Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
Ukraine ended the 1980s as one of the most advanced parts of the Soviet super-power with a developed machine-building industry. Thirty years later, Ukraine’s major economic indicators are on a par with many Third World countries. The country is fundamentally dependent on the financial, (…)
, by BOJCUN Marko, SKOMOROSHCHENKO Olena, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK)
Interview with Olena Skomoroshchenko of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine In search of a better understanding of the war in Eastern Ukraine and the prospects for its peaceful settlement, we are soliciting the observations and analyses of people in Ukraine close to the centre of the (…)
Ukraine’s President conferred with, and the Prime Minister of Ukraine partied with, known far-right figures as leaders of the country’s veterans. Additionally, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, rubbed shoulders with a far-right figure embraced by Ukraine’s veterans ministry. We (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos, ZDOROV Andrii
Sometimes, Ukrainian wanderings bring unexpected results. As when, trying to locate on the map the bases of the - ongoing - Ukrainian ’naval guerrilla’ at the mouth of the Dnieper, we came across the small town of Ochakov. Which, according to Wikipedia, has seen only one celebrity born on its (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
Elections to Ukraine’s parliament produced the first one-party majority since the end of the USSR. But as nationalist violence persists, comedian-president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s base is anything but stable.
This April, popular comedian and successful show businessman Volodymyr Zelenskiy (…)
, by Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK)
The left was not very visible during the elections to the Ukrainian parliament on 21 July this year., once again various oligarchic candidates dominated the show. This time however in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih there was one candidate standing in an effort to give a voice to Ukrainian (…)
, by ARUNYAN Aleksei
Every year, dozens of workers die on Ukraine’s construction sites due to poor safety procedures. To find out more, I got a job at one of them.
A snowy evening in January. A tower crane on Kyiv’s left bank lifts a steel frame and places it atop an unfinished apartment block. Twenty two stories (…)
, by BILOUS Taras, KRAVCHUK Oleksandr
What’s behind the collapse of politics as usual?
Volodymyr Zelensky’s stunning victory with 73 percent of the vote is an expression of deep public distrust in the political establishment.
The ruling elite usually divided the people of Ukraine into electorates of East and West. The (…)
, by GUZ Serhii
In the Soviet Union, May Day devolved into a formal holiday with little direct political meaning. Today, Ukraine has never been further from trade union struggle.
“Peace, work, May!” This tired Soviet slogan lost its meaning even in the Soviet Union. For the majority of people, these were (…)
, by DUDIN Vitaliy, FORD Christopher
What will happen now in Ukraine after the Presidential election? Christopher Ford organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign interviewed Vitaliy Dudin an activist of the NGO ‘Social Movement’ and leading trade union solicitor in Ukraine.
What does the election of Zelensky as President of (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
In Sunday’s election Ukrainian voters dealt a decisive rebuttal to the post-Maidan establishment. Yet well-organized nationalist forces represent a time bomb under the new president-elect.
American readers won’t be too surprised by a tale of an inexperienced candidate winning against the establishment’s pick. But in the case of Ukraine’s new leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, this widely made comparison is even something of an understatement. Imagine that (...)
, by FORD Christopher, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK), YURCHENKO Yuliya
The elections in Ukraine have come a shock and will have an impact not only in Ukraine and East Europe but globally. What does this mean and how did it happen? In order to help understand these dramatic events Christopher Ford organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign interviewed leading (…)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr
A politically inexperienced comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is in the lead after the first round of presidential elections in Ukraine – and by a huge margin. He is almost 15 percentage points ahead of the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko. Zelenskiy’s unconventional campaign, relying (…)
, by BEZRUK Tetiana
Activists in Odesa have been trying to stop over-development for several years now. But in the past year, the southern Ukrainian city has had the highest numbers of attacks on activists.
On a day in early March, volunteers are clearing the Odesa City Garden of rotten wooden beams, stones and (…)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
Sotsіalnyi Rukh (SR; The Social Movement) is a new left party being created by the working people of Ukraine. Recent events here have shown the lack of political subjectivity of working classes in the country and the need for a left-wing political force which would promote a socially oriented (…)
, by ARUNYAN Aleksei
In May 2018, Ukraine’s railway workers took an unprecedented stand against deathtrap conditions. Six months on, I went to found out what’s changed.
In early summer 2018, Ukraine’s railway workers held a mass work-to-ruleaction – strictly observing official quotas and safety instructions.
Across the country, drivers refused to complete routes on the grounds that their engines were not fit for operation. Employees at Ukrainian Railways, Ukraine’s state-owned railway company, demanded a wage rise, (...)
, by ISHCHENKO Volodymyr , PLOMMER Joe
Ukraine’s politics are dominated by oligarchs. Its streets are more and more run by the far right.
When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its former republics’ economies went into free fall. Ukraine — the most populous of the new states, after Russia — was no exception: average incomes and (…)
, by KRAWCHENKO Bohdan
Events in Ukraine during World War Two have come to feature greatly in analysis and commentary since the Russo-Ukraine war began in 2014. The Kremlin has revived Stalinist narratives of branding virtually any expression of Ukraine’s desire for greater freedom and independence as associated with (…)
, by DORCADIE Mathilde
Coal miners exit the mine shaft after their shift on 25 September, 2018 at the Kapitalnaya mine in the city of Dimitrov, renamed Myrnograd in 2016 following a policy of “decommunisation” initiated by Ukraine after the events of 2014 and 2015.
For the fourth consecutive month, 37-year old miner (…)
, by BEZRUK Tetiana
A Ukrainian MP has introduced legislation to criminalise same sex relationships and protect traditional values.
Earlier this month, Oleksandr Vilkul, an MP from Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc party, the successor to Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, registered draft bill No.9183, “on the (…)
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