Analysis of the Ukrainian Social Democracy The Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a run-off election to become the country's next president by a landslide, exit polls suggest. Sitting president president Petro Poroshenko has already conceded defeat. Ukraine now faces a new reality and the biggest turning point since the popular rebellion EuroMaidan toppled the … Continue reading Ukraine election: Voters protest the oligarchic system
UKRAINIAN railways workers DEMAND JUSTICE
On 19th March members of the Free Trade Union of Railway workers of Ukraine (VPZU) picketed the central office of the PJSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" (Ukrainian railways). The VPZU demanded to raise wages, improve medical services, restore social and pension guarantees, and do not cut jobs. Also, trade unionists required efficient social dialogue. After the protest action, … Continue reading UKRAINIAN railways workers DEMAND JUSTICE
Lenin’s Theory of the National Question and its Contradictions
The ideas of the leader of Russian Social Democracy, Vladimir Lenin remain influential among the radical left to this day. Yet rarely considered are the views of those Marxists from among the majority oppressed nations of the Russian Empire. Republished here is an analysis of Lenin’s theory of the national question by the Ukrainian Marxist Andriy Karpenko
The Political Repression of the Radical Left in Russian Occupied Crimea
Armed Searches, Abduction and Arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea Russia’s annexation of Crimea was purportedly an exercise in free political expression, a watershed moment in history when a historic part of Russia returned to the motherland against the backdrop of a fascist putsch in Ukraine. Indeed, Crimea’s “reunification” (in Kremlin lingo) with Russia was sold, at … Continue reading The Political Repression of the Radical Left in Russian Occupied Crimea
Crimean left activist arrested, drugged and charged with ‘extremism’
Valery Bolshakov, Chairman of the Workers’ Union of Sevastopol outside the 'court' in Sevastopol on 22.02.2019 Photo Krym.org The ‘trial’ is continuing in Russian-occupied Crimea of Valery Bolshakov, a left-wing activist charged with ‘public calls to carry out extremist activities’. Bolshakov is facing a possible three-year prison sentence for social media posts in which the … Continue reading Crimean left activist arrested, drugged and charged with ‘extremism’
BOROTBISM
The 1954 classic study of the Ukrainian Revolution, Borotbism by Ivan Maistrenko has just been republished in a new edition. It was one of the first significant accounts of the revolution in English.
Woman Workers Hunger Strike in Donetsk Region
In the Donetsk region, female employees of the coal mine ‘Kurakhivska’ of the state-owned enterprise "Selydivvugillya" are continuing their hunger strike against wage arrears.
Russian anti-fascists under attack: Solidarity demo
Russian anti-fascists and anarchists are being arrested, framed and tortured in a brutal wave of repression which has put eleven Russian anti-fascists behind bars, facing obviously fabricated charges which could see them jailed for five to twenty years each.
Ukraine in the Second World War
Events in Ukraine during World War Two are generally little known and often misunderstood even though it was here that the war lasted the longest and caused devastation on a unprecedented scale. Millions lost their lives or became slave labourers.
Moscow assault on Ukraine access to Sea of Azov
Russian fighter jets fly over Kerch bridge with Russian tanker blocking access to Sea of Azov during assault on, seizure of three Ukrainian naval boats and their 24 crew members Nov. 25. In an aggressive inflammation of tensions, the capitalist rulers in Moscow ordered Russian forces to fire on and seize three Ukrainian naval vessels, … Continue reading Moscow assault on Ukraine access to Sea of Azov
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 