Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
We, the “Collectives of Solidarity”, call to fight for mutual aid against imperialistic and reactionary state or quasi-state politics.
We are now watching the US administration implement far-right policies and use Ukraine as a subject of trade in domestic politics. For Ukrainians, the freezing (…)
, by BARCA Francesca
What does it mean to be left-wing and find yourself facing an invasion that you didn’t choose or want, that forces you to revise your principles, while continuing to defend a more just society? A conversation in Kyiv with activists in the Ukrainian left.
Kyiv, February 2025. Andrii has (…)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
The predatory policies of the newly elected U.S. president make it impossible to establish a lasting peace for Ukrainians. Ukraine’s refusal to sign the mineral extraction agreement, designed to serve the interests of American capital, demonstrates the country’s determination to avoid colonial (…)
, by ARUNYAN Oleksiy
A detailed article about the Konovitch brothers’ case, often cited abroad as the proof of political prosecution of leftists by the Ukrainian state. The situation is slightly different: the Konovitch brothers have over the years expressed consistent support for the Russian and Belarusian regimes. (…)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
One of the key decisions of the Social Movement Conference, held in Kyiv on 5 and 6 October 2024, was the adoption of a resolution entitled:
“The Road to Victory and the Tasks of the Ukrainian Left”.
Our main theses: 1 The Social Movement defends the development of the public sector of the (…)
, by PRESTON Keith
In the end of July 2024 an anarchist member of Ukrainian armed forces shared their thoughts with Takku as follows.
My name is Ljosha. I lived in Sweden before the war, but I came to Ukraine after Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Together with my comrades, I wanted to develop anarchist (…)
, by BILOUS Taras, DAVYDENKO Polina, DOBEŠ Lukáš
Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian and essayist who has served in the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the Russian aggression. He is currently serving a few dozen kilometres from the front line. Bilous is one of the most visible representatives of the Ukrainian left, a member of the (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, Vpered
Vpered [Forward] is a Ukrainian publishing house which is dedicated "to the study of the history and current state of the theory and practice of social transformations, to the analysis of Ukrainian and world reality from the positions class, to the development of Marxist theory as a particular (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, STARODUBTSEV Vladyslav, YAKOVYSHYN Les
Despite the war and all the difficulties it causes, a new website has just appeared in Ukraine, that of the Mazepa institute. It bears the name of Isaac Mazepa (1884-1952), “leader of the Ukrainian left, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and fighter for the independence of (…)
, by DUDIN Vitaliy
We have lost another great and close person at the hands of the Russian occupiers. Yuriy Lebedev (1985–2024), the Kyiv native with the nom de guerre (call sign) Comrade, was killed while on a combat mission. He was a convinced socialist, public figure, professional lawyer, and brave officer of (…)
, by PIOTROWSKI Grzegorz, SLAČÁLEK Ondřej, TOMEK Miroslav
with answers from Zosia Brom, Boyevaya organizatsiya anarkho-kommunistov (BOAK; Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists), Davyd Chychkan, Maria Rakhmaninova, Max Ščur, Ratibor Trivunac, Belarusian Anarchists in Warsaw, Anatoly Dubovik, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Konfederatsiya revolyutsionnykh (…)
, by Commons
On November 6, our friend and editor of the Commons journal Sasha Kravchuk would have turned 38.
On this day, despite the weather, Sasha would usually gather dozens of his very different friends around a campfire in a Kyiv urban forest. These were the people with whom he went hiking and (…)
, by BULIN Oleksandr
On October 7, a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation began with rocket fire by Hamas. The whole world turned its attention with horror to the atrocities of terrorists against peaceful citizens of Israel and other countries. However, for now, while everyone is debating the need to (…)
, by STREET Dale
Workers’ Liberty members met with members of Sotsialny Rukh (SR — Social Movement) in Lviv and Kyiv during our visit to Ukraine in August 2023.
SR emerged from the regrouping of (and splits from) the left which took place around the Maidan Revolution of Dignity in late 2013 and early 2014. It (…)
, by GEORGIEV Ivo
Bidding farewell to a comrade and friend
Our colleague Oleksandr Kravchuk, left-wing economist, author, and lead editor of the Ukrainian media platform Commons died in the night of 21 July, unexpectedly and far too young. His professional career took him from a simple train conductor to a (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
One of the paradoxes of the war in Ukraine is that some of us have discovered the existence of an active left and a critical and creative thinking in Ukraine that we (including the author of these lines) have ignored for too many years. Amongst our revelations, Commons, Journal of Social (…)
, by Commons, LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
One of the paradoxes of the war in Ukraine is that some of us have discovered the existence of an active left and a critical and creative thinking in Ukraine that we have ignored for too many years (and of which the author of these lines is a part). Amongst our revelations, the Commons, journal (…)
On March 11th 2023 our friend and comrade of Commons, known political economist, political scientist, labour movement historian and an activist of left-wing movements and solidarity with Ukraine, Marco Bojcun, passed away. He played an important role in keeping the flame of the Ukrainian left (…)
, by PILASH Denys
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 and (…)
, by BAKER Michael, GULENOK Olenka, KOSTROVA Bri
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. (…)
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