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
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
The invasion of Ukraine one year on
Fred Leplat Friday 24 February 2023 will mark one year since the Russian army invaded Ukraine on the orders of Putin and his regime. A year of indescribable suffering and bloodshed for the Ukrainian people. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have died and millions of civilians are refugees abroad or are internally displaced. Innumerable war … Continue reading The invasion of Ukraine one year on
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
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
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?
Support Ukraine’s people!
This is a 1939 moment, says Pete Duncan, in surveying Ukraine’s continuing agony as Putin’s war crimes mount Ukrainian soldiers greeted by liberated civilians in Kharkiv oblast We may not see as much on television of the destruction and loss of life as we did in February, when Putin invaded Ukraine from north, east and south … Continue reading Support Ukraine’s people!
Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine
BY TARAS BILOUS Two months ago, when I wrote “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western leftists to reconsider their approach. Unfortunately, too many of them have failed to do so. In their analyses of … Continue reading Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine
Stop the war and the genocide in Ukraine
Appeal from the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine To:ITUC affiliated organizationsIndustriAll GU affiliated organizationsEI affiliated organizationsIUF affiliated organizations Stop the war and the genocide in Ukraine Dear Brothers and Sisters,The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine calls you to take all possibleactions to stop the genocide of the Ukrainian people and to … Continue reading Stop the war and the genocide in Ukraine
Кампанія Солідарності з Україною 