Ukraine

Solidarity, not saviour complex (part 1)

Part two of this article is here In the last few months, I’ve encountered a slew of campist leftists, mostly from the West, on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other issues. The majority of them are purposefully equating the Ukrainian resistance to Nazism by emphasising the minority of right-wing nationalist elements in the Ukrainian resistance, acting as useful idiots for Putin and his Russia’s colonial war. Despite many Ukrainian socialists and anarchists speaking out about their needs for weapons and aid, and Russian soldiers whispering about the war crimes committed by the Russian military...

Ukraine: where are the International Brigades?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second year. Russian atrocities on Ukrainian soil, against the Ukrainian people, continue. The world has borne witness to the brutality of the Russian invasion.

"Fate la rivoluzione in casa vostra!"

I agree with WF in their argument that we should support Ukraine's right to seek arms for its self-defence, and with WF's call for us to campaign for strings-free economic aid to Ukraine to survive the war and to reconstruct after it, and for cancellation of debt.

Ukraine: choices before Scottish TUC

The half dozen templated motions on Ukraine submitted to this year’s Scottish TUC congress (17-19 April 2023, Dundee) have been amalgamated into a single composite, to be discussed on the Wednesday morning of the congress. Masquerading as pseudo-pacifist "peace proposals", the composite is riddled with factual inaccuracies, political misrepresentations and empty phrase-mongering. Putin’s 2022 invasion was a continuation of the Soviet-imperialist repression of Ukraine dating back to Stalin. Denying the right of Ukraine to exist as a state and as a nation, Putin’s war aim was, and is, genocidal...

The war has damaged every sphere of Ukrainian life

Kateryna Maliuta-Osaulova, International Officer of the Ukrainian Trade Union of Education and Science Workers, spoke at the Workers’ Liberty fringe meeting at NEU conference (4 April). The union organises 1.2mn workers in Ukraine. Firstly, we want to thank you for your position and for your support. It is very important to us and to the Ukrainian people to feel your solidarity. This war has not been going on for only one year. It started in 2014. That year we lost Crimea and the Eastern part of Ukraine. It looked like an internal war. From the outside it might have seemed like an internal...

Why Socialist Appeal can't "learn to think"

In the 1938 article, “Learn to think”, Leon Trotsky argued that if fascist Italy sent weapons to aid – for its own malign reasons – nationalist rebels against France in Algeria, socialists in Italy should not oppose and even help that.

Ukraine: choices before Scottish TUC

The half dozen templated motions on Ukraine submitted to this year’s Scottish TUC congress (17-19 April 2023, Dundee) have been amalgamated into a single composite, to be discussed on the Wednesday morning of the congress. Masquerading as pseudo-pacifist "peace proposals", the composite is riddled with factual inaccuracies, political misrepresentations and empty phrase-mongering. Putin’s 2022 invasion was a continuation of the Soviet-imperialist repression of Ukraine dating back to Stalin. Denying the right of Ukraine to exist as a state and as a nation, Putin’s war aim was, and is, genocidal...

Solidarity, not saviour complex

Some leftists are equating the Ukrainian resistance to Nazism by emphasising the minority of right-wing nationalist elements in the Ukrainian resistance, acting as useful idiots for Putin and his Russia's colonial war.

Free Maksym Butkevych

Maksysm Butkevych. His t-shirt says "No one is illegal" Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian soldier with a long record as an anti-racist and migrants’ rights activist, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by the “Supreme Court” of Russia’s puppet “Luhansk People’s Republic”. Ukrainian activists are saying that the case against Butkevych was fabricated and his confessions forced. Butkevych, 45, is an anarchist by political background and a journalist by trade (for some years he studied and worked in the UK). Over decades he has been involved in many anti-racist, anti-fascist, migrants' rights and...

Carnival of reaction at the Morning Star

The Communist Party of Britain’s international secretary Kevan Nelson gave a report to the party’s political committee last month, published in the Morning Star of 25-26 February. Headed “Signs of Labour collusion with ruling-class attempts to sabotage Britain’s exit from the EU”, it was terrible, even by CPB- Morning Star standards. The statement opens by quoting James Connolly’s famous prediction that the partition of Ireland would mean a “carnival of reaction” and sought to apply it to Sunak’s attempt to ease friction on the British border in Ireland and to Ukraine’s military resistance to...

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