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Ukraine: Solidarity vital to expel Russia

Alena Ivanova

Ukraine: “The most important thing is self-organisation”.

Alexander Kitral, Interview by Patrick Le Tréhondat, Illustration : Katya Gritseva

Where are the people of Bucha?

Alfons Bech

Winter and humanitarian aid

Alfons Bech

What do Ukrainian trade unions expect from their European counterparts?

Alfons Bech

Greetings from Alfons BECH on behalf of ENSU trade union working group to Sotsialnyi Rukh conference, September 17, Kyiv

Alfons Bech

Labour Start Global Conference in Tbilisi

Alfons Bech

The pain of Ukrainian nurses in wartime

Be Like Nina

Be like Nina: a year of activities

Be Like Nina

Ukraine: What does Nina want?

Be Like Nina, Translated by Patrick Le Tréhondat

Health workers support campaign: Be Like We Are (formerly Be Like Nina)

Be Like We Are

Health workers solidarity campaign: providing material support

Be Like We Are, ENSU-RESU

What Does Solidarity With Ukraine’s Workers Look Like?

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Olesia Briazgunova Liz Lawrence Fabio Bosco

Ukraine’s Postwar Reconstruction Has Big Business Licking Its Lips

Branko Marcetic

Report from Alfons, Catherine, Francesco and Szymon

Catherine Samary Alfons Bech Peiró Francesco Brusa Szymon Martys

Mineworkers union leader: ‘Please stand with Ukraine and help us win this war’

Chloe DS Nataliya Levytska

Ukraine Resolution of the Central European Trade Unions

Collective

Position of the KVPU on the Draft Labour Code of Ukraine

Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU)

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)

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

CSP-Conlutas

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

Daniel Šitera

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

Daria Saburova, Interview by Pauline Migevant

OPINION: Sweden should welcome Russians who don’t want to kill Ukrainians

David Crouch

In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives

Davide Grasso

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

Denis Pilash Gregory Afinogenov Nermeen Shaikh

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

Denis Pilash Rhian Keyse

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

Ukrainian workers’ war on two fronts

Dick Nichols

[EXPROPRIATION OF KYIV’S TRADE UNION HOUSE] Speeches in the Verkhovna Rada

ENSU-RESU

Health workers solidarity campaign: support Be Like We Are

ENSU-RESU

ENSU-RESU trade union newsletters

ENSU-RESU

Support trade union aid to Ukrainian workers!

ENSU/RESU

Tbilisi: Meeting at a time of crises

Eric Lee

Ukrainian unions support the war, but . . .

Eric Lee

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

Eric Lee

Ukraine: Under the cover of Putin’s war, Zelensky tears up workers’ rights

Federico Fuentes

[EXPROPRIATION OF KYIV’S TRADE UNION HOUSE] Chronology of a fight

FPU

A full-scale attack on Ukraine’s labour rights

Georgii Sandul

Gregor Kerr: Irish Left with Ukraine at ICTU

Gregor Kerr

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

Ignacy Jóźwiak Yuriy Samoylov

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

Ignacy Jozwiak (Inicjatywa Pracownicza)

Protecting workers' rights in Ukraine during the war and in the reconstruction of the country

IndustriALL Global Union

How the war in Ukraine has devastated the country’s trade union movement – and the lives of workers

Inès Gil

Ukraine: I am writing to you on behalf of the trolleybus drivers of Kharkiv

International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles

Ukraine: Call for strike in Mariupol

International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles

Intersyndicale (France): Urgent letter concerning attacks on trade unions in Ukraine

Intersyndicale

After shock comes resistance

Ivanna Khrapko

Unmaking the Ukrainian working class, Part I

Jeremy Morris

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

Justinas Šuliokas

Ukraine is not the Neoliberal Laboratory for Transnational Capital

Karen Yamanaka

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

Kateryna Farbar

Bad old days of corruption in Ukraine’s mining sector could be back

Kateryna Semchuk

Ukrainian miners win their wartime strike, but victory looks short-lived

Kateryna Semchuk

The cost of war leaves Ukraine struggling to pay its teachers

Kateryna Semchuk

Utility bill hike set to compound ordinary Ukrainians’ economic pain

Kateryna Semchuk

Ukrainian coal miners defy national protest ban to go on strike

Kateryna Semchuk Thomas Rowley

Ukraine: My 24 February in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Three Years of Ukraine War: A Russian Trade Unionist Settles Accounts

Kirill Buketow

To foreign politicians - justice for Ukrainian workers!

Kryvyi Rih appeal (EN)

The neoliberal battle for Ukraine’s reconstruction

Lily Lynch

Why Australian Unionists should Build Solidarity with Ukrainian Workers and their Union

Lisabeth Latham

Ukraine’s Neoliberal War Mobilization

Luke Cooper

Insourcing the Ukrainian war-effort

Luke Cooper

Ukraine: Kyiv: Hope In The Darkness

Luke Cooper

Ukraine is quietly abandoning neoliberalism

Luke Cooper

Labor Rights as a Guarantee of Sustainable Peace

Maksym Shumakov

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

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

After the war, Ukrainian workers will never agree again to be exploited

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

Practical help for Ukraine

Mark Serwotka, Public and Commercial Services Union

Ukraine: Censorship and self-censorship in time of war

Matt Salusbury

Ukraine: Interview With The Hungarian Media Platform Mérce

Mérce Artem Tidva

Russia-Ukraine: one year of war – the economics

Michael Roberts

Another Ukraine is possible

Mike Davis

Ukraine: Decent Work during and after the War

Natalia Lomonosova

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

Oleksandr Kitral

The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left

Oleksandr Kyselov

Commotion and margin of opportunity: how COVID-19 and the war have affected the position of nurses in Ukraine

OLENA TKALICH

Unions on the front line

Olesia Briazgunova

New independent grassroots union founded in Lviv

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukraine and the question of self-management

Patrick Le Tréhondat

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

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Ukraine: Act, the new student union zine

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Be like Nina against hospital closures

Patrick Le Tréhondat

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

Patrick Le Tréhondat Oksana Dutchak

Ukraine: "We form independent unions in hospitals

Patrick Le Tréhondat Oksana Slobodiana

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

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

Patrick Le Tréhondat Trudova Halychyna

Ukrainian student union Direct Action is back

Patrick Le Tréhondat Пряма Дія

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

Paul Mason

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

Pavel Lisyansky Posle

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

Pavlo Holota Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

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

PCS activist

Will Unite the Union stand with Ukraine?

Sacha Ismail

Four days in west Ukraine

Sacha Ismail

Support the Ukraine trade union initiative

SAP Executive Committee

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

Serhii Guz

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

Serhiy Guz

Poles are for Ukraine, but against Ukrainians

Sławomir Sierakowski Przemysław Sadura

THE EXPROPRIATION OF KYIV’S TRADE UNION HOUSE General coverage and comment

Social Movement

The country lacks doctors: the medical job market is full of vacancies that no one can fill

Socportal

The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) strongly condemns the attempts to illegally confiscate trade union property

Solidaires (CM)

Ukraine: Tear gas bombs for workers' self-defense

Solidaires (CM)

Ukraine: The state attacks union assets

Solidaires (CM)

Ukraine: for concrete solidarity, let's finance the Workers' Christmas of the Kryvyi Rih trade union

Solidaires (CM)

Interview with construction union leader Vasyl Andreyev [video]

Soren Sondergaard

In Ukraine’s Just War of Self-Defense, Zelensky Must Still Respect Rights

Stephen R. Shalom

Background to Be Like Nina movement

Szymon Martys

Ukraine: Lviv miners: "We are not slaves"

Tetiana Hnativa Karetnikova , Ihor Vasylets, Maksym Shumakov, Translation Patrick Le Tréhondat

UK MPs demand ‘just reconstruction’ in Ukraine amid fears for workers’ rights

Thomas Rowley

Ukraine uses Russian invasion to pass laws wrecking workers’ rights

Thomas Rowley Serhiy Guz

Revealed: Ukraine’s secret attempt to bypass top trade union bodies

Thomas Rowley, Serhiy Guz

Crane operators are unprotected workers

Trudova Halychyna Patrick Le Tréhondat

After Lviv, Bolt Delivery Drivers in Kyiv Demand Wages They Can Live On

Tula Connell

Urgent Financial Appeal To Aid The Ukrainian Mineworkers Resistance

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Campaign Aid Delivered to Resistance and Rescue Squad in Ukraine

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Support the GMB Missile Depot Workers’ strike in Scotland!

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Urgent Appeal For Medical Aid

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Ukraine: From Lisbon to Kryvyi Rih: a conversation about labor struggles with Yurii Samoilov

Valerii Petrov Daria Selishcheva Yurii Samoilov

Belarus: Trial of former president of independent trade union Naftan Olga Brytikova begins

Viasna Center

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

Vitaliy Dudin

Ukraine: 7 conclusions for 24 February

Vitaliy Dudin

On Vitaliy Dudin's Telegram channel

Vitaliy Dudin

New attacks on the Labour Code

Vitaliy Dudin, Translation by Patrick Le Tréhondat

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

Vitaliy Dudin, Translation Patrick Le Tréhondat.

Interview with labour solidarity union member from Kiev, Ukraine

Vitaliy Makhinko Ignacy Jóźwiak

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

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

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

VOLODYA VAGNER

Ukraine: "Our union protects workers under martial law".

Volodymyr Kozelsky

Ukrainian workers fight on the front – and suffer from lack of political power

Wojciech Albert Łobodziński

Ukrainian workers are struggling for survival

Wojciech Albert Łobodziński Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Ukraine. Independent Trade Union of Miners leader Yuriy Samoilov: ‘More than war fatigue, what we have is apathy. Most people no longer expect anything.’

Yuriy Samoilov, Federico Fuentes

Ukraine: Scandinavian trade unions called for the expulsion of Russian representatives from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

Соціальний рух (Social Movement - Ukraine)