Below is a video message from the Green Party of Ukraine to the Autumn 2026 conference of the Green Party of England & Wales (2-4 October, Brighton), in which Tetiana Bodun sends greetings and appeals for solidarity. For a video from Ukrainian-heritage Young Greens activist Valentina Butenko, who is proposing the Ukraine solidarity motion to the conference, see here…

This letter from our Secretary Christopher Ford was published in the Morning Star (newspaper of the Communist Party of Britain, but unfortunately distributed relatively widely in the UK trade union movement) on 21 September. From what we can see they have not published it online. The article by Lindsey German of the "Stop the War Coalition" it replies to is…

At our TUC 2026 fringe meeting, PCS President Bev Laidlaw speaking. On right: Ivanna Khrapko, Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine. Chair: UCU exec member Vicky Blake On 16 September TUC Congress, the conference representing the vast majority of trade union members in the UK, voted unanimously for the motion from the National Union of Mineworkers demanding freedom for the jailed Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers and reaffirming UK union solidarity with Ukraine.

We publish below the policy passed by the Scottish Green Party at its 2023 Autumn Conference. The party is affiliated to and works with Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland, and its co-leader Ross Greer is one of USCS's sponsors. You can contact USCS, and via it Green Ukraine Solidarity activists in Scotland, at uscscotland@gmail.com. Preamble In the light of the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the genocidal nature of that invasion, it is important that the Scottish Green Party affirms its support for the Ukrainian people in resisting that invasion, and for those progressive civil society organisations working to defend women, children, minorities and the environment in extraordinarily difficult circumstances.

Below is a downloadable PDF of our bulletin for TUC Congress 2026. USC TUC Final Draft BulletinDownload

Trade unionists call for freedom for the Zaporizhzhia 15 at public meeting with Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant rep Khrystyna Levchenko, UNISON HQ, London, 27 August The following statement calling for freedom for the imprisoned Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers has been issued by the leaders of 22 UK trade unions. Joint Statement from Trade Union Leaders For the Release of Imprisoned Ukrainian Union Members at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant…

With the support of nine unions, we are hosting a fringe meeting at TUC Congress 2026. The meeting is supporting the National Union of Mineworkers motion to the Congress. Ukrainian workers under attack and occupation – Free the Zaporizhzhia 15 – Free Ukraine 5.45pm, Tuesday 15 September – Harbour Hotel, 64 Kings Road, Brighton BN1 1NA. (Two minutes from the Brighton Centre.

Please add your name to this Open Letter supporting the National Union of Mineworkers' motion to the upcoming TUC Congress – see below. We particularly encourage members of TUC-affiliated trade unions to sign, but it is open to all. You can sign via the form here. Please share widely! We the undersigned, trade unionists and campaigners, encourage unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress to support…

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This is the presentation that Khrystyna Levchenko, former Atomprofspilka union rep at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, showed when she spoke alongside Ivanna Khrapko of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine at the public meeting we held at UNISON's national office in London on 27 August. (Above: Khrystyna and Ivanna, above USC banner, with supporters after the meeting.) More on the occupied ZNPP and its workers…

These 'trials' are of particular cynicism both because Ukrainians in their 60s and 70s have been forced to take Russian citizenship, or be deprived of healthcare, subsistence and because the supposed ...

There is a long history of foreigners idealizing Russia and exaggerating its power.

A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it

With Russian bombing of Ukraine intensifying, so have strikes on workplaces and killing of workers. Please see below a statement from the Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine (NGPU), part of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) – and please share widely. On behalf of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NPGU), I’m writing to inform you about yet another wave of brutal Russian attacks on enterprises and workplaces in Ukraine’s mining and metallurgical industries, and their devastating consequences for Ukrainian workers.

Prime minister responds to Russian anger over Kyiv’s use of British-made drones in ‘deep strike’ campaign

On 27 August two Ukrainian trade unionists, including a rep from the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, are speaking at UNISON HQ. Eyewitness reports from Ukrainian trade unions under occupation and attack Thursday 27 August, 5.45pm – UNISON national office, 130 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AY (ground floor). Please register here for the meeting: free-the-zaporizhzhia-15 Fifteen workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – all members of the Atomprofspilka trade union – have been abducted, subjected to show trials, and sentenced to decades in prison on fabricated charges by the Russian occupation forces.

New investigation into Scientologist and QAnon enthusiast John Mappin raises fresh questions about Farage's allies

The OSINT community CyberBoroshno, based on an analysis of satellite imagery, identified the location where FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles struck the Progress Rocket and Space Centre in Samara, Russia.

Russia is losing 30,000 casualties a month, and the country’s regions are under pressure to feed the ‘meat-grinder’. Experts say it may not be enough

Russian oil reaches a record 50.83% of India’s imports as refinery outages force Moscow to buy gasoline back from India.

Spanish F-18 fighter jets were scrambled in Romania on 13 August after aerial assets near the border with Ukraine prompted the authorities to issue an air-raid warning for the third time that day.