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Racist attacks escalating in Bulgaria in the run-up to European election: Who reaps the benefits?

Since the beginning of March, there has been an unprecedented campaign of violence against refugees and foreigners in Sofia. Polarising and racist statements by politicians and uncritical, sensationalist media coverage have unleashed a wave of attacks. The Bulgarian capital, which is where most institutions and facilities dealing with migrants are located and where most economic […]

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ELMO Series: Transnational migration in CEE from intersectional perspectives of race, gender, class and citizenship

Intra-Yugoslav Migration of Albanian Workers and Shopkeepers from 1953 to 1989

An Interview with Rory Archer and Mladen Zobec  Rory Archer and Mladen Zobec; Photo: Mašina Note from LeftEast editors: We reprint András Juhász’s interview with Rory Archer and Mladen Zobec, originally published by Masina, as part of our collaboration within ELMO – The Eastern European Left Media Outlet.   Why did many Albanians work in the […]

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Movements of Labor: A Report on the LeftEast-Solidarity Network Convergence

Since 2011 and as part of the organization of LeftEast as a media platform, members of the LeftEast collective have organized summer schools in Budapest, Sofia, Kaunas, Istanbul and Skopje. Their aim has always been always twofold – or as we wrote once, dialectical – working with movements on the ground to connect regionally but […]

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Fighting Structural Invisibility and Precarity: Interview with Julius-Cezar MacQuarie on the Nightworker Charter

Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century | University College Cork. He leads PRECNIGHTS, a project on Precarity in Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland, under the mentorship of Dr Caitríona Ni Laoire. Over the years, he reached out to people inhabiting the night in various […]

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Corbyn in Budapest: “We Have to Be Organized on an International Basis”

Note from LeftEast editors: The following interview with Jeremy Corbyn was conducted by Levente Szadai and Csaba Tóth for Mérce on May 7, 2023, in Budapest, and published in Hungarian translation on May 9. We republish the lightly edited transcript as part of a collaboration within ELMO – The Eastern European Left Media Outlet. When […]

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Melegh Attila’s book launch, The Migration Turn and Eastern Europe

The former director of Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies and Associate Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and LeftEast author Attila Melegh recently published the book The Migration Turn and Eastern Europe. A Global Historical Sociological Analysis. Using Marxist and Polanyian frameworks, this book examines the structural and discursive transformation that can explain the polarization […]

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[Podcast Series] An eighth woman: the changing worlds of labour and migration, social reproduction, and capitalism in CEE – Episode 3

Episode 3. Organising collective responses among temporary agency non-local workers in Hungary: Conversation with Tibor T. Meszmann Host: Olena Fedyuk Drawing on his experience as a researcher, an activist and a trade unionist, Tibor talks about the role trade unions (could) play in organizing migrant and temporary work agency workers. With Hungary being both migrant-sending […]

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[Podcast Series] An eighth woman: the changing worlds of labour and migration, social reproduction, and capitalism in CEE – Episode 2

Episode 2. Field notes and reflections from the workers’ dormitory in Czechia: Conversation with Hannah Schling Host: Olena Fedyuk As a part of her work on social reproduction of migrant workers in the Czech FDI-driven electronics industry, Hannah spent 3 months living in a workers’ dormitory. Hannah discusses how life in the dormitory is linked […]

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[Podcast Series] An eighth woman: the changing worlds of labour and migration, social reproduction, and capitalism in CEE – Episode 1

An Eighth Woman: Podcast Series · An 8th Woman – Introduction Inspired by the 1970s classics by J Berger and J. Mohr “A Seventh Man” this podcast series strings together conversations on issues related to subcontracted and mediated employment of migrant workers in CEE. We talk about the relations, infrastructures and everyday lives embroiled in […]

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Global Sites of Border Violence: The Western Balkans

Curated by Sanaz Raji, Independent Scholar Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Global Sites of Border Violence seeks to bridge different areas of knowledge and learn from both activists on the ground resisting and scholars researching border violence happening in various parts of the world. The intention of these discussions […]