Union of Communists of Ukraine

Union of Communists of Ukraine
Союз комуністів Україна
Ideology Communism
Marxism Leninism[1]
International affiliation International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
International Communist Seminar
Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties
Verkhovna Rada
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The Union of Communists of Ukraine (Russian: Союз коммунистов Украины, abbreviated SKU) is a Ukrainian anti-revisionist[1] communist organization.

In May 2015 laws that ban communist symbols came into effect in Ukraine.[2]

History

The founding conference of the Union of Communists was held in December 1992, and it was registered with Ukrainian authorities in March 1993.[3][4] At the time of organization on March 12, 1993 it claimed to have 2,000 members in 13 oblasts.[3][4] Yurii Solomati was registered as the leader of the organization.[4] The main stronghold of the party has been Luhansk.[4] Initially many party members were also affiliated to the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU), although the KPU soon began purge dissident elements.[4][5] Whilst the influence of the Union of Communists waned, it acted as a competitor of KPU in south-eastern Ukraine at an early stage.[5]

At the 23rd congress of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union held in March 1993, the Union of Communists was included as an associative member.[6] Considering itself as the legitimate heir of the CPSU, the Union of Communists demanded return of CPSU property seized by the Ukrainian state.[5] The organization called for the reconstruction of the Soviet Union.[5]

The Union of Communists began publishing the theoretical journal Marksizm i sovremennost' (Марксизм и современность, 'Marxism and Modernity') from Kiev in 1995.[7] Politically it was close to the Russian Communist Workers Party, with many people (including Yabrova) holding dual memberships.[5]

As of the early 2000s, the party was led by Tamil' Yabrova.[5]

In 2013 the party took part in the founding of the Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties.[8]

In May 2015 laws that ban communist symbols came into effect in Ukraine.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.solidnet.org/ukraine-union-of-communists-of-ukraine/12-imcwp-intervention-by-union-of-communists-of-ukraine-ru
  2. 1 2 "Ukraine bans Soviet symbols and criminalises sympathy for communism". The Guardian. May 21, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  3. 1 2 http://www.insocialism.spb.ru/materiali/soiuz-kommunistov-ukraini-20-let-spustya.html
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 http://shron.chtyvo.org.ua/Andrew_Wilson/The_Ukrainian_Left_In_Transition_to_Social_Democracy_or_Still_in_Thrall_to_the_USSR7__en.pdf
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jane Leftwich Curry; Joan Barth Urban (1 September 2004). The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies: The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 213, 219. ISBN 978-0-585-46676-7.
  6. ↑ Справочник: Общественно-политические движения и партии в России (2 ed.). Информационно-справочная служба. 1993. p. 13.
  7. ↑ В. Тюлькин (2002). Не дрогнуть на избранном пути. БФРГЦ "Слово". p. 473. ISBN 978-5-86639-029-8.
  8. ↑ http://www.initiative-cwpe.org/en/home/
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