Compendium and Syllabus of Non-Campist (Mostly) Left Sources on the War in Ukraine, by Steve Ongerth – 8 October 2025

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I. Highest Recommendation:

If you if you have limited time or capacity, at the very least read the following articles, because they’ll provide a basic and thorough overview:

America’s proxy war? No, Ukraine’s liberation war (14 April 2023)

Debunking Russia’s War Propaganda (January 2023)

An Eastern Europe mythbuster – (24 July 2022)

DSA and Ukraine (19 June 2023)

The Far Right in Ukraine (8 February 2023)

Falsehoods instead of Ukrainian reality: an emotional plague (3 March 2023)

For a new internationalism (8 December 2022)

‘The anti-imperialist position is to support the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people’ (28 January 2023)

I’m a Ukrainian Socialist. Here’s Why I Resist the Russian Invasion (July 28, 2022)

James O’Brien and a caller row over NATO expansion and whether Vladimir Putin ‘wants’ war (9 February 2023)

“Leftists” outside Ukraine are used to listening only to people from Moscow: Interview with anarcho-syndicalists in Eastern Ukraine (4 October 2022)

No arms to Ukraine? (9 February 2023)

Notes on Ukraine (2 December 2022)

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold (14 February 2023)

Q&A: Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate (15 November 2022)

Reality Check on Ukraine (24 July 2023)

Six Ways Ukraine is Winning: How the European Left Marginalised a Transatlantic Red-Brown Coalition (27 February 2023)

Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance! (3 June 2022)

Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital (27 September 2022)

Twelve myths about Russia’s war in Ukraine exposed – (20 February 2023)

Ukraine: The Hour of the Partisans (22 May 2022)

Ukraine War: The Partisans (18 September 2023)

Ukraine: Some Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (27 February 2023)

The Ukrainian Question for Socialists (21 February 2022)

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left (24 February 2023)

‘Today, people are not just fighting for Ukraine but to destroy the Russian regime’ (2 September 2022)

Why we won’t march with Stop the War on 25 February (11 January 2023)

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