ReBuild Ukraine: neoliberal reforms, energy and post-war pathways

by Olena Lyubchenko

Read the new short report by our affiliate researcher Olena Lyubchenko examining trends in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction. The report analyses the November 2023 ReBuild Ukraine Powered by Energy Exhibition in Warsaw, Poland, and it is part of a broader investigation into Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction.

The report highlights Ukraine’s alignment with the European Green Deal, emphasising renewable energy, energy independence, and infrastructure development. It also focuses on attracting private investment through conferences and partnerships with financial institutions and Western governments.

  • How will the emphasis on privatisation affect public goods?
  • Does the plan create a truly “risk-free” development environment?
  • Will reconstruction reinforce financial and technological dependencies?
  • Could resource transfers occur from Ukraine to Europe?
  • How does it affect the humanitarian sector?

olena

Olena Lyubchenko

Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at York University, Toronto, and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her research and teaching draws on Marxist critique of political economy and focuses on social reproduction, primitive accumulation, and the making and transformation of the Soviet Union in global context. She writes about neoliberal restructuring, the financialisation of social reproduction, racialisation and citizenship in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, as well as the regulation of labour relations in settler-colonial Canada. Olena is an editor at LeftEast and Midnight Sun Magazine. She is a co-editor of the volume Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium (McGill-Queens, 2019).

RELATED ARTICLES

Between Palestine and the world: Sovereignty and solidarity after order

April 29, 2026 ___ Welcome to Alameda Dialogues — a series of conversations on social struggles, international solidarity, and futures beyond catastrophe. In this episode, Between Palestine and the World: Sovereignty and Solidarity After Order, we turn to Palestine as…

Episode 4:  Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo  

April 29, 2026 ___ Who controls the infrastructure of the digital world — and what does that mean for sovereignty? In the fourth episode of After Order — a podcast series by Alameda in collaboration with Macrodose — the focus…

Apartheid fetishism

April 29, 2026 ___ Led by Elon Musk, the right has developed a new lust for South African white supremacy ___ The first time I noticed an increase in revisionist nostalgia for southern Africa’s white supremacist states was in 2015,…