Ukraine: The collapse of “Left” liberalism
We are publishing the translation of an article by Svetlana Tsiberganova, a Borotba activist based in Donetsk. It deals with the reasons for the bankruptcy of part of the Ukrainian left that have...
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Kiev government forcibly removes remaining Maidan protesters
The Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko and the Ukrainian government have forcibly removed the remaining Euromaidan protesters, clearing away protesters’ tents and replaced them with an army recruitment...
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Ukraine: NATO hypocrisy over “Russian invasion” as Kiev suffers defeat
On the eve of the NATO summit in Wales, the Ukraine crisis has seen an escalation in rhetoric. The same people who told us about Saddam’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction” are now raising a hue and cry...
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“Our struggle is for a socialist Ukraine as part of the struggle for a...
Dimitry Kolesnik is the editor of the Ukrainian left wing website Liva and a leading activist in the Marxist organization Borotba. He attended the World Congress of the International Marxist Tendency...
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Ukrainian parliamentary elections: if you don’t have anything nice to say
The expression “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” is the best way to describe the reaction in the Western media to the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections in...
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Perspectives for the People’s Republics: The external and domestic struggle...
Just a few weeks after signing the ceasefire with the rebel republics on September 5th, Poroshenko could be seen on CSPAN, asking a session of the US Congress for more lethal military equipment. It is...
View ArticleThe far right in the new Ukrainian Parliament
A number of far right parties and individuals were elected to the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) in the recent elections on October 26 in the lists of different parties or standing in single-mandate...
View ArticleUkraine: War breaks out again, the contradictions increase
The diplomatic negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France have led to a cease-fire agreement which will be difficult to carry out on the ground. We will return to this agreement and the...
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Ukraine after the ceasefire: Contradictions pile up
On Wednesday 18 February the rebel forces in the east of Ukraine arrived in the key town of Debaltseve, control of which they have wrested from pro-Kiev forces after having encircled them and demanded...
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Ukraine’s oligarchs struggle for the loot
The so-called “Maidan revolution” was supposed to stand for democracy and Western values while fighting against corruption and the oligarchy. The actual result was that the reign of one group of...
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Ukraine: one year after the Maidan 'revolution'
We here bring an interview with the Ukrainian left wing organisation Borotba discussing the situation in Ukraine today, one year after the Maidan movement and the fall of Viktor Yanukovych.
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Dirty lies about the Swedish Left Party's support of “pro-Russian rebels” in...
In Sweden a defamatory campaign has been launched in the media about the Left Party and its position in relation to the breakaway republics in Eastern Ukraine. We publish here an article by the Swedish...
View ArticleUkranian Parliament bans communist symbols and legitimises nazi-collaborators
On April 9, the Ukrainian Rada passed 4 pieces of legislation submitted by the government that ban all symbols and propaganda of communism. After the law comes into effect, any monuments of communist...
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Kiev ramps up repression
The last few weeks have seen a wave of political killings in Ukraine. All the deaths have been of high profile figures associated with opposition to the current Kiev government. The two most recent...
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Ukraine slides towards default
When the international bourgeoisie begins to openly worry about a default, we can be sure that the Ukrainian economy is in a lot of trouble.
View ArticleKiev’s contemporary anti-communism and the crimes of the oligarchy’s very...
Not only a move to please the far-right, the primary reason for new law against the memory of communism (passed by parliament April 9th) is another step by the oligarchy in trying to legitimise itself.
View ArticleUkraine: Commander of Kiev “volunteer battalion” and 7 men arrested on...
Ruslan Onyshchenko, the commander of the Tornado Volunteer Battalion of the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior and seven of his men were arrested on June 17 accused of rape and torture. In turn, the men...
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Ukraine: Not so quiet on the Western front
In the Western Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia, Far-right Right Sector have clashed violently with police, resulting in two militants dead and several bystanders injured. What does this mean for the...
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The looming Ukrainian winter of discontent
As the 2014-2015 winter set in, ordinary Ukrainians began to wonder how to heat themselves. The Ukrainian economy had taken a shelling as the value of the currency dropped heavily since the beginning...
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Ukraine: What is the real cost of "patriotism"?
This article was first published on the left-wing Ukrainian website Liva.com.ua and translated by a comrade of the IMT. Following the truce in Donbass it offers some important insights into the cost of...
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