UKRAINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN - PRESS RELEASE. Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Cross-party motion asks for Warriors, Scimitars and Challenger tanks in increased numbers A cross-party alliance of MPs, including Labour backbenchers and frontbench spokesmen from the SNP have today tabled an Early Day Motion to Parliament calling for a significant increase in UK heavy weapons donations to … Continue reading British MPs demand bigger tank donations to Ukraine
The Stop the War trade union conference and Ukraine
Mohan Sen I only made the second half of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) trade union conference on 21 January, but I think I got a pretty good sense of the event’s politics. It was broadly what I expected. What was said about opposing war and militarism in general, and increased militarisation and military … Continue reading The Stop the War trade union conference and Ukraine
Putin can be defeated
Dan Katz German chancellor Olaf Scholz Much of the British far left — groups such as the Communist Party,Socialist Worker, and Socialist Appeal — see the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a war between NATO and Russia, fought on Ukrainian soil. They argue that the US and NATO provoked Russia, in order to isolate Russia and … Continue reading Putin can be defeated
THE FRAILTY OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY
John-Paul Himka The past does not determine the future, but it certainly has a substantial influence on it. In this text, I want to consider how Russia’s previous experiences with democratic transition have helped create the condition of that state now – an authoritarian state that stifles basic civic rights at home and wages a … Continue reading THE FRAILTY OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY
Crimean People’s Republic
By Vladyslav Starodubtsev Hryhoriy Potemkin wrote in 1794: "Remove Tatars from Belbek, Kacha, Sudak, Uskut, Old Crimea, and generally from mountainous regions; of those Tatars who live in the steppes, no one should be left behind; and if any of the Moors wish to leave, they should be immediately added to the appropriate list and … Continue reading Crimean People’s Republic
Ukraine: I am writing to you on behalf of the trolleybus drivers of Kharkiv
Vitaliy, trolleybus driver in Khakiv I am writing to you on behalf of the trolleybus drivers of depot 2 and Saltovsky trolleybus depot in Kharkiv. For many years there have been problems with massive violations of safety regulations, labour legislation and wages in our companies. Kharkiv trolleybus drivers have the lowest wages in Ukraine, about … Continue reading Ukraine: I am writing to you on behalf of the trolleybus drivers of Kharkiv
MODEL MOTION FOR TRADE UNION CONFERENCES
SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE This Congress condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine of February 2022, launched from the Russian Federation, Belarus and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. We salute the resistance of the Ukrainian people and its labour movement to this act of imperialist aggression. For the sake of democracy and resisting growing authoritarian tendencies globally, we are for … Continue reading MODEL MOTION FOR TRADE UNION CONFERENCES
LABOUR MUST HELP UKRAINE WIN THE WAR
We will soon be approaching one year since Russia launched the genocidal all-out invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. This new year provides us with an vantage point to consider what has happened and our approach in the period ahead. It is one in which Labour must do all in its power to help Ukraine … Continue reading LABOUR MUST HELP UKRAINE WIN THE WAR
[Book Review] Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity
RICHARD ABERNETHY The war in Ukraine has generated a vast amount of reportage, analysis, opinion and debate (and also propaganda and disinformation), but the voices of the Ukrainian Left – socialists, feminists, union activists – are too seldom heard. This book does much to fill that gap. Most of the contributors to this collection of … Continue reading [Book Review] Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity
Кампанія Солідарності з Україною 