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“Women and children are left to wait in line as men are sent to walk to get across the border as quickly as possible.” An eye-witness report from the Russian-Georgian border.

Post author By Anna
Post date October 6, 2022

LeftEast: What is your situation? How do you feel? Anna: I have been living in Tbilisi for several years, but had to return to Russia for family reasons. Of course, I was anxious and scared about what would happen next, whether I would be able to return to Tbilisi and what the situation would be […]

Tags Georgia, mobilization, Russia

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“This Generation Has a Flash of Realization in the Middle of a Crisis”: A Discussion on the Student demonstrations in Hungary

Post author By admin
Post date March 7, 2013

In December 2012 students started a series of demonstrations against recent government reforms of higher education. In Budapest and many other towns the students set up discussion forums, organized strikes, and occupied streets, squares and bridges. Besides the slowly reacting official national and local Student Union (HÖK, HÖOK), the newly organized Student Network (SN, HaHa) […]

Tags capitalism, generation, higher education, Hungary, mobilization, neoliberalism, occupation, protests, student movement, students