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Russian President Vladimir Putin has so far failed to weaken US and European support for Ukraine. Meanwhile, despite punishing Russian air strikes, Ukraine is successfully ejecting the invading army.
Vladimir Putin is playing the long game. The Russian leader believes that he can outwait all (...)
Nataliya Levytska is deputy chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine. She is in Australia as a Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) delegate to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress, where she is seeking support for Ukrainian (...)
Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue born of the strength of the soul. Spinoza
The best of the West is outside the West, in young Iranian women who let their hair down and are murdered because of it. The best of Europe is outside Europe, in the young Ukrainians who unfurl their flags. (...)
Safeguarding the rights of journalists, trade unionists, and captured soldiers will strengthen Ukraine’s war effort.
It is critical to support Ukraine’s just war of self-defense against Russian aggression. Russia’s invasion was morally horrendous and blatantly illegal, resulting in ongoing war (...)
We continue the “Labor Rights” series with an article on the condition of medical workers
In the eyes of many healthcare workers, the war is yet another stage in the disastrous reform known as the policy of “optimization.”
Mobilization and a new wave of austerity might provoke the mass exodus of (...)
Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda was born and raised in Donbas. She is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where her research examines debates over the Ukrainian question among the Bolsheviks. Perekhoda has written widely on Ukrainian history, (...)
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has once again raised debates about the instruments for sustaining peace. Since the end of the 1980s, a neoliberal consensus has dominated the global economic dimension. Its goal has been to minimize the number of regulatory institutions, expand free (...)
OPINION: The reconstruction of Ukraine will be crippled by the debts it owes to the IMF and other institutions
The Ukrainian army continues to make territorial and military gains against invading Russian forces on the eastern front. But how is the country faring on the ‘western front’?
Some (...)
On Ukraine, little separates Putin’s United Russia from either the Communist Party of Russia or A Just Russia
Russia’s tame opposition parties have played a crucial role in enforcing and administering the occupation of Ukrainian territory, a new report shows.
The four main parties in the (...)
On Saturday 12 November, a student demonstration against the closure of the Academy of Printing took place in Lviv.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has prepared an unmotivated order on the fate of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing at the Ivan Franko National University Lviv (...)
Russia has forcibly mobilised tens of thousands in Ukraine’s occupied territories to fight
Ukraine is prosecuting its own citizens who have been forcibly mobilised to fight for Russia – despite initial promises of an amnesty from the country’s top officials.
Since February this year, thousands (...)
Exclusive: Russian troops guilty of homophobic abuse including sexual violence and imprisonment, says LGBTIQ group
Invading Russian soldiers have been accused of targeted anti-gay attacks against Ukrainians, including sexual violence, rape, imprisonment, assault, theft and attempted murder, (...)
On invading Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin stated that Ukrainians did not exist, that the Ukrainian state was a historical mistake and that he was simply taking back what was Russia’s. Putin sought to justify his war as necessary to protect Russian speakers, particularly those in (...)
Section Houses and for Whom to (Re)Build Them? of the annual conference Feuerbach 11 covered the housing policy issues in Ukraine and the EU. In recent years, this area of social policy in Ukraine has not been effective, but after the full-scale invasion of Russia, it ended up in crisis. In (...)
Our ninth Dispatch finds us in discussion with Katya Gritseva, an exceptionally skilled illustrator, political artist, and socialist activist who lives in Lviv, Ukraine.
You can find all of our previous Dispatches here.
Will you tell us a little about yourself? Who are you? Where do you live (...)
At the start of a full-scale invasion, Russian propaganda constantly resorted to the story of how the great Russian culture had fallen victim to the “culture of abolition” of the collective West. So far, however, Russian culture has been abolished mainly in Russia itself - from lists of musicians (...)
Russia’s war in Ukraine is intensifying. In response to victories on the battlefield won by Ukrainians this fall, Russia has responded by launching a wave of missile and drone attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure throughout the country. As a result, over 15,000 Ukrainian civilians (...)
She posted this video in the chat room in the second week of the war. When Russia attacked, Ukraine closed its borders to those with “male passports.” When the general mobilization was announced, thousands of transwomen, transmen, and non-binary individuals were trapped.
In the video, she, (...)
Putin’s decree (https://t.me/femagainstwar/5979) on the protection of traditional values, signed yesterday, hides several very specific threats in a stream of pathos, demagogy and muddle. In fact, this decree is a convenient basis for lightning-fast and radical decisions that can rather quickly (...)
Russia is a fascist state — it is time to say it. But not fascist in the sense of grassroots mobilization, and not even so much on the level of declared ideology (I will address this further). But in the sense of governance. Karl Polanyi described fascism not as a “movement,” but as a “move,” a (...)
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