
New Book by John-Paul Himka An important new book by the respected Ukrainian historian John-Paul Himka is now available - Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust, OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944. Published in the Ukrainian Voices series by ibidem Verlag. John-Paul Himka is the author of a number of important … Continue reading Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust
The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918 – Introduction
Marko Bojcun Editor’s note: We are publishing below from the Historical Materialism blog - the Introduction to the new book in the Historical Materialism series - The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918 by Marko Bojcun: https://brill.com/view/title/21251 Bojcun explores the social-democratic workers’ movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire, focused on the Ukrainian, … Continue reading The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918 – Introduction
ITUC concerned about wave of regressive labour laws
The ITUC has written jointly with the ETUC to senior politicians in Ukraine to raise serious concerns about ongoing regressive labour reforms in the country. Several draft laws are being considered by the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) that are incompatible with international and regional labour standards. This has been confirmed by several reports, including … Continue reading ITUC concerned about wave of regressive labour laws
Crimean Tatars face raids and arrests under Russian occupation
Detaining one of the Crimean Tatars who came to seek the whereabouts of Nariman Dzhelyal and four other men who had disappeared after being taken away by the FSB Photo Crimean Solidarity By Halya Coynash of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group “What is fear? It is when you are afraid every day that your … Continue reading Crimean Tatars face raids and arrests under Russian occupation
Belarusian activist facing deportation from Ukraine for criticizing the police
Oleksiy Bolenkov in court Human rights defenders are calling for media and public reaction over dangerous attempts to deport a Belarusian activist living permanently in Ukraine and over the highly questionable reasons presented for why the Security Service [SBU] is claiming that Oleksiy Bolenkov [Belarusian: Alyaksei Balyankou] poses “a danger to national security”. The young man, who … Continue reading Belarusian activist facing deportation from Ukraine for criticizing the police
STATEMENT OF THE LEFT RESISTANCE ON REPRESSION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
ЛЕВОЕ СОПРОТИВЛЕНИЕ О РЕПРЕССИИ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ. Comrades! Since the beginning of 2021 political repression in Russia has become more intense. By the beginning of the summer of 2021 any possibility of open Resistance – for the left, for liberals, and for nationalists – has effectively been liquidated. The country is heading towards totalitarian racism … Continue reading STATEMENT OF THE LEFT RESISTANCE ON REPRESSION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
1941-2021 – OPERATION BARBAROSSA AND UKRAINE
OCCUPATION, COLLABORATION, RESISTANCE? Interview with historian John Paul-Himka SS paramilitaries murder a Jewish mother and child, in 1942, at Ivanhorod, Ukraine. This year marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union which commenced on 22 June 1941. The war on the Eastern Front was the largest front of World … Continue reading 1941-2021 – OPERATION BARBAROSSA AND UKRAINE
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 