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The war in Ukraine has generated a vast amount of reportage, analysis, opinion and debate (and also propaganda and disinformation), but the voices of the Ukrainian Left – socialists, feminists, union activists – are too seldom heard.
This book does much to fill that gap. Most of the (...)
The year 2022 opened a new tragic page in the history of Ukraine and the world. It was a year of incredible heroism and solidarity in the face of Russian imperialism. At the same time, the processes of neoliberalization of the economy and the attack on the remnants of labor rights intensified (...)
This interview was prepared as part of a campaign to raise money for a pickup truck for activists from Ecological Platform. Don’t forget to donate to the comrades and support the struggle of anarchists against Russian imperialism! How to donate can be found here – https://t.me/ecoplatform/2270 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Following the Russian imperialist aggression of February 24, 2022, society mobilized to defend its existence. On March 11, the Autogestion association in a statement published on its website noted that “The war has provoked… popular self-organization – both spontaneous and encouraged by (...)
Within the Russian population, there’s resistance against Putin’s war. The Canary has tried to highlight this resistance by amplifying grassroots movements. Critically, it’s important that our ‘left’ alliances don’t result in us talking over voices on the ground in Russia.
Activists in the (...)
Denis Pilash recounts the attempt of the new Ukrainian left to foreground social conflict in the context of resistance to Russian aggression.
Denis Pilash is a socialist activist and associate professor of political science at Kyiv University. Over the last few days, together with a hundred (...)
[Declaration of Social Movement (SR) conference, 19 September 2022]: The people of Ukraine have been facing hard challenges, yet they have proven their ability to fight for the right to decide on their own fate, and their determination to defend the country and to end the war as soon as (...)
Six months into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, where is the Ukrainian resistance at? What is the general mood in Ukraine regarding possible negotiations and NATO? And what has the war meant for progressive forces in the country?
Speaking from Ukraine, Vladyslav Starodubtsev, an (...)
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine took many – including most Ukrainian leftists – by surprise. The long, unprecedented and ruthless aggression has led to chaotic reactions within the left political field. However, six months into the war, it is time to recognize that open and hidden (...)
Having previously worked as a translator and historian, Enguerran Carrier decided in 2015 to volunteer with the People’s Defense Units (YPG), a mainly-Kurdish militia then engaged in a war to protect Rojava, in Syria’s north and east, from Islamic State (ISIS).
Seven years later, Carrier once (...)
Maksym Butkevych, a well-known human rights defender in Ukraine, has had anti-militarist views all his conscious life.
But when Russia launched a brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, he put pacifism aside and joined the Ukrainian army.
“There are times when one needs to be ready (...)
Patrick Le Tréhondat: Can you introduce your band, its history and the music you play?
Hello! We are Cios band, it sounds like “Chos” because the name is in Polish. We are from Ukraine from small city Khmelnytskyi. In our band we have Punkrat, Dima, Vlad on guitar/vocals, bass, drums (...)
Dear friends, as some of you are interested in my participation in the Workers’ Resistance group two decades ago, I should confirm it. It is true that I had tried to be simultaneously a member of all Trotskyist Internationals. It was due to my deeply wrong ultra-left position of the time that (...)
Enguerran Carrier has made the film L’arme à gauche: 23 minutes of testimonies of activists from Ukraine and Belarus, who explain their involvement in the Ukrainian resistance. Very useful. He is also the author of Kurdistan: once upon a time the revolution, to be published by Syllepse. The (...)
Last weekend appearance of our member on the Final Straw Radio Show! The roots of the collective, current local status quo, OSINT coverage of Russian anti-military sabotage, etc. The title photo shows our downtown with a view of the city hall damaged by a missile attack from the much more (...)
Anti-racist and anti-fascist campaigner Maksym Butkevych was reportedly taken prisoner while fighting last month
Family and friends of a prominent Ukrainian human rights campaigner taken prisoner by Russia while fighting in eastern Ukraine have told of their fears for his safety.
Maksym (...)
“In a world where rulers use all kinds of manipulation, compulsion and violence to wage bloody wars for their own interests, organised people must confront them with force.”
These are the incandescent words of Ilya, a self-styled Ukrainian anarchist.
He is part of a motley crew of “anarchists, (...)
[Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal->http://links.org.au — Nataliia Lomonosova and Oleksandr Kyselov of the Ukrainian left organisation Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) attended the May 13-15 annual conference of the Danish radical left force Red-Green Alliance (RGA), where they (...)
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