Nine Months in a Juvenile Shelter. Musician David’s story about Deportation to Russia
On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued warrants of arrest for russian*[1] president Vladimir Putin and children’s commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the mass abduction of Ukrainian children. The court's statement holds them accountable for the harm inflicted upon Ukrainian children due to the war crimes of forcibly displacing individuals from […]
Africa and the War in Ukraine: Russian Money, Wagner Group, and Grassroots Solidarity
This article is based on the left-wing activists' conference materials organized by the Global and European Networks of Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) in Africa. These activists represent various grassroots initiatives, organizations, and parties. They talk about the situation on the African continent, solidarity, problems in the region, and how the Russian-Ukrainian war affected them. The […]
From Lisbon to Kryvyi Rih: a conversation about labor struggles with Yurii Samoilov
Yurii Samoilov is the leader of an independent miners' union in Kryvyi Rih and an activist of the left-wing organization Social Movement. For years, he has been organizing and supporting workers, especially in the mining and metallurgical sector. As a trade union representative, he joined the fight in courts, at demonstrations and strikes, and conducted […]
De-occupation of Crimea: Crimean Tatars and the Path toward Decolonization
In 2020, when I conducted my ethnographic fieldwork in Crimea, few expected it to be de-occupied any time soon. In mainland Ukraine too, the saying “next year in Bakhchisaray” sounded naïve and awkward as those who uttered it understood their self-deception perfectly well. Yet, three years later, de-occupy Bakhchisaray is becoming a real possibility. Moreover, many […]
Swimming Upstream: Stories of people who challenged employer tyranny in Ukraine
In the current Ukrainian context, the demand of society for fairer living conditions and the demand of the people who are ready to promote and defend them is increasingly strong. And experience shows that there are more and more people in Ukraine who put the pursuit of truth and the protection of public interest above […]
Not like a fish in water: how we listened to the experiences of Ukrainian refugees and learned about ourselves
"The amazing paradox of the ethnographic moment… is that coming closer to the Other creates a clearer sense of self, and thus opens up ways to know the Other better," emphasizes anthropologist D. Soyini Madison. In August 2022, a study called ‘The Art of Arriving’ started to explore the experiences of Ukrainian refugees in Austria. […]
The main goal of trade unions is to remind everyone that governments serve the people, not vice versa
Every year left-wing and trade union communities celebrate Labour Day – the day of resistance and solidarity in fighting for peace and worker’s rights. In Ukraine we constantly have discussions around this date’s meaning and importance. May Day as a day off not for picnics but for demonstrations of left-wing and trade union solidarity. We […]
Von Ostgalizien uber das ‚rote Wien‘ in die Bundesrepublik. Leben und Werk des sozialistischen Humanisten Leo Kofler
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Sub-Imperialist positioning, not “anti-colonial consciousness,” behind the neutrality of reactionary elites in the Global South
Time and time again, we have been told that ‘the Global South’ – ie, the developing world consisting largely of former colonies – does not support Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s barbaric colonial invasion, or is even supportive of Russia. According to this rendition of reality, support for Ukraine is entirely a project of the imperial […]
What’s wrong with Ukraine’s wartime diplomacy in the Global South
In the month of the 1st anniversary of Russia’s illegal and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky held a speech at the European Parliament, where he declared Russia to be “the biggest anti-European force of the modern world”[1]. By “European”, he meant its ostensibly “way of life steeped in rules, values, equality, and […]
