Eastern Europe
Ukraine: The left and the movement to overthrow Yanukovich: two interviews
Mass protest in Maidan Square.
Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine: ‘A quadrille of monsters’ and ‘Smashing the feed trough’
Protesters occupy Independence Square, D
Ukraine: Behind the political earthquake and the far-right threat
A dense crowd of protesters fill the streets beyond a barricade in K
Ukraine: Regime fall followed by fresh chaos
Police clash with Maidan protesters, January 19, 2014.
Bosnia’s magnificent uprising: Heralding a new era of class politics?
Mass protest in Tuzla, February 7, 2014.
Czech Republic: Elections likely to intensify crisis
Parties elected – Red: Communist; Orange: ČSSD; Blue: ANO 2011; Purple: TOP 09.
Bulgaria: Free Jock Palfreeman! Australian activist wrongly imprisoned
Jock Palfreeman interviewed by Tony Iltis, Sofia
May 17, 2013 -- Green Left Weekly -- “I’m in Villawood!”, Jock Palfreeman exclaimed, with the cheerful exuberance he displayed throughout an interview conducted through glass and wire-mesh partitions in the gloomy surroundings of the visiting room of Sofia central prison.
He told Green Left Weekly that it was the plight of refugees illegally detained in Sydney's Villawood detention centre by the Australian government that first radicalised him. His first protest, as a high school student in Sydney, was a blockade of the offices of Villawood’s then operator Australasian Correctional Management on May Day in 2002.
A year later he organised students at his school to attend the “Books Not Bombs” student walkouts to protest against the war on Iraq.
It was because of his seeming inability to ignore injustice that he is now serving a 20-year sentence in Bulgaria.
