Autonomous Workers' Union
Автономна спілка трудящих | |
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| Established | 2011 |
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| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Type | Political organisation |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
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| Website | avtonomia |
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The Autonomous Workers' Union (Ukrainian: Автономна спілка трудящих; AWU) was a Ukrainian anarcho-syndicalist political organisation. Established in 2011 by former members of Direct Action, it participated in a series of campaigns against privatisation and the rollback of labour rights in Ukraine. It intended to establish a trade union federation, but it never gained enough recruits in a single workplace to register a trade union. Instead its activism was focused on propagating cultural liberalism, against rising conservative and reactionary attitudes in Ukraine. The AWU participated in the Euromaidan movement, gaining particular prominence in Kharkiv, where it joined the local Maidan's coordination council. After the victory of the Revolution of Dignity, it aligned itself against the anti-Maidan movement and took a pro-Ukrainian position against the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, which it considered counterrevolutionary and fascist. In the wake of the Euromaidan, the organisation declined and eventually dissolved, with its members splitting over how to respond to the War in Donbas.