Ukraine

Eric Lee Ukraine

Following his recent visit to Ukraine, LabourStart founding editor Eric Lee outlines the challenges in building trade union solidarity with the Ukrainian people following Russia's brutal invasion.

Zaporizhzhia NPP

Growing fears that an incident — deliberate or otherwise — could occur at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant have prompted calls for a United Nations resolution to demilitarise the area around it, reports Federico Fuentes.

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Speaking from Kyiv, Vladyslav Starodubtsev, addressed the Sydney launch of Ukraine Resists! Left Voices on Putin’s War, NATO and the Future of Ukraine.

prisoners of war

Ukrainian state-backed project, “I Want to Live”, says it plans to start exchanging Russian prisoners of war (POWs) for anti-war political prisoners jailed in Russia, reports Federico Fuentes.

Ukraine hydro plant destroyed

Powerful interests are still pushing Kyiv in the direction of fossil fuels and nuclear energy, writes Simon Pirani.

Cluster munitions

Fred Leplat, on behalf of British organisation, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, critically examines the controversial supply of cluster munitions from the United States to Ukraine.

Cluster munitions

The controversial decision by United States President Joe Biden’s administration to send cluster munitions to Ukraine has drawn widespread condemnation, report Barry Shepherd and Malik Miah.

Depleted uranium shells

Britain has revealed it will supply Ukraine with armour-piercing depleted uranium shells, despite the health and environmental harms associated with the materiel, reports Binoy Kampmark.

Marko Bojcun

When Ukrainian writer, teacher and activist Marko Bojcun died in England on March 11, an important link snapped in the chain of struggle for the Ukrainian people’s social and national emancipation, writes Dick Nichols

John McDonnell

British Labour MP John McDonnell argues that to force a negotiated settlement to Russia's war on Ukraine, the left should support Ukrainians' right to defend themselves.

Yuliya Yurchenko

Ukrainian socialist and author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital Yuliya Yurchenko discusses the key domestic factors that shaped Ukrainian politics from independence to Russia’s invasion.

Ukraine war

Russia’s war against Ukraine has had devastating consequences for the country’s economy and society, writes Michael Pröbsting.