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[INTERVIEW] From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature & Cinema...
Note from LeftEast editors: A shortened version of Selim Nadi’s interview with Rossen Djagalov was published in Jacobin Magazine. Could there have been a Third World without the “Second”? Certainly,...
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This interview with George Caffentzis (also featuring Silvia Federici) was conducted by Tinta Limón Ediciones, and is included in the Spanish language edition of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work,...
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Jihad, universalism, and the Left: A conversation with Darryl Li
Since its publication in 2019, Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press) has been the focus of a great deal of attention and debate....
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Police Brutality in Albania: “The Revolt Seems Like Something That Was...
For several days now, several thousand people, especially the youth, have been mobilizing in Albania. The protests are in reaction to the murder of a young man by Albanian police, but they reveal...
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Navalny’s Return and Left Strategy
Russia has had an eventful week and it’s not even finished. First, Alexey Navalny flew back to Moscow, then he was immediately arrested upon crossing the border, and the next day his team published a...
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Interview with Wolfgang Streeck: “I definitely prefer a cooperative over an...
Note from LeftEast editors: This interview was originally published in Mérce, a left-wing news site in Hungary. It was conducted via e-mail and published on the occasion of Merkel’s departure from...
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“Twenty thousand farmers commit suicide in India every year”– Interview with...
This interview, conducted by Noémi Lehoczki, first appeared on the Hungary-based publication Mérce. We publish the English version with their permission. The transcript of the interview was lightly...
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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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[INTERVIEW] Kimberlé Crenshaw: Liberty. Equality. Intersectionality. An...
Kimberlé Crenshaw I met Kimberlé Crenshaw at the Sorbonne University in Paris in January 2019, at a conference organized by Marta Dell’Aquila and Eraldo Souza dos Santos to celebrate the thirtieth...
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Whiteness: “Race,” Capitalism, US, Eastern Europe
Interview excerpt: "For us, in our part of the world, one of the most breathtaking aspects of the history of the Haitian Revolution is that the Polish battalion sent there by the French switched sides...
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Fighting Back against Hungary’s Ban on Legal Gender Recognition: An Interview...
Hungary's new law "seems to be part of the broader war of the government on gender. Defining sex at birth as an unchangeable characteristic is part of that discourse and is an obvious attack on the...
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Revolutionary Trans Montenegro: an activist & an anthropologist in conversation
Credit: Michalina Wozniak This text, published in English by the print and online journal Kuckuck: Notizen zur Alltagskultur, includes material (see below) published originally in Montenegrin on the...
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Why Globalise? 1989 in Eastern Europe and the Politics of History
In this three-part interview, conducted, transcribed and edited by Zoltán Ginelli, history professor James Mark talks about his latest book James Mark is a British Professor of History at the...
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Why Globalise? 1989 in Eastern Europe and the Politics of History: Part II
In this three-part interview, conducted, transcribed and edited by Zoltán Ginelli, history professor James Mark talks about his latest book James Mark is a British Professor of History at the...
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Why Globalise? 1989 in Eastern Europe and the Politics of History: Part III
In this three-part interview, conducted, transcribed and edited by Zoltán Ginelli, history professor James Mark talks about his latest book James Mark is a British Professor of History at the...
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Fighting Back against the Patriarchal Backlash in Bulgaria. Interview with...
The EU recovery plan is reinforcing an idea of welfare and economic reconstruction which reproduces patriarchal and racist hierarchies and exploitation, while some EU member states like Italy and...
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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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