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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 (...)
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 (...)
Vladyslav Starodubtsev, a member of the Social Movement in Ukraine, spoke to Tom Harris
TH: The war has shifted focus towards the Donbas. What does the shift signify about the course of the war? How does it change the day-to-day experience of the war? And what kind of future shifts do you (...)
In another bashing of me by nationalist intellectuals, I was framed by one of them as a danger to the “dear cause” of the “Ukrainian nation-building project.” It may be interesting to reflect on any rational reasons they may believe so beyond irrational conspiracy theories.
It is quite obvious not (...)
Activists from Kyiv and around world join state forces in fight against totalitarianism
In an unnamed basement bar in central Kyiv, Ukrainian anarchists have created a headquarters where they gather supplies to send to their peers on the frontlines and welcome anarchists from abroad who have (...)
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Nataliia Lomonosova and Oleksandr Kyselov, the delegation from Ukraine’s Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) to the annual conference of the Danish Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), gave these greetings to its delegates on May 15.
The Red-Green (...)
Denys Pilash is tired. He travelled 600 miles from Ukraine’s capital to Lviv to host the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine delegation, then after sleeping on a floor he translated between English and Ukrainian for a conference that overran several hours. With no break he moved from (...)
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 (...)
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