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In Search of Afghanistan: An Interview with Ali Abdi
Three women walk by an ancient site in Bamyan, a city in central Afghanistan with a Hazara and Shi’a majority. The rock-cavity in the background contained one of two 1,500-year old Buddha statues that...
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Misha Lobanov: a democratic socialist running for Russian parliament
In this fantastic interview conducted by Dmitry Sidorov for OpenDemocracy and generously shared by them with LeftEast, Mikhail Lobanov explains how United Russia can be beaten. Russian university...
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Conspiracy Theories, the Staple Diet of European Populism
Image by Emanuele del Rosso (with Francisco Goya). Drawn for Voxeurop. Many thanks to our colleagues at Voxeurop for inviting us to republish this interview with Andreas Önnerfors, Professor in...
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Art and Politics in Cuba Today: Amilcar Navarro and Mary Taylor in conversation
The National School of the Arts (ENA). Photo: Amilcar Navarro. Mary Taylor: Envisioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as an important revolutionary institution, The National School of the Arts (la...
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The rise of the new Macedonian Left: an interview with Dimitar Apasiev and...
Note from LeftEast editors: The Italian version of the article was originally published on the Italian left-wing website Sinistra in Europa. On 17th and 31st October this year the first and second...
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The Huge Task of Repoliticizing the Question of Housing: Reflections on the...
Throughout the fall of 2021, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) of the University of Belgrade and the Housing Equality Movement have jointly organized a series of five reading...
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[Video] WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: BEYOND LEVIATHAN (Plus excerpts)
Note from LeftEast editors: the following piece was first published by Monthly Review. We reprint with permission. In MR Conversations: Beyond Leviathan, Monthly Review’s Editor, John Bellamy Foster,...
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Frieda Afary’s Interview with a Ukrainian Socialist Feminist
We repost Frieda Afary’s interview with Oksana Dutchak, who is a Ukrainian sociologist and co-editor of Commons, a Leftist journal in Ukraine. She talks about the courageous popular resistance to...
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Against Price Increases and Oligarchs – A New Protest Movement in Albania
Photo: Organizata Politike. The recent price increases hit large parts of the people in Albania hard – especially because the living conditions of most people have already been difficult. On the other...
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How China escaped shock therapy in the 1980s. Interview with Isabella M. Weber
Note from LeftEast editors. This article was originally published in Czech language on June 2, 2022, on Alarm. We publish it as part of a cooperation among Eastern European leftist media platforms in...
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Labor and the Left in Azerbaijan: An Interview with the Worker’s Voice...
Source: Worker’s Voice Collective LeftEast editors met our Azerbaijani comrades at LevFem’s / Transnational Social Strike’s conference in September 2022 in Sofia. As we knew almost nothing of the left...
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Privatization of Healthcare in Georgia and Its Disastrous Social...
Photo/Source: Tomasz Sienicki, Wikimedia commons. Note from LeftEast editors. We reached out to one of the authors of a recent and timely study “Social Consequences of Privatization of Healthcare”...
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“They have the technology, they have the weapons, they have the money, they...
An interview with a representative from the Academy of Democratic Modernity by Stoyo Tetevenski, LevFem Source: Screenshot from https://widerstandsvernetzung.org/ What is the Academy of Democratic...
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A View on War and Violence from Post–Postwar Japan: Interview with Toshimaru...
Awa, Okinawa, on October 22, 2022. Actions to stop the trucks for the construction of the military base by passing in front of them. These actions are being carried out every day. Photographed by...
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Lea Vajsova: There is a boom of feminist organizations in Bulgaria after the...
Note from Lefteast Editors. We repost Vladimir Mitev’s interview with sociologist and left feminist activist Lea Vajsova, which originally appeared at Crossbordertalk on 13 February 2023. We saw the...
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[Podcast] Neda Deneva: Labour in the factory: Work to live or Live to work
Note from LeftEast editors: We share this podcast with the permission of its producers from Contrasens. “Contrasens” is a podcast which explores current themes in the field of the social sciences. The...
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‘This regime is not subject to evolution’ an interview with Ilya Budraitskis
From Meduza: Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA Note from LeftEast editors: This interview was initially published by Meduza and translated by Anna Razumnaya. Political writer Ilya...
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Sudan: revolutions that learn from each other (Part I)
Note from LeftEast editors: this pieces is a conversation between Ana Vilenica and Lucilla Lepratti and Ahmed Isamaldin from SudanUprising Germany. It was recorded on 2 July 2023 to explore the work of...
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Sudan: revolutions that learn from each other (Part II)
Ana Vilenica and Lucilla Lepratti continue their conversation with Ahmed Isamaldin from SudanUprising Germany, the first part of which you can find here. This conversation was recorded on 2 July 2023...
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Slovakia’s election: “more than a fight between democracy and autocracy”
Note from LeftEast Editors: The English original of this interview, which first appeared in Hungarian, is published in English on LeftEast, thanks to our cooperation with Hungarian portal Mérce within...
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The Road will be Mastered by the Walking: an Interview with KYRGSOC
Many of us at LeftEast became aware of the leftist Kyrgyz organization KyrgSoc from its webpage, where you post original content as well as repost pieces by others. What is KyrgSoc? What do you do?...
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Is There a Global History of Eastern Europe from a Non-Western Perspective?
Note from LeftEast editors: This article is a version of an interview Bence Horváth conducted in Hungarian with Zoltán Ginelli and Eszter Szakács, published by 444.hu on 24 May, 2021. It has been...
View Article“You Don’t Destroy Political Thought by Weapons”
Note from LeftEast editors. With the permission of Lithuanian left portal Chat GPB we reprint this interview of GPB’s Tadas Janusauskas with Palestinian journalist Quassem Ali. The interview deals...
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“An absolute deluge of repression”: The criminalization of dissent in Israel...
Tibor T. Meszmann interviews Matan Kaminer Can you describe what is going on, what are the positions and challenges for the Israeli left after October 7th, after the circles of violence intensified in...
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We Asked: How is the Suppression of Palestinian Solidarity Unfolding in Croatia?
Since the launch of Hamas’ Operation Floods of Aqsa and Israel’s bombardment of besieged Gaza, Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists in Europe have been facing unprecedented censorship, policing,...
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The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela: An Interview...
Note from LeftEast editors: An early version of this interview on the monograph The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela (Stanford University Press, 2023) appeared in the journal...
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Note from LeftEast editors: Our member Sonja Dragović interviewed Dr. Lea Horvat about her work on the architectural and cultural history of socialist Yugoslavia, which has recently produced a book...
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Racism, Islamophobia and Decoloniality on the Balkans. Interview with Piro...
Note from LeftEast editors: We reprint Neda Genova’s interview with Piro Rexhepi about some of the motivations and main ideas behind his book “White Enclosures. Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along...
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“We Need to Fight Against This Senseless March Towards a Major Military...
On the 24th April, (North) Macedonia will hold the first round of the presidential elections. The country is home to the fastest growing left-wing movement in Europe: the Levica (Left) party, whose...
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Why We Desperately Need Publicly Funded and Controlled Pharmaeutical...
In this interview, Tim Joye discusses the importance of shifting from private pharmaceutical production to public ownership, emphasizing the need to regain control over medicines’ development and...
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