Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KISHCHUK Yuliia, SMITH Ashley
Leftists in Ukraine are insisting on the urgent need to build solidarity without exception among oppressed peoples.
Part of the series: Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation
Our world is being torn asunder by two horrific wars. Israel is carrying out a genocidal (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick, SLOBODIANA Oksana
On 31 October, around 150 medical workers at the Oleksandriya hospital were made redundant and received nothing at the time of their dismissal, i.e. they were not paid for the last few months of work and received no compensation for unused leave. “We are outraged by the fact that salaries have (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick, ReSew coop - Швейний Кооператив
From the first days of the large-scale war, the capacity for self-organization of Ukrainian society was crucial. Where the State could not fulfill its tasks, society organized itself to respond. A gigantic social, humanitarian and solidarity activity has developed. Even in the military domain (...)
, by BORRIELLO Arthur, PEREKHODA Hanna
“Activists will say ‘you are not left-wing enough, I don’t want to support you’ to people who are fighting arms in hand to defend fundamental rights and political sovereignty,” says Hanna Perekhoda.
Historian, Ukrainian and left-wing activist, Hanna Perekhoda has been a doctoral student in (...)
, by Commons
On November 6, our friend and editor of the Commons journal Sasha Kravchuk would have turned 38.
On this day, despite the weather, Sasha would usually gather dozens of his very different friends around a campfire in a Kyiv urban forest. These were the people with whom he went hiking and (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land (...)
, by ISHCHENKO Serhii
The latest round of horrific bloodshed in Israel/Palestine prompts us to recall not only the sad fate of this troubled region, but also Jewish history. Today, everything related to Jewry and its past is “monopolized” by the State of Israel. But this was not always the case. In Eastern Europe, (...)
, by SABUROVA Daria
How can we look at images of Gaza and not see Mariupol or Bakhmut?
As Israel’s assault on Palestine continues, apparent similarities with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grow. Israel’s “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip – cutting off water, electricity and food to more than two million (...)
, by SAMARY Catherine
Ukraine was not an “artificial creation” of Lenin, as Putin claimed. And Palestine was not “a land without a people for a people without a land” - or even a “Promised Land”. The occultation of “Great Russian” colonization was the result of ideologies and contexts other than those organically (...)
, by PEREKHODA Hanna
Let’s imagine the following story. A country is occupied, its people systemically oppressed. The policies of the occupying state encourage the installation of new permanent colonizers — settlers. The struggle for emancipation by this oppressed people receives insufficient support from (...)
, by BULIN Oleksandr
On October 7, a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation began with rocket fire by Hamas. The whole world turned its attention with horror to the atrocities of terrorists against peaceful citizens of Israel and other countries. However, for now, while everyone is debating the need to (...)
, by VELYCHENKO Stephen
Background.
At least 5.7 million of tsarist Ukraine’s population in 1917 were classfied as urban. Declared Russians were approximately 10% of the total population, 33% of the urban population, 43% of the population in the eight largest cities, and 52 per cent in the four largest cities. Of (...)
, by RESU-ENSU France
“The arms delivered must protect and prevent new crimes. The French Committee of ENSU-RESU calls for Ukraine to be supplied with aircraft, cannons and tanks, as many as necessary and without delay!
At its General Assembly on 30 September 2023, the French Committee of the European Network (...)
, by LE BLANC Paul
A momentous development has drawn my attention away from the unfolding climate catastrophe on which I have been riveted. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major factor fragmenting the left-wing forces I hoped would become a major force in the revolutionary struggle for climate justice and (...)
, by SLOBODYAN Olena
The recent statements of Minister of Social Policy Oksana Zholnovych about “destroying everything social” and “taking Ukrainians out of their comfort zone” have caused significant public outcry and a wave of criticism.
Yet this is not the first time that officials directly involved in (...)
, by SLOBODIAN Olena
Recent statements by Social Policy Minister Oksana Zholnovich about “destroying everything social” and “taking Ukrainians out of their comfort zone” have provoked a major outcry and a wave of criticism. However, this is far from the first time that officials directly involved in social policy (...)
, by FUENTES Federico, JAN Ammar Ali
Ammar Ali Jan is general secretary of the anti-capitalist Haqooq-e-Khalq Party in Pakistan, author of Rule By Fear: Eight Theses Authoritarianism in Pakistan and a historian whose research focuses on Communist thought in colonial Asia. He spoke with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International (...)
, by LEE Eric
As I walked around Kyiv on a beautiful, sunny morning in early September, I noticed the scaffolding in the city’s squares. Statues had been covered up to protect them from bomb damage. Later, I saw a statue with no protection around it– a graffiti-covered memorial to a Red Army general whose (...)
, by BERNABE Rafael
Seeking to navigate in an increasingly unstable and complex international situation, the left should keep three fundamental principles in mind:
-# Consistent anti-imperialism Recognition of the right of peoples to self-determination Support of the struggles of the exploited and the (...)
, by BOSCO Fabio, BRIAZGUNOVA Olesia, FLETCHER Bill Jr., LAWRENCE Liz
An international panel of labor activists discusses what support for Ukraine’s workers should look like.
What is the role labor unions should play in the Russia-Ukraine War? In a special conversation moderated by Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of the TransAfrica Forum, panelists make (...)
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