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October 1917: the climax of the revolution we have always called “Russian”, but was so much more. In Petrograd, the old empire’s capital, the provisional government that had ruled since February collapsed and Bolshevik-led workers’ and soldiers’ soviets (councils) took control. In Kyiv, the capital (...)
After the 30 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine may give a unique perspective on the post-Soviet condition in general and understand it as the ongoing unresolved crisis of the fundamental relation of representation between the political elites and social groups interests. (...)
For several weeks and until very recently, Western media have sounded the alarm about a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine. The stationing of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border, now ended, appears, in fact, to have been a response to increasing belligerent activity in the area on the part of (...)
Some citizens have faced a threefold hike in energy costs since New Year – leading to fears many could lose their homes
Early this year, a wave of ‘tariff protests’ swept Ukraine’s rural settlements, towns and small cities. The protests, organised largely spontaneously, were often accompanied by (...)
Low wages, stressful conditions and little hope in the future of Ukraine’s healthcare system – this is what Nina Kozlovska, a nurse at a Kyiv regional hospital, is campaigning against.
It took only 24 hours for Nina Kozlovska’s post to go viral.
“One night I came home from work, opened Facebook (...)
President Zelensky’s team is missing its chance to end the war in Donbass
After the election of the sixth President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “window of opportunity” opened for speeding up the peace process in the East of the country. Zelensky often called himself “the president of peace”, (...)
Under pressure from local and Western oligarchs, supported by the European Union, Ukraine is preparing to lift the moratorium on land market. This will complete the privatisation started in the 1990s but frozen in 2001 because of its terrible social and economic impact on the rural poor. (...)
Ukraine ended the 1980s as one of the most advanced parts of the Soviet super-power with a developed machine-building industry. Thirty years later, Ukraine’s major economic indicators are on a par with many Third World countries. The country is fundamentally dependent on the financial, (...)
Interview with Olena Skomoroshchenko of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine In search of a better understanding of the war in Eastern Ukraine and the prospects for its peaceful settlement, we are soliciting the observations and analyses of people in Ukraine close to the centre of the (...)
Elections to Ukraine’s parliament produced the first one-party majority since the end of the USSR. But as nationalist violence persists, comedian-president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s base is anything but stable.
This April, popular comedian and successful show businessman Volodymyr Zelenskiy became (...)
The left was not very visible during the elections to the Ukrainian parliament on 21 July this year., once again various oligarchic candidates dominated the show. This time however in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih there was one candidate standing in an effort to give a voice to Ukrainian (...)
What will happen now in Ukraine after the Presidential election? Christopher Ford organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign interviewed Vitaliy Dudin an activist of the NGO ‘Social Movement’ and leading trade union solicitor in Ukraine.
What does the election of Zelensky as President of (...)
In Sunday’s election Ukrainian voters dealt a decisive rebuttal to the post-Maidan establishment. Yet well-organized nationalist forces represent a time bomb under the new president-elect.
American readers won’t be too surprised by a tale of an inexperienced candidate winning against the establishment’s pick. But in the case of Ukraine’s new leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, this widely made comparison is even something of an understatement. Imagine that (...)
The elections in Ukraine have come a shock and will have an impact not only in Ukraine and East Europe but globally. What does this mean and how did it happen? In order to help understand these dramatic events Christopher Ford organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign interviewed leading (...)
A politically inexperienced comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is in the lead after the first round of presidential elections in Ukraine – and by a huge margin. He is almost 15 percentage points ahead of the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko. Zelenskiy’s unconventional campaign, relying primarily (...)
Activists in Odesa have been trying to stop over-development for several years now. But in the past year, the southern Ukrainian city has had the highest numbers of attacks on activists.
On a day in early March, volunteers are clearing the Odesa City Garden of rotten wooden beams, stones and (...)
In May 2018, Ukraine’s railway workers took an unprecedented stand against deathtrap conditions. Six months on, I went to found out what’s changed.
In early summer 2018, Ukraine’s railway workers held a mass work-to-ruleaction – strictly observing official quotas and safety instructions.
Across the country, drivers refused to complete routes on the grounds that their engines were not fit for operation. Employees at Ukrainian Railways, Ukraine’s state-owned railway company, demanded a wage rise, (...)
Ukraine’s politics are dominated by oligarchs. Its streets are more and more run by the far right.
When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its former republics’ economies went into free fall. Ukraine — the most populous of the new states, after Russia — was no exception: average incomes and life (...)
Coal miners exit the mine shaft after their shift on 25 September, 2018 at the Kapitalnaya mine in the city of Dimitrov, renamed Myrnograd in 2016 following a policy of “decommunisation” initiated by Ukraine after the events of 2014 and 2015.
For the fourth consecutive month, 37-year old miner (...)
Ukraine’s rail workers are now entering the second month of their work-to-rule action. I went to a train depot in Kyiv to find out why they’re protesting.
On 14 May 2018, employees of the Ukrainian state railway network started a work-to-rule action. Drivers at Kremenchug, Kryvyi Rih, Darnytsa (...)
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