Gabriel Levy

Gabriel Levy is a UK-based labour movement activist who has spent many years travelling to former Soviet countries. He blogs about labour issues there, and other things, at People & Nature.

Desperately seeking socialism: why the Soviet Union's left-wing dissidents matter today

This new collection of essays seeks to rebalance our understanding of dissent in the late Soviet Union, drawing attention to democratic socialists from the 1950s into the 1980s.

By Gabriel Levy

/ 19 Jun 2018

Eastern Ukraine: “We need new ways of organising”

Amid military conflict and industrial collapse in eastern Ukraine, activists are feeling their way towards new models of worker organisation.

By Gabriel Levy

/ 5 Aug 2017

Kazakhstan: state threat to shut down independent trade unions

Five years ago today, Kazakhstan's security forces clashed with protesting workers in the oil town of Zhanaozen, killing 14. Now the authorities are going after independent trade unions.

By Gabriel Levy

/ 16 Dec 2016

Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers’ deaths

Months on from a deadly fire on a Caspian sea oil rig, the Azerbaijani authorities are yet to conduct a full investigation.

By Gabriel Levy

/ 4 Aug 2016