There has been an growth of miners protests in Ukraine in response to the planned closure of state owned miners across and unpaid wages. Following the recent joint union congress of miners a number of reports appeared in the media seeking to discredit the miners - in response the following statement has been issued by M. … Continue reading Independent Miners Union Statement on Miners Struggle
NUM Delegation at the Ukrainian Miners Congress
British miners in solidarity with Ukrainian miners A joint trade union congress of Miners of Ukraine took place in Kyiv on 21 April. In attendance was a delegation from the National Union of Mineworkers in solidarity with the struggle of the Ukrainian miners - Wayne Thomas Vice President of the NUM attended alongside Executive member … Continue reading NUM Delegation at the Ukrainian Miners Congress
Report by Miners Union on Visit of NUM to Western Donbas
The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is pleased to report that the National Union of Mineworkers has undertaken two visits to Ukraine, meeting with sister mining unions and labour movement activists. Published here is a report by the Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine in Western Donbas on part of the first visit to Ukraine. Colleagues from the … Continue reading Report by Miners Union on Visit of NUM to Western Donbas
KAGARLITSKY, THE WAR AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION
A Critique of the 'Red Putinist' A person of influence on the thinking the western left on Ukraine has been the Russian writer Boris Kagarlitsky Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements. Whilst the pro-war views of the Moscow based Kagarlitsky have been accepted without criticism in some quarters – in contrast the views of actual … Continue reading KAGARLITSKY, THE WAR AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION
Solidarnosc Miners’ Statement in Solidarity With the NUM – 1984
On 17 June the Underground Provisional Co-ordinating Committee of Solidarity miners issued an unequivocal statement in solidarity with the British miners in their great struggle for jobs. The Co-ordinating Committee statement was read out at 10 a.m. on Sunday 17 June by the Solidarity underground radio station in Upper Silesia, Poland's main coal-mining region. The … Continue reading Solidarnosc Miners’ Statement in Solidarity With the NUM – 1984
How Stalinism Helped Defeat the Great Miners Strike in 1984-85
This years marks the 30th Anniversary of the end of the Great Miners Strike of 1984-45 in Britain. The issue of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe and became a key question in the strike. The regime of General Jaruzelski had driven the ten million strong independent trade union Solidarity underground in 1981. The Stalinist regime … Continue reading How Stalinism Helped Defeat the Great Miners Strike in 1984-85
Supporting campaign to Free Anti-Fascist Prisoner Alexander Kolchenko
Alexander Kolchenko is a left, social activist and antifascist who is held in captivity by the Russian authorities. Along with renowned film director Oleg Sentsov, he has been kidnapped by the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) and is now detained following the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, he is held as a political hostage in Lefortovo jail in … Continue reading Supporting campaign to Free Anti-Fascist Prisoner Alexander Kolchenko
Free Alexander Kolchenko – Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Activist
Alexander Kolchenko is a Crimean left-wing social activist and anti-fascist who is held in captivity by the Russian authorities. Along with other Crimean activists, including Ukrainian film maker Oleg Sentsov champoined by Ken Loah. Koltchenko has been kidnapped by the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) and is now detained as a political hostage in Lefortovo jail in Moscow. He … Continue reading Free Alexander Kolchenko – Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Activist
New Laws on Nazi and Communist Symbols and Ukraine’s History
The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign publishes the following analysis by Halya Coynash of the respected Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group on the controversial new laws on described as 'On condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and banning the promotion of their symbols'. We shall be carrying further exclusive translated analysis from the Labour … Continue reading New Laws on Nazi and Communist Symbols and Ukraine’s History
EMERGENCY CONGRESS OF UKRAINE’S MINERS CALLED TO PREPARE NEXT STEPs
The Ukrainian miners struggle is developing rapidly - with an unprecedented Ukrainian Coal Miners’ Congress which will be held 21-22 April 2015, jointly organised by the Confederation of the Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU), and the Trade Union of Coal-Mining Industry (PRUP). On April 7th a joint meeting of the organising committee of the … Continue reading EMERGENCY CONGRESS OF UKRAINE’S MINERS CALLED TO PREPARE NEXT STEPs
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 