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Ukraine is becoming more and more like a giant prison for its own trapped and disenfranchised population. Now, the authorities even seek to force those back inside who had managed to escape it.

When it comes to love for the limelight and delusions of grandeur, Zelenskiy outstrips most politicians and not least of all Putin. Almost all politicians are egoistic, but Zelenskiy is narcissistic. Zelenskiy’s inexperience and ego likely played pivotal roles in his disastrous decision-making. Zelenskiy himself remained mired in personal corruption as the Pandora Papers demonstrated…

Many thousands have died needlessly in the unnecessary, unwinnable, and increasingly unaffordable war in Ukraine. The financial assistance and energy subsidies the war has cost Europe and the United S...

In March 2022 the Ukrainian Security Council suspended 11 political parties that were considered pro-Russian.

The World Socialist Web Site, organ of the International Committee of the Fourth International, demands an end to the political persecution of Goldarb, his Union of Left Forces and all other left-wing parties in Ukraine.  

Maksym Holdarb, the leader of the banned in Ukraine political party Union of Left Forces and former host of Viktor Medvedchuk's TV channels, has been served with a notion of suspicion of collaborating and justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine [Medvedchuk is a former Ukrainian businessman and pro-Russian politician; Putin is the godfather to his daughter - ed.

An accomplice of former Ukrainian Member of Parliament Viktor Medvedchuk, Maksym Holdarb, who had worked for his television channels and headed a banned pro-Russian party, was notified of suspicion of being involved in collaborationism and glorification of occupiers, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said.

The tour's main purpose is to prop up the faltering US war propaganda of the “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine by the Putin regime, and advocate for more weapons for Ukraine, i.e., extension of the bloodbath.

This essay by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the “Union of Left Forces of Ukraine - For New Socialism” party in Ukraine, describes the blatantly anti-democratic persecution by the Zelensky regime of its political opponents.

On Aug. 16, Ukraine’s secret police force—the SBU, or Security Service of Ukraine—announced it had arrested Georgi Buiko, a veteran Communist Party member and leader of the Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Committee.