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Note from Lefteast editors: This article was originally published on Jacobin. In Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, billboards for fast-food chains and home-improvement stores have given way to politics. Slogans for parties vying for votes in Saturday’s parliamentary elections are everywhere. Media is no different—pro-government and opposition outlets are each scrutinizing daily events with palpable confidence that […]
Note from LeftEast editors: This review is simultaneously published on Jacobin. Toward the Abyss is an important corrective to the predominantly ethnicity- and personality-centered analyses of Ukraine. Ishchenko advances a class analysis of both Putinism and Ukrainian society. Based on his sociological research, he points out that a class divide is more important in understanding the […]
Note from LeftEast editors: An earlier version of this essay originally appeared in Romanian in the Queers for Palestine. Statements, essays and poems[Queerș pentru Palestina. Luări de poziție, eseuri și poeme] collected by the Pink Bloc/Blocul Roz in Romania and published at the Free Pages/Pagini Libere collective in December 2023.[i] Nada Elia, a Palestinian writer, […]
“We aim to balance a Utopian vision of a radically different system with realistic steps to improve life”, state the LINKS candidates at the upcoming Austrian parliamentary elections. Note from LeftEast editors. This is a reprint of an interview which was originally published at Mašina. The article appears within the framework of the East European […]
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 Valley. Temporarily defeated in 2022, when the courts cancelled it, the project is being once […]
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 to escape from the captivity of the Russian ‘East’ back to the civilized ‘West’, where they sought political and economic equality. Milan Kundera put it best in his 1983 essay on […]
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 awardees, the runners-up Volodymyr Ischenko and Olena Lyubchenko, are our editors. If you […]
The article was originally published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung here. It is reproduced with permission. In the past decade, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has emerged as one of Europe’s most important — and controversial — politicians: no small feat for the leader of a country whose economic or strategic importance on both European and global […]
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 arts. The weekly program features interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the […]
Statement on the adoption of an anti-LGBTI+ law in Bulgaria by Levfem, a socialist feminist organization based in Bulgaria Conservative and far-right forces scored a huge victory on Wednesday, 7 August. In Bulgaria, MPs from all political parties voted in favor of banning the “propaganda” of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. Few MPs […]