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Victims are reluctant to report sexual violence and fear homophobia from Ukrainian authorities
A Ukrainian human rights organisation that monitors anti-LGBT violence across the country has spoken out about the difficulties of tracking suspected war crimes committed by Russian militants.
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A new report by the US aid agency says when Russia’s war ends reconstruction loans should be spent on businesses and jobs in Ukraine
Ukrainian manufacturers can and should lead reconstruction efforts in the country when Russia’s war ends, new research has concluded.
A white paper published by (...)
Ukraine’s economy has taken a battering from Russia’s invasion, with unemployment high and consumer debt soaring
A perfect storm of job losses, high prices and soaring utility bills caused largely by Russia’s invasion has left millions of ordinary Ukrainians struggling to get by.
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Volodymyr Artiukh on how Russia’s invasion has changed Ukraine and the dim prospects for peace
When Russian president Vladimir Putin announced his misleadingly named “special military operation” in Ukraine on 24 February last year, few analysts in East or West expected Russian victory to be more (...)
I want to start by thanking the author for this nuanced and thought-provoking text. I have found it useful in organizing my own thinking on the subject of morality and immorality of various positions pertaining to the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine. In what follows I want to offer less of a (...)
In the current Ukrainian context, the demand of society for fairer living conditions and the demand of the people who are ready to promote and defend them is increasingly strong. And experience shows that there are more and more people in Ukraine who put the pursuit of truth and the protection (...)
I estimate that in 1815 about 90 percent of those who used the Ukrainian language in their daily life were enserfed peasants. They were also the only ones who retained and continued to creatively develop traditional folkways. The Ukrainian elite in the Russian empire – mainly descendents of the (...)
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 (...)
In his answers, our activist spoke about the history of the Social Movement and the views of its activists, allies and the vector of further development. He also presented his thoughts on our vision of a socially just post-war reconstruction. The need to help and support Ukrainian refugees in (...)
Russia’s invasion has impacted women in many ways, from pregnancy care to sexual violence as a weapon of war
Warning: This article includes mentions of rape and sexual torture
In order to continue providing maternity care during air raids and bombings, medical staff at the regional maternity (...)
The Labour Start conference ended the day before 1 May. The number of participants exceeded 200. They came from some 30 countries. Here is a partial list: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, (...)
Ukraine’s reconstruction cannot be used to justify transforming the economy in favour of oligarchs and corporations
For nearly 15 months, millions of Ukrainians have been living under the threat of missiles that can reach any part of the country at any time.
Russia has engaged in a deliberate (...)
Renfrey Clarke and Dave Holmes argue that Russia is not imperialist because it lacks some of the features usually possessed by an imperialist country. They quote an article by Clarke and Roger Annis, which says:
Russia is not home to an advanced capitalism, or to a broad, prosperous middle (...)
The Ukrainian government says the rich are taking advantage – but poorer people are likely to lose the most
The Ukrainian government is considering raising consumer electricity prices in a move that could exacerbate the financial pressures of Russia’s war on ordinary Ukrainians.
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The Ukrainian LGBTQIA+ community in uniform is angry. The Ukrainian Minister of Defence does not support the draft law No. 9103 on same-sex “partnerships”. Oleksiy Reznikov stated that the bill is contrary to the Constitution. The Ministry of Defence also expressed dissatisfaction with Article 14 (...)
Please introduce yourself to our readers
My name is Kostya, I am a student of the second grade. [Kostya lives in the Volyn region in northwestern Ukraine.]
How did you experience the beginning of the war?
In fact, I sensed that a full-scale invasion would soon occur, but I did not expect it (...)
Can you introduce yourself to our readers?
My name is Valentyn Dolhochub. I am a doctor in history and archaeology. I was born in Odessa in 1993, but in 2018 my wife Alyona and I moved to a small village 80 km from Odessa choosing to live more modestly. In 2020-2023 I worked as a history, (...)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second year. Russian atrocities on Ukrainian soil, against the Ukrainian people, continue. The world has borne witness to the brutality of the Russian invasion: the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian homes and infrastructure, Bucha and Mariupol. In (...)
For several weeks now, the media - and important currents on the global left - have been relaying statements by the authorities of major powers, first and foremost China, but also Brazil and others, concerning the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine and a rapid relaunch of negotiations.
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Ukraine has been forced to cut school grants and local authorities are now scrambling to fund teachers’ wages
Russia’s invasion is forcing the Ukrainian government to implement austerity measures in the education sector – as the country’s teachers express concerns about a cost of living crisis. (...)
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