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The new Bordermonitoring’s report on Bulgaria is now available for download in .pdf format. The making of the report was undertaken by four independent researchers and follows structural conditions in the country which place asylum-seekers and refugees in an extremely vulnerable position as well as their current precarious situation. The themes covered in the report […]
Since the start of the Maidan protests six months ago, Ukraine has been at the centre of a crisis which has exposed and deepened the fault-lines—geopolitical, historical, linguistic, cultural—that traverse the country. These divisions have grown through the entwinement of opposed political camps with the strategic ambitions of Russia and the West, the former bidding […]
Note of the LeftEast editors: this article was published in cooperation with the Serbo-Croatian web-portal Bilten.Org – original source. The Republic of Kosovo never ceases to be the country of interesting developments. By interesting developments I mean those kinds of events which put the people in a state of perplexity and uneasiness. This was also […]
Source: The Guardian by Jennifer Rankin Research busts the myth that ‘Made in Europe’ means fair, says co-author; east is part of ‘cheap-labour sewing backyard’ Adidas, Primark and Zara are among a host of western brands accused of profiting from a supply chain that pays garment workers in easternEurope and Turkey poverty wages and tramples […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: A gathering of leftist activists from Ukraine, Russia, and Belorussia that took place in Minks, June 7-8, issued the following resolution: We, the participants of the meeting of activists from left and Marxist groups and organizations from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, believe that ceasing the civil war in Ukraine is […]
by Giorgos Katsambekis Sunday, May 25th, was definitely another landmark in Greece’s modern political history; another episode in the massive realignment of its political system that is still underway. It was the day that for the first time in its democratic history a political party of the radical left came first at a national poll. Syriza, […]
Warsaw, 22-23 November, 2014 Speakers Olga Bryukhovetska (Ukraine) Ilya Budraitskis (Russia) Catherine Samary (France) Lubos Blaha (Slovakia) Mariya Ivancheva (Bulgaria) Sonja Lokar (Slovenia) plus workshops The conference will bring left-wing academics and activists together to discuss the current economic and political climate in the region, look at how progressive social and political […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: this is a recording from the public talk and open discussion on the Left in Ukraine, which took place at Kisüzem in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday, May 31. The speakers (in order of appearance were Margaryta Rymarenko, Volodymyr Artukh, and Professor Don Kalb. The recording was made by the team of Budapest’s […]
Srecko Horvat on AlJazeera about the rise of left in Europe When Tariq Ali went to Vietnam to collect evidence and testimony on the US military intervention in the mid-1960s, the Vietnamese soldiers in Hanoi told him the following anecdote. Just a few months earlier, a delegation of the Italian Communist Party arrived to see […]
Source: Transform-Network.Net It is a rare occasion that a country in a period of less than 6 months experiences European, Parliamentary as well as local elections but this is exactly the situation in Slovenia right now. Results of recent European elections, being the first of all three, are therefore even more telling than they would […]