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Levica: a left case for boycott of the referendum on the Macedonia name dispute
Note from LeftEast Editors: In June an agreement was signed between Greece and Macedonia. According to it, the latter’s name will be changed into the Republic of North Macedonia. One of the attributes...
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[FeminEasts Podcast] Boryana Rossa on Sofia Queer Forum, Sex and Revolution,...
Note: You may sample and skip between different themes in the discussion by hovering over and clicking on the various LeftEast thumbnails on the soundwave to display section labels or comments. In...
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Lea Vajsova: There are now ruptures through which a feminist movement will...
Note by the LeftEast editors: This interview with Lea Vajsova was conducted by Yuliana Metodieva for the Bulgarian website Marginalia. BG . It was translated from the Bulgarian by Dorotea Stefanova and...
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Yellow-vest protests in France- An extraordinary political school
Yellow Vest Protests / ABS-CBN News Note from LeftEast Editors: We publish this interview conducted by Maria Cernat in collaboration with Baricada.org where it originally appeared. Hello, Professor...
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Student protests in Albania: “What we are witnessing is the direct effect of...
Note from LeftEast editors: This interview originally appeared on the Revolution Permanente website. Albanian students are protesting en masse against a new hike in tuition fees in one of the poorest...
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Protests in Hungary: “The slave labor law was clearly written to appeal to...
Protests against what is being called Viktor Orban’s “slave [labour] law” in Hungary are turning into a questioning of his entire regime. For nearly 2 weeks now, Hungarians have been taking to the...
View ArticleThe World Today Attila Melegh With Tariq Ali – EU Eyesores #3: Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country positioned on the EU’s eastern border. Today, it is also a major route for migrants and refugees travelling to Western Europe. The Hungarian government has responded by...
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[PODCAST] Can’t Buy Me Solidarity: Retail Workers in Czechia
The next installment in the series, “Europe is Working,” this podcast focuses on the poor working conditions of supermarkets and hypermarkets in Czechia, and the possibilities for collective action by...
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Outsourcing Exploitation to Europe’s Periphery
This interview exploring Madlen Nikolova, Jana Tsoneva and Georgi Medarov’s recent research on subcontracting, inequality and worker resistance in Bulgaria was originally published on the website of...
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Quarrying the stones of Palestine
Interview with Andrew Ross Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, whose work combines scholarly inquiry, investigative reporting and activist...
View ArticleMay Day in the Making
Click on the triangular “play” button above to hear this segment. In this audeo clip, first broadcast by Public Radio International/WNYC in New York, historian Peter Linebaugh discusses the history...
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Searching for Alternatives in Eastern Europe
This interview appeared on April 1st, 2019 in Monthly Review – An Independent Socialist Magazine and is re-posted here with permission Hungarian Marxist Tamás Krausz is interviewed by Róbert Nárai...
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So long, Exarcheia: in conversation with Athenian essayist George Souvlis
Photo by Raluca Bejan Note from LeftEast editors: We repost this interview, which was originally published on the alternative Canadian online magazine Rabble.ca on September, 3rd 2019. Political...
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Let Jock Palfreeman Speak! Part I of a Two-Part Interview
Jock Palfreeman in court. Source: Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association In this interview originally published in Bulgarian on dversia.net, the leader of the Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association speaks with...
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“Unless we detach ourselves from the fascists, there can be no left...
This is the second part of Polina Manolova’s interview with Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association leader Jock Palfreeman, first published in Bulgarian by Dversia. Street and institutional fascism in...
View Article[Podcast] Workers’ Solidarity and Changing Ideology in Belarus
LeftEast shares this podcast with the permission of its producers from Contrasens. What is precarity? And how does it adapt to the Eastern European context? In the 11th episode of Contrasens’ podcast,...
View Article[Podcast] Don Kalb: Populism as a twofold political confusion
LeftEast shares 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 project aims to...
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[Podcast] Neda Deneva: Being taken care of. The case of medicalizing...
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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Interview with the Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition
Lefteast 1: Can you tell us a bit about the Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition? What are its basic demands? How did it form and how does it relate to previously existing organizations? In May 2020,...
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Interview: The Serbian opposition to Vučić without a plan
Note from LeftEast editors: Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Serbia on June 21st, we publish an interview with Aleksandar Matković. A shorter version of this interview was originally conducted...
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