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Serbia: October 5th and the Student who Surpassed the Teacher

Post author By Matija Medenica
Post date October 13, 2015
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foto: Nemanja Jovanović / Kamerades

Note from the LeftEast editors: this article was originally published in Serbian at Mašina. Rs . It was translated into English for LeftEast by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica. The commemoration of the October 5th Revolution on its fifteenth anniversary has been reduced to a marginal event. One public meeting, several round tables and an equally small number of […]

Tags commemoration, Dindic, former Yugoslavia, Labour, liberalisation, Milosevic, post-socialism, privatisation, regime change, Revolution, Serbia, socialism, Vucic, welfare, workers, Yugoslavia

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15 years since the toppling of the Milošević regime and why the Left should celebrate it

Post author By admin
Post date October 6, 2015
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It is 15 years to the day since the toppling of the Milošević regime. In Serbia there is much disillusionment with the results of the revolution. But here are some reasons to continue to celebrate it. First, as Lindsey German showed at the time in the article posted below, industrial workers were central to the uprising that […]

Tags Balkan's butcher, dependency, EU, EU crisis, imperialism, liberation, Milosevic, nationalism, Serbia, socialism, trade unions, workers