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Two years ago, the fair election protests were one of the most popular topics in the Russian media. But today they have been largely forgotten, and the nation’s attention is focused elsewhere. Meanwhile, arrests of Russian activists continue as before – activists who were, nevertheless, preparing for city-wide and municipal elections on September 14th, 2014. […]
Source: New Left Perspectives On 1st of October the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria was shaken by a huge explosion in a run-down arms disposal factory. This seems to be amongst the worst of a rising trend of industrial accidents in the country’s recent history. Fifteen people lost their lives in Gorni Lom. […]
Source: BalkanDiskurs.Com Bosnia-Herzegovina is “Yugoslavia in a nutshell.” Despite the fact that it went through the most brutal armed conflict in Europe since World War II, the country’s multiculturalism—albeit now tinged with horrific war memories—is at least three levels above Western multiculturalism. During one of my stays in Oslo, I concluded that Balkan people do […]
source: New Left Pesrpectives The pre-term elections in Bulgaria scheduled to take place in October come in the midst of a deep political crisis and social disarray. Bulgaria’s right oriented vote in the past two decades has cost the country low budget redistribution, non-existent public services and social destabilization. Thousands of Bulgarian workers commence on […]
by Sardar Saadi on July 25, 2014 Kurdish rebels are establishing self-rule in war-torn Syria, resembling the Zapatista experience and providing a democratic alternative for the region. With the rise of jihadist groups in the Middle East, I find myself troubled with the question of how the politics of “insurgency” in this region has shifted […]
When the chief of Romanian Intelligence (SRI) declared last autumn that ‘eco-anarchist elements’ infiltrated the Roșia Montana protests, very few people took this statement seriously. The general attitude has been to dismiss the statement as being paranoid at best, and ludicrous at worst. However, when a few months later, the protest area in Pungești became […]
This article is published in collaboration with the Serbo-Croatian online web portal Bilten.Org The upcoming elections in Bulgaria in the beginning of October are the second early ones in the course of just one year. They mark a next stage of an intense political crisis taking place since the middle of 2012. The crisis started […]
Over 100 people living in a yard of houses on 50 Vulturilor Street from the 3rd District of Bucharest, Romania, were forcefully evicted on Monday, September 15. Formal notices about the forceful eviction were sent in the beginning of September to the 25 families living at this address. Among those targeted are children, elderly persons […]
This article is published in collaboration with the Serbo-Croatian online web portal Bilten.Org Macedonia has leading positions in many regional, European, even world rankings. For example, in the last Global Competitiveness Report 2014 – 2015 published by World Economic Forum, Macedonia is ranked first among 144 countries in the category ‘lowest total tax rate for […]
Originally published by ukrainesolidaritycampaign The Ukrainian “new left” discussed the idea of creating a democratic party of labour on the basis of the political party “Socialist Ukraine”. Following this a Steering Committee was set up On September 6-7, 2014 a conference “The war in Ukraine and policies of the Left,” was held in the Ukrainian […]