Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
A few days after the Russian invasion, Gilbert Achcar published a « Memorandum on a Radical Anti-Imperialist Position regarding the War in Ukraine » which made a positive contribution to clarifying ideas on the left in the emerging movement of solidarity with the Ukraine resistance. On 30 (...)
Faced with the invasion of Ukraine by the regime of Vladimir Putin, the antiwar movement has seen the development of very contrasting positions. They all have in common that they all claim peace, a word behind which very diverse, even opposing attitudes can be placed.
There are, on the one (...)
Key workers told openDemocracy they are being paid months late or not in full due to a controversial healthcare reform
Ukraine’s healthcare workers are going unpaid as the effects of pre-war healthcare reform hit wages and job security in an economy ravaged by Russian invasion.
Medical staff (...)
Nine months have now passed since Russian army invaded Ukraine. Vladimir Putin wanted a quick and victorious war – but his soldiers were met with fierce Ukrainian resistance. The Ukrainians are still defending their country, with significant help of the West which stood in solidarity with them. (...)
The war bitterly hit the whole population of Ukraine. Many people lost their jobs and left their homes. According to the September survey of the sociological group Rating, only 61% of Ukrainians remained at their job positions, 36% of whom worked full-time. According to World Bank estimates, as (...)
Alexander Dugin’s fraudulent ‘fourth way’
Much has been written about Alexander Dugin, the Russian firebrand often called “Putin’s Brain” by both his defenders and his critics. Dugin was born into a well-off Soviet family in 1962, and spent much of his youth rebelling against communism, flirting (...)
This second article in the Labor Rights series addresses retail sector in a time of war
The current situation
Commerce occupies a very important place within the Russian economy, accounting for 15 percent of GDP and 10 percent of tax revenues in the treasury and with about 13 million people (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has so far failed to weaken US and European support for Ukraine. Meanwhile, despite punishing Russian air strikes, Ukraine is successfully ejecting the invading army.
Vladimir Putin is playing the long game. The Russian leader believes that he can outwait all (...)
Nataliya Levytska is deputy chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine. She is in Australia as a Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) delegate to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress, where she is seeking support for Ukrainian (...)
Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue born of the strength of the soul. Spinoza
The best of the West is outside the West, in young Iranian women who let their hair down and are murdered because of it. The best of Europe is outside Europe, in the young Ukrainians who unfurl their flags. (...)
What lessons can we learn from the history of the Chechen wars? How did people fight for their freedom and independence? Activist and researcher Lilia Yuldasheva on colonization of the Northern Caucasus and resistance in the Chechen Republic
The terrifying military aggression that Ukraine (...)
Russia urged international cooperation while ignoring its own role in making the climate crisis worse
Although the main topic at COP27 in Egypt was how richer nations could provide financial support for the poorer countries worst hit by climate change, Russia’s war against Ukraine was on (...)
Safeguarding the rights of journalists, trade unionists, and captured soldiers will strengthen Ukraine’s war effort.
It is critical to support Ukraine’s just war of self-defense against Russian aggression. Russia’s invasion was morally horrendous and blatantly illegal, resulting in ongoing war (...)
We continue the “Labor Rights” series with an article on the condition of medical workers
In the eyes of many healthcare workers, the war is yet another stage in the disastrous reform known as the policy of “optimization.”
Mobilization and a new wave of austerity might provoke the mass exodus of (...)
Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda was born and raised in Donbas. She is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where her research examines debates over the Ukrainian question among the Bolsheviks. Perekhoda has written widely on Ukrainian history, (...)
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has once again raised debates about the instruments for sustaining peace. Since the end of the 1980s, a neoliberal consensus has dominated the global economic dimension. Its goal has been to minimize the number of regulatory institutions, expand free (...)
OPINION: The reconstruction of Ukraine will be crippled by the debts it owes to the IMF and other institutions
The Ukrainian army continues to make territorial and military gains against invading Russian forces on the eastern front. But how is the country faring on the ‘western front’?
Some (...)
On Ukraine, little separates Putin’s United Russia from either the Communist Party of Russia or A Just Russia
Russia’s tame opposition parties have played a crucial role in enforcing and administering the occupation of Ukrainian territory, a new report shows.
The four main parties in the (...)
On Saturday 12 November, a student demonstration against the closure of the Academy of Printing took place in Lviv.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has prepared an unmotivated order on the fate of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing at the Ivan Franko National University Lviv (...)
Russia has forcibly mobilised tens of thousands in Ukraine’s occupied territories to fight
Ukraine is prosecuting its own citizens who have been forcibly mobilised to fight for Russia – despite initial promises of an amnesty from the country’s top officials.
Since February this year, thousands (...)
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