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A Ukrainian Correspondent Yuliya Yurchenko – https://www.facebook.com/yuli.yu2010 – reports on a delegation of left wing parties that is visiting Ukraine.

May 5 and 6 2022 : A conference dedicated to the construction of the European Network of Solidarity with Ukraine was held in Lviv.

Words of support were expressed by representatives from Denmark (Red-Green Alliance), Poland (Lewica Razem), Finland (Left Union), France (New Anticapitalist Party, Ensemble), Switzerland (Ensemble à Gauche) and Argentina (Left Front Workers – Unity FIT-U ), as well as an activists from the UK, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Belgium.

Reports from the Ukrainian side were presented by representatives of leading trade unions (medical, railway, mining, energy and other sectors), as well as public initiatives (including feminist, ecological, human rights). Attention was given to the threats of neoliberal reforms and the war of humanitarian problems.

❗️ Following the results of the event, a statement was adopted with the requirements to protect Ukraine’s independence and assist its reconstruction in the interests of the whole society
Vasemmistoliitto
Razem
Enhedslisten
NPA – Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste
Workers’ Liberty
Izquierda Socialista
Comité Ukraine – Suisse
Fourth International
ak – analyse & kritik | Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis
Jungle World
Die Wochenzeitung – WOZ
Fondation Frantz Fanon – Officiel
European network in solidarity with Ukraine and against war

Vitaliy Dudin adds :

This is the best thing that happened to me in the Lviv trolleybus. I had the honor of riding along with dozens of passengers and passengers, as well as outstanding figures from the Socialist Movement in France (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste) [NPA]

• Catherine Samary (PhD in economics, known for critical research on the topics of globalization and social justice);
• Olivier Besancenot (ex-candidate for president of France and post office worker).

I’m amazed that they came here to support our people’s resistance against Russian terrorists. In their country, they have to get into a controversy with the short-sighted French leftists who tolerate Putin’s aggression. It is very symbolic that on the same pole with Ukraine, such active opponents of progressive change, such as Catherine and Olivier.

There is a certain symbolism and that we have chosen such an ecological transport, capable of functioning and without fuel. A new world liberated from wars and primates of life will surely exist in harmony with the environment. Exactly to such a vector of social development we need to strive in the process of further reconstruction of Ukraine

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UNITE Trade Union members Rhona McCord and Mandy LaCombre protest against Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine at the Embassy of Russia, Orwell Road, Dublin 6.