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(EN, FR) Social Movement’s Open Letter to London Anti-War Conference: ‘No Ukrainian leftists invited to speak’

On June 20, the Stop the War (StW) Coalition hosts a major International Conference Against War in London. The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign wrote to StW in January, stressing that credible discussion on the war must include those directly affected by Russia’s unprovoked invasion—particularly trade unionists and the democratic left. No such Ukrainians were invited. Read Social Movement’s open letter to the conference

ZMINA: The situation of human rights defenders and civil activists in Ukraine in 2025

Adam Novak: ‘ZMINA’s conclusions are uncomfortable for those who wish to frame Ukraine’s democratic health as a simple function of Russian aggression alone. They are also incomplete: the report’s liberal framing excludes trade unions and labour activists entirely, and its treatment of systemic conscription abuses amounts to a footnote.’

Ukraine resolution for Die Linke congress: ‘Anti-militarism that forgets those under attack is no anti-militarism at all’

Network for Just Peace: ‘Against the arms race as a profit-making machine. Against turning a blind eye to Russian imperialism. For a left-wing peace policy that integrates self-defense and social control. No weapons for profit, but weapons for those under attack.’

Free Azat Miftakhov! He faces Navalnyi’s fate in the same Arctic hellhole

Transferred to an Arctic hellhole where Navalnyi was murdered, Russian mathematician and dissident Azat Miftakhov has been subjected to atrocious physical and psychological abuses, including forced stripping, suffocation, repeated beatings and electrocution—all to break his will to resist

The watchword is ‘fire!’— the history of the Crimean Tatar resistance movement ‘ATESH’

Crimean Tatars wave flags during a demonstration outside the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol, Ukraine, on February 26, 2014. The demonstration marked the beginning of Crimean Tatar resistance to the Putin regime’s impending occupation. Photo: Baz Ratner / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

Conditions at work: Victims of workplace accidents take on the bureaucratic ‘grinding machine’

With the outbreak of full-scale war, the number of people with disabilities in Ukraine has risen from 2.7 million to 3.4 million. Despite the need to improve support for victims, the reality is that there are numerous obstacles to obtaining social assistance. Oleksandr Kitral reports

LATEST AUDIOVISUAL (all topics)

Commons: Odesa activists help the homeless | Les militants d'Odessa viennent en aide aux sans-abri

The anti-authoritarian collective Street Aid Daily continues its distributions to the homeless. This Commons video : ‘How activists in Odessa care for the homeless’, subtitled in English and French, explains its work

Ukraine Solidarity Information (Canada): Building solidarity between the struggles of all oppressed peoples

Analysis with Rita Adel (raised in Ukraine to a Ukrainian mother and a Palestinian father), Frieda Afary (Iranian-American public librarian, translator, writer, and activist), and Oksana Briukhovetska, artist, curator, and researcher from Kyiv

Ukrainian team’s account of Israeli Navy raid on Sumud Gaza Flotilla 2026

The Ukrainian team of Nina Potarska and Andrii Movchan (pictured) were among the 170-plus who were kidnapped by the Israeli Navy in its April 30 raid on the Sumud Global Flotilla 2026: full story and background here. Interview with Nina and Andrii in Commons here.

Voices Against Putin’s War launched, with enactment of protesters’ ‘last words’ to court

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, thousands of people have been arrested for protesting against the war. Many appear in court, facing years of imprisonment. What do they say to the judges? What would any of us say? This 50-minute film, in English, features enactments of some of their speeches

Ukraine Solidarity Network: meaning of Trump and Netanyahu’s war for the peoples of Iran and Ukraine

Russia has reaped the benefits of Trump and Netanyahu’s barbaric assault on Iran, using the profit boost from iits fossil fuel exports to bankroll its war on Ukraine. Left analysis from Ukrainian, Russian anti-war, Iranian and Ukraine Solidarity (US) speakers

Interview (English) with Nariman Aliev, director of Homeward [En Terre de Crimée]

Crimean Tatar director Nariman Aliev explains how he made this powerful film. Seemingly a simple story of a father trying to return to occupied Crimea to bury a son killed in the war, but a moving insight into the reality of life for the Crimean Tatars

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NEWS

June 7, Lviv: ‘We have named our Pride march For True Traditions: LGBTIQ+ people are an integral part of Ukrainian society and history’

Environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine: December 2025 – February 2026 review

Irish company producing alumina for the Russian war effort, and indirectly supplying 100-plus companies

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CAMPAIGNS

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Make Russia pay! Unfreeze its assets for Ukraine!

In December 2025, the Belgian government succeeded for the time being in preventing frozen Russian assets being made available for Ukraine. It got an initial €90 billion instalment of the funds it will need for 2026-2027, but at what longer term economic cost and cost to popular support for Ukraine in Europe

Campaign against Russian fossil fuels exports carried on Putin’s ‘shadow fleet’

In 2024, the European Parliament, on the initiative of Nordic left MEPs, adopted this motion demanding proper sanctioning of the fleet of obsolete tankers carrying Russian cargoes. A sorely needed campaign finally began…

Ukrainian Trade Unions Call for Global Solidarity

‘In just the first four months of 2025, Russia has attacked with missiles and kamikaze drones enterprises and infrastructure facilities employing thousands of our trade union colleagues in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Pavlohrad, Kamianske, Pokrovsk, Kryvyi Rih, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia other cities. Despite threats and pain, Ukrainian workers resist, despite all challenges Ukrainian trade unions defend labour rights and fight for just peaceful future’

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FUNDRAISING (links to trade union support campaigns here)

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK): Frontline Schools Appeal—Help Ukraine’s Children Learn in Safety

Support the call of the Free Trade Union of Education and Science and Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers for funding for two frontline underground schools, in Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih

Support Solidarity Collectives, the grassroots resistance and popular support movement

‘We support soldiers of various convictions: anarchists, human rights defenders, trade unionists, eco-activists, feminists, political refugees from Belarus or Russia, and comrades from the West’

Be Like We Are! Solidarity with independent union of Ukrainian nurses and medical workers

In a war where the Russian invader is deliberately targetting hospitals Be Like We Are is in the front line of defending services and the rights of health workers

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OPINION

Posle: The Kremlin’s perfect storm (editorial statement on recent events in Russia)

By early May, Putin’s regime appeared to be facing a perfect storm: a battlefield stalemate, economic stagnation, a visibly faltering state response to crises ranging from flooding in Dagestan to a foot-and-mouth outbreak in Siberia, accompanied by intensified mobile-internet blackouts and expanded efforts by the security services to tighten control over social media. A genuine crisis for the Russian regime?

Counterpunch: What role does Putin really assign to the ‘NATO threat’? Andrii Movchan investigates…

‘Russia’s defensive war against NATO expansion’ — a concept that has become almost axiomatic for many Western leftists. This concept conveniently serves both to rationalize Russia’s actions and to radicalize criticism of their own governments. But what role does Putin himself assign to the supposed NATO threat? Andrii Movchan investigates

Dissolution of truth and Russia's war against Ukraine: Maksym Butkevych’s speech to Munich Symposium

‘The Russian regime began destroying the truth before invading Ukraine — and precisely in order to start this war. Disguising armed aggression and occupation as the self-proclamation of so-called ‘people's republics,’ denying Russia's involvement, denying war crimes, attributing characteristics to Ukraine that would justify aggression — this is what made the war possible’

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STATEMENTS (all topics)

(EN) Statement by Priama Diia student union at June 8 International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles meeting

(FR, EN) Déclaration du comité du RESU France à l'occasion du 1er mai. May Day statement of ENSU’s French committee

‘Pour autant, sous les bombes meurtrières russes, les Ukrainiennes et les Ukrainiens n’abandonnent pas le combat de classe. Elles et ils résistent aux attaques antisociales de l’oligarchie ukrainienne et du gouvernement Zelensky’

(EN, UA, FR, ES, PT, IT) Why ENSU-RESU does not support the final declaration of the First International Antifascist Conference

Ukraine workshop at First International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples (Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 26-29).

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ISSUES

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Putin’s winter war crime—freezing Ukraine into surrender

July 2025 protests against dissolution of anti-corruption agencies NABU and SAPO

Full coverage: Without the July youth revolt against the government’s scheme to neuter Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies, senior corrupt figures would still be in power

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Trump’s Venezuela piracy, seen from Ukraine

LATEST: FPU wins back use of Trade Union House Behind the grab for Trade Union House

The Union House of Ukrainian Trade Unions Federation, seized in late June 2025 by dubious legal manoeuvre

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Statement on Iran protests by Social Movement (Ukraine)

Comment: Behind the reburial of Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

On May 25, the Ukrainian state reburied Andriy Melnyk, leader of one wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, with full honours and president Zelenskyy in attendance. Proof that Ukraine is becoming a fascist state? An event beyond criticism? Comment by John-Paul Himka and Adam Novak