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Source: Solidarna Bulgaria Thousands of Europeans in 400 cities across the EU protested against the power of corporations on the European Day of Action to stop TTIP, CETA & TiSA. Hundreds of Bulgarians in 8 cities participated in the pan-European protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Protesters gathered at 4 p.m. at […]
NO to Housing Injustice! NO to Forced Evictions! NO to Racism and Police Brutality! Over 100 people living in a yard of houses on 50 Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, Romania, were forcefully evicted on Monday, September 15. The community has decided from the outset to protest and reclaim their rights. This fundamental right has been gravely […]
Source: New Left Perspectives On 1st of October the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria was shaken by a huge explosion in a run-down arms disposal factory. This seems to be amongst the worst of a rising trend of industrial accidents in the country’s recent history. Fifteen people lost their lives in Gorni Lom. […]
Source: BalkanDiskurs.Com Bosnia-Herzegovina is “Yugoslavia in a nutshell.” Despite the fact that it went through the most brutal armed conflict in Europe since World War II, the country’s multiculturalism—albeit now tinged with horrific war memories—is at least three levels above Western multiculturalism. During one of my stays in Oslo, I concluded that Balkan people do […]
by Sardar Saadi on July 25, 2014 Kurdish rebels are establishing self-rule in war-torn Syria, resembling the Zapatista experience and providing a democratic alternative for the region. With the rise of jihadist groups in the Middle East, I find myself troubled with the question of how the politics of “insurgency” in this region has shifted […]
Over 100 people living in a yard of houses on 50 Vulturilor Street from the 3rd District of Bucharest, Romania, were forcefully evicted on Monday, September 15. Formal notices about the forceful eviction were sent in the beginning of September to the 25 families living at this address. Among those targeted are children, elderly persons […]
Originally published by ukrainesolidaritycampaign The Ukrainian “new left” discussed the idea of creating a democratic party of labour on the basis of the political party “Socialist Ukraine”. Following this a Steering Committee was set up On September 6-7, 2014 a conference “The war in Ukraine and policies of the Left,” was held in the Ukrainian […]
Preface by therussianreader: One of my hobbies in recent years has been closely observing the development of Russia’s “pollocracy”—the proliferation of “public opinion” polling, media discussions of poll results, and the obvious ways in which this “mirror” has been held up to the actual Russian public to con it into believing it supports the country’s […]
Giorgos Katsambekis (Originally published in the collective volume Populism, Political Ecology and the Balkans, Athens: Green Institute Greece, 2014, pp. 43-55) – source ΧΡΟΝΟΣ Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser introduce their recent volume, entitled Populism in Europe and the Americas, as follows: ‘One of the most used and abused terms inside and outside of […]
Note from LeftEast: Somewhat belatedly, we are presenting you with an analysis of the Turkish Presidential Election of August 10, 2014 produced by Turkey’s Movement for Permanent Revolution (SHD). The statement expresses the group’s strong support for Selahattin Demirtaş of the Peoples’ Democracy Party, who polled 9.6% in the election, and also critically assesses the […]