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Anatomy of a Social Murder: The Çorlu Train Massacre

Post author By Ş. Can Atalay
Post date December 8, 2022

This article reads like Garcia Marquez’s 1981 Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The dead this time is not Santiago Nasar but the passengers of a train that crosses Turkey’s European part and the murderer—not the Vicario twins, but the state-led liberalization of Turkish Railways, one of the crowning achievements of the AKP government. The Çorlu […]

Tags deregulation, disaster, gezi protests, human rights, infrastructure, liberalization, marketization, massacre, neoliberalism, railway, turkey

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Did it Ever Happen? Social Movements and the Politics of Spontaneous Consensus in Post-Socialist Romania

Post author By Mihai-Dan Cirjan
Post date January 4, 2016
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Candles are lit next to photographs of the victims outside the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest Source: Associated Press

Note from the LeftEast editors: This article has first appeared in Romanian on the website Criticatac. It was translated into English by Maria Pozsar and extensively reworked by the author. 1. The Oblivion Today, only two months after they took place, the protests mentioned in […]

Tags austerity, capitalism, corruption, disaster, fire, Johannis, neoliberalism, Ponta, protests, Romania, social vs. civic