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LeftEast Editorial Note: On Nov. 1st, 2023, NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a panel on post-invasion Russian political economy and popular opinion with LeftEast editors or frequent contributors Volodya Ishchenko, Ilya Matveev, Oleg Zhuravlev. Yekaterina Oziashvilli, a professor of Politics at Sarah Lawrence College, moderated the event. LeftEast is delighted to share […]
Note from LeftEast editors. We repost the recording of Stefan Christoff’s interview with Mary Taylor and Noah Brehmer on Free City Radio, and the text From Islands of Commons to Collective Autonomy that was published in e-flux journal, entitled From Islands of Commons to Collective Autonomy: Mary N. Taylor and Janet Sarbanes in conversation. The Commonist Horizon: Urban Futures […]
Note from LeftEast editors: We reprint Tamás Gerőcs’s article on the political economy of the recent wave of coup d’etat in West and Central Africa. The article was originally published at Africa Is a Country: a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left. The militaries in six West African countries—Mali, […]
Note from LeftEast editors. With the permission of Lithuanian left portal Chat GPB we reprint this interview of GPB’s Tadas Janusauskas with Palestinian journalist Quassem Ali. The interview deals with subjects we rarely get to hear about: the daily lives and choices for those inside and those who left the hell of the war and […]
Note from LeftEast editors. As part of our continuing collaboration with leftist media from the region, we reprint András Juhász’ interview with Waltraud Fritz-Klackl, a member of the Communist Party of Austria since the 1970s, on the party’s historical relationship with Yugoslavia, its recent electoral success and the opportunities that lie ahead. The article appeared […]
Note from LeftEast editors: We reprint Neda Genova’s interview with Piro Rexhepi about some of the motivations and main ideas behind his book “White Enclosures. Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route”. The Interview was originally published at Dversia, as part of a collaboration within ELMO – The Eastern European Left Media Outlet. Please note […]
Note from LeftEast editors: We share this podcast with the permission of its producers from Contrasens. “Contrasens” is a podcast which explores current themes in the field of the social sciences. The project aims to bring to the forefront and make as accessible as possible research conducted by sociologists, anthropologists and other specialists from related […]
Note from Lefteast Editors. We repost Vladimir Mitev’s interview with sociologist and left feminist activist Lea Vajsova, which originally appeared at Crossbordertalk on 13 February 2023. We saw the conservative insistence on the “traditional Christian family” around the Istanbul Convention debate as a metaphor behind which a process of re-traditionalisation was taking place as an […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: This is a translation of an article that appeared with Radnicka Prava on October 21 2022. The article is based on articles from a publicly available archive, The Archive of Workers’ Struggles. The archive was established by the Organization for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization (BRID), which started as a research […]
Note from LeftEast editors. We repost Iskra Krstić’s important article which was originally published in Serbian at Mašina, and also translated to English by Ivan Kovanović and published on December 19 2022 at the same portal. The article also appears as a fruit of the cooperation between the members of the Eastern European Left Media […]