Women in Ukraine win right to work in the country’s coal mines

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Natalia and Krystyna take elevator Nov. 17 to work underground in the Pavlohradska coal mine in eastern Ukraine. This is first time in decades women won right to work down in the mines.

More than 100 women are today working underground at the Pavlohradska coal mine in southeastern Ukraine. This is the first time that women have been hired to work underground since the counterrevolutionary regime of Joseph Stalin barred women from doing…


Russians in NY protest Moscow’s genocidal war on Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Russian emigres protest in New York Nov. 26 commemorating the Holodomor, “death by starvation,” imposed by Joseph Stalin regime that killed 4 million people in Ukraine in 1932-33.

NEW YORK — Holding signs like “Genocide by famine: The Ukrainian Holodomor, 1932-1933” and “We stand with Ukraine,” a group of largely Russian emigres gathered in Times Square here Nov. 26 to protest the famine Joseph Stalin’s counterrevolutionary regime imposed…


Working people in Ukraine fight genocidal war waged by Putin

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

Moscow has been waging a genocidal war against Ukraine and its people for over 21 months. Russian President Vladimir Putin denies Ukraine has a right to exist, claiming it’s part of Russia. The Kremlin has kidnapped tens of thousands of…


Moscow sentences protester against war on Ukraine to 7 years in prison

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

Ukrainian people are unbending in their courageous fight to defend their people and their country’s independence against the genocidal onslaught by invading Russian forces, who have suffered heavy losses. Despite Vladimir Putin’s brutal clampdown at home, popular opposition to the…


Moscow supports Hamas, confronts protests against its war on Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 44 - November 27, 2023
Alexandra Skochilenko, antiwar artist, at court hearing in St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov. 14. She faces eight years in prison on charges of spreading “false information” about Russian army by putting stickers over supermarket price tags with facts on Moscow’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian people are mounting resolute resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to conquer their country. At the same time, Israel is fighting to defeat Hamas. The two wars mark a watershed in world politics, with high stakes for…


Israel and Ukraine: Two fronts for the working class

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

There have been two sharp and significant watershed moments in the class struggle that, one after the other, have changed the world. The first was Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, met by the determination of Ukrainian working people to defeat their…


Back the people of Ukraine in war for independence

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine goes into its 20th month, he continues to insist the Ukrainian people don’t really exist as a nation and are just Russians. At the same time, he also claims Ukrainians are riddled…


Ukraine, home of Babyn Yar pogrom, stands with Israel

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Since the Oct. 7 pogrom killing over 1,300 Jews and others in Israel by the Tehran-backed terror group Hamas, there has been an outpouring of solidarity from Ukrainian people at home and abroad toward Jews and Israel. This includes from…


Ukraine unions fight Moscow invasion, boss attacks at home

Vol. 87/No. 38 - October 16, 2023

In the midst of Moscow’s long and brutal war against Ukraine, and under cover of martial law at home, the Ukrainian capitalist class is pushing a new labor law that would weaken the labor movement. The working class is leading…


Working people in Ukraine fight to drive Putin out and retake Crimea

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

Crushing the Ukrainian nation and its people is at the heart of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determined effort to reestablish the Russian Empire with himself as czar. But his invasion has run up against fierce Ukrainian resistance, with working people…