How is Ukrainian society changing in the third year of Russia’s war? What role are labour activists playing in the defence of Ukraine against Russia, and against neoliberalism? How can labour rights be protected in wartime conditions? 

As frontline and diplomatic pressures mount on Ukraine, a discussion meeting is being organised with Serhii Guz, who has been at the forefront of the country’s debates on economy, media and democracy for the past 20 years.

Wednesday 30 October, 7.0pm

Ukraine: civil society and labour in the third winter of Russia’s all-out war
A discussion with Serhii Guz, trade unionist and journalist
Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB

Serhii is a member of Ukraine’s Commission on Journalistic Ethics, a journalism self-regulation body, and runs Pilnyi Pohliad, a high-quality local media in the city of Kamianske, Dnipro region. He was a contributor to openDemocracy for many years, and has prepared expert reports on reconstruction and the energy sector for the TUC and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. In 2005, he headed Ukraine’s first independent media workers trade union in the wake of the Orange Revolution.

The meeting is organised by the Ukraine Information Group and the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Register on Eventbrite here, or just come on the day.

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Also:

Thursday 24 October, 6.0pm

Imperialism and authoritarianism today: a panel discussion

London School of Economics, Alumni Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku building, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ

With Elia J. Ayoub, writer and journalist; 

Gerry Hart, Co-editor of Red Pepper Magazine; 

Seema Syeda, Activist and Campaigns Lead, Another Europe is Possible; 

Yulia Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at University of Greenwich.

The event is co-hosted by the LSE Conflict and Civicness Research Group and Red Pepper magazine, in partnership with the civil society organisation, Another Europe Is Possible. Read more details, and register, here.

Image: Russian bombing of a school in Kramatorsk, July 21, 2022. Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=421090610058834&set=a.293060042861892. Author: State Emergency Service of Ukraine, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.