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Editors’ note: This article is the last of a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. It seems that at every place in Bosnia-Herzegovina where there is a lovely river, there is a dire threat to its well-being. But just about everywhere, […]
Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, and Part 6. International corporate invasion and the resistance against lithium mining In Bosnia, the quantities of minerals underground are often listed in the millions of tons. There are an estimated 1.5 million tons of lithium carbonate, […]
Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the others here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6. Interethnic cooperation and resistance to mining around Mt. Ozren Take a country the size of West Virginia, half of it covered by mountains. Say those mountains contain thousands of tons […]
Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the others here: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. U tuđemu svetuBez oca i majkeBez brata, bez sejeSvaka tuđa zemljaTuga je golema In a strange landwithout my father, my mother without my brother, my sister every foreign landis a […]
International mining companies, with the collaboration of corrupt local politicians, ravage the hills and rivers of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Local and regional construction companies add to the despoilment of the rivers by building mini-hydroelectric dams by the dozens. Contrary to worldwide trends, new coal mines are established in many parts of the country, compounding the pollution of […]
Editorial note: In late May, at the same time as violent police crackdowns on protests around the elections and the high cost of living in Kenya, hundreds of Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti to ostensibly quell gang violence and restore order. The authors of this dialogue paint a complex picture of the situation beyond […]
While it might seem that the neoliberal consensus has broken in some Western countries, in the post-socialist space discourses of privatization and individualization are so strong that we can hardly speak about a crisis of the neoliberal order. It is even harder to imagine some radical change in the West and almost impossible to speak […]
Note from LeftEast editors: This text was originally published in Courrier des Balkans (CdB), in two parts. The interview was conducted and translated to French by Florentin Cassonnet, a CdB correspondent in Bucharest. The current text is a slightly edited version of the original interview. Courrier des Balkans: You recently organized a seminar about fascism […]
This interview exploring Madlen Nikolova, Jana Tsoneva and Georgi Medarov’s recent research on subcontracting, inequality and worker resistance in Bulgaria was originally published on the website of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Most people probably associate outsourcing and subcontracting, whereby a company pays another company (usually in a country where wages and labour standards are significantly […]
As Turkey entered the new presidential system in the June 2018 elections, with sweeping new powers granted to its re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the repression of the opposition continued, now without the pretext of the State of Emergency that officially ended on July 18 this year. Shortly after that, I interviewed one of the […]