Світлої пам'яті Олега Верника (прижиттєвий збірник праць)

  I am writing these lines at night, immediately following a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, on the 1,626th day since the start of Russian imperialism’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. By Oleg Vernyk, President of the Independent Ukrainian Trade Union “Zakhist Pratsi” – Ukrainian Socialist League (LSU). These lines are being written at night, immediately following a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, on the 1,626th day since the start of Russian imperialism’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. It is astonishing that, after 1,626 days, a Ukraine of 25 million people continues to heroically resist a power of 140 million people, equipped with nuclear weapons and “the world’s second-largest army.” The spirit of Ukrainian resistance has not been broken. No matter how barbaric the missile attacks Russia has recently unleashed on Kyiv and Ukraine’s major cities may have been, the spirit of popular resistance from below has not been broken. The working class firmly and steadfastly...

  Appeal from the All-Ukraine Independent Trade Union ‘Zakhyst Pratsi’ to workers in Belarus, fighting the twin threats of neoliberal reform and autocratic rule. Dear brothers and sisters in Belarus. We stand in awe at the strength and courage you have shown in your struggle against your antipopular government. The conservative and oligarchic regime feared, above all, a decisive and organised protest by the Belarusian working class and its independent unions. It was your strikes and protests that helped put an end to the regime of police violence terrorising the Belarusian people. And your actions helped raise the call to nullify the results of the rigged presidential elections. We strongly support your democratic demands for decisive changes in Belarusian society, bringing to justice those who falsified the elections and the officers of the special police units who unleashed severe abuses of power against the people. At the same time, we cannot forget the bitter experience of Ukra...

  Statement from Oleg Vernik, Chairman of PI Member Zakhyst Pratsi, on the ongoing miners' strikes in Ukraine. As these lines are written, 22 brave miners of the Oktyabrskaya mine in Krivoy Rog remain on strike underground. Hundreds of their comrades from various mines — including women — have already risen to the surface. Their demands have only been partially met, but they remain committed to their struggle. New, desperate battles lie ahead, against capital and for a decent life for Ukrainian workers. For the first time in the history of our state, we are witnessing labour struggle and solidarity on this scale. On 3 September 2020, the miners of the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Plant (KZhRK), run jointly by the conflicting oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov and Igor Kolomoisky, did not come to the surface. The workers demanded higher wages, which the management decided to cut a few months before the protests, and better working conditions. From 8 September, the "Oktyabrskaya", "Rodin...

  How the ICFI Tried to Rewrite the History of the Ukrainian Revolutionary-Liberation Movement On June 11, 2022 , the Russian-language version of the WSWS website of the pseudo-Trotskyist sect ICFI published a piece with an extremely egregious and brazen headline: "Oleg Vernyk of the ISL Promotes Ukrainian Fascist Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists." This is not the first deeply deceitful attack by this small internet group against the positions of the ISL and Oleg Vernyk, as the leader of the Ukrainian group of the ISL — the Ukrainian Socialist League . And one could have ignored this attempt by a small pseudo-Trotskyist "middle class" group from the USA, were it not for the current relevant context of Russian imperialist aggression against Ukraine and a certain informational isolation that has developed worldwide regarding the Russian narrative. Nobody believes Russian state propaganda anymore. In particular, nobody believes anymore th...

  In recent years we have perceived the concept of sustainable development as a general concept of the need to find a balance between meeting the current needs of people and protecting the interests of future generations, including their need for safe and healthy environment. The  Ukraine — EU Association Agreement  (effective since 1 September, 2017) significantly accelerated the process of substantive comprehension and full acceptance of the concept of sustainable development by all components of the extensive Ukrainian state and political machinery. However, it seems extremely important that the conceptual implementation of the sustainable development strategy actively involves not only structures of the young Ukrainian statehood, but also a wide range of public sector representatives. It should be mentioned that the very concept of sustainable development emerged as a combination of three main components: economic, social and environmental. The sustainable development...