To whom does Trepca belong? To the miners of Trepca!
source: Marks21, Serbia Statement of the revolutionary socialist organisation Marks21 in Serbia (in Serbian ovde) In the past week, a dramatic struggle has been fought over the mine of Trepča. Trepča...
View ArticleDancing in Kosova
Note from the LeftEast editors: this article has been originally published on the website of Vetevendosje site, and is reprinted in LeftEast with the permission of its author. This year a new...
View ArticleWas the 8th of March cancelled in the Balkans this year?
Wrapped in a perfumed Valentine’s-meets-Mother’s-Day packaging, year after year International Women’s Day seems to become further stripped of its political flavour. What is worrying is that this occurs...
View ArticleOn the Importance of a Strong Work Ethic: Etho-politics in Serbia
During a recent visit to Slovenia, Serbia’s Prime Minister Vucic made a statement on a theme that has come to figure prominently in many of his public speeches and press statements – that of the...
View ArticleThe future lasts a long time: a short history of European integration in the...
„There is no alternative to Europe“ – is «la pensée unique« that dominates political life in the ex-Yugoslavia. As with the idea of a transition to the market, Europe is considered to be a destination...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day in the Balkans: Ana Vilenica
Ana Vilenica is a researcher, theorist and an activist. She is the editor of the book Becoming a Mother in Neoliberal Capitalism, co-editor of the book On the Ruins of the Creative City and the chief...
View ArticleWhat does a victim look like? An interview with Šelja Kamerić on the legacy...
Originally appeared on Balkanist. Šejla Kamerić discusses the status of art and women in the Balkans as well as her controversial piece “Bosnian Girl.” Inspired by the graffiti printed on the walls of...
View Article“It was an illusionary expectation that in Europe we would have some rights...
Note from the LeftEast editors: this account by Caoimhe Butterly, currently in Belgrade, has been reprinted from facebook with the permission of the author. Migrants in a park next to the main railway...
View Article#crossingnomore: “We have forgotten what it is like to feel safe”
by Caoimhe Butterly, source facebook A few kilometres away from the small Serbian border town of Sid, a dirt track through corn and turnip fields serves as passage to tens of thousands of women, men...
View Article15 years since the toppling of the Milošević regime and why the Left should...
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....
View ArticleSerbia: October 5th and the Student who Surpassed the Teacher
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. foto: Nemanja Jovanović /...
View ArticleBetween institutional and non-institutional forms of democratic organizing:...
Students gather in front of the offices of the Kosovo Electricity Distribution and Supply company (KEDS). Photo by Una Hajdari (Balkan Insight, January 2015). This is the fourth and final instalment...
View ArticleO Balkan Pioneers: Anatomy of an Escape Route
Note from the LeftEast editors: This article appeared originally on Antidote Zine and has been reprinted with the kind permission of the author. The images portray scenes in Serbia and Macedonia,...
View ArticleMontenegro and Serbia between NATO and Russia
In December last year, NATO officially invited Montenegro to become the 29th member state of the most powerful military organisation of our times, if not, in fact, of all time. That the invitation will...
View ArticleSerbia’s election outcome: More of the same or worse?
Serbia’s PM Aleksandar Vučić Serbia held early parliamentary elections on 24 April 2016, the second set of early elections in just over two years. Serbian premier and leader of the Serbian Progressive...
View ArticleNew hope for the Balkans, New Formations on the Left
This is the text of a speech by Pavle Ilić – a sociology student at the University of Belgrade, a member of Marks21 in Serbia, and a contributor to LeftEast – that was delivered at the Marx is Muss...
View ArticleBelgrade: From necessity to aimlessness, or who for whom and what kind of city
Note from the LeftEast editors: This article originally appeared in the Serbian publication Masina on 10.06.2016. It was composed in the months following a series of nocturnal demolitions in the...
View ArticleLGBT rights: question of priorities
Note of the LeftEast editors: this article has been published in collaboration with the Serbo-Croat web-portal Bilten.Org and has been translated by and republished with the consent of the author...
View ArticleThe Trump Effect in the Balkans: Serbia’s third election in four years?
Tomislav Nikolic and Aleksandar Vucic at a conference in Kragujevcu. Courtesy to http://www.kurir.rs/ Serbia faces a set of regular presidential elections this year – but also the prospect of its third...
View ArticleThe open violence of the Balkan labour reforms: an interview with Aleksandar...
The following interview between Petar Protić and Aleksandar Matković originally appeared in Serbo-Croatian at Al Jazeera Balkans and concerns the recent labour laws that have been carried out almost...
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