UKRAINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE (December 2025)

At our annual AGM / Conference (most recently December 2025) the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign elects a Co-ordinating Committee to organise our activities. The committee also includes representatives of our national trade union and other affiliates. The committee members are:

Secretary: Christopher Ford

Treasurer: Julie Ward

Chair: Natalie Kopytko

Vice-Chair: Pete Firmin

Trade Union Liaison Officer: Sacha Ismail and Bev Laidlaw

Parliamentary Liaison: Mike Davis and Albert Salimov

Sian Norris

Rui Palma

Maria Exall

Gregory Schwartz 

Kieran Paterson

Mick Antoniw (USC Wales)

Colin Turbett (USC Scotland)

Yuliya Yurchenko (KVPU)

Oksana Holota (KVPU)

Dennis Charman, with Dave Barter as alternate (NEU Ukraine Solidarity Network; co-opted so non-voting member)

Affiliates (others tbc):

Chris Kitchen (General Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers)

Simon Weller (Assistant General Secretary, ASLEF)

Chris Dando (PCS NEC)

Corinna Lotz (Real Democracy Movement)

Alena Ivanova (Another Europe is Possible)

Ana Oppenheim (RAZEM Londyn)

Fred Leplat (AntiCapitalist Resistance)

Bill Bowring (Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers)