Kharkiv journalists are concerned about the disappearance of Luhansk journalist Oleksandr Belokobylskyi. On September 13, Oleksandr left Kharkiv for Luhansk. He made it to Starobelsk. He then went by bus to Luhansk to deliver medicine to several friends and family. Relatives of the journalist say they were able to call all the locations Oleksandr had … Continue reading Appeal by the Board of the Kharkiv Oblast Organization of the Ukrainian National Journalists’ Union
Left activists of Ukraine are uniting into a new party
The Ukrainian "new left" discussed the idea of creating a democratic party of labour on the basis of the political party "Socialist Ukraine". Following this a Steering Committee was set up On September 6-7, 2014 a conference "The war in Ukraine and policies of the Left," was held in the Ukrainian House, supported by the … Continue reading Left activists of Ukraine are uniting into a new party
International TUC and British TUC Calls for Support for Ukrainian Unions
Chris Ford The British Trade Union Congress which has just met held a brief discussion on the Ukraine crisis and passed an emergency motion moved by the RMT. The motion states: Congress 2014 - Emergency motion E1 Situation in Ukraine: Congress notes the comments of the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the day of the … Continue reading International TUC and British TUC Calls for Support for Ukrainian Unions
“Azov” – What’s the problem?
Halya Coynash, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. It had seemed hard to imagine a better gift for Russian propaganda than a Ukrainian volunteer battalion formed by men with pronounced neo-Nazi views and a penchant for flaunting the wolf’s hook and other such symbols. Even more fodder for Russia’s propaganda machine could soon be provided if … Continue reading “Azov” – What’s the problem?
THE RUSSIAN FAR RIGHT
By Ben Neal The current crisis in Ukraine has, among other things, highlighted the issue of nationalism in the former soviet republics, and in particular extreme right nationalism. The politics of the Euromaidan movement, which toppled President Yanukovich are overwhelmingly those of Ukrainian nationalism in various forms, and far right organisations such as the Right … Continue reading THE RUSSIAN FAR RIGHT
A Popular Front for Russian Nationalism
A Popular Front for Russian NationalismThe “Manifesto of the Popular Front for the National Liberation of Ukraine, Novorossiya and Transcarpathian Rus’.” (1)by Dale StreetThis is the title of the manifesto adopted at a conference – attended by people who regard themselves as being of the left, and by representatives of various brands of Russian nationalism, … Continue reading A Popular Front for Russian Nationalism
SYRIZA interview with Denis Pilash of the Left-Opposition
The European Union has started a game that it is not able to finish. It (EU) couldn't predict the reaction of Moscow?People of Ukraine are trapped between Western and Russian imperialism but Ukrainian elite is itself an enough cynical player at this chessboard. And I’m not sure whether the EU started this game on its … Continue reading SYRIZA interview with Denis Pilash of the Left-Opposition
PART TWO: CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS AND THE CRISIS
Конфедерація вільних профспілок України kvpu.org.uaSTATEMENT TO ITUC ON THE EVENTS IN UKRAINEThe Consequences of military conflicts’ escalations in the East of Ukraine touched upon today not only Ukrainian families but the people, whose relatives and dear ones perished in the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014.During the military aggression, financed from … Continue reading PART TWO: CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS AND THE CRISIS
Part One: Federation of Trade Unions and the Crisis
Федерація профспілок Україниwww.fpsu.org.uaSTATEMENT ON ATTACK BY SEPARATISTS TRADE UNIONS As it became known, leaders of the self-proclaimed ‘Lugansk People’s Republic’ decided to take control over the Federation of Trade Unions of Luhansk Region (FPLO).At gunpoint members of the FPLO Presidium are told to convene the meeting of the FPLO, disaffiliate with the Federation of Trade Unions of … Continue reading Part One: Federation of Trade Unions and the Crisis
Support the Ukrainian transport workers in Khmelnitsky
A major dispute is underway in the western Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky where the transport workers have organised in the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU). Pavlo Vezdenetsky is an organiser of the KVPU who has been campaigning in the city, in response the management are now victimising the union representative Anastasia Podpruzhnikova, … Continue reading Support the Ukrainian transport workers in Khmelnitsky
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 