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University and College Union (UCU) is involved in a prolonged dispute about the pay, pensions and conditions of its 120,000 members. Planned: The University and College Union (UCU) has announced a total of 18 days of industrial action during    February and March. Strikes are planned for February  1, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21,22, 23, 27, 28 and March 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22.

Published in 2019 Ukraine’s uneven incorporation into the global capitalist system after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Ukrainian capitalism’s internal contradictions and shifts of power between oligarchic blocs and their  unfolding in the context of neo-imperialist rivalry between the USA, the EU, and Russia.  Some of the major outcomes of that dialectic that facilitated a major multilevel crisis of 2013–2014 and led to the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia’s annexation of the southern peninsula Crimea, and the war in eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.  A critical review of the major narratives on the nature and role of Western and Russian imperialisms in Ukraine’s crisis.

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