CEREES Panel
Monday 10 February, 18:00-20:30
‘The British Left and Ukraine’
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS [The precise location of this panel will be circulated to all registered ticket holders]
Book here: Eventbrite
About the Panel:
About the Speakers:
Paul Mason is journalist, with columns in The New European, Social Europe, and Frankfurter Rundschau. He was Business Correspondent and then Economics Editor of the BBC Two television programme Newsnight from 2001, and Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News from 2013, becoming the programme’s Economics Editor in 2014. He left Channel 4 in 2016. He is the author of several books, and a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton.
Christopher Ford is organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, he has written number of books and articles on Ukrainian labour history including: ‘Ukapisme – Une Gauche perdue,’ ‘Le marxisme anti-colonial dans la révolution ukrainienne 1917–1925,’ and is editor of Ivan Maistrenko’s, ‘Borotbism: A Chapter in the History of the Ukrainian Revolution.’
Yuliia Yurchenko is a senior lecturer and researcher in political economy at University of Greenwich. She is currently in Ukraine on an extraordinary leave. And while she writes that she is, for the moment, in relative safety, that could change any moment. Being a Ukrainian, an activist and an academic, Yuliya traveled to Ukraine on Feb 19, 2022 as part of a fact-finding and solidarity mission with a number of MPs, trade unionists and journalists. The goal, she says, of this mission is to connect with civil society organizations, trade unions, activists and politicians, and “to express direct, cross-border solidarity from the UK working class to the Ukrainian working class.”
Event outline:
Welcome, by Andy Willimott & Jeremy Hicks (QMUL) – 18:00
Panel Discussion – 18:05
Discussion, chaired by Natalya Chernyshova (QMUL) – 18:50
Drinks reception, meet the speakers – 19:30
Finish – 20:30
Shape the Conversation
To join our mailing list, participate in our programme of events, or find out how we can support your research, please contact hss-cerees@qmul.ac.uk