#marxism — Public Fediverse posts

ILWU Newsletter – Solidarity in Action – “Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working” – Kateryna Maliuto Osaulova, Ukraine Education Union

Welcome to the Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) Newsletter.

To help best organise, we have decided to launch this occasional newsletter.  It will contain news, updates, advice and information on what is going on in Ukraine and how we can promote solidarity. The Irish Left With Ukraine group was established involving activists from different traditions of the left in Ireland, but united in support of Ukraine’s right to resist invasion.

The ILWU will participate in protests against the one-day visit of USA President Donald Trump to Ireland in Saturday September 12 2026.

We will bring our banner

Ukraine, Palestine, Occupation Is A Crime

If you would like to join us, meet at the MANDATE Headquarters, (opposite the Gate Theatre), Cavendish Row/Parnell Square Dublin 1 at 12.45pm.

Newsletter 6

Russian Embassy Protest
ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School
Ukraine Solidarity Convoy

Russian Embassy Protest
Did you know that since 22nd February 2022, there has been a daily protest outside the Russian embassy on Orwell Road, Dublin 4? 
The numbers have been small but they have been consistent. 
On Friday 25th September, we will bring the Irish Left With Ukraine banner to the protest for an hour between 4-5pm.  Join Us/ Bigí Linn.
Friday 25th September 2:30- 4pm Embassy of Russia, Orwell Road, Dublin 6

ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School- Solidarity With Ukraine

The Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) had the opportunity to host a session at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Global Solidarity Summer School on Thursday 20th August on the need for solidarity with Ukraine.  Gregor Kerr, Chris Ford and Kateryna Maliuto Osalova spoke.

Chris Ford, secretary and one of the founders of the British-based Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC), which works to mobilise left-wing and trade union movements in Britain in support of Ukraine.

Chris and others established the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in 2014. “We did so,” he said, “because we knew the truth on the ground through our links with the Ukrainian trade unions.  What we said was the truth then, and some said we were lying, has been long proven to be the truth…There was no civil war in Ukraine. There was no coup. There was an external military intervention from the beginning, and that continued and is escalated with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.”
The USC now has seven trade unions affiliated.  He went on to state that the USC undertake two aspects of work – direct aid and political campaigning. “We receive letters and appeals on the ground from national unions as to what is needed.  We particularly have supplied a lot of assistance to mine rescue workers in Donbas. We’ve supported teachers on the front line.  We’ve supported assistance for air raid shelters where classrooms or classes are held”.

Damage and impact of war

Ukraine is not just the frontline.  Air raids and war crimes are a daily reality, yet people still try to get on with everyday life.  Kateryna shared a presentation to show figures and to tell us about how they are responding to the situation as a trade union in Ukraine.

Those figures were stark – over 13,000 missiles, 88,000 communicators drones, 120,000 piloted aerial bombs launched against Ukraine over the past 4 and a half years.  In relation to educational losses, she referred to 4650 educational institutions damaged by bombing, with more than 400 of them completely destroyed.
“The air in Kyiv is horrible, frankly speaking, because of their constant attacks, attacks on storages, and after every attack the warehouses smoulder for two or three weeks. We cannot open the window because the air is horrible. It even hurts the throat when we breathe. In February, there was only electricity for four to five hours a day”.

Solidarity in action

Kateryna then spoke about the solidarity that had been received. “From the very beginning of the war, we received a lot of support from organisations of other countries. Education International (International Teachers Union) created a Solidarity Fund, and a lot of organisations all around the world contributed money to this fund, and we had the opportunity to provide financial assistance to those members whose houses were damaged, or whose members of their families were killed or injured”.

“Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working.  Through support from Italian colleagues, from the British National Education Union, the American Federation of Teachers, Polish teacher unions, Danish teacher unions, the German Education Union and the Irish National Teachers Organisation who recently  provided a solidarity grant for a pre-school in Pisoschyn in Kharkiv where they have set up a pre-school in an underground shelter – funds that will go towards IT equipment, laptops, projector to help with teaching and a refrigerator for food storage”.

Call for solidarity

We are grateful to the ICTU Global Solidarity Committee for facilitating this presentation at their Summer School.    There is a great opportunity for Irish unions to develop solidarity initiatives to show support for their colleagues in Ukraine; postal workers, emergency workers, education workers, railway workers.  Russia is targeting not only military infrastructure but civilian infrastructure as well.  Continued support and solidarity is needed.
International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

We are calling for support for the International Convoy to Ukraine departing Brussels 22nd November and returning from 1st December.  The convoy is made up of scores of volunteers driving three routes across Europe to deliver aid and solidarity with likeminded activists in Ukraine. The convoy has the backing of numerous trade unions, parliamentarians and activists across Europe.  Irish Left With Ukraine calls for support from Ireland.
Find out more
Convoy EN – 026 International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

Call to Support ConvoyJoin our zoom meeting on at 6pm on the 23rd September to discuss how we in Ireland can support the Convoy
Send us your details and we can forward your name as a signatory or check out the website yourself. Email [email protected] for more information/ questions or feedback about this newsletter

ILWU Newsletter – Solidarity in Action – “Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working” – Kateryna Maliuto Osaulova, Ukraine Education Union

Welcome to the Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) Newsletter.

To help best organise, we have decided to launch this occasional newsletter.  It will contain news, updates, advice and information on what is going on in Ukraine and how we can promote solidarity. The Irish Left With Ukraine group was established involving activists from different traditions of the left in Ireland, but united in support of Ukraine’s right to resist invasion.

The ILWU will participate in protests against the one-day visit of USA President Donald Trump to Ireland in Saturday September 12 2026.

We will bring our banner

Ukraine, Palestine, Occupation Is A Crime

If you would like to join us, meet at the MANDATE Headquarters, (opposite the Gate Theatre), Cavendish Row/Parnell Square Dublin 1 at 12.45pm.

Newsletter 6

Russian Embassy Protest
ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School
Ukraine Solidarity Convoy

Russian Embassy Protest
Did you know that since 22nd February 2022, there has been a daily protest outside the Russian embassy on Orwell Road, Dublin 4? 
The numbers have been small but they have been consistent. 
On Friday 25th September, we will bring the Irish Left With Ukraine banner to the protest for an hour between 4-5pm.  Join Us/ Bigí Linn.
Friday 25th September 2:30- 4pm Embassy of Russia, Orwell Road, Dublin 6

ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School- Solidarity With Ukraine

The Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) had the opportunity to host a session at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Global Solidarity Summer School on Thursday 20th August on the need for solidarity with Ukraine.  Gregor Kerr, Chris Ford and Kateryna Maliuto Osalova spoke.

Chris Ford, secretary and one of the founders of the British-based Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC), which works to mobilise left-wing and trade union movements in Britain in support of Ukraine.

Chris and others established the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in 2014. “We did so,” he said, “because we knew the truth on the ground through our links with the Ukrainian trade unions.  What we said was the truth then, and some said we were lying, has been long proven to be the truth…There was no civil war in Ukraine. There was no coup. There was an external military intervention from the beginning, and that continued and is escalated with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.”
The USC now has seven trade unions affiliated.  He went on to state that the USC undertake two aspects of work – direct aid and political campaigning. “We receive letters and appeals on the ground from national unions as to what is needed.  We particularly have supplied a lot of assistance to mine rescue workers in Donbas. We’ve supported teachers on the front line.  We’ve supported assistance for air raid shelters where classrooms or classes are held”.

Damage and impact of war

Ukraine is not just the frontline.  Air raids and war crimes are a daily reality, yet people still try to get on with everyday life.  Kateryna shared a presentation to show figures and to tell us about how they are responding to the situation as a trade union in Ukraine.

Those figures were stark – over 13,000 missiles, 88,000 communicators drones, 120,000 piloted aerial bombs launched against Ukraine over the past 4 and a half years.  In relation to educational losses, she referred to 4650 educational institutions damaged by bombing, with more than 400 of them completely destroyed.
“The air in Kyiv is horrible, frankly speaking, because of their constant attacks, attacks on storages, and after every attack the warehouses smoulder for two or three weeks. We cannot open the window because the air is horrible. It even hurts the throat when we breathe. In February, there was only electricity for four to five hours a day”.

Solidarity in action

Kateryna then spoke about the solidarity that had been received. “From the very beginning of the war, we received a lot of support from organisations of other countries. Education International (International Teachers Union) created a Solidarity Fund, and a lot of organisations all around the world contributed money to this fund, and we had the opportunity to provide financial assistance to those members whose houses were damaged, or whose members of their families were killed or injured”.

“Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working.  Through support from Italian colleagues, from the British National Education Union, the American Federation of Teachers, Polish teacher unions, Danish teacher unions, the German Education Union and the Irish National Teachers Organisation who recently  provided a solidarity grant for a pre-school in Pisoschyn in Kharkiv where they have set up a pre-school in an underground shelter – funds that will go towards IT equipment, laptops, projector to help with teaching and a refrigerator for food storage”.

Call for solidarity

We are grateful to the ICTU Global Solidarity Committee for facilitating this presentation at their Summer School.    There is a great opportunity for Irish unions to develop solidarity initiatives to show support for their colleagues in Ukraine; postal workers, emergency workers, education workers, railway workers.  Russia is targeting not only military infrastructure but civilian infrastructure as well.  Continued support and solidarity is needed.
International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

We are calling for support for the International Convoy to Ukraine departing Brussels 22nd November and returning from 1st December.  The convoy is made up of scores of volunteers driving three routes across Europe to deliver aid and solidarity with likeminded activists in Ukraine. The convoy has the backing of numerous trade unions, parliamentarians and activists across Europe.  Irish Left With Ukraine calls for support from Ireland.
Find out more
Convoy EN – 026 International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

Call to Support ConvoyJoin our zoom meeting on at 6pm on the 23rd September to discuss how we in Ireland can support the Convoy
Send us your details and we can forward your name as a signatory or check out the website yourself. Email [email protected] for more information/ questions or feedback about this newsletter

ILWU Newsletter – Solidarity in Action – “Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working” – Kateryna Maliuto Osaulova, Ukraine Education Union

Welcome to the Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) Newsletter.

To help best organise, we have decided to launch this occasional newsletter.  It will contain news, updates, advice and information on what is going on in Ukraine and how we can promote solidarity. The Irish Left With Ukraine group was established involving activists from different traditions of the left in Ireland, but united in support of Ukraine’s right to resist invasion.

The ILWU will participate in protests against the one-day visit of USA President Donald Trump to Ireland in Saturday September 12 2026.

We will bring our banner

Ukraine, Palestine, Occupation Is A Crime

If you would like to join us, meet at the MANDATE Headquarters, (opposite the Gate Theatre), Cavendish Row/Parnell Square Dublin 1 at 12.45pm.

Newsletter 6

Russian Embassy Protest
ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School
Ukraine Solidarity Convoy

Russian Embassy Protest
Did you know that since 22nd February 2022, there has been a daily protest outside the Russian embassy on Orwell Road, Dublin 4? 
The numbers have been small but they have been consistent. 
On Friday 25th September, we will bring the Irish Left With Ukraine banner to the protest for an hour between 4-5pm.  Join Us/ Bigí Linn.
Friday 25th September 2:30- 4pm Embassy of Russia, Orwell Road, Dublin 6

ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School- Solidarity With Ukraine

The Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) had the opportunity to host a session at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Global Solidarity Summer School on Thursday 20th August on the need for solidarity with Ukraine.  Gregor Kerr, Chris Ford and Kateryna Maliuto Osalova spoke.

Chris Ford, secretary and one of the founders of the British-based Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC), which works to mobilise left-wing and trade union movements in Britain in support of Ukraine.

Chris and others established the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in 2014. “We did so,” he said, “because we knew the truth on the ground through our links with the Ukrainian trade unions.  What we said was the truth then, and some said we were lying, has been long proven to be the truth…There was no civil war in Ukraine. There was no coup. There was an external military intervention from the beginning, and that continued and is escalated with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.”
The USC now has seven trade unions affiliated.  He went on to state that the USC undertake two aspects of work – direct aid and political campaigning. “We receive letters and appeals on the ground from national unions as to what is needed.  We particularly have supplied a lot of assistance to mine rescue workers in Donbas. We’ve supported teachers on the front line.  We’ve supported assistance for air raid shelters where classrooms or classes are held”.

Damage and impact of war

Ukraine is not just the frontline.  Air raids and war crimes are a daily reality, yet people still try to get on with everyday life.  Kateryna shared a presentation to show figures and to tell us about how they are responding to the situation as a trade union in Ukraine.

Those figures were stark – over 13,000 missiles, 88,000 communicators drones, 120,000 piloted aerial bombs launched against Ukraine over the past 4 and a half years.  In relation to educational losses, she referred to 4650 educational institutions damaged by bombing, with more than 400 of them completely destroyed.
“The air in Kyiv is horrible, frankly speaking, because of their constant attacks, attacks on storages, and after every attack the warehouses smoulder for two or three weeks. We cannot open the window because the air is horrible. It even hurts the throat when we breathe. In February, there was only electricity for four to five hours a day”.

Solidarity in action

Kateryna then spoke about the solidarity that had been received. “From the very beginning of the war, we received a lot of support from organisations of other countries. Education International (International Teachers Union) created a Solidarity Fund, and a lot of organisations all around the world contributed money to this fund, and we had the opportunity to provide financial assistance to those members whose houses were damaged, or whose members of their families were killed or injured”.

“Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working.  Through support from Italian colleagues, from the British National Education Union, the American Federation of Teachers, Polish teacher unions, Danish teacher unions, the German Education Union and the Irish National Teachers Organisation who recently  provided a solidarity grant for a pre-school in Pisoschyn in Kharkiv where they have set up a pre-school in an underground shelter – funds that will go towards IT equipment, laptops, projector to help with teaching and a refrigerator for food storage”.

Call for solidarity

We are grateful to the ICTU Global Solidarity Committee for facilitating this presentation at their Summer School.    There is a great opportunity for Irish unions to develop solidarity initiatives to show support for their colleagues in Ukraine; postal workers, emergency workers, education workers, railway workers.  Russia is targeting not only military infrastructure but civilian infrastructure as well.  Continued support and solidarity is needed.
International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

We are calling for support for the International Convoy to Ukraine departing Brussels 22nd November and returning from 1st December.  The convoy is made up of scores of volunteers driving three routes across Europe to deliver aid and solidarity with likeminded activists in Ukraine. The convoy has the backing of numerous trade unions, parliamentarians and activists across Europe.  Irish Left With Ukraine calls for support from Ireland.
Find out more
Convoy EN – 026 International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

Call to Support ConvoyJoin our zoom meeting on at 6pm on the 23rd September to discuss how we in Ireland can support the Convoy
Send us your details and we can forward your name as a signatory or check out the website yourself. Email [email protected] for more information/ questions or feedback about this newsletter

ILWU Newsletter – Solidarity in Action – “Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working” – Kateryna Maliuto Osaulova, Ukraine Education Union

Welcome to the Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) Newsletter.

To help best organise, we have decided to launch this occasional newsletter.  It will contain news, updates, advice and information on what is going on in Ukraine and how we can promote solidarity. The Irish Left With Ukraine group was established involving activists from different traditions of the left in Ireland, but united in support of Ukraine’s right to resist invasion.

The ILWU will participate in protests against the one-day visit of USA President Donald Trump to Ireland in Saturday September 12 2026.

We will bring our banner

Ukraine, Palestine, Occupation Is A Crime

If you would like to join us, meet at the MANDATE Headquarters, (opposite the Gate Theatre), Cavendish Row/Parnell Square Dublin 1 at 12.45pm.

Newsletter 6

Russian Embassy Protest
ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School
Ukraine Solidarity Convoy

Russian Embassy Protest
Did you know that since 22nd February 2022, there has been a daily protest outside the Russian embassy on Orwell Road, Dublin 4? 
The numbers have been small but they have been consistent. 
On Friday 25th September, we will bring the Irish Left With Ukraine banner to the protest for an hour between 4-5pm.  Join Us/ Bigí Linn.
Friday 25th September 2:30- 4pm Embassy of Russia, Orwell Road, Dublin 6

ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School- Solidarity With Ukraine

The Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) had the opportunity to host a session at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Global Solidarity Summer School on Thursday 20th August on the need for solidarity with Ukraine.  Gregor Kerr, Chris Ford and Kateryna Maliuto Osalova spoke.

Chris Ford, secretary and one of the founders of the British-based Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC), which works to mobilise left-wing and trade union movements in Britain in support of Ukraine.

Chris and others established the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in 2014. “We did so,” he said, “because we knew the truth on the ground through our links with the Ukrainian trade unions.  What we said was the truth then, and some said we were lying, has been long proven to be the truth…There was no civil war in Ukraine. There was no coup. There was an external military intervention from the beginning, and that continued and is escalated with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.”
The USC now has seven trade unions affiliated.  He went on to state that the USC undertake two aspects of work – direct aid and political campaigning. “We receive letters and appeals on the ground from national unions as to what is needed.  We particularly have supplied a lot of assistance to mine rescue workers in Donbas. We’ve supported teachers on the front line.  We’ve supported assistance for air raid shelters where classrooms or classes are held”.

Damage and impact of war

Ukraine is not just the frontline.  Air raids and war crimes are a daily reality, yet people still try to get on with everyday life.  Kateryna shared a presentation to show figures and to tell us about how they are responding to the situation as a trade union in Ukraine.

Those figures were stark – over 13,000 missiles, 88,000 communicators drones, 120,000 piloted aerial bombs launched against Ukraine over the past 4 and a half years.  In relation to educational losses, she referred to 4650 educational institutions damaged by bombing, with more than 400 of them completely destroyed.
“The air in Kyiv is horrible, frankly speaking, because of their constant attacks, attacks on storages, and after every attack the warehouses smoulder for two or three weeks. We cannot open the window because the air is horrible. It even hurts the throat when we breathe. In February, there was only electricity for four to five hours a day”.

Solidarity in action

Kateryna then spoke about the solidarity that had been received. “From the very beginning of the war, we received a lot of support from organisations of other countries. Education International (International Teachers Union) created a Solidarity Fund, and a lot of organisations all around the world contributed money to this fund, and we had the opportunity to provide financial assistance to those members whose houses were damaged, or whose members of their families were killed or injured”.

“Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working.  Through support from Italian colleagues, from the British National Education Union, the American Federation of Teachers, Polish teacher unions, Danish teacher unions, the German Education Union and the Irish National Teachers Organisation who recently  provided a solidarity grant for a pre-school in Pisoschyn in Kharkiv where they have set up a pre-school in an underground shelter – funds that will go towards IT equipment, laptops, projector to help with teaching and a refrigerator for food storage”.

Call for solidarity

We are grateful to the ICTU Global Solidarity Committee for facilitating this presentation at their Summer School.    There is a great opportunity for Irish unions to develop solidarity initiatives to show support for their colleagues in Ukraine; postal workers, emergency workers, education workers, railway workers.  Russia is targeting not only military infrastructure but civilian infrastructure as well.  Continued support and solidarity is needed.
International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

We are calling for support for the International Convoy to Ukraine departing Brussels 22nd November and returning from 1st December.  The convoy is made up of scores of volunteers driving three routes across Europe to deliver aid and solidarity with likeminded activists in Ukraine. The convoy has the backing of numerous trade unions, parliamentarians and activists across Europe.  Irish Left With Ukraine calls for support from Ireland.
Find out more
Convoy EN – 026 International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

Call to Support ConvoyJoin our zoom meeting on at 6pm on the 23rd September to discuss how we in Ireland can support the Convoy
Send us your details and we can forward your name as a signatory or check out the website yourself. Email [email protected] for more information/ questions or feedback about this newsletter

ILWU Newsletter – Solidarity in Action – “Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working” – Kateryna Maliuto Osaulova, Ukraine Education Union

Welcome to the Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) Newsletter.

To help best organise, we have decided to launch this occasional newsletter.  It will contain news, updates, advice and information on what is going on in Ukraine and how we can promote solidarity. The Irish Left With Ukraine group was established involving activists from different traditions of the left in Ireland, but united in support of Ukraine’s right to resist invasion.

The ILWU will participate in protests against the one-day visit of USA President Donald Trump to Ireland in Saturday September 12 2026.

We will bring our banner

Ukraine, Palestine, Occupation Is A Crime

If you would like to join us, meet at the MANDATE Headquarters, (opposite the Gate Theatre), Cavendish Row/Parnell Square Dublin 1 at 12.45pm.

Newsletter 6

Russian Embassy Protest
ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School
Ukraine Solidarity Convoy

Russian Embassy Protest
Did you know that since 22nd February 2022, there has been a daily protest outside the Russian embassy on Orwell Road, Dublin 4? 
The numbers have been small but they have been consistent. 
On Friday 25th September, we will bring the Irish Left With Ukraine banner to the protest for an hour between 4-5pm.  Join Us/ Bigí Linn.
Friday 25th September 2:30- 4pm Embassy of Russia, Orwell Road, Dublin 6

ICTU Global Solidarity Summer School- Solidarity With Ukraine

The Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) had the opportunity to host a session at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Global Solidarity Summer School on Thursday 20th August on the need for solidarity with Ukraine.  Gregor Kerr, Chris Ford and Kateryna Maliuto Osalova spoke.

Chris Ford, secretary and one of the founders of the British-based Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC), which works to mobilise left-wing and trade union movements in Britain in support of Ukraine.

Chris and others established the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in 2014. “We did so,” he said, “because we knew the truth on the ground through our links with the Ukrainian trade unions.  What we said was the truth then, and some said we were lying, has been long proven to be the truth…There was no civil war in Ukraine. There was no coup. There was an external military intervention from the beginning, and that continued and is escalated with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.”
The USC now has seven trade unions affiliated.  He went on to state that the USC undertake two aspects of work – direct aid and political campaigning. “We receive letters and appeals on the ground from national unions as to what is needed.  We particularly have supplied a lot of assistance to mine rescue workers in Donbas. We’ve supported teachers on the front line.  We’ve supported assistance for air raid shelters where classrooms or classes are held”.

Damage and impact of war

Ukraine is not just the frontline.  Air raids and war crimes are a daily reality, yet people still try to get on with everyday life.  Kateryna shared a presentation to show figures and to tell us about how they are responding to the situation as a trade union in Ukraine.

Those figures were stark – over 13,000 missiles, 88,000 communicators drones, 120,000 piloted aerial bombs launched against Ukraine over the past 4 and a half years.  In relation to educational losses, she referred to 4650 educational institutions damaged by bombing, with more than 400 of them completely destroyed.
“The air in Kyiv is horrible, frankly speaking, because of their constant attacks, attacks on storages, and after every attack the warehouses smoulder for two or three weeks. We cannot open the window because the air is horrible. It even hurts the throat when we breathe. In February, there was only electricity for four to five hours a day”.

Solidarity in action

Kateryna then spoke about the solidarity that had been received. “From the very beginning of the war, we received a lot of support from organisations of other countries. Education International (International Teachers Union) created a Solidarity Fund, and a lot of organisations all around the world contributed money to this fund, and we had the opportunity to provide financial assistance to those members whose houses were damaged, or whose members of their families were killed or injured”.

“Thanks to international support, we have been able to buy generators for our regional organisations and head office to keep working.  Through support from Italian colleagues, from the British National Education Union, the American Federation of Teachers, Polish teacher unions, Danish teacher unions, the German Education Union and the Irish National Teachers Organisation who recently  provided a solidarity grant for a pre-school in Pisoschyn in Kharkiv where they have set up a pre-school in an underground shelter – funds that will go towards IT equipment, laptops, projector to help with teaching and a refrigerator for food storage”.

Call for solidarity

We are grateful to the ICTU Global Solidarity Committee for facilitating this presentation at their Summer School.    There is a great opportunity for Irish unions to develop solidarity initiatives to show support for their colleagues in Ukraine; postal workers, emergency workers, education workers, railway workers.  Russia is targeting not only military infrastructure but civilian infrastructure as well.  Continued support and solidarity is needed.
International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

We are calling for support for the International Convoy to Ukraine departing Brussels 22nd November and returning from 1st December.  The convoy is made up of scores of volunteers driving three routes across Europe to deliver aid and solidarity with likeminded activists in Ukraine. The convoy has the backing of numerous trade unions, parliamentarians and activists across Europe.  Irish Left With Ukraine calls for support from Ireland.
Find out more
Convoy EN – 026 International Trade Union and Social Movement Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine

Call to Support ConvoyJoin our zoom meeting on at 6pm on the 23rd September to discuss how we in Ireland can support the Convoy
Send us your details and we can forward your name as a signatory or check out the website yourself. Email [email protected] for more information/ questions or feedback about this newsletter

every time I read something citing Franco "Bifo" Berardi, I mistake him for Jello Biafra and I can't get this association out of my head

#Marxism #Autonomism #deadKennedys #books

If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?

https://polymathchristian.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/if-acts-happened-today-would-we-call-it-communism-4/

"#GabrielRockhill’s polemic against #WesternMarxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as #HerbertMarcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment."

#RussellJacoby's withering review of #WhoPaidThePipersOfWesternMarxism

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/review-rockhill-western-marxism-cold-war/
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #NewLeft #snitchjacketing #hacks #campism #Rockhill #books @bookstodon

🚨𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 ($𝟲𝟮𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹)🚨

Hi, I’m disabled and in need of ongoing support. I didn’t meet March’s goal, so that gap is now carrying into April.

I had to prioritise meds last month and couldn’t pay utilities, so I need an additional $250 to stabilise this month.

The bare minimum I need to get through a full month is:
• Groceries: ~$250
• Utilities + water: $90
• Internet + phone data: $35
That’s $𝟯𝟳𝟱/month just to cover the bare minimum.

$100/month is currently pledged across platforms, still building toward stability.

If you can help:
• Monthly support (preferred): scan QR
• One-off support package: scan QR (pic 2)
• One-off support through Ko-fi:
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

This work sustains a global mutual-aid network and keeps me connected to comrades organising across borders.
https://wrzky.com/legacy

Whether it’s a one-off tip or a monthly pledge, your support helps keep this work going.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @mutualaid @edendestroyer
@disability
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@actuallyadhd

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdFund #disabilitymutualaid #MutualAidBoost #MAboost #mutualaidsaveslives #press #ShowUpForWishes #antifa #actuallyautistic #neurodivergence #HelpFolksLive2026 #anarchism #activism #internationalism #groceries #medicalassistance #advocacy #marxism #communalism #MonthlySupport #ongoingsupport

Nancy Fraser on Habermas

'My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise ‘critique with an emancipatory intent’ but from whom I eventually had to distance myself'

#frankfurtSchool #habermas #philosophy #nancyFraser #marxism #criticalTheory #literature #bookstodon

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas

Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in One Country.” The policy argued that a single country could construct an advanced socialist economy within its national borders.

https://internationalsocialist.net/2026/03/stalin-socialism-in-one-country/

#marxism #stalinism #theory #politics #capitalism #economy #communism #socialism

The #SPUSA is having webinar next month about #militaryindustrialcomplex and how they take over local #American #communities to build weapons, and how to push back.

#socialism #socialist #palestine #IranWar #venezuela #cuba #war #warcrimes #SocialistPartyUSA #TrumpWar #trump #genocidejoe #globalnews #globalaffairs #internationalrelations #InternationalStudies #marxism #marxist #Debs

AI Backlash in Gaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc-4Fy0n0zE

#Marx #Marxism #AI #Alienation #Capitalism #Larian #Games

WOKE/SJW and minorities are NOT new proletariat,and useless for world revolution:

https://telegra.ph/SJW-are-slave-of-capital-10-29

#sjw #woke #neomarxist #marxism #postmarxism #leftism #revolution

"Sourced from the Max-Horkheimer-Archiv (MHA), both fragments—“On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party” and “The Curse of Writing Today”—are located under the subheading “Miscellaneous Manuscripts (1946),”1 filed alongside three (of the four surviving) typescripts from Horkheimer’s “Conversations with Theodor W. Adorno,” recorded during the first two weeks of October 1946, about the planned sequel to Dialectic of Enlightenment. These Diskussionsprotokolle were first published posthumously in Volume 12 of Horkheimer’s Gesammelte Schriften under the title: “Rettung der Aufklärung. Diskussionen über eine geplante Schrift zur Dialektik.”2 In addition to these discussions, the last two fragments under the same subheading were also selected for publication in the same volume of Horkheimer’s GS: “Towards a Critique of the American Social Sciences” and “The Fate of Revolutionary Movements,” each of which is also dated “October 1946.”3 One possible motive for the omission of the fragments below from Horkheimer’s GS is difficulty in determining authorship. Despite a number of indications to the contrary in the text of the fragments themselves, the archivists (tentatively) attribute them to Adorno alone—a problematic approach the archivists seem to have adopted for several other unpublished fragments from the archive with indeterminate authorship as well.4 In terms of content, there are two grounds for rejecting this attribution."

https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/HA_Fragments_1946/

#CriticalTheory #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Horkheimer

Another great discussion w/ #RossWolfe about his trilogy of essays critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw

(the trilogy is here:
https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/)

#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #socialism #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Fascinating trilogy of essays by Brooklyn Rail's #RossWolfe critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.

https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/

Also a great pod discussion of the series w/ Ross: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138384057

#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books @bookstodon

"To the extent early critical theory seems to us to have a tragic character, this does not derive from the fact it has largely been forgotten, but from the fact it is still needed at all. For us, as for the early critical theorists themselves, the enduring validity of the critical theory of society, of its critical diagnostic of capitalist society and its social theorists, is a bitter confirmation that its dream is still unrealized. Critical Theory is only right in a wrong world.

Following recent scholarship on the origin and formation of critical theory (a period stretching from the late 1910s through the early 1940s, though we focus on the 1930s), our recovery takes its point of orientation from the intersection of two premises. First, early critical theory was—and can only be adequately understood and evaluated as—a development and extension of the Marxian critique of political economy, which inherited the impulses of dissident (and particularly councilist) communism. Second, the traditional, and still predominant, reception of early critical theory has not interpreted it as such given, on the one hand, the popular context, intellectual and political, in which it has been received since the student movements of the late 60s, 2 and, on the other, the neglect in academic scholarship of the esoteric form of writing consciously cultivated by early critical theorists. 3

This esoteric form of early critical theory is configured by three elements: tactical self-censorship, esoteric technique, and the negative method of presentation required by the dialectical conception of the critique of political economy."

https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/MarginNotes_1_1/

#CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool #Capitalism #Marxism #PoliticalEconomy

🧵 1/2

I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

http://www.marginalutility.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aesthetic-dimension-_-marcuse.pdf

The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

In that same year....

#Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

I had never heard of Lu Märten before my reading this evening.

I am sure that my ignorance will strike some as at best laughable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_M%C3%A4rten

#LuMärten #ArtTheory #Aesthetics #Marxism #Feminism #Germany

Good Stuff ->

Critical Marxist Theory: Political Autonomy and the Radicalising Project of Modernity

Lukas Meisner

(Springer Nature, 08/06/2025 - 409 páginas)

"This book argues why Critical Theory – as first developed in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung – must be updated to help us tackling today’s capitalist polycrisis, from economic via political to ecological crises. Yet, following the dissolution of the Institute for Social Research in New York, and the latest with the death of Adorno in 1969 and the death of Marcuse almost exactly ten years later, there has been a ‘domestication’ of the main strands of the Frankfurt School. To understand and overcome this domestication, the book traces, with the means of philosophy and sociology, its two affirmative steps in a liberal and in a postmodern turn. As an alternative to both, it defends Habermas’ project of modernity, yet only by disentangling it – in Marxian fashion – from the capitalist process of modernisation. This disentanglement is at the same time a political radicalisation. It is necessary because the cultural-political ideal(s) of the project of modernity – from human autonomy via rational society to qualitative individuality – can only be realised beyond the framework of capitalism. As their conceptual concentrate, the book proposes political autonomy as a key concept confined neither by Kantian or liberal approaches nor by autonomist or operaist traditions. Rather, it draws on thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and Martin Hägglund to rephrase Marxist concepts such as social freedom, democratic socialism, and the end of prehistory. In this way, political autonomy is developed both as a legit criterion for justified critique and as the philosophical foundation and emancipatory goal of a pluralist yet transcapitalist Critical Marxist Theory."

https://books.google.pt/books?id=0R9kEQAAQBAJ

#CriticalTheory #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Modernity #Capitalism #PoliticalAutonomy #Marcuse #Philosophy #Sociology

"Desde su recepción por la Nueva Izquierda anglófona en la década de 1970, la Teoría Crítica de Horkheimer y Adorno ha sido criticada por marxistas y habermasianos por abandonar la economía política. Luego, tras la crisis financiera de 2008, teóricos contemporáneos de la Escuela de Fráncfort, como Nancy Fraser, han desarrollado críticas al capitalismo, mientras que marxistas como William Clare Roberts, han reconstruido la teoría crítica de la dominación abstracta e impersonal de Marx.

Retomando estos debates teóricos, en la conferencia “Una teoría crítica de la dominación social”, Chris O’kane nos ofrece una interpretación de una rama particular de la teoría crítica que se originó en el pensamiento de Horkheimer. De esta rama se puede derivar un programa de investigación distinto de la crítica de la economía política, entendida como una teoría crítica de la dominación social, y opuesta al marxismo tradicional y a la teoría crítica habermasiana."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR22IB5AyeQ

#CriticalTheory #Marxism #SocialDomination #FrankfurtSchool #Marx #Horkheimer #Adorno #PoliticalEconomy

🧵 1/5
A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.

Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.

Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.

I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.

Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.

Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.

These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.

Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1035-minima-moralia?srsltid=AfmBOoqFv94K1G91IPlOuAP1ZbMfVnqa-PjpM5dR3FFq2tleYY0p-viE

#TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory

"In line with its ‘timeful’ approach, the book starts working towards its end once we arrive at financialization in the form to which we are accustomed. By this point, Bicocca is almost completely stripped of its old working-class identity. Though the authors do not write in a melodramatic tone here, it’s sad to see that, after a century of struggle, the area is now known as a ‘no-man’s-land’. It was not always planned like this; in the 1980s, Pirelli’s plan was to turn Bicocca into a leading centre of high-tech industrial development named ‘Technocity’. But already by the 1990s, company management realized that basing the neighbourhood’s development entirely on real-estate speculation was much more profitable. In stark contrast, then, with the supposedly ‘dynamic’ financial markets determining the rhythm of its development, Bicocca is now best described by the authors as ‘decaffeinated urbanity’.

In that sense, Class Meets Land reminds more of the financial markets it takes issue with than of present-day Bicocca: it’s a fast-paced book, in the best sense of the word, and nowhere do the authors trip into excessive theoretical reflection. Yet, its biggest strength lies in Kaika and Ruggiero’s methodological insistence: the struggle between class and capital is never lost sight of, and each historical event is neatly related to what preceded and followed it. As such, they make a convincing case for approaching financialization in its specific historical context and from the perspective of local class struggles."

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22135_class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-by-maria-kaika-and-luca-ruggiero-reviewed-by-victor-stout/

#Italy #Milan #Operaismo #Manufacturing #Financialization #History #Marxism #ClassWarfare #Bicocca

In the last post, I show a board who show differents form of socialism, now I made it by my own with the help of Deepseek IA (no OpenIA), and by the way I made a list of differents courants of socialism and marxism from the soft to the ultra.
If someone are interest, I can made for some famous to explain quickly with some details.
#communism #marxism #socialism #anarchism #leftcommunism #revolutionary #revisionist #marxismleninism

In finance, an inverted yield curve is when interest rates on short-term debt instruments rise above the interest rates of longer-term debt instruments of similar creditworthiness. In other words, this is an unusual situation in which, all else being equal, shorter-term investments return more money than longer-term investments.

Historically, inverted yield curves on US treasuries have been reliable indicators of impending recessions or economic downturns, and more prolonged inversions generally correlate with more severe crashes, as this video by the Game of Trades investment channel demonstrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF_EivMCMI

(The last 30 seconds of this video are just ads for the channel's trading advice services.)

Our current situation in 2024 is that the yield curve has been inverted for 540 days, which is comparable to the durations of the inversions preceding the 1974 crash and the 2008 global financial meltdown (low 500s each) and second only to the 1929 market crash that kicked off the Great Depression (700).

The stock market is currently still going up, but keep in mind that the stock market went up for a long time after the 2008-era inversion as well: a record 657 days. If the market were to keep rallying for that length of time today, then the crash would begin this August.

2008 showed us that the average person will be angry and more ready to question capitalism itself when events like this happen. As Marxists, we must prepare to do widespread agitation, education, and organizing in its wake, spreading real knowledge about how to understand, resist, and fight back against capital.

#yieldcurve #ustreasury #federalreserve #invertedyieldcurve #recession #crash #financialcrash #financialmarket #economy #economics #news #politics #gfc #globalfinancialcrisis #2008 #greatdepression #depression #yieldinversion #capitalism #socialism #communism #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist #revolution #rev2030 #revolution2030 #tatertube #s4a #socialismforall

Feeling particularly alienated from my labor this Monday

#Monday #capitalism #neoliberalism #SocialismOrBarbarism #AnotherWorldIsPossible #CapitalistAlienation #Marx #Marxism

Conference: „(De)Politicising Art Studies“ (10-11 Nov, TU Berlin)

Here is the program of a conference on Marxist Art History, organised by the working group 'ende der kunstgeschichte' of Ulmer Verein.

On day 2 I moderate a panel on Museum Critique and Marxist Art History.

https://arthist.net/archive/40388

#arthistory #museumstudies #marxism #kunstgeschichte #artstudies #museums #arttheory

Gaddar: We shall not look upon his likes again

A revolutionary bard, his songs echoed the lives and struggles of the people.

#gaddar #GummadiVittalRao #PWG #naxalism #telangana #marxism #BRAmbedkar #ambedkar #dalits #arts #FolkArts #india #books #bookstodon #obituary

https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/gaddar-we-shall-not-look-upon-his-likes-again/article67171525.ece