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Window of opportunity. An interview with Yanis Varoufakis.
Note from the LeftEast editors: On October 1 the former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varofakis gave his keynote speech at the 6th Moscow Biennale. Ilya Budraitskis briefly interviewed him for their...
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Anti-militarisation protests in Japan. An interview with Chie Matsumoto.
source: Al Jazeera On August 30, tens of thousands of people (120,000, according to organizers), protested outside the Japanese parliament against new military legislation that would allow the military...
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Interview: Gilbert Achcar on the Russian military operation in Syria
Ilya Budraitskis: It has been several days since the start of the Russian military operation in Syria and the goals and strategy of this operation are still unclear. The explanation coming from Russian...
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The Kurdish Self-Governance Movement in Turkey’s South East: an Interview...
For the past year, foreign coverage of Turkey has been focused on spectacular events: elections, terrorist acts, shooting down of Russian planes, and other geopolitical gambles. Throughout this period,...
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What Do Russian Leftists Dream About?: A Collective Portrait
Who are today’s leftists? What’s the problem with liberals and patriots? What are the political goals of the left and how to achieve them? Do leftists want to bring back the USSR?/ dekulakize...
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“And We Go Willingly, Like a Lamb to the Slaughter”: Migrant Labor in the EU...
Bogdan Droma has worked in Berlin for three months, between August and October 2014, at building the famous Mall of Berlin. As a result of weeks of work going unpaid, as well as of various forms of...
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On Marxism, barbarism, Russia, Greece and more: Interview with Kees van der Pijl
Kees van der Pijl is a Dutch political scientist who is emeritus professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. He is known for his critical approach to global political economy and...
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Interview with MEP Soraya Post,on the occassion of International Romani Day
SORAYA POST Ismael Cortes interviews MEP Soraya Post, on behalf of LeftEast. On the occasion of the International Romani Day, 8th April, the European Parliament hosted the Roma Week in collaboration...
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Interview with “Prasvet” editor Tania Chyzhova
Tania Chyzhova, editor and author of the Belarusian marxist journal of left critique Prasvet (prasvet.com) and resource of wide-left orientation Left.by. Studied philosophy in the Belarusian State...
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Turkey: the Political Balance of Forces in Three Interviews
The full version was published in Serbian on Masina. The attempted coup of July 15th caught me in Istanbul. What that night of adrenaline, shocking and confusing news, the sounds of machine-gun fire...
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On Czech Marxism: An interview with Ivan Landa and Jan Mervart
LeftEast’s James Robertson speaks with Czech scholars Ivan Landa and Jan Mervart about their current project collating and translating some of the key texts from the history of Czech Marxism....
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Interview: G. M. Tamás on the Anti-Immigration Referendum in Hungary
Note from the LeftEast editors: in run up to the anti-immigration referendum in Hungary (today 02 Oct 2016), Mary Taylor and Agnes Gagyi from the editorial board of LeftEast interviewed Hungarian...
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Morgane Merteuil: Sex work can be emancipatory only as a collective process
Strass on strike for sex workers’ rights. Source: la voix du nord Note of the LeftEast editors: On April 13, 2016, the French government promulgated a law that makes it illegal to pay for sex after MPs...
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From border unto border: An interview with Clare Fester of Yiddishkayt
LeftEast‘s James Robertson spoke with Clare Fester, Associate Director of the Los Angeles-based cultural organization Yiddishkayt, about Yiddish culture, the history of Jewish socialism and the...
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“A Spark in the Dark”- new left party Levica determined to enter Macedonia’s...
For a decade now, Macedonia has been systematically devastated by the deeply criminal rightwing populist Gruevski regime, which has demolished the rule of law, media, democracy in the country and has...
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Leo Panitch: “What does it mean to smash the state? This is our great...
Note from the LeftEast editors: Our comrades from the Serbian Left-wing portal MAŠINA spoke to Marxist political economist Leo Panitch (York University) during his stay in Belgrade. There he was a...
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Svjetlana Nedimović: “We have been commanded to take care of our souls while...
The following interview was conducted by Amer Bahtijar and was originally published in Bosnian at the online portal, Tačno. It was translated by Alja Gudzevich and edited by Natalie Gravenor and Marina...
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Alexandra Elbakyan: ‘The Fight Against Copyright Cannot Be Apolitical’
Many LeftEast readers–especially among the scientists; students of the humanities are more familiar with LibGen–have no doubt come across or used Sci-hub. It is a project that saves many scientists and...
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Interview with Mariya Ivancheva
Note from LeftEast Editors: We republish an interview with LeftEast editor Mariya Ivancheva, taken by Eli Thorkelson for Academography on April 7th. Mariya Ivancheva is currently working on a...
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Interview with Costas Lapavitsas: Strategies for the renaissance of the left...
Note from LeftEast Editors: The following interview with Costas Lapavitsas, conducted by Darko Vujica was originally published by prometej.ba on June 10th 2017. D.V: The standard neo-liberal narrative...
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