Solidarity 321, 23 April 2014

A military conflict between Russia and Ukraine is beginning. While supporting the working class and internationalists in Ukraine against the Ukrainian government and right, Workers' Liberty sides with Ukraine against Russia. Why? Because Russia threatens Ukraine with national oppression. Is Ukraine oppressed? Since 1991, Ukraine has been independent. But for the majority of their history the Ukrainian people were occupied, controlled and savagely repressed by neighbouring bigger powers, and mostly by Russia. Russians, mostly Russian-born, dominated Ukraine and there was a policy of...

After six months of significant student struggles in support of campus workers and against repression, the left won important victories at the National Union of Students conference in Liverpool. By a clear margin, delegates defeated the NUS leadership to pass a left-wing motion opposing all forms of paying for education - including not only fees but the graduate tax currently proposed by Labour - and demanding free education, funded by taxing the rich and taking over the banks. The vote was significant because the leadership fought the motion hard. Except for strictly on paper in 2002-4, NUS...