Ukrainische Linke Initiative Presents: Left-Wing Politics in a Neoliberal State at War
2025-08-18 , Anti-imperialist Tent 1

Since the 1990s, it has been in the interest of both Russia and Ukraine’s homegrown ruling class to divide Ukrainian society not by class, and not even by ideology, but first and foremost by geopolitical affiliation. This meant that, for the most part, there was no space in Ukrainian politics for a self-sustaining left-wing political movement. Instead, the left was hopelessly confined to the culture war between the two neoliberal camps: one pro-Russian, the other pro-Western. Did this change after 2014, and especially after 2022? And how does Ukraine’s New Left navigate its place in the country’s society today?


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Resistance Connections UA is a Berlin-based activist group committed to material and political solidarity with anti-authoritarian, feminist, and left-wing forces in Ukraine and beyond. Formed in response to the normalization of Ukrainian erasure within the German left, we work to confront russian imperialism as an ongoing colonial formation - and to resist the geopolitical distortions that flatten struggles for liberation into competing state allegiances. As co-organizers of the anti-imperialist tent, we aim to hold space for situated, plural, and non-campist solidarities - politicizing what has been silenced, and refusing empire in all its forms.

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