On Thursday April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk – a socialist opponent of the fascistic Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war – was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine.
Bogdan, who is 25 years old and in poor health, is being held in a prison in Nikolaev under atrocious conditions on fraudulent charges of serving the interests of Russia. In fact, Bogdan is an intransigent opponent of the capitalist Putin regime and its invasion of Ukraine. He fights for the unity of the working class in Ukraine, Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union.
If found guilty by a kangaroo court of these charges, Bogdan is threatened with a prison sentence of 15 years to life, which is equivalent to a death sentence.
The arrest of Bogdan is the latest example of the Zelensky’s regime’s brutal repression of left-wing movements, whose opposition to the war is finding a growing response within the Ukrainian working class.
The International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site call for a global campaign to demand the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk. The fight for Bogdan’s freedom is an essential component of the struggle against imperialist war, genocide and fascism.
This resolution, demanding the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk, was adopted unanimously by the delegates to the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
On Thursday, June 13, this letter from the Socialist Equality Party and the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site was delivered to Oksana Markarova, the Ambassador of Ukraine, in Washington, D.C.
The fraudulent charge of treason brought against Syrotiuk is aimed at intimidating and suppressing growing opposition among Ukrainian workers and youth to the imperialist-backed Zelensky regime and the escalating war against Russia.
On Thursday, April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk—a socialist opponent of the right-wing Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war—was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine.
This speech was delivered by Bogdan Syrotiuk on behalf of the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists to the 2022 International Online May Day Rally on May 2, 2022, a few weeks after the Putin regime’s invasion of Ukraine and the beginning of the US-NATO war with Russia.
Based on original interviews, this article by Bogdan Syrotiuk, published under the pseudonym Stepan Geller, provides a unique and chilling account of the crimes of the Ukrainian fascists of Stepan Bandera against working people and youth of Ukraine.
These two speeches were delivered by Bogdan Syrotiuk and Andrei Ritsky, the leaders of the Young Guard of the Bolshevik Leninists in Ukraine and Russia, to the 2023 International Online May Day Rally.
This article documents the glorification of the Nazi collaborators of the Waffen SS Galicia division on Ukrainian television in the wake of the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka.
On November 28, 2023, the long-standing American Trotskyist leader Helen Halyard passed away. In this statement, submitted on behalf of the YGBL, Bogdan Syrotiuk pays tribute to Halyard and outlines the significance of her struggle for the building of the Trotskyist movement in the former Soviet Union.
In this statement, Bogdan Syrotiuk draws a political balance sheet of the outcome of the 2014 Kiev coup that was backed by US and German imperialism and played a central role in preparing the ongoing NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
The United Socialist Party, the Socialist People’s Forum and the Frontline Socialist Party’s “Youth for Change” have issued statements demanding the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
The response by these tendencies to the fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk must serve as an object lesson for workers and young people in Russia and internationally as to the character of the forces that have emerged out of the wreckage of Stalinism.
”Bogdan Syrotiuk did not do or say anything wrong,” declared Amarjeet one of 13 Indian autoworkers sentenced to life in prison on bogus murder charges. “What he did was fight for the sake of the international working class. He fought and is fighting for workers’ power.”
Socialist Equality Party members won a warm response in a working class neighbourhood Saturday as they continued their struggle to build support for the campaign to free the Ukrainian socialist and opponent of imperialist war among Canadian workers and young people.
The World Socialist Web Site recently conducted an interview with journalists from the Kharkov-based underground journalist collective assembly.org.ua who oppose the war in Ukraine and support the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk.
On Monday, June 3, the Ukrainian government banned the World Socialist Web Site across the country, issuing an order commanding all internet service providers to block access to the WSWS indefinitely.
The ongoing exemptions granted to Kiev from following basic human and democratic rights are further proof that Ukraine is de facto a police state in which dissent is suppressed with dictatorial measures.
This essay by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the “Union of Left Forces of Ukraine - For New Socialism” party in Ukraine, describes the blatantly anti-democratic persecution by the Zelensky regime of its political opponents.
