Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
On December 2, 2022, we published Jean Vogel’s text entitled “The strange change of position of Gilbert Achcar”. We received a text from Gilbert Achcar: “A brief response about my puported ’change of position’,” and from Jean Vogel: “A sober response to Gilbert Achcar”. We are republishing this page (...)
Faced with the invasion of Ukraine by the regime of Vladimir Putin, the antiwar movement has seen the development of very contrasting positions. They all have in common that they all claim peace, a word behind which very diverse, even opposing attitudes can be placed.
There are, on the one (...)
Key workers told openDemocracy they are being paid months late or not in full due to a controversial healthcare reform
Ukraine’s healthcare workers are going unpaid as the effects of pre-war healthcare reform hit wages and job security in an economy ravaged by Russian invasion.
Medical staff (...)
The war bitterly hit the whole population of Ukraine. Many people lost their jobs and left their homes. According to the September survey of the sociological group Rating, only 61% of Ukrainians remained at their job positions, 36% of whom worked full-time. According to World Bank estimates, as (...)
Nataliya Levytska is deputy chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine. She is in Australia as a Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) delegate to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress, where she is seeking support for Ukrainian (...)
Safeguarding the rights of journalists, trade unionists, and captured soldiers will strengthen Ukraine’s war effort.
It is critical to support Ukraine’s just war of self-defense against Russian aggression. Russia’s invasion was morally horrendous and blatantly illegal, resulting in ongoing war (...)
Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda was born and raised in Donbas. She is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where her research examines debates over the Ukrainian question among the Bolsheviks. Perekhoda has written widely on Ukrainian history, (...)
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has once again raised debates about the instruments for sustaining peace. Since the end of the 1980s, a neoliberal consensus has dominated the global economic dimension. Its goal has been to minimize the number of regulatory institutions, expand free (...)
OPINION: The reconstruction of Ukraine will be crippled by the debts it owes to the IMF and other institutions
The Ukrainian army continues to make territorial and military gains against invading Russian forces on the eastern front. But how is the country faring on the ‘western front’?
Some (...)
On Saturday 12 November, a student demonstration against the closure of the Academy of Printing took place in Lviv.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has prepared an unmotivated order on the fate of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing at the Ivan Franko National University Lviv (...)
Russia has forcibly mobilised tens of thousands in Ukraine’s occupied territories to fight
Ukraine is prosecuting its own citizens who have been forcibly mobilised to fight for Russia – despite initial promises of an amnesty from the country’s top officials.
Since February this year, thousands (...)
Exclusive: Russian troops guilty of homophobic abuse including sexual violence and imprisonment, says LGBTIQ group
Invading Russian soldiers have been accused of targeted anti-gay attacks against Ukrainians, including sexual violence, rape, imprisonment, assault, theft and attempted murder, (...)
On invading Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin stated that Ukrainians did not exist, that the Ukrainian state was a historical mistake and that he was simply taking back what was Russia’s. Putin sought to justify his war as necessary to protect Russian speakers, particularly those in (...)
Section Houses and for Whom to (Re)Build Them? of the annual conference Feuerbach 11 covered the housing policy issues in Ukraine and the EU. In recent years, this area of social policy in Ukraine has not been effective, but after the full-scale invasion of Russia, it ended up in crisis. In (...)
Our ninth Dispatch finds us in discussion with Katya Gritseva, an exceptionally skilled illustrator, political artist, and socialist activist who lives in Lviv, Ukraine.
You can find all of our previous Dispatches here.
Will you tell us a little about yourself? Who are you? Where do you live (...)
She posted this video in the chat room in the second week of the war. When Russia attacked, Ukraine closed its borders to those with “male passports.” When the general mobilization was announced, thousands of transwomen, transmen, and non-binary individuals were trapped.
In the video, she, (...)
Before the full-scale war, the Ukrainian left movement was neither considered influential nor had a party or national representation, backboned by a strong community. However, the Russian invasion made leftists look for new contacts and approaches. Spokespeople of leftist and anarchist (...)
Representatives of the ruling party in Ukraine are using the newly established law enforcement agencies (the SBI and the ARMA), which were created on recommendation of international partners, to put pressure on trade unions.
-* The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is a law enforcement (...)
Russia calls for new talks but once again without Ukraine’s participation
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced on 30 October that Russia is ready ” as always” to enter into serious negotiations over the war in Ukraine. He made the offer to the United States and the Western powers, not to (...)
OPINION: The government’s attempt to take control of the media is anti-democratic and dangerous
Many Ukrainian journalists have swapped their dictaphones for rifles, and gone to serve on the frontline against the Russian army. Thousands more are risking their lives to report from battlefields (...)
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