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Plan to pipe huge amounts of resource-intensive “green” hydrogen to Europe would undermine Ukraine’s recovery
The European Commission, cheered on by fossil fuel companies, is promoting a plan to put exporting hydrogen to Europe at the centre of Ukraine’s post-war recovery. The plan reeks of (...)
New Politics put the following questions to Andrei, a member of the Ukrainian socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement).
NP: What is your assessment of the current military situation?
A: Russia has conceded defeat in its attempted blitzkrieg, or “general battle,” and has moved on (...)
Although the war in Ukraine continues, it is necessary to have a vision of possible reconstruction scenarios. With this goal, Vitaliy Dudin and Artem Tidva held an event that highlighted the experiences of post-war employment regulation in other countries, the existing problems caused by the (...)
Trade union and human rights activist Pavel Lisyansky explains why Russia’s presence in the Donbas has proved a disaster for the labor movement, and why defending human and labor rights sometimes goes hand in hand
Before the 2014 war, Pavel Lisyansky, founder of the Eastern Human Rights Group, (...)
What pressures do Ukraine’s journalists face working under “censorship and self-censorship” in time of war?
Serhiy Guz had experience of forming civic society organisations when he went to a meeting that led to the formation of he IMUU in 2004. The IMUU affiliated to the International Federation (...)
Katya and Maxim, you are students in Lviv. Katya at the Academy of Arts and Maxim in computer science. In your call for solidarity with Ukrainian students that you launched, you mention the problem of student housing. Due to the war, the students no longer occupy their accommodation and they (...)
The major events of the past month have seen some of the most well-known Ukrainian ‘oligarchs’ significantly lose power. In early July, Rinat Akhmetov, the richest man in Ukraine, considered to control around a third of Ukraine’s GDP, sold his vast media empire to the government. Over the past (...)
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, social conflict inside the country was not put on hold: any illusion that its defence needs might produce a truce in the class struggle soon vanished.
If anything, embattled Ukraine’s war of resistance against Putin’s “special military operation” has (...)
Zero-hours contracts set to be legalised and 70% of workforce exempted from workplace protections
The Ukrainian parliament has passed two new radical measures on labour liberalisation, prompting fears of Ukrainians losing workplace rights permanently as Russia’s war puts huge pressure on the (...)
We have learned that the Committee on Economic Development of the Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] of Ukraine, taking advantage of the introduction of martial law in Ukraine, which prohibits all public action, has resurrected draft laws “On the Legal Regime of the Property of Public Organisations of (...)
States at war generally adopt interventionist economic policies to mobilize resources and manpower. Ukraine hasn’t followed suit, instead pursuing dogmatic free-marketeer measures that suit Western creditors more than its own population.
In a 2020 lecture, Canada’s former ambassador to Ukraine (...)
Thousands of children, some as young as eight, are being recruited to “military-patriotic clubs” in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, a report published this month shows.
“The Kremlin intends to bring up a generation hostile to Ukraine and its people, making it always possible to provoke (...)
On July 10, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign hosted a meeting at which Simon Pirani spoke on the issue of the situation in Donbass and Crimea and Russia’s intervention there in 2014 as a prelude to Russia’s invasion at the present time. There was a little bit of controversy in the (...)
Leery of a national draft for the Ukraine war, the Kremlin is offering cash bonuses and employing strong arm tactics.
Four Russian veterans of the war in Ukraine recently published short videos online to complain about what they called their shabby treatment after returning to the Russian (...)
In Kherson, Russian collaborators are being hunted down
“The situation in the city is very, very bad. The Russian occupiers are increasing their presence all the time. They ride around the city with impunity and break down the doors of houses and apartments. Soldiers usually come at around (...)
Lugano Declaration pushes for modernisation and investment, but critics say a just reconstruction is needed
UK-backed plans to rebuild Ukraine after the war are “absolutely worthless” and will do nothing to protect workers, labour chiefs in the country have warned after the plans were presented (...)
The war in Ukraine is as much a bloody conflict as it is a propaganda war.
The doublespeak in Russian media is that there is no war, that the Bucha massacre was staged by Ukrainians and that Russians and Ukrainians are united in liberating Ukraine from NATO and nationalists.
It is impossible (...)
Liberal reforms made during the war in Ukraine will hinder the country’s eventual reconstruction. Here’s what needs to happen
High-ranking Ukrainian and western officials are meeting in Switzerland this week to discuss the country’s reconstruction. The Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano aims (...)
Thousands of community groups provide ‘virtually all’ humanitarian aid for conflict’s displaced, but have received just 0.24% of donations
Talina Zharikova first met people who had fled fighting in Donbas in a bomb shelter near her flat in the south-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro when the (...)
Ukrainian volunteers and organisations did the bulk of the work helping people caught in Russia’s invasion, a new report finds
Four months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s clear that local volunteers and organisations in the country have borne the brunt of the humanitarian response. (...)
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