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Archive - Ukraine and Russia
2022
Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine - Bill Weinberg Countervortex on Soundcloud
I’m a Ukrainian Socialist. Here’s Why I Resist the Russian Invasion - Taras Bilous - Jacobin
(a Russian explains) I Marched Against Putin's War for the Same Reason I
Marched Against the Iraq War - Niko Vorobyov in Jacobin
Brittney Griner Show Trial Begins - Dave Zirin - The Nation
For those swayed by the Campist Left who say that the U.S. won't let Ukraine negotiate
see this article Ukraine Proposed This at the End of March
Haaretz reporter analysis of Azov - Liza Rozovsky
The Invasion is No Reason to Cut Ukrainian Worker Rights
Why Didn't the Russians Mention "Not One Inch Eastward" in 2004? Read
this New York Times article about Lavrov attending the Welcome to 7 New Countries entering NATO
Europe, Our Wounds our Bridges - Ukraine and Syria - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Harsh Critique of Chomsky's Views on Ukraine - Stanley Heller
We Should Say it. Russia is Fascist - Timothy Snyder NYT - May 19
The Left Should Rethink its Views on Ukraine - Taras Bilous
Support Ukrainians, NOT Azov White Supremacists - Golinkin on Democracy Now!
Russian Socialists Condemn Putin's Imperialism - LeftEast - April 7
French Trade Union Plans Worker Convoy to Ukraine - People and Nature - March 29
Setting the Record Straight about the 2014 Odessa Massacre - Countervortex
How the War has Hit Roma People in Ukraine - Jacobin
Russian Spokesperson says Russia won't use nuclear weapons in Ukraine - PBS interview
A Ukrainian Socialist Explains - an OUTSTANDING article by Volodymyr Artiukh
The 1994 Agreement That Guaranteed Ukraine's Existing Borders - the Conversation
Azov is Bad, but Don't exaggerate - SNOPES
Apocalypse Now - the Attack on the Nuclear Power Plant - Harvey Wasserman
Refuting Putin's History Lesson - Timothy Snyder Feb 28
Putin's Speech on the Day of the Invasion - Februaury 24
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Essentially Not About NATO - Just Security, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel
Fact Checking Putin's Speech - Glen Kessler
"From Time Immemorial" Ukraine is "Ours" - Putin (Feb. 21, 2022)
Putin Told Your His Motive Here - NATO a minor motivation (from July 12, 2021)
Ukraine is an Environmental Crisis, too
To the Western Left on Your Mistakes - Volodymyr Artiukh
editor of Novaya Gazeta won Nobel Peace Prize - choose Russian or English
Videos of the Ukraine Rally in Hartford on Feb. 26
A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv - Taras Bilous Feb. 25
Should We Have Seen This Coming? -Ilya Budraitskis Feb. 25
Putin's BS Version of Ukrainian History - Mario Kessler, Jacobin
Putin's 'surreal' version of Ukrainian history alarms experts (nbcnews.com) Timothy Snyder - Feb. 23
Ordinary Russians Don't Want this War - Ilya Budraitskis
Sen. Bernie Sanders statement on Ukraine
A Ukrainian Sociologist Explains Why Everything You Know About Ukraine Is Probably Wrong - An interview with Volodymryr Ishchenko
Protect Ukrainians. Avoid War - Stanley Heller, PEP Administrator
Putin May Still Decide Cost of Ukraine War Is Too High - Anshel Pfeffer
Myths about Ukraine - Feb 10 - Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign
London Rally for Ukraine - Jan 31 - Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign
Ukranian Socialists Ask "Condemn Russian Imperialist Threat" - Jan 24
Putin's Neo-Nazi Allies - Daily Beast
Very Disappointing DSA statement
A Left-Wing Proposal for De-Escalation in the Donbas - Taras Bilous
Putin’s case for invading Ukraine rests on phony grievances and ancient myths - Timothy Snyder -Washington Post
NATO Expansion: what Gorbachev Heard (published in 2017)
Common Security Approaches to Resolve the Ukraine and European Crises - Joseph Gerson
Four Useful Maps - Washington Post
An appeal for solidarity from Ukrainian socialists - January 15
2021
Kazakhstan - A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising - LeftEast
Russia and Ukraine: “militarism and nationalism are lethally dangerous drugs”
A Reply to "Stop the War" leader Andrew Murray - Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Neo-Nazis on the March in Ukraine - Lev Golinkin
What a sensible Ukraine policy would look like - Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ukraine Crisis in Imperial Context (solidarity-us.org)
The United States Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis - Goodman - Counterpunch
Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocuast - Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize - Time magazine
2020
What's Behind Russia's Left-Wing Turn - Open Democracy
2019
Inside the Extremist Group That Dreams of Ruling Ukraine - Haaretz
The Upcoming neo-Nazi Concert in Ukraine - Haaretz June 18
War is not Fashionable - Novaya Gazeta
Should Torture Be Endured? - Yana Teplitskaya
The Cost to Russia of the Crimea Annexation - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Azov and the Christ Church Massacre - audio - Michael Colborne interviewed
Thoughts on the Strength of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis - Louis Proyect
Russia Normalizes Torture in Case Against Anti-Fascists - Red Pepper
2018
Germany: How Right is the Left? Eurozine, May 15
Russia: anti-fascists threatened by state torturers People and Nature, April 2018
Geopolitics and Left, Part 1 Russia and the East – Rossen Djagalov in EastLeft
Did a Russian Troll Farm Really Sway the 2016 Election – Masha Gessen, Democracy Now
To Be or Not to Be – Masha Gessen – New York Review of Books
2017
Persecution of Crimean Tatars Intensifies - Human Rights Watch
How Putin Seduced Oliver Stone and Trump- Masha Gessen
Leftists Who Appear on RT Don’t Realize What Russian Authorities Think of Them – Russia Without BS (blog)
British Group Angry at How BBC Portrays Ukrainian C14 Neo-Nazi Terror Group – Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
The Strange Case of Foreign pro-Kremlin Radical Leftists
Ukrainian Holodmor – Was it Genocide? – Timothy Snyder Responds to a Question
Louis Project's articles on Ukraine and Stalin’s Mass Murder of the ’30’s
Grappling with Holodomor – Ta-Nehisi Coates reflections on Snyder’s “Bloodlands”(from 2014)
Review of “The Bitter Harvest” movie
2016
Neither Moscow, Nor NATO – Russian activist Ilya Budraitskis July 15
Back to the USSR: The LGBT community in separatist Donbas – Eurozine
Says 7,000 Russian Troops in Ukraine
Washington Post Reports on Volunteer Fighters Forgets to Mention They are Pro-Nazi
UNAC Petition Calls for UN Investigation of May 2, 2014 Odessa Deaths at House of Trade Unions
Gagnon Says Maidan Was Really Coup in Ukraine and Then this Massacre
The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past
Ukrainian Complexities – Volodymyr Ishchenko, Tariq Ali
Russia Declares War on Crimean Tatars
2015
Chechen Leader Threatens Critics
Growing Admiration for Stalin in Russia
What Russia’s been doing in Ukraine since you stopped paying attention – The Week
Ukraine Communist Party Ban Hysteria
Leftists in Ukraine Have Different Views on the Banning of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Ukraine and Crimea: A Report From the Front – Mary Kaldor – The Nation
Worker Organizing at the Grass Roots – Pavel Lysyanski
Promoting Enduring Peace brochure on Ukraine Oct. 2015 – double sided
Putin’s Government, “Neoliberal through and through” – Ilya Matveev, Petersburg, Russia
Past and present imperialisms: Putin, the War in Ukraine, ?and the Far Right – Jean Batou
Ukraine’s government bears more responsibility for ongoing conflict than the far-right – Volodymyr Ishchenko -Sept. 5, 2015
Number of Russian Deaths in Eastern Ukraine a State Secret – Forbes
The Unlikely Return of Putin’s Nemisis Anshel Pfeffer – Ha’aretz
Russia and Ukraine: history called up on national service – Gabriel Levy
Ukraine Says Goodbye to Red October – Foreign Policy magazine
Russian Hating Chechens Join Ukraine Fascist Units – New York Times
Two Jews Tortured by Regime of Ukraine Rebels – Jerusalem Post
Foreign Policy mag Claims “Russian Backed Rebels are Restarting the War in Ukraine”
Moscow Death Brigade – Anti-Fascist Band – Statement on Ukraine
Crowdfunding in Russia to Pay for Ukraine War – New York Times
Oppose Restoring a Czarist Colony in Ukraine – Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Neocon Fugitive Given Ukraine Province – Robert Parry
Ex-President of Georgia to Lead Ukraine Region – David Herszenhorn- NYT
Both Sides Using Torture in Ukraine – Amnesty International
Ukrainian Miners Work to Stop Mine Closures
Ukraine Government Law Honors Nationalist and Angers Their Polish Victims – (CSW) Christian Science Monitor
Russian Dissident Was Preparing Report about Russian Soldiers who Died in Ukraine – NYT
The War Over World War II – Shishkin, Cohen, Peace Council
Critique of the Red “Putinist” 4/21
Ukrainian Leftists from the Both Sides of the Country Reject Hate in Tunis at Social Forum
The New York Times Just “Rewrites” What Kiev Authorities Say – Stephen F. Cohen – Solon April 16
We Should Recognize There Are Other Imperialisms – Charles Davis interviews Russian Marxist Ilia Budraitkis – Salon
Serious Fighting Flares Up – Video Interview by Stanley Heller with Volodymyr Ishchenko who is in Kiev
How Violence in Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear Disaster – Stanley Heller Truthdig 3/21
Putin’s War on the Crimean Tatars – Luke Coffey – Al – Jazeera 3/7
Don’t Send Weapons to Ukraine Says Russian Critic of Putin – Washington Post
No U.S. Weapons to Ukraine – Stay Out of the Fighting – Petition
Yale’s Snyder Talks about Russian Propaganda about Ukraine – 2/9
McCain joins Murphy in Connecticut to call for more support for Ukraine
Disappointing Ukraine Debate on DemocracyNow! | Stanley Heller
Playing with Fire? A Debate on U.S. Arming Ukraine & NATO Expansion to Russia’s Border
NUM solidarity with besieged Ukrainian miners
In Midst of War, Ukrainian Political Left Ponders Next Moves
Kolomoisky’s fall undermines Poroshenko as well
2014
Ukraine Analysis — Resurgence of Fascism – US Peace Council
Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault – John Mearsheimer – Sept 2014
Analysis from Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison of the CPD 5/20/14
Response to Roger Cohen article below by Stanley Heller, Secretary, PEP May 19
Cohen says: “Ukraine is today the pivot of a struggle between individual freedom and imprisoning empire. There is no halfway house in this confrontation and no escaping the imperative of moral clarity in picking sides.”
What about what the U.S. has been up to, treating capitalist Russia as if it were still the Soviet Union, expanding NATO into a dozen Eastern European countries, spending $5 billion inside Ukraine to spread “democracy” meaning to recruit Ukrainians to do the bidding of the U.S. 1%, Explain Nuland’s leaked conversation where she picks “Yats” as the next ruler of the Ukraine.
Pity the people of the Ukraine caught between Russian and U.S. desires and oligarch dreams of more billions.
Anarchists Mourn Senseless Deaths in Odessa - 40 killed
Gettysburg on the Maidan- NYT Roger Cohen
Power and Conflict in Ukraine – Professor Marko Bojcun and Gabriel Levy 7/2014
The Russia as Imperialist Thesis is Wrong – Roger Annis – Truthout 6/18/2014
Yale’s Snyder Says Putin on An “All or Nothing Game” – Der Spiegel 5/32
Be Wary of Crimean Tatars Being Used as Pawns – Roger Annis
Workers Seize City in Eastern Ukraine From Separatists NYT 5/15
Writings of Boris Kargalitsky – from Russia (translated)
Euromaidan - Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign
Why you’re wrong about Ukraine It Wasn’t a Coup – Gabriel Levy – Red Pepper
New Evidence: Russian Spies Backed Kiev’s Killers The Daily Beast 4/03
Right Sector and Freedom Party fascists Foreign Policy Magazine 4/01
Cold War Again: Who’s Responsible? The Nation 4/01
Why Putin Doesn’t Care About Sanctions – David Cameron, Yale University
Moscow Autonomous Action on the Ukrainian war
Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America’s Dirty Little Ukraine Secret The Nation 3/28
Euromaidan: Profile of a Rebellion Intl. Sociological Association Newsletter 3/9
A link to the Left Ukrainians Lefteast 3/2014
The Enemy is Within – Interview with a Ukranian Leftist 3/26
OPPOSE NATO, RUSSIAN INTERVENTION IN CRIMEA, AND THE IMF The Campaign for Peace and Democracy 3/10
Much has been made by defenders of the deposed president of a claim that an Estonian diplomat heard from a Ukrainian doctor and told EU Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton, that the same sniper shot soldiers and protesters. The doctor, Olga Bogomolets, denies it. See tenth paragraph of this story. She says she only saw and treated protesters. 3/8
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Demands “US Hands off Ukraine and Venezuela”
UNAC claims the United States government is the main instigator of the present crises in both countries.
Russia offers Egypt no-strings-attached arms deal USA TODAY 2/13
Russian socialists against the war SocialistWorker 3/5 (second half of this article)
John McCain Went Stood With A Man Accused Of Being An Anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi Adam Taylor -Business Insider 12/16
Assistant Secretary Nuland at U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Conference 12/13
The contradictions of the Euromaidan uprising Roar Collective 2/21
Whither Ukraine? – Counterpunch Marilyn Vogt-Downey 2/27
Stalin’s Deliberate Starvation of the Ukraine in the 1930’s. - Brittanica
Putin's 'surreal' version of Ukrainian history alarms experts (nbcnews.com)
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