Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
Dossier 1989 Thirty Years Later: Several profound contradictions have defined the dynamics of Ukrainian economy, politics and society since the collapse of the Soviet Union: the contradiction between transnational and local capital, those between factions of the local capital, Ukrainian national (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Ukraine is at the center of a dangerous contest between the United States and Russia that could lead to a Russian invasion, to Western economic sanctions, to mutual cyber warfare, and, with two nuclear powers involved, could even detonate a nuclear war. At the heart of this is Ukraine’s plans to (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
After weeks of media scare about a purported Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the conflict may get a chance to be solved in a negotiated way. The public conversation on the current escalation of the Russian-Western conflict over Ukraine is, however, quite ironic. At least on the surface, it (…)
, by FINKEL David
The following notes were initially intended as part of a followup to the article Biden’s Foreign Policy by Dianne Feeley .
M1A1 Main Battle Tanks during a NATO Training. Russia can’t allow NATO bases in Ukraine. (Photo: Chad McMeen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
I’d like to develop (…)
, by PIRANI Simon
October 1917: the climax of the revolution we have always called “Russian”, but was so much more. In Petrograd, the old empire’s capital, the provisional government that had ruled since February collapsed and Bolshevik-led workers’ and soldiers’ soviets (councils) took control. In Kyiv, the (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
After the 30 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine may give a unique perspective on the post-Soviet condition in general and understand it as the ongoing unresolved crisis of the fundamental relation of representation between the political elites and social groups interests. (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr , ZHURAVLEV Oleg
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Revolutions have been plentiful in post-Soviet countries, but unlike classic revolutionary examples, they have been remarkably consistent in failing to establish a more stable political order and states autonomous from the influence of patronage. Post-revolutionary (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr , ZHURAVLEV Oleg
Political revolutions are quite frequent in the countries of the former USSR. Ukraine has experienced three such periods of change. These provide a deficient respond to the crisis of political representation, or crisis of hegemony. That is to say, they respond to the crisis, but in ways that (…)
, by GUZ Serhii
As the Ukrainian government gears up to celebrate 30 years of independence, the reality is that, for many, independence has not brought the prosperity they were promised
Tomorrow, Ukraine will celebrate 30 years of independence with pomp. The government has prepared lavish celebrations, (…)
, by GUZ Serhii
Millions of older people in Ukraine receive pensions below the real cost of living – and this trend seems to be only getting worse
A dramatic situation with state pension provision is unfolding in Ukraine. In autumn last year, Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal stated that if “decisive (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
For several weeks and until very recently, Western media have sounded the alarm about a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine. The stationing of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border, now ended, appears, in fact, to have been a response to increasing belligerent activity in the area on the part of (…)
, by BILOUS Taras
The Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border in recent weeks aimed to demonstrate the Kremlin’s muscle and force concessions over disputed regions. The threat of military force will never bring a viable peace — and for the Left, the first task is to de-escalate the rising nationalist (…)
, by GUZ Serhii
Some citizens have faced a threefold hike in energy costs since New Year – leading to fears many could lose their homes
Early this year, a wave of ‘tariff protests’ swept Ukraine’s rural settlements, towns and small cities. The protests, organised largely spontaneously, were often accompanied (…)
, by KUTNII Sergii
Volodymyr Ishchenko is a Ukrainian left-wing sociologist enjoying some popularity among the western leftists. A year ago, he published a paper «Left divergence, right convergence: anarchists, Marxists, and nationalist polarization in the Ukrainian conflict, 2013-14» in the Globalizations journal (…)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
The Kremlin has ordered the Russian army to the Ukrainian borders and is threatening to intervene if the US, NATO, and Ukraine do not fulfill its demands. We, the Ukrainian socialists, call on the international left to condemn the imperialist policies of the Russian government and to show (…)
, by SOKOLOVA Hanna
Low wages, stressful conditions and little hope in the future of Ukraine’s healthcare system – this is what Nina Kozlovska, a nurse at a Kyiv regional hospital, is campaigning against.
It took only 24 hours for Nina Kozlovska’s post to go viral.
“One night I came home from work, opened (…)
, by HOLUBNYCHY Borys, MULIAVKA Viktoriia, YAKUBIN Alexey
President Zelensky’s team is missing its chance to end the war in Donbass
After the election of the sixth President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “window of opportunity” opened for speeding up the peace process in the East of the country. Zelensky often called himself “the president of (…)
, by BROWN Kate, FAYYAZUDDIN Ansar, RAMANA M.V.
ON APRIL 26, 1986, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, scattering highly radioactive materials into the surroundings. As the fire ignited by the explosion in the reactor core burned, more radioactive effluent was expelled and swept by the winds from the (…)
, by COYNASH Halya
Six years have passed since the tragic disturbances and fire in Odesa on 2 May 2014 that Russia immediately tried to turn into an ‘Odesa Massacre’ by ‘Ukrainian radicals’. If the Russian and pro-Russian propaganda campaign has had fairly limited effect, this is mainly thanks to committed (…)
, by BILOUS Taras, HUBA Roman, KRAVCHUK Oleksandr
Under pressure from local and Western oligarchs, supported by the European Union, Ukraine is preparing to lift the moratorium on land market. This will complete the privatisation started in the 1990s but frozen in 2001 because of its terrible social and economic impact on the rural poor. (…)
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