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12 June 2019
TV Review: Chernobyl - Workers' heroism vs sclerotic Stalinism
This five-part docudrama focuses on the disaster in 1986 that took place at the Chernobyl (now part of Ukraine) nuclear facility in the Soviet Union.
27 July 2016
Europe and the workers' movement after Brexit
Europe - Britain in particular - is now at the forefront of political developments. Because of the 'weight' of British capitalism, Brexit represents a giant boulder dropped into a lake.
5 August 2015
Can a future nuclear conflict be avoided?: Seventy years ago, on 6 August 1945, a single bomb dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killed between 90,000 and 166,000 men, women and children.
May Day in central London, photo Paul Mattsson
30 April 2015
125 years of May Day: Learn lessons of past struggles
This year marks the 125th International Workers' Day, or 'May Day'. The original call for workers' demonstrations around the world on 1 May was made in July 1889 at the International Socialist Workers Congress in Paris
4 March 2015
50,000 march in Moscow after shooting of Nemtsov
The planned 'anti-crisis' march organised by Russia's liberal opposition in Moscow was turned into a political protest against terror after one of the organisers, Boris Nemtsov, leader of the Russian Republican Party, was gunned down as he was walking past the Kremlin
10 September 2014
British leaders back expansion of Nato war machine
The world does not look like a safer place after the Newport Nato Summit, held on 4-5 September
5 September 2014
Ukraine's ruling elite desperate to besmirch socialist ideas
Pete Glover comments on some of the views and sights he encountered during a visit to the Ukraine
3 September 2014
Ukraine conflict ratchets up the international crisis
Fighting in Ukraine escalated sharply over the last week as anti-government forces carried out a successful counter-attack, gaining territory in the south and east, writes Niall Mulholland.
15 August 2014
The bloody conflict in Ukraine, alongside the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza, has brought the issue of the 'national question' once more forcefully onto the political agenda. How can we open a road to begin to solve seemingly age-old intractable issues? Peter Taaffe writes.
6 August 2014
Working class must and will play decisive role: Extracts from a keynote speech at the 2014 CWI summer school by Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, on world relations and the perspectives for capitalism and the world workers' struggle
30 April 2014
Ukraine: skirmishes threaten wider conflict
United workers' action needed to prevent war: The crisis in Ukraine deepened following clashes between pro-Russian separatists and armed forces despatched to the east of the country by the new Kiev regime, writes Niall Mulholland.
19 March 2014
Crimea referendum will not deliver peace and stability
Crimea's 16 March referendum saw an overwhelming majority vote in favour of joining Russia. According to the claimed official result, 96.77% voted 'for' integration and turnout was 83.1%
5 March 2014
Ukraine crisis: Ruling elites foster division and conflict
At least 6,000 Russian troops have taken up positions throughout the Crimean peninsula, formally an autonomous republic of Ukraine
26 February 2014
President ousted: what next for Ukraine?
The latest developments in the Ukraine saw the dramatic overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovich and his flight from Kiev, writes Niall Mulholland.
5 February 2014
Ukraine: battling forces no friends of working class
A violent stand-off between protesters and riot police continues in Kiev, with unrest spreading to other parts of Ukraine
30 March 2006
Ukraine's 'orange revolution' goes pear-shaped
LAST SUNDAY'S general election in Ukraine saw pro-Western president Yushchenko's party humiliatingly beaten into third place with an expected 17% of the vote...
5 January 2006
THE CUTTING of gas supplies to Ukraine by Russia's state-owned energy company, Gazprom, is intensifying the political antagonisms between Washington/EU capitals and Moscow...
15 December 2005
Ukraine's Orange revolution - one year on
One year ago huge street demonstrations convulsed Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, for weeks in protest at rigged presidential elections...
22 January 2005
'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine - an eyewitness account
LAST NOVEMBER/December, huge opposition protests took place in Ukraine against the official results of the country's second round presidential elections, forcing new elections on 26 December...
4 December 2004
Ukraine: Neither Yanukovych or Yuschenko
AS THE socialist goes to press, Ukraine's supreme court is expected to rule on the country's disputed presidential election...
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