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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 (...)
The Ukrainian “new left” discussed the idea of creating a democratic party of labour on the basis of the political party “Socialist Ukraine”. Following this a Steering Committee was set up.
On September 6-7, 2014 a conference “The war in Ukraine and policies of the Left,” was held in the Ukrainian (...)
On July 24 the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Turchynov announced the disbanding of the parliamentary group of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) over a ridiculous technicality. The court trial over CPU’s ban as a political party started the same day withsimonenko the next (...)
These are notes on the conference The Left and the Maidan (Kiev, April 12, 2014). The conference heard different, often quite opposite, opinions. The text does not presume to fully cover the conference discussions; rather, it is a number of subjective conclusions of the author that reflect his (...)
We publish below the statement of the Left Opposition collective in Ukraine on the war in the east and the steps it believes are needed to bring it to a halt. Posted originally in Ukrainian by gaslo-info on 15 June 2014.
It is necessary above all to protect the inhabitants of populated (...)
The Independent Trade Union of Coal Miners of Ukraine (NPFU) and the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) are concerned over the situation and developments in the Eastern part of Ukraine that are becoming more and more menacing. In the conditions of terroristic manifestations (...)
FOR AN INDEPENDENT SOCIAL MOVEMENT! FOR A FREE UKRAINE!
The mass killing of people in Odessa on 2 May cannot be justified in any way. The socialist union Left Opposition is convinced that “Whoever the deceased people on both sides are, the force used against the majority of them clearly (...)
Interview with Ukrainian socialist Denis Pilas.
Around 150 people gathered in Kiev recently to attend a conference organised by Ukrainian organisations including the Left Opposition, with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
The conference, entitled ‘The Left and Maidan’, discussed (...)
Dear Comrades,
We write to express our solidarity with you in these trying times. Your country is burying a hundred or so dead, demonstrators and policemen, and hundreds more wounded are still in its hospitals. The specter of a civil war has not yet left Ukraine. While not the defeated party, (...)
For weeks and weeks, we have been looking at Ukrainian events, trying to make sense of what has been happening in Kyiv and other cities. We had read many texts, comments and interviews and discussed about Maidan, but we had been always arriving only at new questions to be answered. Thus, when a (...)
Political analysis from Ilya Budraitskis written as he visited Kiev in the midst of revolution.
Back in mid-December, our estimate of Ukraine’s political crisis as a “revolutionary situation” resulted in a lot of critical reviews. Further, the use of the word “revolution” in the context of (...)
To the members of GUE/NGL faction in the European Parliament,
Gabriele Zimmer
Dear comrades,
We, the members of leftist, trade union and human rights organizations in Ukraine, as well as individual activists, would like to draw your attention to the recent events in our country.
On (...)
A note from the editorial board of LeftEast: In the view of LeftEast editors, this manifesto, while representing a minoritarian position within the Ukrainian left, is a very serious and considered document that deserves a wide audience. We are posting it to add nuance to the positions (...)
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