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Workers’ Liberty members met with members of Sotsialny Rukh (SR — Social Movement) in Lviv and Kyiv during our visit to Ukraine in August 2023.
SR emerged from the regrouping of (and splits from) the left which took place around the Maidan Revolution of Dignity in late 2013 and early 2014. (...)
Bidding farewell to a comrade and friend
Our colleague Oleksandr Kravchuk, left-wing economist, author, and lead editor of the Ukrainian media platform Commons died in the night of 21 July, unexpectedly and far too young. His professional career took him from a simple train conductor to a (...)
One of the paradoxes of the war in Ukraine is that some of us have discovered the existence of an active left and a critical and creative thinking in Ukraine that we have ignored for too many years (and of which the author of these lines is a part). Amongst our revelations, the Commons, (...)
On March 11th 2023 our friend and comrade of Commons, known political economist, political scientist, labour movement historian and an activist of left-wing movements and solidarity with Ukraine, Marco Bojcun, passed away. He played an important role in keeping the flame of the Ukrainian left (...)
Our friend and comrade Marko Bojcun, a political economist, researcher of labour history, activist of leftist movements and solidarity with Ukraine, has passed away. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Marko Bojcun played a crucial role in keeping the fire of the Ukrainian left alive (...)
Michael Baker spoke with Olenka Gulenok and Kateryna (Bri) Kostrova, two activists from the Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialny Rukh (Social Movement), about how the war is affecting the struggle for women’s liberation in Ukraine, and how the international feminist movement can help. (...)
Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.
On the anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian left faces a dual challenge — resisting Russian military attacks while also fighting against their (...)
Statement by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
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The unjustified and atrocious Russian invasion of Ukraine decided by Putin on 24 February 2022 and the war it provoked have already caused over 100 000 deaths for each side, half of those in Ukraine of civilians. The (...)
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to take it’s brutal toll on this country population and infrastructure, there still seem to be a lot of confusion , especially in the West, about who is the aggressor and whether such a blatant act of imperialism is actually imperialism.
There (...)
Ukrainian activists with backgrounds in the anarchist, anti-fascist and student movements collect equipment missing from the front lines. If you don’t want to see a big right-wing movement on Ukrainian streets: then you should support Ukraine, says Sergei Movtjan when Flamman meets him in (...)
The war in Ukraine has generated a vast amount of reportage, analysis, opinion and debate (and also propaganda and disinformation), but the voices of the Ukrainian Left – socialists, feminists, union activists – are too seldom heard.
This book does much to fill that gap. Most of the (...)
The year 2022 opened a new tragic page in the history of Ukraine and the world. It was a year of incredible heroism and solidarity in the face of Russian imperialism. At the same time, the processes of neoliberalization of the economy and the attack on the remnants of labor rights intensified (...)
This interview was prepared as part of a campaign to raise money for a pickup truck for activists from Ecological Platform. Don’t forget to donate to the comrades and support the struggle of anarchists against Russian imperialism! How to donate can be found here – https://t.me/ecoplatform/2270 (...)
On December 2, 2022, we published Jean Vogel’s text entitled “The strange change of position of Gilbert Achcar”. We received a text from Gilbert Achcar: “A brief response about my puported ’change of position’,” and from Jean Vogel: “A sober response to Gilbert Achcar”. We are republishing (...)
Before the full-scale war, the Ukrainian left movement was neither considered influential nor had a party or national representation, backboned by a strong community. However, the Russian invasion made leftists look for new contacts and approaches. Spokespeople of leftist and anarchist (...)
Following the Russian imperialist aggression of February 24, 2022, society mobilized to defend its existence. On March 11, the Autogestion association in a statement published on its website noted that “The war has provoked… popular self-organization – both spontaneous and encouraged by (...)
Within the Russian population, there’s resistance against Putin’s war. The Canary has tried to highlight this resistance by amplifying grassroots movements. Critically, it’s important that our ‘left’ alliances don’t result in us talking over voices on the ground in Russia.
Activists in the (...)
Denis Pilash recounts the attempt of the new Ukrainian left to foreground social conflict in the context of resistance to Russian aggression.
Denis Pilash is a socialist activist and associate professor of political science at Kyiv University. Over the last few days, together with a hundred (...)
[Declaration of Social Movement (SR) conference, 19 September 2022]: The people of Ukraine have been facing hard challenges, yet they have proven their ability to fight for the right to decide on their own fate, and their determination to defend the country and to end the war as soon as (...)
Six months into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, where is the Ukrainian resistance at? What is the general mood in Ukraine regarding possible negotiations and NATO? And what has the war meant for progressive forces in the country?
Speaking from Ukraine, Vladyslav Starodubtsev, (...)
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