Following a wave of protests in Zharrez, Albania, Griselda Qosja spoke with activists affiliated with two of the leading leftist organizations in Albania, Organizata Politike and Thurje.
From Aristotle to Hegel, the distinction between state and market has been the basis of understanding the (...)
Solidarity is our strength
Tea, not bombs! Tea, not walls!
It is not only for New Year that ’Slovenians’ come to Belgrade from Ljubljana to have a smashing time on river restaurants, at turbofolk parties, eating cabbage rolls, kebabs and drinking brandy... That is how the tabloids describe (...)
On December 14th 2016 Court in Belgrade acquits Radomir Pocuca for threats and endangering safety of Women in Black activists.
Radomir Pocuca in March 2014th urged hooligans to attack activists of Women in Black during their street action. At that time Pocuca was a high official of (...)
The space for activists in Macedonia has shrunk to a point that it has to be completely rebuilt, says environmental campaigner Ana Colovic.
I’ve been an environmental activist in Macedonia for most of my adult life, struggling to preserve my country for future generations. Over the years, I’ve (...)
What was predicted to be “The Kosovar Spring” in fact turned out to be opposition’s “Spring of the great loneliness”, if we can raise an analogy with one of the masterpieces of the Albanian novelist, Ismail Kadare, The Winter of the Great Loneliness in which he describes Albania’s break with the (...)
LeftEast Editor’s note: For a couple of weeks now hundreds of citizens of Kosovo- have been rallying in support of greater autonomy for the University of Pristina. Gathered under the slogan ‘For University’ they joined in support of the Rector’s proposed reforms for improving the quality of higher (...)
AN APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR COMMUNITY FROM THE WORKERS OF DITA FACTORY, TUZLA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Saturday 18 April 2015 We, the workers of Tuzla-based detergent factory DITA, have been fighting a wave of corrupt privatisation, exploitation and asset stripping that is destroying (...)
New grassroots movements, assemblies and unions are arising in Bosnia Herzegovina. Other post-Yugoslav countries experience similar returns of the left.
What’s going on in Bosnia Herzegovina ten months after the uprising? Following the violent riots in February 2014 , the citizens of Bosnia (...)
Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country ravaged by a war that between 1992 and the beginning of 1996 caused 100,000 deaths (exact figures are unavailable), is certainly looking a lot better but the social situation is dramatic. One statistic says it all: unemployment reaches 45%. (...)
James Robertson: Let’s start with a brief history of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS) and its role in the formation of the Združena levica (UL, United Left) earlier this year. What are the origins of IDS?
Anej Korsika: The Initiative for Democratic Socialism, to use the old cliche, (...)
The individuals and organizations undersigned note with concern the increasing violence against the women’s peace organisation Women in Black-Belgrade, and in particular against its founder, Stasa Zajovic, who has been targeted repeatedly in the past few months by extreme-right political groups (...)
The first part of this post, covering the beginning of the struggle, is also available on ESSF (article 32717), Serbia: Struggling Against the New Labour Law.
The laws have been passed and the cards have been dealt: the new reform of the labour and pension laws which were so hastily proposed (...)
July 17th witnessed one of the largest social protests in Serbia since the beginning of the global financial crisis. Around 10000 people, mainly public sector workers, marched through the streets of Belgrade against the “economic reform legislative package” including the latest incarnation of the (...)
Solidarity with the people of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia: the CADTM demands a moratorium on the debt of these countries and an end to austerity measures
Since May 17, floods in the Balkans have taken a heavy toll with 17 deaths in Serbia, 27 in Bosnia and 2 in Croatia. Add to this disaster (...)
Why does Bosnia-Herzegovina inspire so little interest and curiosity in the media and the political class when, on the contrary, Ukraine is front-page news? Is it because of its non-membership of the European Union? Is it because its name evokes the war that, twenty years ago, claimed the lives (...)
An interview with Anej Korsika, Initiative for Democratic Socialism (Slovenia).
The Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS) is a Leftist organization initially conceived following the mass protests that shook Slovenia in the winter of 2012/2013, which eventually led to the collapse of the (...)
We are extremely concerned by the response of the international community to the popular protests that have erupted against almost two decades of misrule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Editorial, 17 February ). Western media and politicians have argued that now is not the time for the western (...)
Interview with Miroljub Radomirović, jurist, and founding member of the Bosnian political party “Lijevi”, “Left”.
On 5 February, people set fire to the government building of Tuzla Canton, rebelling against criminal privatization, unpaid wages, and the corrupt ruling oligarchy. Violence was deemed (...)
One of the most positive developments in the Bosnian protests has been the birth of direct democratic assemblies — but some major challenges remain.
It’s been two weeks since the start of the Bosnian rebellion . A recent poll has shown that 88% of the people in the whole of Bosnia and (...)
Demonstrations have spread rapidly across Bosnia, with citizens organizing popular assemblies to voice their frustration with the country’s institutional paralysis. Through the adamantly non-ethnic nature of the demonstrations, the protesters are taking aim at the entire political elite. Valerie (...)
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