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For several days now, several thousand people, especially the youth, have been mobilizing in Albania. The protests are in reaction to the murder of a young man by Albanian police, but they reveal deeper frustrations. Last week, LeftEast editor Philippe Alcoy interviewed Redi Muçi, a member of (...)
The killing of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha by the police in the early hours of 8 December had brought the youth of the peripheries into the streets of the Albanian capital for four consecutive days.
The crowd marching down the streets of Tirana resembled a massive approaching tsunami. In its (...)
In the early hours of 8th of December, in the Day of Youth, Albania awakened under the weight of tragic news, unbelievable at first but sadly anticipated. Since the lockdown restrictions, fines imposed on family members who were forced to go out to procure food and medicine, on workers (...)
Housing as a basic means of social reproduction came into focus during the Covid-19 crisis in an unprecedented way in Serbia as well as everywhere else. The “stay at home” instruction exposed existing housing injustices resulting from privatization, restitution, housing financialization, social (...)
The Social Democratic Union’s 12th congress in Belgrade marked its transformation into a new left-wing party—the Party of the Radical Left (PRL).
MK: Can you tell us a bit of the backstory behind the new party’s founding?
IV: The Social Democratic Union (SDU) changed its leadership five or six (...)
The “historic” treaty recently signed by Serbia and Kosovo under the auspices of the US president, will prove very useful to American (and western) imperialism in the Balkans, as well as to Israel, its main bulwark in the Middle East. The document should not be viewed as an historic rapprochement (...)
On being elected prime minister of Slovenia at the beginning of March, Janez Janša, the conservative leader of the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), faced the immediate challenge of a global pandemic. And he wasn’t thrilled to have his crisis management methods questioned.
Blaž Zgaga, (...)
Racist patrols and protests are spreading in Serbia, as the far right seeks to exploit the migrant crisis for political gain, write Anja Ilić and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica. This is a significantly expanded version of an article first published on Counterfire.
When news broke that Turkish–EU (...)
“Inshallah, they are going to do something beautiful with Thumanë. Something that we have never seen...because we feel abandoned in our trauma.” As they do every day, Devi and his friends, in their twenties, try to calm their anxiety by walking around the devastated city centre. Behind the (...)
Albin Kurti’s party won the 6th October poll, but whether they will provide a clean break with the last 30 years in Kosovo remains to be seen.
Kosovo’s recent election was close. According to final preliminary results, Levizja Vetevendosje! (Movement Self-Determination!) beat the Democratic (...)
A secular, left analysis of Sarajevo Pride 2019 and the LGBT struggle in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
I know some people will certainly misunderstand the text below, but as someone who campaigned on the issue, who received numerous anonymous threats while working at the University in Sarajevo for (...)
Huge participation, no accidents, visibly moved participants. And from the stage, the first Pride of Sarajevo is dedicated to all the oppressed of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Spontaneous applause, shout-outs, beating drums, smiles and hugs, tears of emotion and joy. Last Sunday, an overwhelming (...)
Note from LeftEast editors: In the spring of 2017 small towns across Macedonia turned into hubs of grassroots struggles against international mining projects in the country. These citizen initiatives shared the same fear: that concessions for exploitation granted as part of a wider policy for (...)
In early December 2018 everybody was stunned by the massivity and political strength of the student multitude. In a few weeks, what started as a small protest to counter a minor governmental decision was transformed in a student-wide movement which put into question the whole neoliberal (...)
I went to work in the morning and returned late in the evening. And on Sunday I had to go to work. I did not have any free time anymore. The owner of the company increased the volume of work but did not increase the number of us who are working. For every mistake, he took a part of our (...)
In one of the few old houses still standing in central Tirana, a small courtyard covered with colourful posters of social struggles from around the world has become the meeting place for a new generation of Albanian activists. “Fatjon, that’s the name I prefer to use,” says a tall, young man, (...)
In the last elections (2016) in Macedonia, voters for the first time voted outside ethnically defined boundaries. After a long domination of the main right-wing party, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia again took power amid great expectations of its’ voters. It started a process which aims to (...)
Serbia has a long tradition of social democracy which goes back to the last decades of the 19th century. State of modern Serbian social-democracy isn’t that much different from the situation in which social democrats find themselves in other European countries. Contemporary Serbian “descendants” (...)
A political system in Bosnia and Herzegovina is strongly determined by the strict division on nationalist and civic options. Persisting “new” civic political projects are crashing themselves against the rocks of post-Dayton Bosnian settlement. Although the history of the illusions of civic (...)
Despite the traumatic experience of occupation in the Second World War, since the 2000s, political organizations of neo-Nazis in Serbia has flourished in various forms. But besides the justified suspicions that these groups are associated with secret services, their stronger development is (...)
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