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Hunger for Justice: Nuriye Gülmen against the Turkish State (an Interview)

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça surrounded by supporters during their vigil in downtown Ankara. Source: Onedio web portal. Note from the LeftEast editors: In one of the most dramatic cases of resistance...

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The Russian Revolution in East Turkistan: An Interview with David Brophy

The following interview is part of a year-long series LeftEast is running exploring the impact of the Russian Revolution in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Over the course of this anniversary year we will...

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The 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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Maribor Uprisings (2017): Duncan Ranslem Interviews Director Maple Razsa

This article was first published in the Brooklyn Rail IN CONVERSATION MAPLE RAZSA with Duncan Ranslem Maple Razsa is Professor of Global Studies at Colby College. He has studied and participated in...

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Referendum Interrupted: Has Catalonia a future?

The following interview, which was completed just prior to Catalonia’s declaration of independence, was conducted by Griselda Qosja with drs. Jaume Castan Pinos and Alexis Vahlas. In a 2012 piece for...

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Alain Badiou: “The alleged power of capitalism … today is merely a reflection...

The following interview with Alain Badiou, conducted by Darko Vujica, was originally published by prometej.ba.  Darko Vujica:  You have invested a lot of energy in realizing the Idea(s) of communism....

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‘’Bread, jobs and freedom”: A conversation with Soheil Asefi about the street...

Soheil Asefi is an independent leftist journalist and academic. At a very young age, he started writing articles and working for various media and publications, both in cyber and print media. As part...

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Political Strategy and Anti-nationalism in the Greek Left following Syriza’s...

Note from LeftEast Editors: We are publishing an interview with Kostis Megalios from ARAN – Aristeri Anasynthesi (Left Recomposition) and Popular Unity conducted by activists from the Social Center...

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Alek Atevik: We need a Balkan socialist movement

Alek Atevik, Levica Alek Atevik is working in Skopje. He is an editor of Nova iskra and a member of Marxist Organization Crveni. He is a founding member of Levica, where he is a coordinator of Program...

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Panagiotis Sotiris: We can write new pages of common struggle!

Panagiotis Sotiris is a writer and activist living in Athens. He is a member of Left Recomposition (Aristeri Anasynthesi, ARAN), an organization of the Greek Radical Left and also of Popular Unity,...

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Francesca Coin: I read “power to the people” as power to the class suffering...

Preface for LeftEast: On March 4th, Italy will vote for the general elections. In this interview, we reconstruct the political debate that is taking place in the country before that date. More...

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How Serbia was systematically destroyed – by privatization: an interview with...

Note from the editors: The following interview with Marija Obradović was conducted by Vladimir Sudar for the Serbian publication, Sputnik. It is published here in translation with generous permission....

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The ‘Ndrangheta and Slovak Politics: an interview with Alena Krempaská

Note from the editors: The following interview with Alena Krempaská was conducted by Mattia Gallo in the days following the protests in Bratislava. Mattia Gallo: On Friday, March 9, 2018, tens of...

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No Sweets for Massacres: Katliamın Lokumu Olmaz! An Interview with Boğaziçi...

The “No lokum for massacres” banner that started it all. Note from the editors: In the week following a non-violent demonstration on the campus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul against a...

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Interview with Moishe Postone: “Critique and Dogmatism”

Portrait of Professor Moishe Postone for the 2009 Graduate professor awards(Photo by: Beth Rooney/ for the Chicago Chronicle) Note from LeftEast editors: We re-publish this article, originally...

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‘A Better Past is Still Possible’. Interview with Boris Buden

Foto: Jozica Krnić/FALIŠ Note from LeftEast Editors: This interview was originally published in Bulgarian for dVERSIA (8/2017) on the occasion of the publication of the Bulgarian translation of Boris...

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Populism or people’s movements? Interview with Mary Taylor

Members of theGyörffy-Kollégium 1943. Photo: http://nekosz.hu/hu/fototar Ágnes Gagyi: “Populism” seems to have become a central notion in debates about contemporary politics. How do you see the...

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Armenia: “a mass movement the country never has seen before” (an interview...

Over 100,000 protesters had gathered at the Republic Square in Yerevan on April 22, 2018. A mass movement in Armenia pushed out the Prime Minister and former president Serj Sargsyan. Even if liberal...

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Five Senses of Austerity: Seeing Ruins

In 1977 Romania was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in its history. Episode two of the Five Senses of Austerity engages with the way in which the state dealt with the aftermath. On the one...

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Interview with the Emma Collective from Kaunas

The Emma Social Center is organizing a feminist gathering in Kaunas, Lithuania between 24-26 of August 2018. Their call for participants and activity proposals can be found here:...

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