Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Our friend and comrade Marko Bojcun, a political economist, researcher of labour history, activist of leftist movements and solidarity with Ukraine, has passed away. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Marko Bojcun played a crucial role in keeping the fire of the Ukrainian left alive (...)
UK MPs John McDonnell, Nadia Whittome and Clive Lewis join Ukrainian solidarity event with international activists in London
Ukraine must not only defeat Russian aggression but resist neoliberal economic reforms if it is to thrive, British MPs told an international audience on Saturday. (...)
Ukrainian soldier, human rights activist and former BBC journalist Maksym Butkevych was sentenced to 13 years in prison in an ’LPR court’.
In the summer of 2022, Maksym Butkevych, who fought in eastern Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was taken prisoner by Russia.
Maksym’s (...)
Michael Baker spoke with Olenka Gulenok and Kateryna (Bri) Kostrova, two activists from the Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialny Rukh (Social Movement), about how the war is affecting the struggle for women’s liberation in Ukraine, and how the international feminist movement can help. (...)
The members of the feminist group Bilkis in Lviv like to cycle and when the military situation and the weather allow it, they organise rides.
Founded 3 years ago in Kharkiv, Bilkis found refuge in Lviv due to the war. Since 24 February, Bilkis has changed its range of activities to meet the (...)
Ashley Smith of the Tempest Collective interviews Vladyslav Starodubstev on the one-year anniversary of the war about the struggle for internationalist solidarity in Ukraine and Palestine.
The end of February marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s imperialist war in Ukraine. Here (...)
European Union says Ukraine’s reforms must follow international labour standards and social dialogue principles
The European Union has regularly expressed concerns about the radical labour reforms Ukraine has been trying to implement since 2020, openDemocracy can reveal.
The controversial (...)
Richard Fidler writes The British website Labour Hub, which says it “shares a socialist vision of a radical, transformative Labour Government for the 21st Century,” promotes debate and information of interest to socialists in the Labour Party. It recently published a statement on the Ukraine war (...)
Here is an interview with members of another unit that Good Night Imperial Pride has supported.
We talked to russian anarchists who fight in Armed Forces of Ukraine about the front, life before a full-scale invasion and what it’s like to be a russian in the Ukrainian army. We asked both J and (...)
France Blanmailland, Oksana Kozlova, Jean Vogel, Luc Walleyn, Thomas Weyts are active in the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine and co-organisers of the National Demonstration in Solidarity with Ukraine on Saturday 25 February (1pm, North Station, Brussels)
Ukraine, Europe and the (...)
On 21 February, Yuriy Samoylov, chairman of the Independent Miners’ Trade Union in the city of Kryvyi Rih, visited Warsaw. The meeting hosted by Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers’ Initiatve) trade union and by International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles, attended by labour activists (...)
The Russian invasion must prompt the Left to re-think its geopolitical assumptions
There is good reason to doubt whether we have, in fact, entered a “new world” since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Nonetheless, 24 February 2022 does mark a historical turning point. It (...)
Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.
On the anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian left faces a dual challenge — resisting Russian military attacks while also fighting against their own (...)
On the consequences of the Russian invasion, the mistakes of the Western left, and the prospects for peace in Ukraine. An interview with Zakhar Popovich, member of the leftist organization Sotsyalnyi Rukh
A year ago, Russia launched an aggressive full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is an event (...)
On February 24, 2022, the Russian army treacherously attacked our country and started a full-scale war with the bombing of peaceful cities and villages and infrastructure objects. Last year, since the beginning of the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation of Ukraine, enormous (...)
Who could have foreseen, on 24 or 25 February 2022, that one year later Ukrainians would be subjected to an avalanche of peace and ceasefire proposals from their enemies but also from their friends? The answer is not difficult: practically no one, because everyone, enemies but also friends, did (...)
Statement by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
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The unjustified and atrocious Russian invasion of Ukraine decided by Putin on 24 February 2022 and the war it provoked have already caused over 100 000 deaths for each side, half of those in Ukraine of civilians. The (...)
In its 2022 activity report, the Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) stressed that “Civil society has been forced to fulfil the role of the state and, instead of expecting more specific assistance, to assume almost all its social functions”.
A few months earlier, in September 2022, at its (...)
Vitaliy, trolleybus driver in Khakiv
In Support for Resistant Ukraine No. 15 we published «I am writing to you on behalf of the trolleybus drivers of Kharkiv» by Vitalyi, a trolleybus driver. He sent us his testimony on his «24 February in Khakiv». We thank him for this.
On the morning of 24 (...)
How Ukrainian refugees build networks of support and solidarity in the face of the Russian invasion
Approximately 8 million Ukrainians have fled their country in search of safety since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022. According to a report from the UNHCR, approximately (...)
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