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Ukrainian union organizer Artem Tidva talks about: The unions from the old Soviet Union days; Employers’ tactics to weaken unions since independence; Relations between Ukrainian and Russian unions before the invasion and since then; How the invasion has affected union organizing. He also makes (...)
We cannot know how Ukraine will develop after the war. But we know there will be horrible consequences if Russia wins.
Two months ago, when I wrote “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western (...)
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people around the world have become spectators to the horrors of alleged war crimes and human rights abuses – including mass rapes and massacres in the city of Bucha.
As we watch events unfold, Ukraine’s human rights activists have been actively responding to (...)
In late April Yuri Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (UPM), was listed as a speaker at an online meeting organised by the Socialist Labour Network (SLN).
The title of the meeting was: “Ukraine: Truth and Lies. Was the massacre of over 700 civilians at Bucha (...)
Yuliya Yurchenko, a normally UK-based Ukrainian activist involved in the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and in Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialniy Rukh (Social Movement), spoke to Sacha Ismail and Michael Baker from Ukraine. Yuliya teaches at the University of Greenwich in London; her work (...)
In-depth: In an exclusive interview, Vladyslav Starodubtsev of the leftist Ukraine Social Movement discusses resistance against Russia’s war, solidarity with global struggles, and the importance of consistent anti-imperialism in leftist politics.
Vladyslav Starodubtsev is a history student (...)
During the weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government suspended 11 Ukrainian political parties citing their alleged “links with Russia”. The suspensions have more to do with the post-Euromaidan polarisation of Ukrainian politics than genuine security concerns related to the Russian (...)
Unfortunately, the war intensifies authoritarian and nationalist tendencies in Ukraine. But while this move needs to be criticized, one should bear in mind the essence of these parties. They were banned not because they were left-wing, but because they were pro-Putin. Left parties that are not (...)
Recently, the National Defence and Security Council decided for the temporary suspensions of the activities of a number of Ukrainian political parties. The list includes both major opposition parties and less known ones that use words ‘progressive’, ‘left’ or ‘socialist’ in their names. President of (...)
John Reimann interviewed Vitaly Dudin, labor activist and member of Social Movement (Socialnyi Rukh) Ukraine for OaklandSocialist. In this videocall and transcript they discuss The need to fight against Russia’s invasion Labor rights in Ukraine and neoliberalism The Ukrainian oligarchs’s role The (...)
Solidarity and mutual support have become for Ukrainians something that groups them together and helps to hold in the period of war.
We continue to work in all areas, our activists hard working to help:
— Vitaliy (Cherkasy region) ━ working at the post of territorial guard, is engaged in (...)
In 2000s Ukraine, Anatoli Ulyanov co-made online media dedicated to art, culture, and politics, and became recognized for his provocative writing style.
After a series of violent attacks from the government-hired right-wing mercenaries, in 2009 Anatoli and his partner Natasha Masharova were (...)
Sotsіalnyi Rukh (SR; The Social Movement) is a new left party being created by the working people of Ukraine. Recent events here have shown the lack of political subjectivity of working classes in the country and the need for a left-wing political force which would promote a socially oriented (...)
Ukraine has banned a party that is neither communist nor dangerous – clearing the way for a new left loyal to neither Russia nor the west.
An anti-communist hysteria is prevailing in Kiev. After banning Soviet symbols earlier this year , a court has now outlawed the Communist party of Ukraine, (...)
Banning the Communist Party in Ukraine is a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association and should be immediately overturned, said Amnesty International.
The District Administrative Court of Kyiv upheld the request of the Ukrainian Minister of Justice to ban the Communist (...)
Nina Potarskaya is one of the leading Ukrainian leftist feminists, founder of the feminist squadron at Maidan, and member of the Left Opposition, which helped organize three successive conferences of left forces in Kiev, in November 2013, March 2014, and September 2014. The most recent (...)
The Ukrainian “new left” discussed the idea of creating a democratic party of labour on the basis of the political party “Socialist Ukraine”. Following this a Steering Committee was set up.
On September 6-7, 2014 a conference “The war in Ukraine and policies of the Left,” was held in the Ukrainian (...)
On July 24 the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Turchynov announced the disbanding of the parliamentary group of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) over a ridiculous technicality. The court trial over CPU’s ban as a political party started the same day withsimonenko the next (...)
These are notes on the conference The Left and the Maidan (Kiev, April 12, 2014). The conference heard different, often quite opposite, opinions. The text does not presume to fully cover the conference discussions; rather, it is a number of subjective conclusions of the author that reflect his (...)
We publish below the statement of the Left Opposition collective in Ukraine on the war in the east and the steps it believes are needed to bring it to a halt. Posted originally in Ukrainian by gaslo-info on 15 June 2014.
It is necessary above all to protect the inhabitants of populated (...)
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