We, socialists, trade unionists, scholars, activists for human rights, social justice and peace, stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine against Russian imperialism.

The international left and labour movement must vigorously oppose Russia’s threats against Ukraine.

We say neither Washington nor Moscow. We oppose the policy and manoeuvrings of the big Western powers and NATO.

But currently it is Russia that is threatening the Ukrainian people’s right to self-determination and challenging their legitimacy as an independent nation.

It is Russia that has massed troops on Ukraine’s borders; Russia that has annexed Crimea and persecuted the Crimean Tatars; and Russia that has organised an eight-year war in eastern Ukraine leading to 14,000 deaths, 30,000 wounded and 1.9 million displaced people on the Ukrainian side alone.

Subjugated by Russian Tsarist and Stalinist rulers, for centuries Ukraine was the object of exploitation and national oppression, its culture and language subject to discrimination. Millions perished at the hands of the Kremlin.

We call for peace through self-determination of the Ukrainian people. That does not mean support for the current government of Ukraine or the capitalist oligarchs it serves.

Despite its rhetoric, self-evidently the Russian government is interested in neither democracy nor opposing fascism. The Russian government actively promotes pro-Russian sections of the far right in occupied eastern Ukraine and other parts of Europe; and its anti-Ukrainian policy strengthens the hand of far-right Ukrainian nationalists too.

We hail the brave internationalists in Russia protesting against Putin’s war politics. We demand the release of Russian political prisoners.

We stand in solidarity with socialists, trade unionists and activists for democratic and human rights who, who can bring real progress – in Ukraine and in Russia..

We demand the withdrawal of Russia’s troops from the Ukrainian borders and occupied territories, and an end to Russian interference in Ukraine.

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Signatories so far include:

John McDonnell, UK MP for Hayes and Harlington
Nadia Whittome, MP for Nottingham East
Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East
Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central
Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South
Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, UK Bakers’ Food, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU)
Mick Whelan, General Secretary, UK Associated Society of of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF)
John Moloney, Assistant General Secretary, UK Publication and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
Mick Antoniw MS, Member of Welsh Senedd, Tonyrefail
Dan Gallin, Global Labour Institute
Ian Hodson, President, Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union
Dan La Botz, Co-Editor, New Politics (USA)
Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York
Rohini Hensman, writer, researcher and activist, India
Mark Boothroyd, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust NHS Unite Branch Secretary, London
Rhian Keyse, Branch Secretary, Birkbeck UCU; Co-Chair UCU National Anti-Casualisation Committee
Daniel Randall, Assistant Chair, RMT London Underground Bakerloo line branch
Richard Modiano, Director Emeritus Beyond Baroque Foundation
Stanley Heller, host of “The Struggle” Video News
Frieda Afary, Producer of "Iranian Progressives in Translation“
John Reimann, administrator, Oakland Socialist
Yasser Munif, Emerson College, USA
Mary Rizzo, activist/translator Italy
Joshua Ram, writer, San Francisco
Amina Ali, writer and human rights activist, New York, NY, USA
Cheryl Zuur, former president of AFSCME Local 444 in Oakland, California
Thomas Harrison, New Politics editorial board
Andrew Kliman, Marxist Humanist Initiative
Anne Jaclard, Marxist Humanist Initiative
Sacha Ismail, Workers’ Liberty, Unite the Union member, London
Greg Schwartz, London
Alena Ivanova, Glasgow
Angela Paton, Unite Community & Labour Party, Kilmarnock
Pete Firmin, Vice Chair, Brent Trades Union Council, London
Patrick Murphy, National Executive member National Education Union, Leeds
Omar Raii, UCU member, London
Eamon Murphy
Graham Korn, National Education Union, London
Patrick Markey, NEU, Northampton
Eddie Rowley, London Met University Unison Branch
Daniel Nichols, Political Officer, Romford CLP, London
Steve Chapman, Sheffield Heeley Labour Party, Campaigns Co-Ordinator
Duncan Morrison, Joint Branch Secretary, Lewisham NEU, London
Vicki Morris, Branch chair, Nottingham University Unison
Adam Stansby, Bristol
Om Herekar, London
Fazlur Rahmat, Ternate, Indonesia, Pendidikan Sosialis Indonesia
Philip Wills, New Zealand
Mick Sidaway, RMT, North Norfolk Labour Party, North Walsham
Vincent Wong, PhD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
Charlie Morgan, London
David Kirk, Leeds
Corinna Lotz, Real Democracy Movement, London
Robbie Griffiths, Real Democracy Movement, London
Richard Abernethy, International Marxist-Humanist Organization, Oxfordshire
Kevin B Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles
Kieran Durkin, York
Bill Young, International Marxist Humanist Organization, Chicago
Zahoor Ahmad Wani, IMHO, Kashmir
Cathy Nugent, Goldsmiths UCU, London
Liam Murphy, Unite Member, Leeds
Abel Harvie-Clark, South London
Robert Deed, Herefordshire
Stan Crooke, Secretary, Unite Glasgow Not for Profit Branch
Sue Mew, Unite Community, London
Jim Denham, Unite delegate to Selly Oak CLP, Birmingham
Zack Murrell-Dowson, Bristol, IWGB Couriers and Logistics Branch, Bristol
Liam Conway, Membership Secretary, Notts District NEU, Nottingham
Mark Catterall, Todmorden
Peter Burton, Workers’ Liberty, Glasgow
Pete Radciff, Nottingham
Reuben Woolley, London
Gerald Blessington, Canterbury
Luis M. Sáenz, co-editor, Trasversales, Madrid
Liam J. Liburd, Durham
Sue Sparks, Unite, London
Val Graham, Unison & Labour Party, Chesterfield
Ben Towse, Unison member, London
Yuliya Yurchenko, UCU member and author
Susan Dorrell, London
Marko Bojcun, University and College Union, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Gregory Schwartz, UCU, University of Bristol
Jokubas Salyga, Helsinki
Gavin Edwards, Labour Party, Walthamstow, London, Labour Party
Mats Marcusson, Höllviken
David Kellaway, GC delegate to Hackney and Stoke Newington Labour Party, ACR editorial board
Steve Kelly, Extinction Rebellion, Colchester
Chris Roche, Bristol Unite Rep
Ángel Barón Crespo, Madrid
Ian Parker, ACR North, Manchester
Angel Rebollar López, Denia
Hong, Constituency Labour Party delegate, York
Margarita Díaz Pérez, Madrid
Paul O’Brien, Doctors in Unite, London
John Purcell, Labour Momentum, JVL, London
Kyalo Aether, Anarcho Marxist, Hubei, China
Lucy Moy-Thomas, Labour Party, London
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Lorite, Madrid
Malcolm Hunter, UNISON and Leicester South Labour Party
Colm Breathnach, Educational Institute of Scotland, Glasgow
Peter Glover, Joint Secretary Liverpool National Education Union (personal capacity), Merseyside
Yuliia, Ukraine
Андрей, Санкт-Петербург
Dmitro Tyrus’, Lviv, Ukraine, MSL
Shynggys Toleubayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan, ex-member of “Black Apple” Marxist club
David Larcombe, Bristol Union rep
Mezei Dmytro, Київ
Aleksei Balaganov, Russian citizen, asylum seeker and composer, Vilnius
Настя Мазепина, Минск
Oleh Andriukevych, Strategic planner & forecaster, Kyiv
Andriy Dzhuranyuk, Holon, Israel
Lynne Welton, Hamburg, Germany
Pavel M. Kudyukin,University Solidarity Union, Co-Chairperson; Union of Democratic Socialists, Coordination Council member, Moscow
Robert, UDS, Moscow
Alexander Surmava, Berlin
Artemii Sukhanov, Social democratic faction of the “youth civil society movement”, Russian Democratic Socialists’ Union, Saint Petersburg
Schälike Georgy, OOO Polyword
Nasledov Vadim, Teacher at school, PhD, Saint Petersburg
Leonie O Dowd, Irish Syria Solidarity Movement, Dublin 6
Kas Witana, Penistone and Stocksbridge CLP political education officer, Sheffield
Marcelino Fraile Caba, Bizkaia, Pais Vasco
Jesús Jaen Urueña, Activista social, Madrid
Carmen San José Pérez, Madrid
Alexandr Zhelenin, Moscow
Yana, Kyiv
Jose Luis Yuguero, Madrid
Сана, Kyiv
Vladyslav, Kyiv
Thomas Rowley, London
Sviataslau Valasiuk, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Agata Pyzik, writer, Warsaw
Ivan Ovsyannikov, Санкт-Петербург, Russian socialist movement
Tim Lindqvist, Malmö
Julie Ward, Former Labour MEP, UK
Sue Ellis, Local officer in National Education Union, Nottingham
Andrew Coates, Ipswich
Davyd Chychkan, artist, anarcho-syndicalist, Kyiv
Rosie Faith-Strutt, Lancaster
Richard Brand, Duisburg, Germany
Patrick Hannay, Labour member, Abergavenny, Wales
Peter Wickenden, Unite Community, Labour Party, London
Alan Walsh, Labour Party & Unite
Barbara Duncan
Peter Tatchell, Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation
Michael Pugliese, Democratic Socialists of America, Chatsworth
Daryna Vilkhova, Kyiv, Ukraine
Zina Isupova, Moscow
Dmitriy Golub, Perm’, RU
Dmitry Lukash, PhD, researcher, Stavanger
Dick Allwright, South Norfolk Labour Party, Norwich, UK
Dr Paul Flewers, London
Rossen Djagalov, DSA, New York
David Scott, Treasurer Brockley Ward LP, London
Jesús Sánchez, Politólogo, escritor, Valladolid / España
Vivien Sproul, London
Andrew Coates, Ipswich
Vladyslav Oles, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville Tennesse
Sasha Shestakova, Bochum, Germany
Mike Rowley, Oxford
Christopher Blount, Workers Liberty, Workers’ Liberty
Eladio Díez, Madrid
Alexandra Hulme, Sheffield Solidarity Group Social Media and Publicity Officer, UK
Fermín Sartorelli, supported the Trotskyist PTS in my city, currently involved in anti fascist, anarchist syndicalist movements, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maria Bikbulatova, independent researcher, Saint Petersburg
David Ball, Unison and NEU, London
Iona Feldman, Murcia Animal Save, Spain
Declan Owens, Unite and UVW, Dundrum, County Down
Peter Walsh, Greystones
Michelle Dean, Bristol
Clara Connolly, Syria Solidarity UK, London
Michael Lenehan, Irish Syria Solidarity Movement, Dublin
Garrett Mullan, Social Democrats Ireland, Balbriggan
Jayne Egerton, London
Julia Alfoldi-Igaz, Hassocks
Marese Hegarty, Irish Syria Solidarity Movement, Dublin
Andy McCormick, Liverpool NEU
Tetiana Glover, CWU Bootle, Merseyside
Jan Pollock, UCU Retired Members, London
Andrij Zdorov, Odessa, Ukraine
Patricia Barnett, London
Nick Lukhminski , journalist, Slupsk, Poland
Patrick Scott, London, England
Serhii Ishchenko, Odessa, Ukraine
Andy Forse, North London
Jonathan Murray-Lacey, Real Democracy Movement, Norwich
Barry Curtis, Chelmsford
Professor Bill Bowring, Colchester CLP; UCU and UVW; International Secretary, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers; President, European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH)
Marcelle Davies, CWU member, London
Artem Klymenko, Poltava, Ukraine
Sukla Sen, peace activist, Mumbai
Richard Atkinson, Unite and Green Party member, Chester
Ben Gidley, UCU and Labour Party member, London
Mathias Kristersson, Malmö, Sweden
Jac Lewis, UCU, Cardiff

(all individuals personal capacity unless organisation listed below)

Organisations:

Socialny Rukh (Social Movement) (Ukraine)
Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (UK)
National Union of Mineworkers (UK)
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers (UK)
Green Left (UK)
Anti-Capitalist Resistance (UK)
Republican Communist Forum (Scotland)
International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (UK)
Labour Representation Committee (UK)
Marxist-Humanist Initiative (US)
The Real Democracy Movement (UK)
Aplutsoc (“Arguments for Social Struggle”) (France)
Auckland Peace Action (New Zealand)
Asociación/revista Trasversales (Spain)