Marko Bojcun Over 300 members of the Trade Union of Metallurgists and Miners of Ukraine, from the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant in Dnipro organise a battalion of the local the Territorial Defence Force to resist the invasion. “Denazification” Mariupol, Bucha. Irpen. Borodianka, Troatianets, Kramatorsk, the outskirts of Kyiv...By the time this blog is published the list … Continue reading War and Resistance Report No. 3
ON THE CURRENT STATE OF NEGOTIATIONS
Report onthe War, No.2 by Marko Bojcun The Ukrainian negotiating position Russia and Ukraine have set out their respective conditions and demands for ending the war and sent their representatives into direct negotiations in Istanbul. On 29 March Volodymyr Zelensky declared that Ukraine was ready to become a neutral state, belonging to no military bloc, … Continue reading ON THE CURRENT STATE OF NEGOTIATIONS
ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE WAR
War and Resistance: Weekly Report by Marko Bojcun Four weeks into the invasion of Ukraine the advance of Russia’s ground forces has been halted by a determined resistance. Russia’s air force has been unable to take control of the airspace over Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force is still attacking Russian planes and helicopters and its ground … Continue reading ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE WAR
UKRAINE: NO TO PARTITION! YES TO REUNIFICATION!
By Marko Bojcun There is an icreasing danger that Russia will try to get Ukraine to strike a deal to stop the fighting – to offer peace in exchange for a partition of Ukraine that permanently concedes to Russia what it now holds militarily: Crimea, Donbas and a lot, if not all. of the land … Continue reading UKRAINE: NO TO PARTITION! YES TO REUNIFICATION!
PROTEST AT GAZPROM
THURSDAY AT 16:00 Gazprom 20 Triton Street London NW1 3BF Protest at Gazprom! For renewable energy, not Russian oil and gas! On 10 March Insulate Britain and other climate activists will be demonstrating outside the London offices of Russian state energy company Gazprom. The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign will be joining them. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine … Continue reading PROTEST AT GAZPROM
Russian strategy has shifted
Marko Bojcun Bricks and rubble inside a play room, shelled by Russian proxy forces. Reuters Russian strategy has shifted markedly in the last few days. Putin and Lavrov refuse to agree a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE) to loook at repeated ceasefire violations of increasing intensity from the sider of DNR … Continue reading Russian strategy has shifted
There are more ways than one to skin a cat
On Putin's Objectives in the current crisis by Marko Bojcun There are more ways than one to skin a cat. Putin’s ultimate objective with respect to Ukraine is to get the Americans and Europeans in NATO to help him to strongarm Zelensky’s government back into talks on implementing the 2015 Minsk Accords. Moscow wants the … Continue reading There are more ways than one to skin a cat
possible paths back to peace
By Marko Bojcun The prospect of further armed Russian aggression against Ukraine remains real. It brings into focus two big questions: immediately, how can Ukrainians defend themselves from further aggression, and in the longer term how can the peoples of Europe build a more reliable peace for the subcontinent as a whole? There is no … Continue reading possible paths back to peace
Self-determination for Ukraine!
Interview with Marko Bojcun Marko Bojcun spoke to Sacha Ismail about the threat of conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Marko is an independent writer and former academic; his books include The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine: 1897-1918 and Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine. He is a supporter of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. The current crisis … Continue reading Self-determination for Ukraine!
Forums: Workers and the National Question in Ukraine
Forums and Discussion In September Marko Bojcun’s book, The Workers Movement and the National Question in Ukraine, 1897-1918, was published. A number of forums have been held with discussion and debate on this important history of the Ukrainian Revolution which can be viewed below: The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918 Series: Historical … Continue reading Forums: Workers and the National Question in Ukraine
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (Кампанія Солідарності з Україною) 