Warsaw, 22-23 November, 2014 Speakers Olga Bryukhovetska (Ukraine) Ilya Budraitskis (Russia) Catherine Samary (France) Lubos Blaha (Slovakia) Mariya Ivancheva (Bulgaria) Sonja Lokar (Slovenia) plus workshops The conference will bring left-wing academics and activists together to discuss the current economic and political climate in the region, look at how progressive social and political […]
The 2014 European elections have confirmed a number of trends in Polish politics. These include a general disillusionment with the political establishment; the dominance of the right in party politics and the weakness of the left in countering this right-wing hegemony. It is hard for any party to claim victory in an election where over […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: this is a recording from the public talk and open discussion on the Left in Ukraine, which took place at Kisüzem in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday, May 31. The speakers (in order of appearance were Margaryta Rymarenko, Volodymyr Artukh, and Professor Don Kalb. The recording was made by the team of Budapest’s […]
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The return of the left in Europe?
Srecko Horvat on AlJazeera about the rise of left in Europe When Tariq Ali went to Vietnam to collect evidence and testimony on the US military intervention in the mid-1960s, the Vietnamese soldiers in Hanoi told him the following anecdote. Just a few months earlier, a delegation of the Italian Communist Party arrived to see […]
Source: Transform-Network.Net It is a rare occasion that a country in a period of less than 6 months experiences European, Parliamentary as well as local elections but this is exactly the situation in Slovenia right now. Results of recent European elections, being the first of all three, are therefore even more telling than they would […]
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Ukrainian elections results
Source: Transform-Network.Net Exit-polls and preliminary results showed a decisive victory for Petro Poroshenko at the presidential elections in Ukraine on May 25. One of the richest man in the country (7th rank according to Ukrainian Forbes list) with liberal economic program is taking 54% according to over 64% counted protocols from electoral precincts. Yulia Tymoshenko […]
by John Feffer, original interview with Costi Rogozanu from the collective of CriticAtac to be read on Feffer’s blog. Romania is perhaps the last place to expect an independent Left to take root. Unlike in Poland or Hungary or Yugoslavia, a critical socialist movement didn’t emerge in response to the orthodox Communists in power. And […]
Note from the LeftEast editors: this interview is published in cooperation with the Ukrainian journal Спільне/Commons: Journal of Social Criticism. Questions were asked by Yuriy Dergunov. They were sent on February 28 and replies were received on May 2, 2014. Neil Davidson is a Scottish historian and sociologist, a lecturer at the School of Social […]
One of the last public strongholds to be taken and transformed along neoliberal lines has been higher education. First introduced in Chile, and afterwards in other Latin America countries, these reforms are about to be experimented on even in Albania. Coming from a Stalinist socialist past, since the nineties Albania has been one of the […]
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Rather the Useful Idiot
by Gavin Rae Note from the LeftEast editors: this article was officially published on the author’s blog Beyond the Transition. The images from Odessa were truly horrific. Burnt corpses, a strangled pregnant woman, people jumping out of windows to their deaths. Yet perhaps the most disturbing of them all was the scene where a group […]