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Every article on Bogdan’s case from the World Socialist Web Site.
- (opens in a new tab)Jerry White · October 2, 2026
Gary Tyler, former political prisoner in US, endorses campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk: “This young man should be free”
Gary Tyler, the former political prisoner who spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a murder he did not commit, has endorsed the international campaign for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporter · October 2, 2026
Sri Lankan filmmaker supports campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“I hope that the struggle to secure Bogdan Syrotiuk's release will become the foundation for an anti-war movement.”—Prasanna Vithanage
- (opens in a new tab)Socialist Equality Party (Canada) · October 1, 2026
SEP (Canada) founding congress pledges to fight for the freedom of socialist-internationalist, anti-war prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk
The founding congress of the SEP, held in Montreal in August, unanimously adopted the following resolution denouncing the Ukrainian state’s persecution of Bodgan Syrotiuk.
- (opens in a new tab)Johannes Stern · October 1, 2026
Stand up for the freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk!
This is the text of an open letter to the leadership of the Left Party. It was sent on September 30 to Ines Schwerdtner and Luigi Pantisano, co-chairs of the Left Party, as well as to Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann, co-chairs of the Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
- (opens in a new tab)The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Sri Lanka) · September 30, 2026
Online meeting in Sri Lanka: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! Build an international movement against imperialist war!
The meeting hosted by the IYSSE (Sri Lanka) on October 13 will be conducted in Sinhala and translated live into Tamil.
- (opens in a new tab)Socialist Equality Party (Canada) · September 29, 2026
Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds founding congress—a major advance in the building of the world party of socialist revolution
The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.
- (opens in a new tab)Statement by the party Union of Left Forces - For a New Socialism! · September 26, 2026
Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk! Stop political persecutions!
This statement calling for the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, who has himself been persecuted by the Ukrainian state under Volodymyr Zelensky.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 26, 2026
Australia: University of Melbourne meeting demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
“We have a responsibility to support the release of Bogdan. What he has done cannot constitute a crime.”
- (opens in a new tab)James Clayton · September 25, 2026
Why did Ukrainian President Zelensky visit North Bay, Ontario, home to the Waffen SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka?
Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up more financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 25, 2026
Unite Community members in Greater Manchester demand Bogdan Syrotiuk’s immediate release from Ukrainian jail
The Unite community branch noted with horror that, after 2 years of pre-trial incarceration, Bogdan has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
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(opens in a new tab)Our reporter · September 25, 2026Joseph Kishore discusses fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk on the Punch Up Pod
Kishore discussed the Ukrainian socialist’s imprisonment for opposing the war and the growing international demand for his freedom.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 23, 2026
Sri Lankan students and workers demand freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
SEP and IYSSE members in Sri Lanka won support from students, health workers and other workers in Colombo and on two university campuses for the campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, jailed for 15 years for opposing the war.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 23, 2026
London bus drivers and other workers call for Bogdan’s freedom
A bus driver at Wood Green said, “I am very shocked by this. Fifteen years? I will sign the petition, and I will most certainly pass it around at work and online.”
- (opens in a new tab)WSWS Editorial Board · September 21, 2026
Massive drone attack on Moscow marks new stage of US-NATO war with Russia
Ukraine's attack on Moscow with 450 drones, carried out with weapons paid for, jointly developed and often directly supplied by the NATO powers, marks a new stage in the de facto war between NATO and Russia.
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(opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 19, 2026No2Nato No2War interviews Johannes Stern on Bogdan Syrotiuk and political crisis in Germany
The wide-ranging interview focused on the political persecution of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk and the international campaign for his freedom. It also discussed the return of German militarism, the rise of the far-right AfD and the deepening social and political crisis in Germany.
- (opens in a new tab)Clara Weiss · September 19, 2026
Second hunger strike in Ukrainian prisons in 5 weeks
The hunger strike focused, in particular, on the situation in the Vinnitsiya Penal Colony No. 86, where prisoners have reported severe torture, forced labor and other inhumane and degrading conditions.
- (opens in a new tab)September 18, 2026
Students and youth in London demand freedom for socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Are Russians and Ukrainians willing to stop and say, ‘Nope, we’re not going to do this anymore and we’re going to shut it down’? It’s a huge endeavour, but it’s the best way.”
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(opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 18, 2026New Zealand IYSSE campaigns to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, against censorship at Victoria University of Wellington
Students denounced the removal of the IYSSE’s article defending Bogdan from the website of the student magazine Salient.
- (opens in a new tab)Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) · September 18, 2026
SEP Sri Lanka Congress resolution: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
The Sri Lankan SEP’s Fourth National Congress declared the fight to free Bogdan, the Ukrainian Trotskyist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, a central task of the party.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporter · September 17, 2026
National Lawyers Guild calls on Ukrainian court to free Bogdan Syrotiuk
The 15-year sentence “cannot be reconciled with Ukraine’s binding legal obligations,” the Guild’s president writes, and for a chronically ill prisoner “risks becoming, in effect, a sentence of death.”
- (opens in a new tab)Kevin Reed · September 16, 2026
Anthropologist John Comaroff joins protest against 15-year sentence of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Anthropologist and retired Harvard professor John Comaroff has submitted a letter of “outraged protest” against the conviction and sentencing of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk by a Ukrainian court on charges of high treason.
- (opens in a new tab)Johannes Stern · September 14, 2026
Drone hits Mykolaiv detention center holding Bogdan Syrotiuk—all prisoners reported safe
A drone struck the Mykolaiv pre-trial detention center where Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk is imprisoned. Bogdan and the other prisoners were not injured. The incident underscores the urgency of the campaign for his immediate release.
- (opens in a new tab)Johannes Stern · September 14, 2026
The appeal of Bogdan Syrotiuk exposes a political frame-up
The appeal against Bogdan Syrotiuk’s 15-year sentence demonstrates that political views, journalism and socialist opposition to war were transformed into alleged acts of high treason without evidence of assistance to Russia or any other subversive activity.
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(opens in a new tab)Our reporters · September 13, 2026Support in Manchester, England for freedom of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Socialist Equality Party campaigners in Manchester have won support among postal workers, students and anti-war demonstrators for the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, sentenced to 15 years for opposing the NATO-war.