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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

Le commun avant l’incitation

Une enquête peut donner la parole aux acteurs tout en leur imposant les catégories du chercheur. Chez les Hadza, la réciprocité arrive en tête des motivations déclarées du partage ; mais cela suffit-il à prouver que le partage est un échange entre individus plutôt qu’une norme constitutive du commun ? #Anthropology #Commons #HunterGatherers #EconomicAnthropology #Marxism #PoliticalPhilosophy #CriticalTheory…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/le-commun-avant-lincitation/

#capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #lenin #VladimirLenin #ussr #TheSimpsons

marx maxxing//

Not your dad’s #Marxism. If #Trump ’s corruption, the #EpsteinClass, #genocide, #smugillionaires, #For-ProfitPrisons, wars of distraction, the #AI bubble, #JoblessYouth, #CorporateWelfare & #Musk killing sick children abroad haven’t made you a radical #socialist, nothing ever will.

Industrial capitalism exploited workers' bodies. Platform capitalism commodifies their attention. Different technologies, same system—profit built on human exploitation. The struggle for workers' liberation must also challenge surveillance, algorithmic control, and digital monopolies.
#Communism #Marxism #Workers #PlatformCapitalism #Capitalism #ClassStruggle #DigitalLabour #Socialism #PoliticalEconomy #AntiCapitalism

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/

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/

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/

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-3/

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/

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/

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-3/

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/

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/

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-3/

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-3/

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/

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/

📰 Attica: The making and significance of a heroic prison uprising

https://liberationschool.org/attica-the-making-and-significance-of-a-heroic-prison-uprising/

#Education #LiberationSchool #Marxism #PrisonAbolition #Workers

Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2067840/oh-my-god-look-at-these-shitlibs-they-aren-t-real-leftists-smgdh

Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2067839/oh-my-god-look-at-these-shitlibs-they-aren-t-real-leftists-smgdh

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Zum 208. Geburtstag ✊🏼🚩
Seine Gedanken und
Philosophie sind heute aktueller denn je ✊🏼🚩

#marx #marxism #fckcapitalism #sozialstaat #arbeiterklasse #TaxTheRich #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

@jlou This is why private property of all kinds is theft, renting capital that is the product of your own labour as either an individual or a group replicates exactly the problematic part of capitalism: the assumption of ownership over a porition of someone elses labour because you lay claim to the capital. Have you read any Proudhon? Also money is bad because it makes capital accumulation inevitable, but thats maybe a different topic "The horror is the firm not the fact the firm has a boss"

#Marxism #Leftism #Proudhon #Capitalism #MarketSocialism

AI Backlash in Gaming

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

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

A Zizek PCM, and sho on, and sho forth

https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/1457127/a-zizek-pcm-and-sho-on-and-sho-forth

„Ich dehne diesen Band mehr aus, da die deutschen Hunde den Wert der Bücher nach dem Kubikinhalt schätzen.” — Marx, heute 1818 geboren 🥳 an BFF Engels am 18. Juni 1862 anlässlich seiner Arbeit an »Das Kapital«. Im Triple, Band 1/2/3, für 20 € (!) pro gebundenem Buch: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/das-kapital-kritik-der-politischen-oekonomie

#marx #karlmarx #daskapital #kapitalismus #latestagecapitalism #capitalism #anticapitalism #marxism #marxwasright #linke #leftist #classicbooks #booksthatchangedmylife

@farbel @Black_Flag A medical example: Phage therapy, pioneered in the USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

#socialism #communism #marxism #capitalism #PhageTherapy #bacteriophage

[A long thread ball 🧶]

#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.

Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience

#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead

Il 2 ottobre 1890 nasceva Julius Henry Marx, noto al mondo come Groucho. I suoi leggendari baffi? Erano finti
https://www.lasinistraquotidiana.it/anarchia-a-hollywoood/

#2ottobre #accaddeoggi #GrouchoMarx #groucho #marxbrothers #fratellimarx #marxism #unocinema #cinema #film #movie #filmphotography #filmcommunity #otd

Born #OTD 100 years ago: poet, pan-Africanist and anti-colonialist Amílcar Cabral. TBH I don't know much about him, but today seems like a good day to start learning. #AgainstTheCurrent #AmílcarCabral #amilcarcabral #Africa #Colonialism #Marxism #History https://againstthecurrent.org/atc232/100-years-of-amilcar-cabral/

📢New Publication Alert!

🔵🔴Access 'Thinking Blue/Writing Red' by Stephen Tumino—an exploration of contemporary #culture through the lens of #Marxism.

'Thinking Blue/Writing Red' interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the #pandemic (‘#Covid’ and ‘#TrumpSpeak’) to high theory (#Melville's narratives) and popular culture (#Beyoncé's ‘#Formation’ and #SuperBowl performance, #TwinPeaks, metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by #Derrida’s idea of the secret, Tumino examines the significance of social movements (#BLM, #Occupy, alter-globalization) and naïve art (#Darger, #Ryden) to argue that these texts speak of the secrets that capitalism cannot.

This book will be of interest to students in several disciplines, including #philosophy, #literary and #culturalstudies, #filmstudies, #womensstudies, #criticalrace studies, history, #LGBTQ+ studies and #environmentalstudies.

🔗https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0324

Incontro con Lenin — Il valore della merce “forza-lavoro”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iVyzb8cU1vs&si=GF5fuv3czHxrJkWq

#economics #economia #teoriamarxista #MarxistTheory #marxismo #marxism

"Letter to the National Committee" (1944) by William Z. Foster. Human-Read Audiobook + Discussion.

#marxism #marxist #cpusa #williamzfoster #communist #communism #socialism #socialist #fdr #ww2 #wwii #ussr #sovietunion #soviet #teheran #audiobook #marxisttheory

https://youtu.be/Nhx5iLXigJE

#pflp #fplp #propagandaposter #gaza #partisans #palestinians #palestine #reistance #communism #comunismo #decolonization #palestina #decolonizzazione #marxism #marxismleninism

https://t.me/pflpgaza1/13626

Casey DeSantis is a Groucho Marxist!
@GottaLaff gives the horrifying details today on the @nicolesandler Show 5:00 Pm EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEHLK1mT6Y
#Desantis #Woke #Joke
#Groucho #Marxism

I like the videos put out by Prolekult. They tend to be a bit wordy and on the more intellectual side, which is not for everyone, but their insights seem sound and informative to me. 👍

Here's one below on why we see various groups on the far-left get into internecine battles and opaque debates that lead to little solidarity or action. BUT also it offers a way out for our own times.

#socialism #communism #politics #history #Marx #Marxism #MarxistTheory #revolution

https://youtu.be/q8_ju1VCfyM

Only one week away. May Day 2023.

Boston May Day 2023 will be on May 1st , with a rally at 5pm at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common, followed by a march throughout the city.

Over 40+ speakers of cosponsoring organizations for May Day 2023 include;

Boston May Day Coalition

Green Rainbow Party of Massachusetts

Cambridge City Growers

New Democracy Coalition

United American Indians of New England

Jewish Voice for Peace

Black Lives Matter Rhode Island

Workers World Party - Boston

Refuse Fascism

North American Indian Center of Boston

Community Church of Boston

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front of Massachusetts

Encuentro 5

Tecschange

African People’s Socialist Party

Anarchist Black Cross - Boston

Community Advocates for Justice and Equality

COS New England

DSA Socialist Feminism Working Group

Little Liberty

Progressive Labor Party

Revolutionary Blackout Network

Natick Black Lives Matter

Boston Independent Socialist Group

Red Strike Project

International Marxist Tendency

Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

Inspiring Today’s Youth.

Extinction Rebellion Boston

Palestinian Youth Movement

Boston South Asian Coalition

Julian Assange Defense - Boston

Boston Teachers Union

St. Vincents' Nurses Union

Justice is Global

Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health

Battle First Aid Responder Services

Activate Media

Burhan Rebels / Trans rights /LGBTQIAS2+

Boston Education Justice Alliance

Starbucks Workers United Massachusetts

Bishop of the Diocese Of Saint Francis of Assisi

July 26 Coalition - Boston Cuba Solidarity

Massachusetts Peace Action

Mass Action Against Police Brutality

Massachusetts Nurses Union of Brigham & Women's Hospital

In addition to the above endorsing organizations, additional speakers include the families of victims of police brutality & murder in Massachusetts

Eric Mack ( Anthony Harden's family)

Dimex (Larry Ruiz Hernandez's family)

Carla Sheffeild (Burrell Ramsey White's mother)

Dyani Tisdol (sister of William Tisdol)

Tina Degree (Moses Harris's family)

Jenelle Ambroise (Christopher Diven’s mother).

There will also be music: 4:30pm-5pm

Joe Messina - will perform revolutionary punk rock

Kristin Turgeon - will perform revolutionary folk

Food will be available courtesy Boston Food Activists

more info @ https://www.litakelley.com/blog/boston-may-day2023/

#Boston #BostonMA #Massachusetts #mayday #mayday2023 #classwar #unionize #union #workers #workersrights #freepalestine #policebrutality #blacklivesmatter #internationalworkersday #immigrantrights #transrights #abortionrights #antiwar #bostonprotest #protest #rally #march #generalstrike #strike #solidarity #unitedfront #indigenousrights #ClimateEmergency #xrboston #ExtinctionRebellion #nurses #starbucks #racialjustice #SocialJustice #marxism #marxist #socialism #socialist #anarchist #anarchism

Do I know any Marxist scholars, particularly any who studied the work of George Lukács?

#Marx
#Marxism
#MarxistTheory

Great article about direct action vs. class struggle:
http://www.marxist.com/direct-action-vs-class-struggle.htm
#Marxism #MarxistTheory #Socialism