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International Women’s Day in the Balkans: Tijana Okić
Tijana Okić is a philosopher and one of the founders of the Sarajevo Plenum. She teaches at the University of Sarajevo and translates from English,French and Italian. “Feminism has been reduced to...
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International 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...
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International Women’s Day in the Balkans: Antonio Mihajlov
Antonio Mihajlov is President of the Association for the critical approach to gender and sexuality – Subversive Front in Skopje and a Committee member of the National network against homophobia and...
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International Women’s Day in the Balkans: Eirini Gaitanou
Eirini Gaitanou, is a PhD student at King’s College London, studying social movements amid the crisis in Greece. She has been active in the social movements in Greece for over a decade and has...
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International Women’s Day in the Balkans: Anita Tolić
Anita Tolić is a member of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism and Institute for Labour Studies in Slovenia. “In the relative absence of an organized, progressive feminist struggle, the economic...
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International Women’s Day in the Balkans: Ankica Čakardić
Ankica Čakardić is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. She coordinates educational programmes at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, is a member of The...
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Work, Art, and Deindustrialization in Rijeka: An Interview with Althea...
This interview explores Althea Thauberger’s experimental digital film Preuzmimo Benčić (Take Back Benčić). The film was made in collaboration with 67 child performers from Rijeka, Croatia. Part...
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Government policy no longer seeks to prevent the processes of social...
The Hungarian Government’s steps towards creating a ‘work-based society’ are likely to bring cuts and conceptual reforms in education. Eszter Neumann, in an interview for Fent Es Lent, discussed the...
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Podemos: between populism and social movements. Interview with Jaime Pastor
Jaime Pastor, member of Podemos and editor of Viento Sur The ballots which Spanish voters will cast in the municipal and regional elections on the 24th of May, will be the litmus paper for the...
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Where is the line between us: evolving East/West positions in a...
Komar & Melamid with Douglas Davis, Questions: New York-Moscow / Moscow-New York, 1980. Archive of Vitaly Komar. Note from the LeftEast editors: “Where is the line between us?: cautionary tales...
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Spring has arrived in Macedonia: thousands of pupils and students protest...
23 April 2015, Skopje Thousands of pupils, students and teachers marched today across the country, in a renewed challenge to governmental education policies. Organised by the High School Plenum, the...
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VIDEO: Living up to a name: The story of Plamen Goranov
LeftEast recently sat down with Martin Marinos and Andre Andreev to discuss their film ‘Flame: A Short Film About Plamen Goranov,’ which recently won the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Audience Award for...
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From intersection and interaction to a social and political alternative for...
Kirill Medvedev Yevgeniy Zhuravel interviews Kirill Medvedev, a Moscow-based poet, translator, and activist. He is the founder of the Arkady Kots band. YZ: Can you tell a bit about yourself and how...
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VIDEO: #TalkReal in Athens
Note from the LeftEast editors: This is the first English episode of #TalkReal, a show that aims to explore the current possibilities and challenges before the left-wing movements in crisis-ridden...
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“Ukraine’s European discourse does not correspond to reality”. An interview...
Volodymyr Ishchenko is a sociologist studying social protests in Ukraine. He is the deputy director of the Center for Social and Labor Research, a member of the editorial board of Commons: Journal for...
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Kurds, Labor, and the Left in Turkey. An Interview with Erdem Yörük
With Turkey’s parliamentary elections on Sunday fast approaching, all eyes are on the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) contesting its first ever election as a party, rather than a coalition of nominally...
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What 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...
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The state of the British left. An interview with Luke March.
Note from the LeftEast editors: this interview with political analyst Luke March (University of Edinburgh) was made by Artem Koretsky. It has originally been published by RabKor collective in Russian....
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Note from the LeftEast editors: This is a publication of two related materials. Below we repost the transcript of an interview of Vijay Prashad with Sharmini Peries from The Real News Network on the...
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Lebanon’s Garbage Politics. And interview with Elias El Khazen.
Mattia Gallo: What are the reasons that led so many people to demonstrate in Beirut in recent days? How did the protests start? What are the claims, slogans, and demands of the people who took to the...
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