by Volodymyr Ishchenko, The Guardian, Feb. 7 Neo-fascists have become involved in the Euromaidan protest movement and we can’t turn a blind eye to the danger that presents A number of academics have expressed their concern about the international media’s misrepresentation of the protests in Ukraine. They say that the media have over-emphasised the […]
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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 […]
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 […]
by Andreas Umland January 1, 2014 Writing about the various implications of Ukraine’s divided historical memory for the conduct of her post-Soviet politics is a thankless task. Ukraine’s nationalist intelligentsia’s response to voicing the most elementary facts on and assessments of the corroding role of the promotion of World War II themes for Ukrainian state-building […]
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Ukraine’s protests
Our colleague Volodymyr Ishchenko wrote a piece in The Guardian to explain the current situation in Ukraine: There is little doubt that Viktor Yanukovych’s rule is corrupt. It stands for the interests of the richest few in Ukraine’s highly unequal society and is responsible for the brutal suppression of opposition. The majority of protesting […]
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Crisis and Critique
A new journal of critical Marxist philosophy just came out. The first issue can be read here. Enjoy!
A note from the editorial board of LeftEast: In the view of LeftEast editors, this manifesto, while representing a minoritarian position within the Ukrainian left, is a very serious and considered document that deserves a wide audience. We are posting it to add nuance to the positions represented thus far on our pages. Editors at […]
Interviewed by Aleksandra Markova – activist and journalist. Half of the people arrested in the Bolotnaya Case are leftist activists. Open Left spoke with one of them after he was freed in the recent amnesty. I went with Vladimir Akimenkov to a self-service restaurant. He found it difficult to distinguish the food on display and […]
Our colleague Vladimir Bortun wrote a text about the situation in Romania The protest movement against the mining project at Rosia Montana scored a significant victory on Tuesday, 10 December, when the project failed to pass through the Chamber of Deputies (after also failing to pass through the Senate on 19 November). Meanwhile however, the […]
On the 5th of December catholic priest Professor Paweł Bortkiewicz delivered a talk at the Economic University of Poznań entitled “Does gender devastate life and family?” (after an immense pressure from academic community changed from the initial affirmative “Gender – devastation of life and family”). The lecture, blaming gender (it’s never clear what exactly is […]