On February 17, Kosovo celebrated its tenth birthday. Europe’s youngest nation was forged into being following the 1999 war of independence against the security forces of the Serbian government, which for years had ruthlessly oppressed the ethnic Albanian population of its south-western (...)
If remaining state-owned strategic resources are sold, it will bring about enormous economic damage. Although the oligarchs that sell them will make great material gains, the situation of the working class will get even worse, says Dr. Marija Obradović, author of Hronika tranzicionog groblja (...)
Over the course of 2017, the Belgrade-based Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE), in cooperation with transform! europe and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Southeast Europe, established the “Studies of Socialism” educational programme with the aim of introducing young people in Serbia to (...)
The Greek left needs to promote a national and regional identity that stresses unity of people’s struggles
LeftEast: It is interesting to think if, to what extent and how the left in each country has influenced the left in the other. The Greek left has had a formative impact on the Macedonian (...)
Alek Atevik of the Macedonian group Levica (Left) outlines his vision for national and regional renewal of the radical left.
LE1: It is interesting to think if, to what extent and how the left in each country has influenced the left in the other. The Greek left has had a formative impact on (...)
Greeks are revolting again
In the beginning, nobody paid much attention. Two activists, ex-members of the Movement of Independent Citizens, which was created back in 2011 following an appeal by Mikis Theodorakis, took the initiative to call for a protest meeting in Salonica. The aim was to (...)
Predrag Kojovic is the president of Nasa Stranka (Our Party) in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nasa Stranka is a multi-ethnic political party of a social-liberal orientation that believes in solidarity, social justice and broad civil liberties. Andy Heintz – How difficult was it to develop a multi-ethnic (...)
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 (...)
Macedonia shows that without radical politics, political crisis is the new status quo.
In a recent interview for an Albanian TV station, US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher casually argued that Macedonia “is not a country” and should be divided up between Kosovo, Albania, and Bulgaria .
Coming from the chair of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, this is more than a vulgar display of condescending colonialism, it is a convenient instrument for (...)
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 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 (...)
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