Month: February 2014

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Yours, mine, ours? We’re all in this together now!

Post author By admin
Post date February 6, 2014

by Emin Eminagić, a researcher and activist from Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Today on February 5, 2014, the city of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina witnessed a protest, which errupted in violence. The protests started as a peaceful gathering of people, mostly workers from privatized and bankrupted companies, followed by students and activists, and others. They came as a reaction to the privatization of Tuzla’s large industry (i.e. Konjuh, Polihem, Dita, Resod-Guming), which was the main source of income for the city and its population.

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Shrouds and Power, or what does the corruption scandal mean for Turkey? (part 2)

Post author By Justus Links
Post date February 6, 2014

A note from the editors of LeftEast: This is the second of a number of articles on Turkey we will be publishing over the next two weeks. With this series, we wish to introduce our readers to the dynamics of the Turkish society beyond the Gezi protests. We will do that through the discussion of topics without which contemporary Turkish politics cannot be understood: the longue duree history of AKP’s neoliberal rule, the ethnic composition of the Turkish working class, and the Kurdish question.

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Closed, Destroyed, Deleted Forever: Russian Authorities Crack Down on Lena Klimova and Children 404 on Eve of Olympics

Post author By admin
Post date February 4, 2014

Closed, Destroyed, Deleted Forever Moral crusader Vitaly Milonov is trying to shut down Children 404, a group which supports LGBT teens. Dmitry Pashinsky talked to the group’s founder, Lena Klimova

The original interview was published on colta.ru and translated into English by Thomas Campbell on http://therussianreader.wordpress.com

Lena Klimova

In Nizhny Tagil, Lena Klimova, a 25-year-old journalist and founder of the project Children 404, which is dedicated to helping LGBT teenagers, has been charged with promoting non-traditional sexual relations among minors.

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In Austria right wing extremism is having a ball

Post author By Natascha Strobl
Post date February 3, 2014
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source: heute.at

It is a sad fact that each year right-wing student fraternities, the Burschenschaften, are allowed to hold a ball in Hofburg, which has grown into a major event on the yearly calendar of the Austrian and the wider European nationalist right. For all those not familiar with all of Austrian or German history, these student fraternities need a bit of an explanation.

What are Burschenschaften?

The student fraternities formed in the beginning of 19th century in university cities throughout what later became the German Reich.