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January 2025 begins year two of Javier Milei’s four-year presidential term. The first ‘Rothbardian’, ‘paleolibertarian’, ‘anarchocapitalist’ president ever. What do these terms mean and what can this radical Argentine political experiment teach the world? ‘Rothbardian’? ‘Paleolibertarian’? ‘Anarchocapitalist’? That’s a lot of deviant terminology to unpack. These labels place Javier Milei’s curious dogma at the extreme […]
The UK and European Union Recent opinion polls show an apparent majority preference for UK re entry to the European Union. But after recent history, the UK’s attempts to “reset” its EU relationship are not as straightforward as they seem. For starters, there is a total absence of UK political leadership or strategy on what […]
In a shocking act that has gone viral, a male monarchist desecrated the grave of Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi (the pen name: Gohar Morad), the iconic Iranian leftist writer, by urinating on it in Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery. Draped in an Israeli flag, the individual symbolically weaponized Sa’edi’s final resting place—a site sacred to Iranian exiles and […]
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 […]