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Originally published in Turkish in Ayrıntı Dergi: a Quarterly of Socialist Politics and Culture, and translated with the help of Tilbe Akan. Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its claim to represent the total liberation of humanity from capitalism and imperialism. At first, the left was drawn into the path of taming […]
Sasha Yaropolskaya and Philippe Alcoy interviewed LeftEast editor Volodymyr Ishchenko, a Ukrainian sociologist who was an activist and participant in several left-wing initiatives in Ukraine before moving to Germany in 2019. Ishchenko currently works at Berlin’s Freie Universität, continuing his research into the Ukrainian revolutions, the left, and the political violence of the far right, […]
Note from LeftEast editors: In recent years, the Serbian government has grown increasingly repressive, enacting measures aimed at stifling dissent and tightening control over citizens’ rights. Most recently, activist Ivan Bjelić has been detained in Novi Sad during a protest following the deadly accident at the Novi Sad Railway station on 1st of November and […]
Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a powerful solidarity action to confront the greenwashing practices at COP29 taking place in Azerbaijan on November 2024, one of the largest events in our region in recent times. Our movement embodies […]
Note from LeftEast editors: This interview was originally published by Portal Novosti, on September 12, 2024. Translation by Sonja Dragović. Rio Tinto has become a symbol of the influence of foreign corporations on Serbian society, which is indeed enormous, and this can be attributed to the role played by President Aleksandar Vučić and the entire […]
Note from LeftEast editors: This interview was originally published on Meduza.mk on September 27, 2024. The text has been lightly edited. After re-reading The Partisan Counter-Archives at the start of the summer, I concluded that Kirn’s critical insights on historical revisionism, nationalism in the post-Yugoslav space, historical ruptures, and politics of memory are acutely relevant. At the […]
Note from LeftEast editors: Between October and November of this year, four countries of the wider Black Sea region—Moldova and Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania—will have held elections with almost no left-wing alternatives on the ballot. With the following article, originally published in Jacobin, we open a series of analyses from the region that challenge the simplified coverage […]
Note from LeftEast editors: This article was originally published by dVERSIA on October 9, 2024, and is republished as part of a collaboration within ELMO – The Eastern European Left Media Outlet. Instigated by Germany and Rwanda, the United Nations recently brought to the fore the question of the Bosnian genocide denial and proposed recognizing the mass […]
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 […]