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Letter of Support for Aleksandar Matković
https://lefteast.org/letter-of-support-for-aleksandar-matkovic/
Published: September 3, 2024 13:40
An increasing number of concerned intellectuals and activists have signed an open letter in support of Aleksandar Matković, who has been receiving death threats for his research on and opposition to the Rio Tinto lithium mining project in Serbia’s Jadar…
Submission, Defiance, and Emancipation? Two Decades of the EU’s Eastern Periphery
https://lefteast.org/submission-defiance-and-emancipation-two-decades-of-the-eus-eastern-periphery/
Published: September 2, 2024 13:47
People marching with an EU flag on the streets of Prague, June 6, 2019. Courtesy of Unsplash.
In 1989, the post-communist elites in the four Central European states of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia had a supposedly innocent ambition. They wanted…
Congratulations to LeftEast Editors Olena Lyubchenko and Volodymyr Ishchenko, Recipients of the Daniel Singer Prize!
https://lefteast.org/congratulations-to-lefteast-editors-olena-lyubchenko-and-volodymyr-ishchenko-recipients-of-the-daniel-singer-prize/
Published: September 1, 2024 15:59
Today’s program of the Socialism 2024 conference, an annual event that takes place in Chicago, will feature an award ceremony of the Daniel Singer Prize for the best article devoted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LeftEast is proud that two of the…
From “Returning to Europe” to “Occupying Brussels”: The EU was crucial to Viktor Orbán’s rise — now, he wants to remake it in his own image
https://lefteast.org/from-returning-to-europe-to-occupying-brussels-the-eu-was-crucial-to-viktor-orbans-rise-now-he-wants-to-remake-it-in-his-own-image/
Published: August 20, 2024 18:01
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrives at a European Council meeting in Brussels, 27 June 2024.Photo: IMAGO / NurPhoto
The article was originally published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung here. It is reproduced with permissionÂ
In the past decade,…
Activism in Bulgaria: An Interview with Stoyo Tetevenski
https://lefteast.org/activism-in-bulgaria-an-interview-with-stoyo-tetevenski/
Published: August 15, 2024 14:36
In this edition of Free City Radio, we hear from activist Stoyo Tetevenski in Sofia, Bulgaria. Stoyo shares some reflections on social justice organizing today in the Bulgarian context.
Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the…
Bulgaria: Call for international solidarity against anti-LGBTI+ law
https://lefteast.org/bulgaria-call-for-international-solidarity-against-anti-lgbti-law/
Published: August 12, 2024 16:14
Statement on the adoption of an anti-LGBTI+ law in Bulgaria by Levfem, a socialist feminist organization based in Bulgaria
A protest against the law that took place on August 7, 2024. Photo by LevFem
Conservative and far-right forces scored a huge victory…
Rebuilding Socialism and Sovereignty in Serbia: An Interview with Marko Crnobrnja / Sopo Japaridze
https://lefteast.org/rebuilding-socialism-and-sovereignty-in-serbia/
Published: August 7, 2024 12:23
Ever since the fall of socialism, Serbia has had virtually no left-wing parties. The legacy of the workers’ struggle and radical politics, reaching to the 1870s, had been up to that point upheld by the League of Communists of Serbia, a national branch of…
Roma Holocaust Remembrance: The Complicit Silence of History’s Bystanders and the Persistence of Anti-Roma Racism
https://lefteast.org/roma-holocaust-remembrance/
Published: August 2, 2024 10:57
Roma activists from Miskolc at the 2016 Roma Pride Event in Budapest hold banners reading “Dignity for all” and “We are staying in Miskolc!” Photo by Nora Tyeklar
August 2nd is known in a number of European countries as Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. It is a…
Popular Uprisings and Gang Violence: Understanding the Struggle in Contemporary Haiti
https://lefteast.org/understanding-the-struggle-in-contemporary-haiti/
Published: August 1, 2024 12:58
Editorial note: In late May, at the same time as violent police crackdowns on protests around the elections and the high cost of living in Kenya, hundreds of Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti to ostensibly quell gang violence and restore order. The…
Today’s Uzbekistan and the Left: an Interview with three Uzbek Comrades
https://lefteast.org/todays-uzbekistan-and-the-left/
Published: July 29, 2024 10:56
May 9th celebration in front of the Grieving Mother Statue in Tashkent
Editorial note: Following 25 years of Islam Karimov’s rule, on December 14, 2016, Shavkat Mirziyoyev became the second President of post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Though Mirziyoyev had been…