Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PRESTON Keith
In the end of July 2024 an anarchist member of Ukrainian armed forces shared their thoughts with Takku as follows.
My name is Ljosha. I lived in Sweden before the war, but I came to Ukraine after Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Together with my comrades, I wanted to develop anarchist (…)
, by BILOUS Taras, DAVYDENKO Polina, DOBEŠ Lukáš
Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian and essayist who has served in the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the Russian aggression. He is currently serving a few dozen kilometres from the front line. Bilous is one of the most visible representatives of the Ukrainian left, a member of the (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, Vpered
Vpered [Forward] is a Ukrainian publishing house which is dedicated "to the study of the history and current state of the theory and practice of social transformations, to the analysis of Ukrainian and world reality from the positions class, to the development of Marxist theory as a particular (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, STARODUBTSEV Vladyslav, YAKOVYSHYN Les
Despite the war and all the difficulties it causes, a new website has just appeared in Ukraine, that of the Mazepa institute. It bears the name of Isaac Mazepa (1884-1952), “leader of the Ukrainian left, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and fighter for the independence of (…)
, by DUDIN Vitaliy
We have lost another great and close person at the hands of the Russian occupiers. Yuriy Lebedev (1985–2024), the Kyiv native with the nom de guerre (call sign) Comrade, was killed while on a combat mission. He was a convinced socialist, public figure, professional lawyer, and brave officer of (…)
, by PIOTROWSKI Grzegorz, SLAČÁLEK Ondřej, TOMEK Miroslav
with answers from Zosia Brom, Boyevaya organizatsiya anarkho-kommunistov (BOAK; Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists), Davyd Chychkan, Maria Rakhmaninova, Max Ščur, Ratibor Trivunac, Belarusian Anarchists in Warsaw, Anatoly Dubovik, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Konfederatsiya revolyutsionnykh (…)
, by Commons
On November 6, our friend and editor of the Commons journal Sasha Kravchuk would have turned 38.
On this day, despite the weather, Sasha would usually gather dozens of his very different friends around a campfire in a Kyiv urban forest. These were the people with whom he went hiking and (…)
, by BULIN Oleksandr
On October 7, a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation began with rocket fire by Hamas. The whole world turned its attention with horror to the atrocities of terrorists against peaceful citizens of Israel and other countries. However, for now, while everyone is debating the need to (…)
, 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. It (…)
, by GEORGIEV Ivo
Bidding farewell to a comrade and friend
Our colleague Oleksandr Kravchuk, left-wing economist, author, and lead editor of the Ukrainian media platform Commons died in the night of 21 July, unexpectedly and far too young. His professional career took him from a simple train conductor to a (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
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 (including the author of these lines) have ignored for too many years. Amongst our revelations, Commons, Journal of Social (…)
, by Commons, LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
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 (…)
On March 11th 2023 our friend and comrade of Commons, known political economist, political scientist, labour movement historian and an activist of left-wing movements and solidarity with Ukraine, Marco Bojcun, passed away. He played an important role in keeping the flame of the Ukrainian left (…)
, by PILASH Denis
Our friend and comrade Marko Bojcun, a political economist, researcher of labour history, activist of leftist movements and solidarity with Ukraine, has passed away. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Marko Bojcun played a crucial role in keeping the fire of the Ukrainian left alive and (…)
, by BAKER Michael, GULENOK Olenka, KOSTROVA Bri
Michael Baker spoke with Olenka Gulenok and Kateryna (Bri) Kostrova, two activists from the Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialny Rukh (Social Movement), about how the war is affecting the struggle for women’s liberation in Ukraine, and how the international feminist movement can help. (…)
, by LIASHEVA Aliona, SMITH Ashley
Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.
On the anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian left faces a dual challenge — resisting Russian military attacks while also fighting against their (…)
, by Fourth International
Statement by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Photo DR.
The unjustified and atrocious Russian invasion of Ukraine decided by Putin on 24 February 2022 and the war it provoked have already caused over 100 000 deaths for each side, half of those in Ukraine of civilians. The (…)
, by 161 Crew
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to take it’s brutal toll on this country population and infrastructure, there still seem to be a lot of confusion , especially in the West, about who is the aggressor and whether such a blatant act of imperialism is actually imperialism.
There are (…)
, by VAGNER Volodya
Ukrainian activists with backgrounds in the anarchist, anti-fascist and student movements collect equipment missing from the front lines. If you don’t want to see a big right-wing movement on Ukrainian streets: then you should support Ukraine, says Sergei Movtjan when Flamman meets him in Kiev. (…)
, by ABERNETHY Richard
The war in Ukraine has generated a vast amount of reportage, analysis, opinion and debate (and also propaganda and disinformation), but the voices of the Ukrainian Left – socialists, feminists, union activists – are too seldom heard.
This book does much to fill that gap. Most of the (…)
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