UKRAINE

A collection of recent writings by Ukrainians and socialists around the world. This is an extremely important book published at this tragic moment when our country has been invaded. It builds a bridge of solidarity between the people of Ukraine and the working class around the world. The contributions make it easier to imagine a […]

International solidarity. How foreign leftists are helping Ukraine in the war

Voices From Ukraine

Outside of Ukraine, “Leftists” are accustomed to only listening to those from Moscow: Interview with anarcho‑syndicalists in Eastern Ukraine

Ukraine Information Group launched

Putin’s Annexation of More Ukrainian Territory is Part of Pattern of Ethnocide and Genocide. Stand with Ukraine.

War and resistance in Putin’s Russia

Ukraine: bogus ‘anti‑imperialism’ serves the Kremlin

Simon Pirani // 28.09.2022

UKRAINE: Voices of resistance and solidarity

Not a Single Soldier for the Criminal War!

Untimely Thoughts: Notes on Revolution and Ukraine

Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital

Support Ukraine’s people!

Pete Duncan // 16.09.2022

Did Lenin Create Ukraine? On the Right of Nations to Self‑Determination and Marxism

Ukraine, war and the British left

‘Today, people are not just fighting for Ukraine but to destroy the Russian regime’

The Need for Anti‑War Socialist Feminism

“Our goal Is to win this war”

Dick Nichols, Viktoria Pihul // 01.09.2022

How Will the War End?

Boris Kagarlitsky // 31.08.2022

The Ecological Scars of War

Lenin, Ukraine, and the Amnesia of the “Anti‑war Left”

Ukraine and the Dangers of Nuclear War

Ukraine: Between Hope and Fear

Dan La Botz // 26.08.2022

Eastern Europe’s Tragedy. How the Spheres of Influence Policy Amplifies Reaction

Russia under Putin

Michael Roberts // 20.08.2022

Ukraine: the invasion of capital

Society Behind the Fences

Boris Kagarlitsky // 18.08.2022

Ukraine could abandon key labour principle as part of EU drive

EU’s hydrogen greenwash is last thing Ukraine needs

Simon Pirani // 12.08.2022

Union aid: support Ukraine mineworkers’ resistance

I’m a Ukrainian Socialist. Here’s Why I Resist the Russian Invasion

‘Standing up for the oppressed’

Andrey Pertsev, Sam Breazeale // 07.08.2022

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

The Weaponisation of Food

The War in Ukraine and the Contradictions of Turkish Politics

British Trade Unions Donate Vehicle and Medical Equipment to Ukrainian Counterparts

“We were for peace!” Only they were not

I’m a Ukrainian Socialist. Here’s Why I Resist the Russian Invasion.

Demand President Zelinskyy veto anti‑worker Laws 5161 and 5371!

URGENT FINANCIAL APPEAL TO AID THE UKRAINIAN MINEWORKERS RESISTANCE!

Ukraine uses Russian invasion to pass laws wrecking workers’ rights

Serhiy Guz, Thomas Rowley // 24.07.2022

War and climate justice: a discussion

Simon Pirani // 22.07.2022

10 Terrible Leftist Arguments against Ukrainian Resistance

I Marched Against Putin’s War for the Same Reason I Protested the War in Iraq

Niko Vorobyov // 21.07.2022

Ukraine and the Peace Movement

Dying to kill

Anton Mirsky // 18.07.2022

Ukraine’s recovery must benefit the people. The West has other ideas

Belarusian ‘railway partisans’ face death penalty

Simon Pirani // 18.07.2022

Towards a new permanent global war?

“Women will not be able to forget everything and take the backseat again”

Nina Potarskaya // 13.07.2022

“The right to resist.” A feminist manifesto

Durham and Ukraine miners: historic links of friendship

The guerrilla war on Belarus’s railways

The aggressor always needs peace, the oppressed always need liberation

After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

NATO and a War Foretold

Ukrainians face forcible deportation and conscription by Russian forces

Why is Ukrainian resistance invisible to you?

Reinventing Nazism for state propaganda: How morality is being replaced by force

Inside the Ukrainian Resistance

NATO From Bad to Worse

‘Death sentences’ of British & Moroccan POWs in occupied Donbas show clearly why Russia must be driven out of all of Ukraine

Ukraine’s ecosystems: the price for global food security

“I asked: “Don’t torture, kill right away.”

Lydia Mikhalchenko // 19.06.2022

On the fantastic tale that “the Ukrainian army killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas between 2014 and 2022”

Michael Karadjis // 19.06.2022

Why is the Kremlin so committed to this war?

The Conquest of Ukraine and the History of Russian Imperialism

Unafraid to Be Called a “National Traitor”

Russia is kaputt

War in Ukraine: solidarity with Ukrainian resistance, against all imperialisms

With the resistance of the Ukrainian people for its victory against the aggression

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Imperial Ideology or Class Interest?

Salvage // 06.06.2022

In a Broken Society, Who Supports the *Not‑War?

‘The Russian empire is failing in its own way’

The Forgotten History of Ukrainian Independence

Gone Rogue: The Left and Ukraine

The Ukraine War Will End, But How?

The Hollow Ideology of Putinism

Aleksandr Rybin // 26.05.2022

The Economic Consequences of the War

Rajan Menon // 26.05.2022

RIGHT TO WEAPONS. HOW CAN LEFTISTS SUPPORT UKRAINE?

The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left

Taras Bilous // 25.05.2022

Putin’s conquest of southeast Ukraine: Vexed questions of ‘negotiations’, gotcha moments and real imperial interests

Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

Russia: a new wave of anti‑war protest

Destruction of signs, signs of destruction

Volodymyr Artiukh // 18.05.2022

“A form of political paralysis is affecting the French left over the war in Ukraine”

Report: International conference of European Solidarity with Ukraine

The Justice Train from Bucha

When should we stop excusing the Russian invasion?

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Bill Gallegos, Jamala Rogers // 12.05.2022

Ukrainian Feminists under Western Eyes

Cultural destruction – why it matters

Fascism and the Imperialism of the Kremlin

Irresponsible braggadocio won’t help Ukrainians

Gilbert Achcar // 07.05.2022

“Humanitarian aid alone is not enough”

Self‑Determination and the War in Ukraine

Taras Bilous // 05.05.2022

A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv

Taras Bilous // 05.05.2022

A Tremendous Resistance: Feminists in Russia against the War and Patriarchy

Resisting the War to Push for a More Egalitarian World.

The Left and Military Aid to Ukraine

Gilbert Achcar // 03.05.2022

On the Frontier of Whiteness? Expropriation, War, and Social Reproduction in Ukraine

The war on workers?

Evasions on the Left over Ukraine

28.04.2022

Sotsіalnyi Rukh needs financial aid

‘The deeper we go into war, the more Putin stands to lose’

FRANÇOIS CHESNAIS // 27.04.2022

Female Face of Russian Anti‑war Movement: Why Women Protest?

Ukraine, Global War Economy, and the Crisis of Capitalism

Why should Ukraine’s debt be cancelled?

From Managed Democracy to Fascism

Against Putin’s War in Ukraine

Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine?

25.04.2022

Russia’s Bucha ‘Facts’ Versus the Evidence

Interview with Gorbach Denis

Gorbach Denys, Samantha Don // 21.04.2022

Michael Colborne on the Azov movement in Ukraine

Eviane Leidig, Michael Colborne // 21.04.2022

The disastrous military campaign, unprecedented

Ilya Matveev // 21.04.2022

Why the Left Must Support Arms for Ukraine!

Stephen R. Shalom // 21.04.2022

EuroMaidan

Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance. Six questions

Simon Pirani // 19.04.2022

Four points on the war in Ukraine

Murray Smith // 18.04.2022

Holding Putin Accountable Would Require an Actual Rules‑Based World Order

Contemptuous Denial of Agency in the Name of Geopolitics and/or Peace

Gilbert Achcar // 13.04.2022

Once More: Should socialists support or oppose NATO arms to Ukraine?

“arms for Ukraine, but not those arms”

Andy Richards // 13.04.2022

After Putin

John Feffer // 12.04.2022

Railway sabotage in Belarus: railway workers in action

Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus // 12.04.2022

Fighting for Ukrainian Self‑Determination

Ashley Smith, Yuliya Yurchenko // 12.04.2022

Internationalist Manifesto Against the War

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 12.04.2022

International Marxist‑Humanist Organisation: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Our Response

Gilbert Achcar, Marxist-Humanist Organisation // 11.04.2022

Climate change and wars

Ukraine and the Left

Can the God of global fascists and Nazis “de‑Nazify” a country?

Real Peace in Ukraine Will Only Come after Change in Russia

Fabian Wizotsky, Oksana Dutchak // 10.04.2022

London: Trade unions rally to support Ukraine!

Ukrainian socialist: ‘The future of demilitarisation lies in stopping Russia’s war machine now’

Against Russian Imperialism

Solidarity with the resistance against Putin’s war!

Christian Zeller // 07.04.2022

NATO, Explained

Russian soldiers killed that family, just … because

Anatoly Dubovik // 07.04.2022

Prof. Gilbert Achcar, Ukraine and the New Cold War

Gilbert Achcar // 06.04.2022

Russia and Ukraine: A Stalemate? A Turning Point?

Dan La Botz, Patrick Silberstein // 06.04.2022

For Arms Manufacturers, the War in Ukraine Is a Profits Bonanza

The bankruptcy of a one‑sided “anti‑imperialism”

New appeal: Solidarity with mayors and local government representatives in Ukraine!

Mike Phipps // 05.04.2022

Coherence and Incoherence about the War in Ukraine

Gilbert Achcar // 04.04.2022

Ukraine: filtration in Russian‑occupied areas is “a way of terrorising civil society”

Pavel Lisyansky // 04.04.2022

Ukraine and the Oligarchs – Denis Pilash pt 1 and 2

Analysis News, Denys Pilash // 02.04.2022

Unions Stand with Ukraine

Russian troops out of Ukraine/Down with all imperialist power/ Solidarity with the people of Ukraine

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 01.04.2022

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Interview with a Volunteer from the Kiev Territorial Defense

Perrine Poupin, Taras Kobzar // 01.04.2022

Ukraine: The return of Francis Fukuyama

Ukraine and anti‑imperialism — Gilbert Achcar and Alex Callinicos debate

From Israel to Russia, occupiers are remaking the world order

An embarrassing war: what to do when Russia attacks Ukraine but you are left‑wing?

From Cold War to Hot Peace

French trade unions plan workers’ convoy to Ukraine

March for Ukraine

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign/Sotsialnyi Rukh joint leaflet

Sotsialnyi Rukh, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign // 25.03.2022

An exchange of views

End the addiction to fossil fuel‑ support the Ukrainian resistance

Russian army unleashes terror in occupied cities

Simon Pirani // 24.03.2022

Six cats, thirty people, four mortar shells. Two weeks in the occupied Kyiv suburb

Refugees need solidarity, not a hostile environment (Leaflet design x 2)

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 23.03.2022

“Russia‑Ukraine war: Zelensky’s support for Israel against Palestinians is a disgrace

Asad Ghanem // 23.03.2022

What sort of antiwar movement do we need today?

Dave Kellaway, Geoff Ryan // 23.03.2022

Ukraine: the sources of danger of a wider war

Xi, Please Ask Putin to Withdraw His Troops

Six FAQs on Anti‑Imperialism Today and the War in Ukraine

Ecosocialist Alliance Statement – Ukraine/Climate Emergency

The War in Ukraine and the Dilemmas of the Western Left

Darya Saburova // 17.03.2022

To Help Ukraine, Cancel Its Foreign Debt

How can the climate movement and the anti‑war movement come together?

Where are your red lines?

Simon Pearson // 15.03.2022

“The Left in the West Must Rethink”

Ukraine solidarity model motion

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 14.03.2022

Against Imperialist War! Ukraine, Russia, NATO and the U.S

NATO, imperialism and the war

Refugees need solidarity, not a hostile environment

A Ukrainian Socialist Explains Why the Russian Invasion Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise

Jana Tsoneva, Volodymyr Artiukh // 12.03.2022

Murky future. What would Putin do in case of his military defeat?

Ukraine Leaflet

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 12.03.2022

Stop Putin’s war!

Russian War on Ukraine Churns American Politics

‘We need a peoples’ solidarity with Ukraine and against war, not the fake solidarity of governments’

Trade Union Statements on the war in Ukraine

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 11.03.2022

Ukraine: No To Partition! Yes To Reunification!

Why Ukraine is a Syrian cause

The Russian Resistance to Putin Has Just Begun

A strategy for the working class in Ukraine

Against war in Ukraine and the New Imperialism: A Letter of Solidarity with the Oppressed

Bulgaria: Between Pro‑War Consensus and the Need for an Anti‑War Movement

Not all refugees are equal

War in Ukraine: Ten Lessons from Syria

The World According to Russian Propaganda

Ukraine and the left

The oligarchic rebellion in the Donbas

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski // 05.03.2022

Russian White Guards in the Donbass

The Russian Statelets in the Donbas Are No “People’s Republics”

Simon Pirani // 04.03.2022

The Historical Background to Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Russian troops out of Ukraine

How Europe Learned to Use Central Banks as a Weapon

Defend Ukraine, defend the planet

Support Ukraine Solidarity and comrades in Ukraine

We are not neutral observers

Andy Kilmister // 02.03.2022

Anti‑Imperialist Solidarity with the Ukrainian People

Gilbert Achcar // 02.03.2022

Sporting and cultural boycott of Putin’s Russia

Dave Kellaway // 28.02.2022

Do Russians Want War?: Moscow on the First Day of the Invasion

Alexey Sakhnin // 28.02.2022

A memorandum on the radical anti‑imperialist position regarding the war in Ukraine

Sanctions, a question of who, where and when

On appearing to be on the same side as one’s own imperialism

Stop Pretending the Left Is on Putin’s Side

Putin’s war in Ukraine: In Saddam Hussein’s footsteps

Stop Putin’s Aggression Immediately!

Russia Hands off Ukraine (Mass protest called)

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign // 24.02.2022

Their Anti‑Imperialism and ours

Gilbert Achcar // 23.02.2022

Hands off Ukraine

Russian imperialism makes power grab against Ukraine

“We are in a worse situation than during the Cold War”

A Ukrainian Sociologist Explains Why Everything You Know About Ukraine Is Probably Wrong

Branko Marcetic, Volodymyr Ishchenko // 14.02.2022

NO TO WAR – Russia Hands off Ukraine!

Myths About the Russo – Ukraine Crisis

Against NATO and Russian military escalation in Eastern Europe

London Protest calls for hands off Ukraine

The rulers of the great powers are playing with fire

Stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine

The United States and Russia Struggle over Ukraine. War on the Horizon?

Dan La Botz // 16.01.2022

TIME FOR INTERNATIONAL ANTI‑WAR SOLIDARITY

UKRAINE

Ukraine’s resistance – the challenges of the war for independence

Ukraine under Russian occupation

On the Murder of Children and the Return of Genocide to Banality

Ukraine: For a People’s Peace, not Imperial Peace

Ukraine debate at UCU Congress 2024

International Solidarity at UCU Congress 2024

Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom: A Socialist Case for Solidarity and Self‑Determination

No Path to Peace in Ukraine Through This Fantasy World

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

From Ukraine to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime

The author and his book

Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires

Ukrainian letter of solidarity with the Palestinian people

Call to Action: Join the National Demonstration in London on March 30—Ceasefire Now, Stop the Genocide in Gaza!

“Stop the War” Means “Death to the Dictatorship”

Arguments for a “left agenda” faced with the war in Ukraine

Ukraine: “Tensions are building… due to the neoliberal policies imposed by the government”

Russia turns Ukraine’s occupied areas into an armed camp

From Ukraine to Palestine – Occupation is a Crime

Why Putin invaded: a socialist analysis

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

Urgent appeal for solidarity

Ukraine: Russian troops out—Stop the genocide

Interview with Ukrainian and Russian socialists

Left Perspectives: Navigating Capitalism, Conflict and Authoritarianism in 2023

From Ukraine to Palestine: the right of peoples to self‑determination

Palestine and Ukraine: how the 21st century empires wage war

Stand with Ukraine: TUC Backs Their Right to Resist Russian Aggression

A Palestinian View on Ukraine: Parallels of Occupation and Solidarity

Medical aid for Ukraine: An urgent appeal

Russia: I’m a Ukrainian leftist. This is why I support Boris Kagarlitsky

Ukraine and the abstraction of violence: my reply to Tom Dale

Governments are reinforcing fossil fuels’ power. We need to build alliances against it

Ban cluster bombs – Ukraine is no exception

The Left and Ukraine: Two Pitfalls to Avoid

What does Prigozhin’s march mean?

Corbyn in Budapest: “We Have to Be Organised on an International Basis”

The debate on Ukraine at UCU Congress 2023

“They Also Used to Laugh at Hitler”

Global Post‑Fascism and the War in Ukraine

Statement of the anti‑war committee of Kyrgyzstan

Washington Is Obstructing the Path to a Political Settlement in Ukraine

From Ukraine to Palestine: The Poisons of Denialism

The New Cold War with Gilbert Achcar

Scottish TUC stands in solidarity with Ukraine

Consistent anti‑imperialism and the Ukraine war

One year after the Russian invasion, what should solidarity with Ukraine look like?

“Russia Is Giving Carte Blanche to the Far Right”

Statement on one year of war in Ukraine – ACR steering Committee

What Russian Socialists did on the Anniversary of the Invasion?

On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analysing the Roots of Russian Imperialism

Happy birthday, Kirill Butylin

‘Ukraine is fighting occupiers and tormenters’

Voices of the Ukrainian Resistance

“Now Ukraine Needs Allies, Not Talk of Neutrality”

Ukraine: this new cold war must end before the world faces Armageddon

Russia‑Ukraine: one year of war – the economics

The Ukrainian Question for Socialists

We Say: War on War!

Supporting Ukraine—Without Writing a Blank Check

The Nord Stream pipeline explosions: challenging false narratives

Russian Troops out of Ukraine (New Leaflet)

The Ukraine War and the Cost of Living Crisis

The invasion of Ukraine one year on

No arms to Ukraine?

The Far Right in Ukraine (An Interview with Taras Bilous)

The pro‑Putin demands of Britain’s “Stop the War” campaign

The orchestra of the blind, the deaf, the amnesiacs, the storytellers and the accomplices plays its score

Five Theoretical Reflections on Ukrainian Resistance

The anti‑imperialist position is to support the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people’

Making sense of the Ukraine war

What are the Lessons of Vietnam for Ukraine Today?

Crimean People’s Republic

Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

Support Russian anti‑war activists/Solidarity with the People of Ukraine

Russia: the time for protest has gone, it’s time for resistance

A new left is forming – it just isn’t in the same party (yet)

Call for solidarity actions with anti‑war activists in Russia

Svitlana Romanko speaks with Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign