Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Activists from Kyiv and around world join state forces in fight against totalitarianism
In an unnamed basement bar in central Kyiv, Ukrainian anarchists have created a headquarters where they gather supplies to send to their peers on the frontlines and welcome anarchists from abroad who have (...)
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Nataliia Lomonosova and Oleksandr Kyselov, the delegation from Ukraine’s Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) to the annual conference of the Danish Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), gave these greetings to its delegates on May 15.
The Red-Green (...)
Denys Pilash is tired. He travelled 600 miles from Ukraine’s capital to Lviv to host the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine delegation, then after sleeping on a floor he translated between English and Ukrainian for a conference that overran several hours. With no break he moved from (...)
Ukrainian union organizer Artem Tidva talks about: The unions from the old Soviet Union days; Employers’ tactics to weaken unions since independence; Relations between Ukrainian and Russian unions before the invasion and since then; How the invasion has affected union organizing. He also makes (...)
We cannot know how Ukraine will develop after the war. But we know there will be horrible consequences if Russia wins.
Two months ago, when I wrote “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western (...)
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people around the world have become spectators to the horrors of alleged war crimes and human rights abuses – including mass rapes and massacres in the city of Bucha.
As we watch events unfold, Ukraine’s human rights activists have been actively responding to (...)
In late April Yuri Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (UPM), was listed as a speaker at an online meeting organised by the Socialist Labour Network (SLN).
The title of the meeting was: “Ukraine: Truth and Lies. Was the massacre of over 700 civilians at Bucha (...)
Yuliya Yurchenko, a normally UK-based Ukrainian activist involved in the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and in Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialniy Rukh (Social Movement), spoke to Sacha Ismail and Michael Baker from Ukraine. Yuliya teaches at the University of Greenwich in London; her work (...)
In-depth: In an exclusive interview, Vladyslav Starodubtsev of the leftist Ukraine Social Movement discusses resistance against Russia’s war, solidarity with global struggles, and the importance of consistent anti-imperialism in leftist politics.
Vladyslav Starodubtsev is a history student (...)
The war waged by Russia in Ukraine is striking in its massive casualties and atrocities that Europe did not know in the 21st century. It questions the possibility of social progress around the world. In its statement, the Social Movement describes the steps the international community and (...)
During the weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government suspended 11 Ukrainian political parties citing their alleged “links with Russia”. The suspensions have more to do with the post-Euromaidan polarisation of Ukrainian politics than genuine security concerns related to the Russian (...)
Unfortunately, the war intensifies authoritarian and nationalist tendencies in Ukraine. But while this move needs to be criticized, one should bear in mind the essence of these parties. They were banned not because they were left-wing, but because they were pro-Putin. Left parties that are not (...)
Recently, the National Defence and Security Council decided for the temporary suspensions of the activities of a number of Ukrainian political parties. The list includes both major opposition parties and less known ones that use words ‘progressive’, ‘left’ or ‘socialist’ in their names. President of (...)
John Reimann interviewed Vitaly Dudin, labor activist and member of Social Movement (Socialnyi Rukh) Ukraine for OaklandSocialist. In this videocall and transcript they discuss The need to fight against Russia’s invasion Labor rights in Ukraine and neoliberalism The Ukrainian oligarchs’s role The (...)
Solidarity and mutual support have become for Ukrainians something that groups them together and helps to hold in the period of war.
We continue to work in all areas, our activists hard working to help:
— Vitaliy (Cherkasy region) ━ working at the post of territorial guard, is engaged in (...)
In 2000s Ukraine, Anatoli Ulyanov co-made online media dedicated to art, culture, and politics, and became recognized for his provocative writing style.
After a series of violent attacks from the government-hired right-wing mercenaries, in 2009 Anatoli and his partner Natasha Masharova were (...)
Sotsіalnyi Rukh (SR; The Social Movement) is a new left party being created by the working people of Ukraine. Recent events here have shown the lack of political subjectivity of working classes in the country and the need for a left-wing political force which would promote a socially oriented (...)
Ukraine has banned a party that is neither communist nor dangerous – clearing the way for a new left loyal to neither Russia nor the west.
An anti-communist hysteria is prevailing in Kiev. After banning Soviet symbols earlier this year , a court has now outlawed the Communist party of Ukraine, (...)
Banning the Communist Party in Ukraine is a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association and should be immediately overturned, said Amnesty International.
The District Administrative Court of Kyiv upheld the request of the Ukrainian Minister of Justice to ban the Communist (...)
Nina Potarskaya is one of the leading Ukrainian leftist feminists, founder of the feminist squadron at Maidan, and member of the Left Opposition, which helped organize three successive conferences of left forces in Kiev, in November 2013, March 2014, and September 2014. The most recent (...)
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