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The liberation of the southern port city of Kherson in mid-November represented an important victory in Ukraineās just war of resistance against…
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Ukrainian workers suffered a setback on August 6, when President Volodymyr Zelenksy signed a new law allowing zero hour contracts. However, Zelensky…
International trade unions are calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to veto two anti-worker bills that were recently passed by parliament amid…
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based sociologist and editor of the socialist websiteĀ RabkorĀ (Worker Correspondent), whose writings regularly appear in English onĀ Russian Dissent.Ā In…
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