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Every article on Bogdan’s case from the World Socialist Web Site.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · November 13, 2026
DEM Party deputy Gergerlioğlu raises the case of Bogdan Syrotiuk in Turkish parliament
DEM Party deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu raised the 15 years verdict for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk at a press conference in Türkiye’s parliament, responding to an appeal by the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi.
- (opens in a new tab)Ulaş Sevinç · November 12, 2026
Open letter to DİP and EEK: Defend Ukrainian socialist prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk!
In an open letter, the Socialist Equality Party (Türkiye) calls on the Revolutionary Workers Party of Türkiye and the Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece to defend Bogdan Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for his anti-war articles.
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(opens in a new tab)Our Reporter · November 6, 2026WSWS editor Johannes Stern discusses imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk on Spain’s Canal Red
WSWS editor Johannes Stern talks to Spain’s Canal Red about Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison for opposing the war.
- (opens in a new tab)Socialist Equality Party (Australia) · October 28, 2026
Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We are publishing here the fourth of five resolutions adopted unanimously by the Eighth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held September 26–29, 2026.
- (opens in a new tab)John Vassilopoulos · October 27, 2026
Support in Greece for freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the Ukrainian socialist jailed for 15 years for opposing the war, has drawn support in Greece from media outlets, left-wing websites and social media users.
- (opens in a new tab)Johannes Stern · October 26, 2026
The Left Party’s silence on Bogdan Syrotiuk
This silence is no accident. It is an expression of the political role of the Left Party and a warning to all those who regard it as an opposition to war, social cuts and fascism.
- (opens in a new tab)Our Reporters · October 24, 2026
IYSSE meeting in Sri Lanka demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
The IYSSE event on Zoom was live-streamed simultaneously on the Socialist Equality Party’s (SEP) Facebook page in Sinhala and Tamil, attracting significant interest.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · October 16, 2026
University and College Union members at Manchester Metropolitan University back campaign for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Branch members discussed how Bogdan's case punctures the dominant media narrative on Ukraine, with the term ‘meat grinder’ used to describe the grim reality of the conflict
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(opens in a new tab)Katja Rippert and Johannes Stern · October 14, 2026Video of Frankfurt book presentation: “The Ukraine War and the Fight for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk”
The discussion between Mehring Verlag representative Katja Rippert and the book’s editor, Johannes Stern, editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the World Socialist Web Site, is now available on video.
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · October 10, 2026
IYSSE in Sri Lanka campaigns for public meeting demanding freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
"The struggle to secure Bogdan’s release is connected to the mobilization of workers to stop the war.”
- (opens in a new tab)Our reporters · October 5, 2026
Workers speak in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk at the 90th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
A rally and march was held in East London on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
- (opens in a new tab)International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Türkiye) · October 5, 2026
Join the IYSSE in the fight for a socialist future against war, dictatorship and social devastation!
Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, social anger and struggles are growing in the working class and among young people.
- (opens in a new tab)Ulrich Rippert and Christoph Vandreier · October 4, 2026
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei election result in the Berlin state election
As Marxists, we know that the future of society and the solution to society’s great problems will be decided not in parliament, but in the class struggle.
- (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.