Workers' Aid
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The Workers' Aid Convoy of the ILNSS (International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles) to Ukraine aims to strengthen class resistance in the country against the Russian invasion.
As well as to take our internationalist support forward, in a closer and more practical way, with representations of the entities that integrate the ILNSS.
The decision to send an international delegation to the country was based on many conversations with labor unions and activists from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, and is only possible because several organizations that are part of the ILNSS have been actively involved in the defense of Ukraine against the Russian invasion since the beginning of the attacks on 24 February.
Keep up with our daily report, in which we share our work in support of Ukrainian workers inside Ukraine.
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The comrad is an philosopher who had lead few literary circles, self-educational marxist philosophie course. Also he was a member of tradeunion organizing crew of Construction Workers Union in past. For last years he was in an industrial worker in one European country and helped us to share the information about migrants from Ukraine unionisation there.
After Putin's intervention, our comrade came to Ukraine and had joined the Ukrainian military forces where he is now.
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Yuri Samoilov, president of the local union of Independent Miners and Metalworkers of Krivoy-Rog, sends a message from this very town. Russian troops are 30 km away from this region. Yuri represents miners who extract iron ore and workers in the steel-metallurgical sector.
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26th April
We visited the refugee support center of Ukraine in the city of Warsaw.
They coordinate the different NGOs that are carrying out actions to support refugees or people who are in Ukraine and need to receive medicines, food and other items.
Website of the Coordination we visited in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw:
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27th April
The international delegation organized the Workers' Aid Convoy to Ukraine shopped for basic goods for the Ukrainian people who remain in the country, facing the Russian invasion under harsh conditions of shortages of food, medicine, energy, water and services.
Some of the most requested products by Ukrainian people are powdered milk and baby food.
Solidaires (France), CSP-Conlutas (Brazil), IP Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poland), ADL Cobas (Italy) and G1PS (Lithuania) are handling the logistics of the donations and purchases, according to the needs of the Ukrainian working class and refugees.
28th April
Today Convoy members organized the vans with the products bought to get ready for the journey
to Ukraine.
On The Road
29th April
29th April
We got around 800 kg of donations for the population from Kyvyi Rih. It was delivered directly to the president of the Independent Labour Union of Metalworkers and Miners of the city of Kryvyi Rih, the militant Yuri Petrovich. The initiative was supported logistically by the Sotsyalnyi Rukh organisation and was considered a success.
May Day
International Conference “Dimensions of war” took place on the 1st of May in Hhat Khotkevych Lviv municipal palace of culture (Kushevycha) as part of the international trade-unionist humanitarian convoy “Workers aid to Ukraine”.
Representatives of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracowniczа (trade union, Poland), CSP - Conlutas (trade union, Brazil), Union Syndicale Solidaires (trade union, France), Adl Cobas (trade union, Italy), Gegužės 1-osios profesinė sąjunga - G1PS (trade union, Lithuania), NGO “Social Movement”, NGO “Feminist Workshop” (Lviv), NGO “Work Safe”, Free trade union of railway workers of Ukraine (Kryvyi Rikh) and other social organisation of Ukraine, as well as individual activists and volunteers, took part in the conference.
The ILNSS celebrated May Day with the internationalism that is the symbol of its foundation. The international delegation that constitutes the Workers Aid Convoy in Support with Workers' Resistance in Ukraine held an act/meeting in Lviv, in a workers' cultural centre, with more than 50 people, of these, 19 foreigners, who collaborated with the initiative of international solidarity.
The protest of this International Day of Working Class Struggle took place with the doors closed, due to the martial law in force in the country.
Comrades from Austria, Brazil, France, Italy, Lithuania and Poland made up the event. Several issues were discussed, such as labour reform, the impact of war on people and mental problems, stress and depression, the situation of women, as well as workers' reports. At one point in the program, mine workers from the city of Kryvyi Rih participated via videoconference of the activities, and were able to dialogue and thank for the international class solidarity.
The ILNSS celebrates the victorious convoy in support of the Ukrainian workers' resistance. Long live the internationalist struggle!
why to help?
In conversations with militant unionists from the Ukraine and nearby countries, much was said about the logistical difficulties in this hard period of confrontation with the Russian army and we were attentive to hear what the most urgent needs are of those who have stayed in the country by choice or by the imposition of the war.
According to reports from those who remain in Ukraine, emergency items are for adults, but much is needed by people of other age groups, such as baby food and toys.
Many women remain in the country because they have decided not to abandon their companions or take care of elderly people or children who have stayed behind. They are mothers, sisters or daughters, who survive with difficulty in conditions of scarcity in the distribution of food, medicines, water, energy and gas.
And it is in this alarming context that we need to go beyond and affirm solidarity with the working class, people like us, who with few resources seek to maintain firm resistance against the invaders.
How to support financially
ILNSS and comrades from de network will finance the logistics of donations, which will be bought according to the orientation of the Ukrainian working class's needs.
The transfer can be made with the info: Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Inicjatywa Pracownicza
Kościelna 4 street, 60-538 Poznań
Volkswagen Bank direct
Code BIC/SWIFT: INGBPLPW
IBAN PL88 2130 0004 2001 0577 6570 0001
The amounts received will be reported, as well as all the work that is carried out by the Workers' Aid Convoy.
