Balkans
Lessons of the Serbian revolution
Dmitry Pozhidaev outlines five lessons from Serbia’s Student List electoral breakthrough after two years of mass protests — and how this could be turned into lasting social change.
A victory for student populism: Elite conflict and Serbia’s future
The nature of the Student List’s victory in Serbia’s parliamentary elections and the country’s political future are difficult to grasp through conventional categories, writes Srđan Atanasovski.
Understanding Albania’s Flamingo Revolution
Gresa Hasa looks at how a Jared Kushner real estate project became a rallying point against crony capitalism.
Defining themselves as a socialist feminist organization, LevFem engage with both the possibilities and the baggage of socialist history in Bulgaria.
Beyond protest: Can Serbia’s student movement spark a political breakthrough?
Dmitry Pozhidaev — The student protests are significant in that they expose and deepen the fractures within Serbian capitalism, potentially laying the groundwork for more profound political shifts in the future.
Commemorating November 29, 1943: The founding of a new Yugoslavia
Dmitry Pozhidaev — On November 29, 1943, amid the turmoil of World War II, the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) proclaimed the foundation of a new Yugoslavia that envisioned a radically different future.
Foreign direct investment: The opium for development
Dmitry Pozhidaev — If religion is the opium of the people, FDI is the opium of development: it creates an appearance of development while undermining and restricting development opportunities.
