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Workers on break in Tuzla, Bosnia. Flickr/Kingmoor Klickr. by Andjela Pepic. 15 June 2015 Privatisation processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the 1990s onwards have gradually transferred ownership and power from the socialist state to private entrepreneurs. As elsewhere in Europe and the rest of the world, this […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: This call is not a petition, but a call for actions in solidarity with the people of Greece. If you want to get involved, pin yourself on the maps at the site of Change4All or send a message to add a pin to the map— or send a solo-message to contact [at] change4all.eu, […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: this text coming from citizens, activists and academics concerned by the recent developments in Macedonia, is an attempt to draw attention to the events in the country. It is also a plea for your solidarity with the citizens who are seeking justice and freedom. If you would like your name or […]
Jasmina Husanović is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She received her PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK in 2003. Her research experience is in the field of cultural studies, political philosophy and feminist theory and her recent publications are concerned with critical […]
“For more than twenty years have the wage workers of this country begged and prayed their masters, the factory lords, to reduce their burdens. It has been in vain.” – this proclamation could easily have come from a 1st of May rally in 2015, as it remains equally relevant today. But it dates back to […]
Ivan Ovsiannikov is a member of the St. Petersburg Interregional Union: “Workers Association” “As far as anti-workers laws are concerned, the main one is the de facto ban on striking in labor law. In practice, it is impossible to conduct strikes because of the bureaucratic procedure involved. Or rather, to strike, one must work outside […]
Marko Grdesic is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison. He is currently an affiliate of the Center for Ethnicity, Citizenship and Migration at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb. He researches social movements and political sociology focusing on populism as a set of interactions. “The fact that unions […]
Zdravko Saveski is a member of the leftist movement ‘Solidarnost’, and Secretary of the multi-ethnic Union for Education. “Since 2009, the leftist movements Solidarnost and Lenka organise protests on the 1st of May, and as of last year co-organisers are also several independent Unions. As a result, the commemoration of the 1st May, has ceased […]
Sylvia Koilakou works as a civil engineer in a technical enterprise. She is active in the union of technical employees and is a member of the Board of the Labor Center of Athens. She is a member of the anti-capitalist coalition ANTARSYA, on whose ticket she stood as a parliamentary candidate in the recent elections: […]
Christos Tsadaris has recently concluded his studies as a physicist, and is currently unemployed, searching for a job. He has been active in social movements of the youth in Greece and is a member of ATTACK, a youth collective against modern slavery, flexibility in work and unemployment. He is a member of the anti-capitalist coalition […]