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🏭 12-hour shifts for $440 a month, strict discipline, and “voluntary-compulsory” overtime. Ihor Vasylets took a factory job to see modern industrial work from the inside. Our new article is about his experience and collective struggle for labour rights. commons.com.ua/en/nevydymyi-…

How do Ukrainian families organize care for older people amid war, emigration, and a fragmented care system? On October 7, our editor Oksana Dutchak will participate in the webinar on how the families navigate the existing care infrastructure. Register 👇 lse.zoom.us/meeting/register…

Amid renewed debates over reburials and the heroization of OUN figures, we publish an English translation of our 2017 interview with historian John-Paul Himka — on the OUN, UPA, the Holocaust, and historical memory. commons.com.ua/uk/istorichna…

📓 We’re looking for authors for a new print issue of Commons on the history of the Ukrainian left-wing diaspora. Send pitches for articles, interviews, reviews & photo essays by October 1: [email protected]. Honoraria provided. Details 👇 commons.com.ua/en/drukovanyi…

Every month, UAnimals evacuates 200–250 animals from dangerous areasь— often under shelling and drone attacks. Polish journalist Magdalena Morawik joined one such mission. Read report on the people who risk their lives for those who cannot save themselves commons.com.ua/en/reportazh-…

The Democratic Centralists were a left-wing opposition within the Bolshevik Party in Ukraine, defending workers’ participation in management. In 1920, they defeated Stalin in a key vote. How did they win—and why so briefly? commons.com.ua/en/demokratyc…

Polish-Ukrainian relations are in crisis over the naming of a Ukrainian SOF unit after the “heroes of the UPA.” We speak with historian Ela Kwiecińska about why Volhynia must be discussed through victims’ voices, not nationalist myths. commons.com.ua/en/rozmova-pr…

Grey Earth is a new animated film by Dana Kavelina about the fragility of life, war and the interconnectedness of all living things. The film is presented as part of the 6th Kyiv Biennial. Watch our report from the film’s shoot (Eng. sub available). youtu.be/DV4Pp84CY8A?si=S86t…

More than one million Ukrainian men have temporary protection in the EU. Read their stories of fear, guilt, and uncertainty about returning home—stories obscured by the labels of “draft evaders” and “victims of state coercion.” commons.com.ua/en/maskulinni…

Our former editor Aliona Liasheva joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces in 2023. Recently, she came under enemy fire during a combat mission. She was unharmed but lost all her gear. Help her replace her body armor and helmet: send.monobank.ua/jar/w5J2mJW… Donate or share ❤️

Housing, wages and access to social infrastructure determine our place in society. But what happens when a person loses all of these? Our article on the lives of homeless people in Odesa explores their own rules of coexistence and grassroots practices. commons.com.ua/en/neformalni…

📓 Open call for the new print issue of Commons on the Ukrainian left diaspora. ✍🏼 Article, interview, review, and photo essay proposals welcome until October 1, 2026: [email protected] More details 👇 commons.com.ua/en/drukovanyi…

Capitalism beyond factories? Markets beyond capitalism? Early modern empires and global supply chains? Jairus Banaji discusses capitalism as an uneven historical process that took different forms across regions and eras. commons.com.ua/en/korotka-is…

Originally, ‘Holodomor’ referred not to a mass famine, but to a starving person. Our editor Iaroslav Kovalchuk traces how the word shifted from bodies to policy, and eventually to genocide — and how this became part of political and historical memory. uamoderna.com/history/from-a…

Ruined cities and the fragility of everyday life — themes of Bosnian wartime art that are also familiar to Ukrainians. In a new article about reflection on the parallels between Bosnian and Ukrainian experiences and their reflection in art. commons.com.ua/en/bosniiske-…

“After the Silence” is a Ukrainian NGO collecting oral histories, family archives, restoring the experiences of ordinary people to cultural memory. Ahead of May 8, we publish an interview on how #WWII memory shapes views of today’s war and remembrance commons.com.ua/en/druha-svit…

@GlobalSumudFlotilla has spent 15+ years trying to break #Gaza’s naval blockade and open a humanitarian corridor. This year, Ukrainians joined. We spoke with activists about their decision to participate and what solidarity beyond states looks like. commons.com.ua/en/flotyliia-…

Bohdan Krawchenko criticized the Soviet Union from the left and later helped build independent Ukraine. We spoke with him about the Ukrainian diaspora in the Soviet period — and its role today amid Russia’s full-scale war. Read the interview on our website commons.com.ua/en/interviu-z…

Check out the webinar with our editor Oksana Dutchak. She talks about Marxist theories of social reproduction and caregiving work in Ukraine. Feel free to share! leftrenewal.org/videos-en/du…