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The Organizing Committee of Ukrainian Social Forum was set up in Kiev on July 12, 2007. To the Organizing Committee were elected:
1. Chemerys Volodymyr, human rights activist, the head of of the “Republic” Institute;
2. Malinkovych Volodymyr, human rights activist, political scientist;
3. Yavorskiy Viktor, President of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine:
4. Petrychenko Petro, the General Secretary of the Independent Confederation of Trade Unions of Ukraine;
5. Ostapyuk Oleksandr, the President of an independent trade union “Rivnenshchyna” (Rivne);
6. Ishchenko Volodymyr, sociologist, the scientific secretary of the Ukrainian Labor History Society;
7. Agnishchenko Natalia, independent gender expert, Kiev;
8. Merezhko Oleksandr, Doctor of Jurisprudence, professor, leftist publicist;
9. Novikov Ihor, ecologist, the coordinator of the social campaign of defence of the river of Dnister;
10. Zadyraka Volodymyr, journalist;
11. Finko Anton, political scientist, the leading expert of Kiev Center of Political Studies and Conflictology;
12. Bey Ilya, the editor of the wev-site “POLITSOVET”, the coordinator or the regional committee of the Network of Civic Initiatives “BASTA” (Zaporizhya);
13. Tiran Iryna, the Chairman of the Civic Council of defence of freedom of speech “Media-rada”;
14. Vernyk Oleg, the Chairman of the independent trade union “Zakhyst Pratsi”;
15. Okhotin Petro, the Chairman of Student’s Trade Union of The National University “Kyiv-Mohyla academy”;
16. Movchan Andriy, the Coordinator of political and art-group “Avangard”;
17. Klymenko Pavlo, the Coordinator of protest students' actions, the Chairman of the students’
parliament of the Teachers' training institute by Grinchenko;
18. Demkiv Ihor, the Coordinator of the Network of civic initiatives “BASTA”;
19. Paliy Oleksandr, the editor of “Profsoyuznue Vesti” ("Trade Union news") newspaper;
20. Raush Petr, anarchist, political refugee (RF, St.-Petersburg);
21. Chaikovsky Myroslav, sociologist, an editor of livasprava.in.ua web-site;
The Organizing Committee defined the preliminary list of the main topics of discussion at Ukrainian Social Forum:
- labour and trade union movement, campaign against the reform of the Code of Labour Laws;
- gender equality and feminist movement;
- defence of human rights;
- antifascism;
- problems of Ukrainian migrant-workers and immigrants to Ukraine;
- Bolognian reform in education. Students’ movement;
- campaigns against privatization, reforms in the health protection system;
- neoliberal globalization and Ukraine;
- antiimperialism and antimilitarism. Threat to neutral status of Ukraine;
- perspectives of left politics in Ukraine;
- actual theoretical problems of the global anticapitalist movement;
- Ukrianian labour history
- problems of the state drug policy.
The Organizing Committee of Ukrainian Social Forum is open for entrance and coordinated action with all progressive social movements and persons; it is open to all ecological, labour, students’, trade union, LGBT initiatives and movements excluding those which propagate discrimination based on race, ethnic origin and gender.
Contact e-mail of the Organizing Committee of Ukrainian Social Forum:
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On the 17th of April in Odessa 15 nazi-skinheads with the use of bottles and rocks attacked 5 members of the anti-fascist movement. Nazis ran up to the antifascists sitting on a bench near the “Orech” club and started shouting threads and Nazis slogans and started the fighting. Earlier activists of «antifa» were often threatened by Nazi-skinheads; anti-fascists were victims of nazi-attacks. Their fore they realized that any conflict provoked by Nazis could be fatal. Protecting their lives “antifa” had to use a pen-knife (means of self-protection not prohibited by the low) Nazi-skinhead Maksim Chaika –was wounded. He did not get proper medical aid and died. If the antifascists had not fighted back protecting themselves they would have been in morgue. Ultrarights tray to make benefit of the insolent by fouls presenting the facts and cynically lying to the publicity.
About two hundred activists of ultra-leftist organizations and independent trade unions carried out a march of protest on April, 12. The participators of the march named “Time to Take Your Own” scanned calls for workers’ self-organization and seizure of plants. 
On the New Year's Eve, December 30, 2007 the trade-union "Zakhyst Pratsi" ("Defense of Labor") and around 60 leftist and antifascist activists staged a token picket of "Metro Cash and Carry Ukraine" corporation in Kiev. Participants of the picket demanded reinstation in his job of Volodymyr Demyan, illegally dismissed leader of the trade-union "Zakhyst Pratsi" in "Metro Group" corporation. Activists distributed 300 leaflets to the customers of the supermarket with the call to boycott "Metro Group" corporation until it continues to repress trade-unions. Participants of the picket demanded immediate termination of employment contracts with Axel Hluchy, Mykhaylo Zavylov, and Peter Trojan, the managers guilty in illegal dismissal of the trade-union leader. Activists declared that that token picket had been only a start of a campaign of mass actions against "Metro Group" in Ukraine and in those countries where this anti-trade-union network has affiliated supermarkets. You can support the campaign against illegal dismissal of the trade-union leader sending you protests to:
On 12 December 2007 Volodymyr Demyan, a labour leader and the chairperson of a primary organization of the “Protection of Labour [Zakhyst Pratsi]” Kyiv independent union (
