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What would happen if Russia’s healthcare system went on strike?
Russia’s public healthcare system is facing significant problems, and staff are coming out as a result. Ambulance teams in Penza region, central Russia, recently called a work-to-rule action, bringing out more than 100 people in (...)
Every year, dozens of workers die on Ukraine’s construction sites due to poor safety procedures. To find out more, I got a job at one of them.
A snowy evening in January. A tower crane on Kyiv’s left bank lifts a steel frame and places it atop an unfinished apartment block. Twenty two stories (...)
Ten years ago this month, Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered. Here, we publish an extended interview with him on the fate of worker-led activism in post-Soviet Russia.
Ten years ago this January, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were (...)
Once the pride of the Soviet Union, Tolyatti’s car factories are cutting workers and raising production quotas by the year. The cost is all too human.
Tolyatti is Russia’s Detroit. Situated on the Volga River not far from Samara, the city is home to some 700,000 people, and its workshops – which (...)
In an article originally published at a Russian business news site , Ivan Ovsyannikov, a member of the Russian Socialist Movement , describes what’s behind the attacks by the Russian government on the Worker’s Association Interregional Trade Union, which the state has accused of acting as a (...)
Since 2000, the increasing number of transnational companies (TNC) in Russia’s booming regions has given rise to the growth of an alternative union movement. Foreign automobile firms in particular are under fire for undermining workers’ rights. In Kaluga region, located southwest of Moscow, plant organizations of the new independent union MPRA (Interregional Trade Union Worker’s Association) successfully struggled to receive formal recognition as negotiating unions by utilizing the (...)
Note from the LeftEast editors: The rallies that took place in Russia on June 12 under the slogan “We Demand Answers” are the first political event of the summer of 2017. Translated kindly from the original Russian on OpenLeft.ru by Emma Claire Foley.
Anti-corruption protests took place in (...)
Russia’s new wave of protest poses a question for those riding it: what kind of movement are they building?
Today, when dozens of Russian citizens are still being held at police stations , and protest leader Alexei Navalny is preparing to spend 30 days in prison, it seems awkward to criticise (...)
Two weeks after Russia’s anti-corruption protests, activists and participants are still being tried, arrested and intimidated across the country.
We [Open Democracy] continue our partnership with OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday, we’ll bring (...)
Introduction
On March 26th, people in many Russian cities participated in rallies connected to the recent anti-corruption investigation by Alexey Navalny’s Anti-corruption Foundation. One could say that these were the most numerous street protests of the past few years. In contrast to the (...)
Shifting powers in Russia’s employment relations? Alternative trade unions challenging transnational automotive companies
A Case Study by Sarah Hinz
Given the current level of economic uncertainty in Russia, trade unions decided to prioritise securing their employees’ jobs over improving their (...)
A year and a half has passed since the beginning of the political case that has become synonymous with police arbitrariness and the denial of citizens’ rights in today’s Russia. Dozens of people have been or may soon be imprisoned in a country that is now preparing to showcase its prosperity and (...)
A very important strike, organized by an independent trade union, has started in St. Petersburg.
The strike started at 22:45, October 15. The night shift stopped production. Strikers are going to stay at the plant territory until their claims are met.
The results of the strike may affect the (...)
We, the participants of the 30th Revolutionary Youth International Camp of the Fourth International, are aware of the huge political repressions of militants who took part in the democratic protests in Russia. We are well-informed about almost 30 innocent people who are subject of political (...)
DECLARATION OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIALIST MOVEMENT (RSD) ON THE RECENT EVENTS IN MEXICO
On December 1, Vladimir Putin sent official congratulations to his Mexican colleague Enrique Peña Nieto, the declared winner of the presidential elections just held in that country. The two presidents truly have (...)
From Madonna to Bjork, from the elite New Yorker to the populist Daily Mail, the world united in supporting Russia’s irreverent feminist activists Pussy Riot against the blunt cruelty inflicted on them by the state. It may not have stopped Vladimir Putin’s kangaroo court from sentencing them to (...)
Kirill Martynov interviews Violetta Volkova, the lawyer defending feminist punk group Pussy Riot. Kirill Martynov – The Pussy Riot case is dominating the media nationally and worldwide, and drawing particular attention to the Russian legal system. What is the reality of the law-enforcement (...)
The demonstration which took place in Moscow on May 6, 2012 was one of the most massive and combative that has been seen since the beginning of this period of contestation. Tens of thousands of people invaded the capital, despite the pressure exerted by the authorities and the drop in morale (...)
This statement by the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD) on the situation following the recent elections was published on 6 December 2011.
The most boring election campaign in the past twenty years has ended with a crushing moral defeat for the establishment. It hardly matters whether United (...)
The elections in Russia took place as usual, with massive fraud and the pressure of the regime to ensure the victory of the ruling party, United Russia. What has changed is the scale of the protests against this fraud. This time, a large part of the population is rising up to testify: “We did (...)
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