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written by Oleg Zhuravlev, Natalya Savelyeva, Maxim Alyukov (Laboratory of Public Sociology) The Bolotnaya Square protest, which divided Russian society in 2011, is now barely discussed in any public forum. How can it be that the first real large-scale protest since 1993 has been forgotten so quickly, and although it did prompt repression by the government, […]
Demian Vokši (Rijeka) is an active member of the Workers’ Front. He is a long-time activist and freelance author, writing mostly commentaries on the geopolitics of the Middle East. Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (LeftEast) is a member of Marks21 in Serbia. He is a historian and researcher who is currently Assistant Professor at […]
The results of protests, repression and concessions monitoring by the Center for Social and Labor Research in August-September 2014 On October 14th at the press conference in the “Ukrinform” news agency, the Center for Social and Labor Research presented the latest results of the systematic monitoring of protests, repression and concessions in August-September 2014, dedicated to […]
Part 1. Events On 25 October, tens of thousands in Budapest marched against the government’s new proposal to introduce a 0,5 EUR/1GB tax on internet data traffic. After organizers officially closed the event, protesters moved on to the headquarters of the ruling party, Fidesz, brought down part of the fence, threw old computer parts at […]
Note from the editors: Many of our readers have probably encountered Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) initiatives through the Western European and North American academic associations of which we are a part. We would like to bring to your attention one such initiative addressed specifically to those of you who are members of the American Historical […]
This article is published in cooperation with the Serbo-Croatian web-portal Bilten.Org It is customary for people to complain that they have no real choice to vote for in electoral contests. No candidate is really much different from the other. They are so similar that it makes no sense to choose since there is no real […]
source Platzforma Interview with Don Kalb, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Central European University (Budapest), May 2014 (Butuceni village, R. of Moldova, ReSET summer school) Patricipants: Don Kalb, Petru Negură, Alex Voronovici, Andrei Cuşco Petru Negură: To start the discussion, I wonder about the socialist and communist parties in the post-socialist countries, whether these parties still […]
Source: Interview by Yuriy Dergunov, Commons: Journal of Social Criticism In the post-Soviet space the very notion of geopolitics is associated with ultra-conservative, right-wing political discourses (Aleksandr Dugin’s example is prominent here), so in our progressive circles geopolitics is widely regarded as a pseudo-science. Your idea of Marxist geopolitics would probably seem paradoxical to majority […]
This interview was taken by Ioanna Drosou from the Greek newspaper Epohi and the original version in Greek is available here. How would you comment on the result of the elections? The results of the election are no big surprise for anyone. As some political commentators, myself included, predicted already in February 2013, when Boyko Borissov […]
Source: Socialist Worker, Ireland The protesters that started gathering on Kyiv’s main square (‘maidan’) almost ten months ago were driven by a certain kind of ‘occidentalism’ (if I may introduce this term by analogy with orientalism). Europe, which stood as an epitome of Occident for them, presented a generalized image of Ukraine relieved from all […]