Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
I gave a talk at an an on-line event on the war in Ukraine, arranged by the Future of the Left group on Monday. The meeting was shorter than planned, due to technical problems. Only two of the advertised speakers made it: Richard Sakwa, emeritus professor of Russian and European politics at (...)
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, at first we were speechless. For the war had raised many questions that are hard to answer clearly and unambiguously. A first reaction, supported by the editorial board of this journal, was to point out the frightening geopolitical dimensions of (...)
Reports from occupied Crimea suggest that Russia’s measures aimed at forcibly mobilizing men to fight its war against Ukraine are specifically targeting Crimean Tatars.
CrimeaSOS reported on 23 September that, according to preliminary estimates, Crimean Tatars had received around 90% of all (...)
Full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine caused an unprecedented housing crisis. More than hundred thousand homes were destroyed or damaged, millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes. Housing policy did not manage to address the housing needs of internally displaced people. At the same time (...)
Led by an ex-politician with no official power, Kryvyi Rih’s miners and metalworkers have united against Russia
In the early hours of 24 February, former politician Oleksandr Vilkul held no official position of power in his hometown of Kryvyi Rih in south-eastern Ukraine.
Hours later, he was (...)
Vladyslav Starodubtsev is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, and a member of Sotsyalnyi Rukh, a Ukrainian organization that unites the democratic left.
The war in Ukraine has raised thorny questions of national sovereignty, NATO expansion, and the current state of world geopolitics. (...)
Interview with Nataliya Levytska, Deputy Chairperson of the NGPU (Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine), by Christopher Ford, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign.
Christopher Ford – Please explain your own position in the NGPU. How many workers do you represent; where do they work; and in which (...)
Six months into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, where is the war effort to repel the occupying force at? What is the general mood in Ukraine regarding possible negotiations? And what has the war meant for progressive forces in the country?
Speaking from Kyiv, Vladyslav (...)
First workers’ protest in Ukraine since Russia invaded erupts over embezzlement fears in the country’s coalfields
Miners in western Ukraine have gone public about their fears of a return to the corruption that once plagued the country’s coal industry – and are worried about losing their jobs as a (...)
Russia’s invasion has reaped untold devastation on Ukraine’s critical agricultural sector, leading to severe disruptions on the global food market and exacerbating global hunger. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Mykhailo Amosov, an agricultural expert at the Center for Environmental (...)
In addition to its immediate dire consequences, the war in Ukraine has caused great damage to labor rights. In parallel with the destruction of the industry and infrastructure by Russian bombs, a new system of socio-economic relations in the field of employment is emerging. The reforms are (...)
Almost a month after Ukraine’s parliament adopted two anti-worker bills, President Volodymyr Zelensky finally ratified Draft Law 5371 on August 17, thereby removing union rights for most of the country’s workers.
Explaining the situation to Green Left, Ukrainian labour lawyer Vitaliy Dudin said: (...)
When the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began six months ago, it seemed that this would be the most difficult test for us. But now it has become clear that the real test may not lie only in war. Will the people of Ukraine be able to maintain their commitment to democracy, human rights (...)
Given the danger of nuclear conflagration, should the peace movement demand – as some have suggested — that the United States and NATO stop providing arms to Ukraine as a way to avoid provoking Russia?
Nuclear war – along with climate change and pandemics — represents one of the existential (...)
Russia’s war in Ukraine poses the greatest danger to the planet at the moment. But is it also an opportunity?
The Russian war on Ukraine represents the most dangerous development in the world at this moment, more threatening in the short run than climate change or pandemics. The war has raised (...)
In Russia there is rather little knowledge about the inner workings of Ukrainian politics, it is usually discussed only in the context of “pro-Russian - pro-Western”. Please explain what place you and Social Movement have in it.
We should start with the fact that in Ukraine, as in Russia, there (...)
Ali Khan offers a provocation for supporting Ukraine’s military effort
Today’s radical left has long recognised only one foe, that which Ayatollah Khomeini aptly titled “The Great Satan” – namely the USA. Little attention was paid lately to about “The Lesser Satan” – or Russia. For over 30 years (...)
On June 9, Heino Berg, Thies Gleiss, Jakob Schäfer, Matthias Schindler, Winfried Wolf published a detailed statement in Junge Welt in which they advocated an “anti-militarist defeatism” and the abandonment of Ukraine’s military resistance to the Russian war of occupation. We take her article as an (...)
Collaborate or resist? Patriotism, poverty and self-interest are pulling Luhansk’s people apart
With the fall of Lysychansk on 3 July 2022, Russia completely occupied Luhansk oblast, Ukraine’s easternmost province.
Luhansk oblast, a Soviet planner’s invention, is stitched together from patches (...)
Plan to pipe huge amounts of resource-intensive “green” hydrogen to Europe would undermine Ukraine’s recovery
The European Commission, cheered on by fossil fuel companies, is promoting a plan to put exporting hydrogen to Europe at the centre of Ukraine’s post-war recovery. The plan reeks of (...)
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