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Left-wing isolationism: a path to political irrelevance in Europe's defence debate

Hanna Perekhoda — 2025-03-23T05:59:23Z

The European Parliament has voted on the resolution that sets the line on defence and rearmament. The harshest criticism of the European Commission's resolution on defence and rearmament comes from the Left political group. Among them is Manon Aubry (France Insoumise), who denounces, “You find money for tanks but not for hospitals.” She sarcastically remarked, “It's as if, all of a sudden, there was no longer any global warming or poverty, and the only priority was armoured vehicles.” Similarly, Benedetta Scuderi of the Greens argues that “this arms race” undermines growth and public finances. Other voices have joined the chorus, including the Left co-chair Martin Schirdewan and Danilo Della Valle of the Five Star Movement. During Della Valle's speech, a group of representatives of the Five Star Movement held a protest waving placards such as "No more guns" or "More jobs, less guns".

- Features / Europe, Ukraine, Campism

Trump, Putin and the war in Ukraine: Europe's painful awakening to the rise of global Fascism

Hanna Perekhoda — 2025-02-27T13:57:20Z

For the past few weeks, and even more so in recent days, a state of paralysis seems to have gripped the European political landscape. Yet, Trump, Putin, and other far-right leaders have never hidden their ambitions. They have openly stated them for years, without pretense. It must be said plainly: their project is a fascist one.

- IVP601- February 2025 / United States (USA), Germany, Russia, Ukraine

Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces'

Hanna Perekhoda — 2025-02-19T10:49:10Z

In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of the war in Ukraine.

- Features / Russia, Ukraine, European Union

Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine's Struggle for Self-Determination

Ashley Smith, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis — 2023-09-08T19:36:00Z

An interview with Hanna Perekhoda and Ilya Budraitskis.

- IV584 - September 2023 / Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine's workers are fighting an internal threat, too. They need support

Hanna Perekhoda — 2023-05-10T07:43:36Z

“It is the workers who are keeping Ukraine's factories, hospitals, schools, trains and offices running, often at risk to their own lives. And it is the workers who are fighting on the front line, ensuring the survival of the state. That is why only Ukrainian workers can decide the future of their country.”

- IV580 - May 2023 / Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital

2022-09-16T10:22:53Z

“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime's war.”

- 2022 - Ukraine / Russia, Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, NATO, Ukraine debate

The People's Fight Continues

Hanna Perekhoda — 2021-01-26T07:14:19Z

Since 9 August 2020 Belarus has been the scene of popular protests against what is perceived to be the fraudulent reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994. The presidential election results gave him a victory with 80 percent of the votes, a figure far from the counts seen by election observers.
There are thousands of audio and video recordings of electoral fraud, showing the rewriting of results, the substitution of one ballot box for another, and (…)

- IV552 - January 2021 / Belarus

Freedom and Social Identity in the Donbas

Hanna Perekhoda — 2015-04-23T13:51:27Z

The past is the locomotive that pulls the future. Sometimes it is someone else's past to boot. You go backwards and see only what has already disappeared. And to get off the train you need a ticket. You hold it in your hands. But whom are you going to show it to?
â€”Victor Pelevin, The Yellow Arrow
I was born in Donetsk to a family in whose home there were two diplomas on the bookshelf: a factory furnace builder's and an artist's. The holders of these diplomas desperately tried to build (…)

- 2022 - Ukraine / Ukraine, Ukraine debate