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Platform for progressive voices, efforts + groups from the postsocialist region to come together in sustained analytical + political effort. RTs ≠ endorsements.
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Joined October 2013
Heartfelt historical reflection from @LeftEast1 editorial collective on the role of our platform in the dialectic of the small but resilient Eastern European new left #left #politics #grassroots #newleft #EasternEurope
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Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine is one of Armenia's most profitable companies, owned by a consortium of Russian and Armenian oligarchs. The wildcat strike its miners have launched serves as a lens on the country's political economy and working class
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Serbia has been shaken in recent months by student-led protests. An isolated demonstration to demand accountability after train station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad has evolved into a mass movement that is presenting Vučić with his most severe test yet.
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January 2025 begins year two of Javier Milei’s four-year presidential term. The first ‘Rothbardian’, ‘paleolibertarian’, ‘anarchocapitalist’ president ever. What do these terms mean and what can this Argentine political experiment teach the world?
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International Protest against Lithium Mining in Serbia When? 5 February 2025, 13:00 CET. Where? Place du Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament, Brussels.
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veteran British activist and scholar Leslie Huckfield writes for us on European politics in the UK today
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taking the Iranian poet Sa'edi as his vantage point, Soheil Asefi reminds leftists not to get caught up in the false duality of the theocratic regime in Teheran vs. Washington-supported monarchists, reclaiming instead the traditions of the Iranian left:
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don't miss @CihanTugal's magisterial history of global left strategies: from 1980s-90s new social movements and leaderless rebellions of the 2000s through left populisms of the 10s to contemporary searches for new political forms and revolutionary subjects
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@CihanTugal's magisterial history of the global left's strategies such as the new social movements of the 1980s-90s, the leaderless revolutions of the 2000s, the left populisms of the 10s, and the continuing search for new forms and revolutionary subjects
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Sasha Yaropolskaya and Philippe Alcoy interview Volodymyr Ishchenko about the course of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, popular opinion in Ukraine about the war, the disposition of forces among the country's ruling elites, the far right, and the left
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Collective statement by the Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement against authoritarianism, green capitalism, and war, on the occasion of COP29 taking place right now in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Interview with Aleksandar Matković @salematkovic by @Novossti on his research on foreign investments in the mining sector in Serbia, the intertwining of green transition and authoritarianism in the country, and the continued repression against protesters.
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In late May, while the Kenyan authorities were violently suppressing protests around elections and the high cost of living, hundreds of Kenyan police landed in Haiti (LeftEast's article, republished in Jacobin, has just come out in Spanish and Portuguese)
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Ivana Hadjievska in conversation with Gal Kirn inspired by his book "The Partisan Counter-Archive," a rethinking of the archives we create and protect for today's struggles
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On Saturday, the Common Front for Housing Rights (FCDL) organized their yearly housing rights protest in Bucharest. We hope tenant unions will form soon in Romanian cities, to organize for tenant rights and against this speculative exorbitant market #housing for all
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October 8: LeftEast is delighted to co-sponsor this major online conference in solidarity with the jailed Russian socialist BORIS KAGARLITSKY AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE LEFT TODAY
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RT @berlinergazette: Kin City · Reimagining Urban Space within Ecological Limits · October 17-19 · ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics ·…
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#elections #Austria: the left (Linke) declares a fight for a just international system: a balance between Utopian vision of a radically different system and realistic steps to improve life. A reprint from @MasinaRS
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RT @berlinergazette: The program of the #KinCity24 festival, with which BG celebrates its 25th anniversary, is now online. It will take pla…
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Rio Tinto, the Serbian government, the EU, and all the shady commercial and geopolitical interests behind the lithium mining project in Serbia's Jadar valley are going after environmentalists such as Aleksandar Matković, who has received death threats.
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In this insightful article, Daniel Šitera evaluates the last two decades of EU's eastern expansion against both its earlier ambitions and today’s shift towards a center-to-far-right reconstitution of the EU
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