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Ukraine at the Crossroads: A Left-Wing Perspective on War, Identity, and Europe's Future

Denys Gorbach, Daria Saburova , Clément Petitjean

‘The left should support a just peace for Ukraine, not a Trump-Putin deal to appease the aggressor’: An interview with Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash

Denys Pilash, Interview by Federico Fuentes

Ukraine: “We’ll Hope That Someday We’ll Be Remembered”: Social Workers in Times of War {Natalia Lomonosova}

Natalia Lomonosova

For Ukraine without oligarchs and occupiers! {Sotsialnyi Rukh}

Sotsialnyi Rukh

Ukraine: We must take an interest in the complex reality of Ukrainian society

Daria Saburova, Interview by Pauline Migevant

Ukrainian society in the third year of resistance to the Russian invasion: points of unity and division

Vitaliy Dudin, Translation Patrick Le Tréhondat.

Unmaking the Ukrainian working class, Part I

Jeremy Morris

Ukraine: Bikis, our feminist year

Bilkis, Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukraine: Feminist Workshop, a year of activities

The Feminist Workshop, Translation Patrick Le Tréhondat

Odessa: "Solidarity, not charity”

Street.aid.daily from Odessa, Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukraine: civil society and labour in the third winter of Russia’s all-out war

Serhii Guz

A Ukrainian high school student in the war

Patrick Le Tréhondat, Varvara Borysenko

The neoliberal battle for Ukraine’s reconstruction 

Lily Lynch

Ukraine : The obstacles and challenges to the medical workers at wartime

Ignacy Jozwiak (Inicjatywa Pracownicza)

Independent American journalist discusses his reporting in Ukraine

Yurii Stasiuk Sabina Babaieva

Ukraine: 7 conclusions for 24 February

Vitaliy Dudin

Ukraine : Appeal of Lviv students

Ukrainian Academy of Printing Students

Ukraine: Act, the new student union zine

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Viktoriia Pihul (Social Movement, Ukraine): ‘The normalisation of full-scale war has seen the return of political confrontation’

Viktoriia Pihul Federico Fuentes

Ukraine : "Tensions are building in Ukrainian society as a result of neoliberal policies imposed by the government”

Patrick Le Tréhondat Oksana Dutchak

Ukraine is quietly abandoning neoliberalism

Luke Cooper

Ukraine: No to the closure of Tauride National University

Priama Diia- Direct Action

Ukraine’s Trade Unions Face Russian Invasion and Homegrown Attacks on Labor Rights

VOLODYA VAGNER

The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left

Oleksandr Kyselov

Ukraine : 3 questions to Be like Nina

Patrick Le Tréhondat Oksana Slobodyana

Ukraine : “Cooperatives are one of the ways to spread the principles and ideas of self-organization in society”

Patrick Le Tréhondat ReSew coop - Швейний Кооператив

Yanina Korniienko: Journalism affirms democratic values in war-ridden Ukraine [VIDEO]

Vladimir Mitev

Every day is a rainy day: what impoverished motherhood in Ukraine is like

Oksana Buts, Olenka Gu

The anti-social ferocity of Ukrainian neo-liberals

Olena Slobodyan

In occupation, they cared for the vulnerable. Now they’re in jail for it

Oleksiy Arunyan

Background to Be Like Nina movement

Szymon Martys

The anti-social ferocity of Ukraine's neo-liberals

Olena Slobodien

Berlin’s Solidarity with Ukraine: Talks on Human Rights and Social Justice Initiatives

Center for Civil Liberties

Ukraine: Notes from Kyiv: Which side are we on?

Eric Lee

Ukrainian unions support the war, but . . .

Eric Lee

Urgent Appeal For Medical Aid

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens “Authoritarian Forces” Around the World

Hanna Perekhoda Ilya Budraitskis Nermeen Shaikh

What Does Solidarity With Ukraine’s Workers Look Like?

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Olesia Briazgunova Liz Lawrence Fabio Bosco

Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination

Hanna Perekhoda Ilya Budraitskis Ashley Smith

We must fight for the future of Ukrainian education.

Commons Direct Action/Pryama Diya

Ukraine : Trudova Halychyna, the voice of the workers of Galicia

Patrick Le Tréhondat Trudova Halychyna

We must fight for the future of Ukrainian education. Interview with the Priama Diia (the Direct Action) student union

Commons Direct Action/Pryama Diya

Ukraine: Kyiv: Hope In The Darkness

Luke Cooper

Ukraine: "It is possible to manage and control hospitals”

Patrick Le Tréhondat

In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives

Davide Grasso

Ukrainian Urban Forum 2023 “Common Home”: summaries and materials

Cedos

Ukraine : Bikis, feminism in solidarity

Patrick Le Tréhondat Bilkis

July wave of social conflicts in Ukraine

assembly.org.ua

Ukraine’s medics are calling for change – but nobody is listening

Kateryna Farbar

Another Ukraine is possible

Mike Davis

Insourcing the Ukrainian war-effort

Luke Cooper

They Were Nursing Home Residents In Ukraine. Then The War Began

Anna Conkling

Video interview with Denys Pilash of Ukraine’s Social Movement

John Reimann Denys Pilash

Ukraine’s Left Fights for a Future Free from Domination by Russian Tanks & Western Banks

Denis Pilash Gregory Afinogenov Nermeen Shaikh

Utility bill hike set to compound ordinary Ukrainians’ economic pain

Kateryna Semchuk

Ukraine: Resisting creditors

Eric Toussaint Sushovan Dhar

Ukraine: Over a Year of War with No End in Sight

Volodymyr Artiukh Jana Tsoneva

Ukraine : Commons, journal of social criticism

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Swimming Upstream: Stories of people who challenged employer tyranny in Ukraine

Oleksandr Kitral

Ukraine: Interview With The Hungarian Media Platform Mérce

Mérce Artem Tidva

The pain of Ukrainian nurses in wartime

Be Like Nina

Ukraine’s workers are fighting an internal threat, too. They need support

Hanna Perekhoda

"I, Kostya, Ukrainian high school student, member of the Direct Action union”

Patrick Le Tréhondat Kostya

"I, Kostya, Ukrainian high school student, member of the Direct Action union”

Patrick Le Tréhondat

“Teacher, I joined the Ukrainian armed forces “

Valentyn Dolhochub Patrick Le Tréhondat

The cost of war leaves Ukraine struggling to pay its teachers

Kateryna Semchuk

Ukraine: "We form independent unions in hospitals

Patrick Le Tréhondat Oksana Slobodiana

Ukraine’s soldiers face drastic wage cuts as austerity bites

Kateryna Semchuk

Marshall Plan for Ukraine? Not only huge opportunities, but also serious risks

Daniel Šitera

Another 8 March at war: Ukrainian feminists’ perspectives

Kateryna Turenko

Ukraine: Victory Over Russia Is A Priority, But We Cannot Be Silent About Workers.

Pavlo Holota Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left

Ashley Smith Alona Liasheva

Statement of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine. One year into the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (CFTU)

Russia-Ukraine: one year of war – the economics

Michael Roberts

Ukraine and the question of self-management

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukraine: My 24 February in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

New independent grassroots union founded in Lviv

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Social Reproduction in the War on Ukraine

Oksana Dutchak

Notes on a City in Darkness: Odesa After the Russian Infrastructure Attacks

Yana Lysenko

Workers on battlefield deserves a social protection

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukrainian student union Direct Action is back

Patrick Le Tréhondat Пряма Дія

A full-scale attack on Ukraine’s labour rights

Georgii Sandul

Ukraine: Canada must do better, faster, including in arms

Marc Bonhomme

European integration for healthcare: between European recommendations and Ukrainian realities

Olena Slobodyan

Ukraine’s Neoliberal War Mobilization

Luke Cooper

Ukraine’s Postwar Reconstruction Has Big Business Licking Its Lips

Branko Marcetic

Howie Hawkins (Ukraine Solidarity Network US): ‘ The anti-imperialist position is to support the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people’

Howie Hawkins Federico Fuentes

Together We Stand: Enforced Single Motherhood and Ukrainian Refugees’ Care Networks

Oksana Dutchak

Ukraine: Free market will not win the war - British researcher criticises Kyiv’s economic policy

Justinas Šuliokas

Ukrainian employers use the war as pretext to cancel workers’ rights

Ignacy Jóźwiak Yuriy Samoylov

Principles for Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction in the energy system. Workers and social movements approach

Simon Pirani

Ukraine: No, privatisation should not be restarted after the war

Thomas Barrett

UK: Nadhim Zahawi is playing into Putin’s hands, not striking nurses

Paul Mason

Ukraine’s nurses face brutal winter as health austerity collides with war

Kateryna Semchuk

Ukraine: Solidarity vital to expel Russia

Alena Ivanova

Together in Trouble: Social Policy for Just Reconstruction in Ukraine.

Natalia Lomonosova

Labor Rights as a Guarantee of Sustainable Peace

Maksym Shumakov

Ukraine: Students protest against the closure of the Academy of Printing in Lviv

Social Movement

Ukraine: Houses and for Whom to (Re)Build Them?

Kateryna Turenko

Resistance and Solidarity. The Left Volunteer Movement in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Ukraine’s proposed new media law threatens press freedom

Serhiy Guz

Beyond the poverty threshold: Ukrainian pensioners’ survival

Oleksandr Kitral

Ukraine: “The practice of self-management is widespread”

Patrick Le Tréhondat Ksénia (Ukraine)

Ukraine’s latest economic reforms threaten workers’ social benefits

Serhiy Guz

Ukraine: Decent Work during and after the War

Natalia Lomonosova

Ukrainian workers are struggling for survival

Wojciech Albert Łobodziński Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Poles are for Ukraine, but against Ukrainians

Sławomir Sierakowski Przemysław Sadura

Ukraine: “At Some Point, Everything You Do Becomes Activism”

Posle

Ukraine: 52 apartments for IDPs. The gap between housing policy and the shocks of war

Alona Liasheva

What do Ukrainian trade unions expect from their European counterparts?

Alfons Bech

Winter and humanitarian aid

Alfons Bech

Donations worth millions fail to reach Ukraine – sparking calls for change

Valeria Costa-Kostritsky

Where are the people of Bucha?

Alfons Bech

How to restore employment in Ukraine: an alternative proposal to the government’s neoliberal reconstruction plan

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

Is Poland’s smooth reception of Ukrainian refugees heading for trouble?

Eric Reidy

“When there’s a problem, people come to us”

Pavel Lisyansky Posle

Ukrainian feminist voices: Bilkis members

Bilkis Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukrainian workers’ war on two fronts

Dick Nichols

No jobs, no homes: Ukrainians forced back to frontline towns

Isobel Koshiw

What happened to Ukrainian children in care who fled to Poland?

James Jackson

The informal volunteer groups leading Ukraine’s aid effort

Isobel Koshiw

Social Protection in Postwar Ukraine: Time to Change Approaches

Natalia Lomonosova

UK: PCS conference rejects “Stop the War” argument, votes for strong Ukraine solidarity

PCS activist

UK: Stand with Ukraine and its labour movement: a letter to UCU Congress delegates and activists

Denis Pilash Rhian Keyse

37 theses about the current state, challenges and principles of new housing policy in Ukraine

Cedos

The workers are defending Ukraine. The Ukrainian state is not defending workers’ rights

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, Vitaly Dudin

Ukraine, Resistance and Reconstruction: Issues for the post-war recovery

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Yuliya Yurchenko

Notes: Support for people and organisations in the Russian-occupied areas

Minutes: Simon Pirani

Social Movement (Ukraine): What’s going on in Ukraine and why left solidarity is important

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Ukraine’s new labour law could ‘open Pandora’s box’ for workers

Serhiy Guz

What socialists are doing in Ukraine

Denys Pilash

Interview with Ukrainian Union Organizer Artem Tidva

Artem Tidva, John Reimann

What the Left’s fight for worker rights in Ukraine and Russia has in common, and what it does not

Jeremy Morris

The Voice Of The Left Is The Voice Of The Working People

Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine

Interview with construction union leader Vasyl Andreyev [video]

Soren Sondergaard

CSP-Conlutas goes to Ukraine with international worker convoy and delivers donations

CSP-Conlutas

Down and out in Kyiv: how Russia’s invasion has hit homeless people

Kateryna Semchuk

Ukraine: Resisting the War to Push for a More Egalitarian World

Denis Pilash TSS Platform

Ukraine: The war on workers? What is wrong with labor regulations under martial law

Vitaliy Dudin

Ukraine: Without shelter: housing policy in wartime

Alona Liasheva

Interview with Ukrainian Union Organizer Artem Tidva

REIMANN John, TIDVA Artem

Without an emphasis on victimhood: the challenges of Ukrainian women human rights defenders and scientists during the war

Feminist Workshop Marta Havryshko Olena Strelnyk Marta Chumalo

What the Left's fight for worker rights in Ukraine and Russia has in common, and what it does not

MORRIS Jeremy

Trade union leaders arrested in Belarus

Arthur Svenssons International Prize for Trade Union Rights