An anti-privatisation protest in the city of Tuzla has exploded into general social insurrection. by Jasmin Mujanovic, Al Jazeera, Feb. 9, 2014 Whatever little semblance of legitimacy the constitutional order in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) may have enjoyed at the beginning of this week went up in flames on Friday night. BiH’s three Presidents, two entities, […]
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by Eric Gordy http://eastethnia.wordpress.com, Feb. 8, 2014 Two vignettes Conversation 1 was with the waiter in a large Sarajevo hotel, where we were generally a bit sheepish to be attending our conference (the deciding factor was that it was big enough for all of the participants, the down side was its odd business history and […]
by Balkanist @ http://balkanist.net, Feb. 8, 2014 “He who sows hunger reaps anger,” warned the red graffiti on a Sarajevo government building this week. The message hinted at the depth of poverty and disillusionment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) that has driven people to join demonstrations across the divided country, where the unemployment rate is […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]