Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BOSCO Fabio, BRIAZGUNOVA Olesia, FLETCHER Bill Jr., LAWRENCE Liz
An international panel of labor activists discusses what support for Ukraine’s workers should look like.
What is the role labor unions should play in the Russia-Ukraine War? In a special conversation moderated by Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of the TransAfrica Forum, panelists make (...)
, 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. (...)
, par LE TREHONDAT Patrick, Trudova Halychyna
Trudova Halychyna (Laborious Galicia) sets itself the objective “to shed light on a subject that is today ignored by Ukrainians : the economic, social and cultural situation of Galician workers. So we have to see workers in factories and workshops, construction companies, communal enterprises, (...)
, by Commons, Direct Action/Pryama Diya
Interview with the Direct Action student union
To mark Knowledge Day, Common spoke to activists from the Direct Action student union about the right to education in a country at war. They explain why they decided to relaunch the union, what the obstacles are to protecting students’ rights, (...)
We publish the contribution of Vladyslav Starodoubtsev which appeared on his page Facebook.
Olena Stepaniv was the first female officer in the history of modern armies. She was a member of the Ukrainian Radical Party, a co-operator and a feminist.
Born into a family of progressive priests, (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick
According to a report dated 10 August 2023 by the Ukrainian Health Centre, since the start of the large-scale Russian invasion, more than 1,000 attacks on healthcare infrastructure have been recorded.
The Ukrainian healthcare system - medical staff, medical facilities and other healthcare (...)
Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian human rights defender, has been given a lengthy prison sentence for a crime he could not have committed, in a sham trial by the so-called supreme court in Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. This decision must be quashed. Wilfully depriving a prisoner of (...)
, by SOKOLOVA Hanna
Many leftists in the West oppose the supply of weapons to Ukraine and call for reconciliation with the aggressor. At the same time, the Ukrainian left is defending its country at the front.
“Died on the outskirts of Balakliya, Kharkiv region,” reads the inscription on the grave of First (...)
, by BRUSA Francesco
WHERE THE BORDER IS. Case already dropped, but the possibility of a cession in favour of Russia is causing Zelensky stomach ache. Who may also have to skip the G20
No concessions. The Ukrainian authorities are squaring off to reiterate their intransigence towards the invader, after it was (...)
, by GUTNICK David
“Pacifism has its place, but not here and not now,” writes David Gutnick
David Mandel and I share much more in common than our given name. We’re both French-speaking Anglophones who live in Montréal. Like professor Mandel, I worked for decades at a publicly funded institution: he taught at (...)
, by International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
The appeal below comes from the strike coordination committee, a clandestine structure, of course, given the repression by the Russian occupying forces.
The Russians have been simply defrauding our workers in Mariupol lately, depriving them of their money!
We have decided to fight for (...)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
Government officials have decided to renew their efforts to monitor citizens who may have “unlawfully” used social benefits, namely unemployment benefits and the ePidderzhka programme. Although the amounts of these payments are comparable to the minimum wage, officials believe that their (...)
, by Bilkis, LE TREHONDAT Patrick
«Our initiative on 26 February will be a day to remember. All because this Sunday we will be starting a new activity, which will be called Godivnichka ... All homeless people and people on low incomes need basic, affordable and, above all, regular help... Meal distributions will take place in (...)
, by YURCHENKO Yuliya
Yuliya Yurchenko explains why appeasement, ‘peace now’ and other positions on Russia’s war against Ukraine are dangerous defeatist views
Ukrainians fight to survive and exercise national self-determination while Russia carries out its imperialist nationalism project, where the space it (...)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
The difference between the Stalinist and post-Stalinist policies of Russification is that Stalin dealt a series of spectacularly violent blows to the Ukrainian nation, while his successors intiated a relatively nonviolent but relentless and systematic program of reducing the sphere of (...)
Ukrainian writers and poets have, throughout history, played an important role in shaping Ukrainian identity especially during the most difficult days, when Ukrainian culture faced existential crisis from occupation by the Polish, Russian (Tsarist, Soviet and Republican) and Romanian (...)
, by MOSSETTI Paolo
Veteran Marta Chumalo speaks: Ukraine in demographic crisis, possible boom of the radical right.
Kyiv: ’This war is like a lens that magnifies the best and worst of human behaviour. On a train carrying displaced people away from Ukraine you can see people elbowing each other for a seat, and (...)
, by ARTIUKH Volodia, BRUSA Francesco
The war that Russia has unleashed in Ukraine has split the international left, some sectors of which are struggling to metabolise the collapse of the Soviet Union. The USSR and its symbolic apparatus have been used in former Soviet countries as a tool to criticise the present, but in the end (...)
, by FAHLGREN Martin
In an article on “War hawk Igor Strelkov” in Internationalen No. 30/2022, Per Leander (PL) writes the following about the Russian annexation of Crimea:
“After the so-called Maidan revolution earlier that year [2014], when Ukrainian nationalist and pro-Western forces came to power in Kiev, (...)
, by BEKETOVA Elina
Russian forces are squeezing out locals and resettling Russian citizens in Ukraine’s occupied territories.
In November, in Washington, I met a family from Novotroitske, a small settlement in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast. They fled the war and occupation and desperately tried to find (...)
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