Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Please use / adapt one of the these two motions for your trade union branch or other organisation. The first is a broader motion that includes affiliation to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. The second is specifically on current aid fundraising and delivery (which is also covered in the first motion). To let us know you’re putting … Continue reading Ukraine solidarity campaigning, aid, convoy: model motions for union branches

Register on Eventbrite here 6pm UK time, Thursday 5 November, on Zoom. Hosted by UCU Members for Ukraine and Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Too often Crimea is referred to as just a location on a map, a strategic location on the Black Sea. At this event, you will hear the lived realities of Crimea’s indigenous people, … Continue reading Reclaiming Crimean Tatar subjectivity in times of occupation and war (speaker event, 5 November 2026)

Join the emergency protests at the US embassy in London on Friday 16 October, and at the US consulate in Edinburgh on Tuesday 20 October.

After an extremely busy summer winning strengthened UK labour movement solidarity with Ukraine, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is returning to fundraising for practical aid. We are seeking to raise £25,000 for aid to be delivered to a wide variety of Ukrainian organisations, groups of workers and communities (see below). We hope we will be able to … Continue reading Emergency winter appeal – help us raise £25,000 for aid to deliver to Ukraine

By Sacha Ismail The Spring 2022 Green Party of England & Wales (GPEW) conference passed a resolution entitled “Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine” that “condemn[ed] Putin’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine and [sent] solidarity to the brave people of Ukraine. We reject the Russian claim that the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk are anything other … Continue reading The Green Party and solidarity with Ukraine: where next?

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 … Continue reading Green Party of Ukraine appeals to Green Party of England & Wales conference for solidarity

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 … Continue reading “Resist invasion or accept occupation”: reply to Lindsey German of ‘Stop the War’

** Please donate to help cover the costs of Ivanna Khrapko and Khrystyna Levchenko’s visits to the UK and our campaigning around TUC Congress here ** 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 … Continue reading TUC Congress votes unanimously to reaffirm solidarity with Ukraine

We republish 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. For the … Continue reading The Scottish Green Party supports Ukraine

Download a PDF of our bulletin for TUC Congress 2026 here. Read the motion on the Zaporizhzhia 15 and solidarity with Ukraine going to the Congress (to be voted on 16 September) here. Details of our fringe meeting at the Congress (15 September) here.

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 We call on the UK Government to take urgent action in support … Continue reading 22 trade unions call for UK government to push to free imprisoned Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers

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 … Continue reading Ukraine solidarity fringe meeting @ TUC Congress 2026 (15 September)

Please add your name to this Open Letter supporting the National Union of Mineworkers’ motion to the upcoming TUC Congress – text 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! (Above: Ukrainian trade unionists Khrystyna Levchenko … Continue reading OPEN LETTER: Free the Zaporizhzhia 15, solidarity with Ukraine’s workers – support the NUM motion to TUC Congress 

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 … Continue reading Slides from Khrystyna Levchenko’s presentation on the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and its workers

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 … Continue reading Russian forces continue to target Ukrainian workplaces and workers

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). Register for the meeting here Fifteen workers at the … Continue reading FREE THE ZAPORIZHZHIA 15 – Ukrainian trade unionists speak in London

Republished with thanks from Labour Hub Dear Diane, As socialist labour movement activists, we were very concerned to learn that at the “International Conference Against War” in London on 20th June you described Russia’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine as “the NATO campaign against Russia”. You cited the Ukraine war as the final, emphatic item … Continue reading An open letter to Diane Abbott MP

By the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027, the Ukrainian people will once again face, for the fifth time, the terrible prospect of another winter at war Despite everything, the Ukrainian people continue to resist, both on the front line and on the home front. They continue to defend their sovereignty and their … Continue reading International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine announced for November

Ukraine solidarity activists in the Green Party of England and Wales, organised in the Green Ukraine Solidarity network, have put together the following motion to it’s upcoming Autumn conference (2-4 October 2026, Brighton). It is proposed by British-Ukrainian activist and GPEW member Valentina Butenko. From 24 to 31 July Green members can add themselves as co-proposers … Continue reading ‘Strengthening Solidarity with Ukraine’ – Motion to Green Party Autumn conference 2026

The following motion on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant workers detained and tortured by Russia has been submitted to the 2026 TUC Congress – the conference of trade unions representing the great majority of organised workers in the UK – by the National Union of Mineworkers. TUC Congress 2023 overwhelmingly passed strong policy in solidarity … Continue reading Free the detained Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers! Motion to TUC Congress 2026