Four volunteers of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign have driven over 1,900 miles to the frontline Donbas region of Ukraine with two buses packed with aid for the 10th Paramilitary Mining Rescue Squad in Donetsk Oblast. The vehicles were converted for us in rescue operations. Our volunteers also delivered aid to the Free Trade Union of … Continue reading Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Humanitarian mission to the frontline regions
Durham and Donbas
BY Julie Ward Trade union links between Durham and Ukraine provided the inspiration for a fascinating and timely event at Spennymoor Town Hall on May 26th. Jointly organised by Redhills (Durham Miners Association) https://redhillsdurham.org/%5B1%5D and academics from the University of St Andrews, the 'Archiving Against Erasure' workshop https://redhillsdurham.org/durham-and-donbas-in-focus/%5B2%5D offered participants an opportunity to engage in … Continue reading Durham and Donbas
Union Aid Arrives for Miners Resistance in Ukraine
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign coordinating with trade unions, NUM, GMB and ASLEF has delivered a vehicle and medical equipment to mineworkers in Ukraine. This is part of an ongoing effort to raise finances for aid to the mineworkers trade unions in Ukraine whose members are engaged in resisting the invasion. The supplies, including a heavy 4x4 … Continue reading Union Aid Arrives for Miners Resistance in Ukraine
Demands of the Western Donbas Miners
The independent trade union of miners (NGPU) of West Donbass is one of the first and largest independent union organisations in Ukraine. They were formed during the massive surge of independent trade unions during the mass strike in spring 1991. This contributed to a group of delegates and the II Congress of the miners, she traveled … Continue reading Demands of the Western Donbas Miners
Eastern Ukraine: labour and community organising near the front line
Workplace and community organising continues in eastern Ukraine, a few kilometres from the front line. PAVEL LISYANSKY of the Eastern Human Rights Group sent this report Report by: People and Nature A meeting was held today [25 December] of representatives of workplace collectives in Svetlodarsk, 4 kilometres from the front line [near Debaltsevo in Donetsk region]. … Continue reading Eastern Ukraine: labour and community organising near the front line
‘for me it’s cheaper to bury them than to stop production at the pit’.”
Yefim Zvyagilsky, the Ukrainian parliamentarian and owner of the Zasiadko mine in Donetsk where an unknown number of miners have been killed in an explosion. According to M.Volynets leader of Confederation of Independent Unions of Ukraine, there are currently identified only 21 of the 33 people killed. The mine management adopts a practice - common … Continue reading ‘for me it’s cheaper to bury them than to stop production at the pit’.”
Report on the human rights mission to the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group [KHPG], together with the German NGO ‘European Exchange’ and representatives of NGOs from the Russian Federation and Germany with the support of the German Foreign Ministry, carried out an international mission to monitor human rights in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts on territory which is back under Ukrainian control. … Continue reading Report on the human rights mission to the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
Interview with a Ukrainian Marxist and soldier fighting in the Donbas
Andriy M. (the name was changed) is one of those Kiev white-collar leftists, who after some hesitations supported Maidan last winter and in spring took a decisive stand against the reaction in Crimea and in Eastern Ukraine. His stand finally led him to the Ukrainian army and now Andriy is taking part in the ATO … Continue reading Interview with a Ukrainian Marxist and soldier fighting in the Donbas
Poroshenko Stops Benefits: Donbas Ukrainians feel betrayed
The Ukrainian government has issued a blow to people living in areas under the control of Kremlin-backed militants. That at least is how many Ukrainians from Donbas view measures taken which could leave some of the most vulnerable people in Donbas effectively abandoned. First on Nov 7 the government announced that it would no longer … Continue reading Poroshenko Stops Benefits: Donbas Ukrainians feel betrayed
Miners Union Warns of Ecological Disaster in Donbas
Military action and destruction contribute of the ecological disaster in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions Mykhailo VOLYNETS, Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine: ‘It’s possible in the near future that there will be an ecological disaster in Donbass region, as well as in some areas of Russia. I’ll try to explain my … Continue reading Miners Union Warns of Ecological Disaster in Donbas
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 