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A PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA?

The authors Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton have published an essay in in Socialist Register 2024 in which they argue that Ukrainian resistance ‘is not a war of self-determination’,  but a  ‘proxy war between the US and its allies against Russia, fought with Ukrainian personnel on Ukrainian soil’, attacking Ukrainian political economist and member of Sotsialny … Continue reading A PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA?

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UKRAINIAN UNIONS CALL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTION ON ANNIVERSARY OF INVASION

Join Ukrainian Protests on Saturday 24 February Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU) Appeal for Global Solidarity Actions on the Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Appeal for Global Solidarity Actions on the Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of UkraineDear Sisters and Brothers,Members of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) express … Continue reading UKRAINIAN UNIONS CALL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTION ON ANNIVERSARY OF INVASION

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UKRAINE PEACE APPEAL

TOWARDS A MORE INFORMED SOLIDARITY - FROM UKRAINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONSTO PACIFIST AND PEACEBUILDING MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE 1. We, Ukrainian civil society activists, feminists, peacebuilders, mediators, dialogue facilitators, human rights defenders and academics, recognise that a growing strategic divergence worldwide has led to certain voices, on the left and right and amongst pacifists to argue for an end … Continue reading UKRAINE PEACE APPEAL

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Statement of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine One year into the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine

On February 24, 2022, the Russian army treacherously attacked our country and started a full[1]scale war with the bombing of peaceful cities and villages and infrastructure objects. Last year, since the beginning of the unprovoked military invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, enormous damage has been done to our country. Tens … Continue reading Statement of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine One year into the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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The War on Ukraine and the Cost of Living Crisis

Andy Kilmister Analyses of the impact of the war in Ukraine on economic conditions elsewhere have become increasingly bewildering. The UK government has used the war throughout the last year as an excuse for its economic failure. Early estimates of the war’s impact from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and from the … Continue reading The War on Ukraine and the Cost of Living Crisis

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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

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Ukraine: A Left-wing Theory of Victory?

You can’t win a war without a war economy By Paul Mason During the past three months, miners in Volyn have protested against what their leaders allege is management corruption. Nurses in Ivanovo Frankovsk have protested against unpaid wages. At the Lviv academy of Typography students demonstrated against the institution’s closure, as what they say is part of a World Bank-funded … Continue reading Ukraine: A Left-wing Theory of Victory?