ELMO - Eastern European Left Media Outlet

24/11/2023

Radnička prava su portal koji donosi pregled vijesti, tekstova i video materijala s temom radničkih prava i radničkih borbi.

15/05/2023

Our social media activity has been reduced, as we don't have a social media editor right now, but work in the network continues to be done! Subscribe to ELMO's new pilot newsletter, East European Context: https://tinyurl.com/EECELMO

The systemic lack of news on the social realities of Eastern Europe, the lack of contextualization of the information provided by mainstream media, as well as the internal fragmentation of news sourcing due to the prevalence and effects of social media are problems many of us are experiencing every day.

East European Context (EEC), the newsletter of the Eastern European Left Media Outlet (ELMO) aims to fill in the void.

We already have published 3 weekly newsletter covering some of the region's Leading Stories and developments from a left-wing perspective, as well as offering further links to events, articles and discourses concerning the left in Eastern Europe. If you subscribe now, you might catch the 4rth one, which will be the last of the pilot -- but after a short evaluation break, more to come!

Don't forget to check out also ELMO's general Substack with a few posts about our activity of 2022 and the beginning of the year: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOnewsletter

01/03/2023

🗒 Read ELMO's bi-monthly newsletter edition for the months of January and February 2023!

🎯Link to the newsletter post:

Here is the Eastern European Left Media Outlet - ELMO’s first bi-monthly newsletter of 2023.

23/02/2023

❌ There has been much discussion about the Ukrainian far-right during the past year since the Russian invasion began - but also even before. Some people would go as far as to claim that this far-right is so strong that they basically define the Ukrainian state through it; others, on the other hand, say it is an insignificant political force.

🌍 Спільне / Commons share an interview with their editor, Taras Bilous, for New Politics magazine. In this interview, Bilous sheds a better light on the strength of the Ukrainian far-right, its recent perspectives and actions, and how the left resists it - especially after the start of the war.

🎯Read the full interview in English here:

An Interview with Taras Bilous.

22/02/2023

🚧LeftEast shares an article on the "Global Sites of Border Violence: Exploring Borders on the Western Balkans" event, organised by Unis Resist Border Controls on November 16th, 2022, together with the original video of the event. The event was focused on border violence and resistance to this violence in the Western Balkans.

🌍 The Western Balkans route has stopped receiving media attention, but the situation of refugees on the borders of Fortress EU continues to be dire. The event panelists discuss the fates of refugees in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as they navigate violent border regimes and forge emerging solidarities.

🎯 Read the full article in English (including the event video) here:

Curated by Sanaz Raji, Independent Scholar Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Global Sites of Border Violence seeks to bridge different areas of knowledge and learn from both activists on the ground resisting and scholars researching border viol...

17/02/2023

📺 On February 9th, on Fókuszban, a Hungarian-language show on the Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina / Radio Television of Serbia, András Juhász and Tibor Meszmann talked about their article from ELMO's migration series, titled "Drifters in the Making: Labour Migration from Serbia and the (Re)production of (Trans)national Inequalities". Aside from the article itself, focusing on Serbian migrant workers in CEE, András and Tibor also talk about the series in general, as well as the ELMO network.

📌 Watch the whole show here: https://bit.ly/3YGBvtZ

🎯 Read the article in English on LeftEast here: https://tinyurl.com/serbian-workers

👉 At the end of the article, you can also find the text in Serbo-Croatian (on Mašina and Radnička prava), in Hungarian (on Mérce), in Ukrainian (on Спільне / Commons), in Romanian (on Platzforma and Gazeta De Artă Politică), and in Bulgarian (on Диверсия and Барикада)

This article is part of the multilingual ELMO series Transnational migration in CEE from intersectional perspectives of race, gender, class and citizenship. Sourcing labour from Serbia has never been easier. But the recruitment channels are not managed or monitored. With fake information circulatin...

15/02/2023

📢 Platzforma shares an article by Catana Cătălina on the Russian state's dehumanization of the LGBT community and how it uses it in conspiracy theories to promote masculinized nationalism - a kind of discourse that often occurs in the rest of Eastern Europe as well, but also in the West and across the globe.

🏳️‍🌈 "Against the background of the war against Ukraine, Russia is strengthening its authoritarian control at home. In late November 2022, Russia de facto criminalized 'LGBT propaganda', making any mention of 'non-traditional values' punishable by law."

❎"State-sanctioned homophobia, along with conservative orthodoxy and paternalistic authoritarianism, is an essential pillar in the construction of the post-Soviet Russian national identity that Nikita Sleptcov labels 'conservative heteronationalism'. It encompasses the preservation and promotion of so-called 'traditional values' - which must be fundamentally opposed to 'Western values' - according to which any deviation from the heterosexual norm is a form of cultural pollution, moral corruption and, in general, a national threat. The LGBT community is not only depicted as a demasculinizing factor of the nation, but also as a foreign import of Western imperialism that continues to spread, threatening the traditional family and by extension the Russian nation. Such rhetoric, couched in a religious discourse of 'good' and 'bad' values, has been exploited by the Russian regime for more than a decade. "

🎯Read the full article in Romanian here:

Pe fundalul războiului declanșat împotriva Ucrainei, Rusia își întărește controlul autoritar acasă. La sfârșitul lunii noiembrie 2022, Rusia a criminalizat de facto „propaganda LGBT”, supunând orice mențiune despre „valori netradiționale” la pedeapsa prin lege. Homofobia sancț...

10/02/2023

🚩 In a long-read analytical article on the Slovak economy from the turn of the century, Karmína evaluates the situation in which trade unions and workers in Slovakia find themselves today, after the last twenty years.

📉 The end of 2019 marks the ending of several years of growth for the Slovak economy, replaced by two years of pandemic tremors. A sharp price hike followed, intensified by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to a decline in real wages. Today, the Slovak economy (much like its European counterparts) is on the brink of another recession.

❌ However, each crisis creates the assumptions for a new period of revival and boom. Although for many individual enterprises the crisis is a disaster, from a social point of view, it is always an opportunity for capital to dictate conditions in its favor thanks to rising unemployment and the decreasing purchasing power of wages. Therefore, it is appropriate to ask with what kind of experience from the struggle from the previous economy, and in what condition Slovak workers are entering this period - and what is likely to await them in it.

🎯 Read the full article in Slovak here:

V akej kondícii vstupujeme do nového odobia?

09/02/2023

⛏ Today marks the 450th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the Croatian–Slovene Peasants' Revolt against their feudal lords (9th February 1573). On the occasion, Radnička prava shares an article by Filip Peruzović - a review of a Yugoslav movie from 1975 on the subject of the revolt.

🚩 " ...this Saturday, February 11, the town of Donja Stubica commemorates the 450th anniversary of the Peasants' Revolt, one of the most important events in Croatian history. That winter, long ago, the oppressed serfs led by Matija Gubec bravely stood up against their class enemy, the feudal lords of noble origin embodied in the infamous Franjo Tahija (Ferenc Tahy). The sons and daughters of the peasants fought with everything they could get their hands on against the armored and trained professional army, which in the end would have met its god if a little more armored and trained professional army had not come to its aid."

🎥 "The first film made about Matija Gubec is also the second Croatian feature film ever – titled "Matija Gubec" and directed by Aleksandar Binički from 1917, which unfortunately has been lost and only one photograph remains of it. The second and last one is the "Peasants' Revolt 1573" (titled "Anno Domini 1573" for international audiences) by Vatroslav Mimica from 1975, and that is exactly what we will deal with in this article... It is one of the most complex projects not only of Croatian but also of Yugoslav cinematography."

🗒 "Although Mimica drew inspiration for his screen adaptation from August Šenoa's novel "Peasants' revolt" (from 1877), Miroslav Krleža's "Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh" (1935 - 1936) and the study of historical documents when writing the screenplay, he did not blindly follow any of the existing templates but instead opted for his own unique artistic vision. For Mimica, the hero is clearly not a single person but the whole people, therefore he did not want to mythologize one man but to point to the struggle of an entire class. This is in accordance with his beliefs as a former partisan and participant in the People's Liberation Struggle, as well as the period of socialism in which he lived, in which the idea of ​​egalitarianism ruled (at least on paper)."

🎯 Read the original article in Croatian here:

Radnička prava su portal koji donosi pregled vijesti, tekstova i video materijala s temom radničkih prava i radničkih borbi.

07/02/2023

🏴Southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria were hit by a series of earthquakes, the most devastating of which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale. As the death toll - which is in the thousands - continues to rise, and international help (including from the wider region of Eastern Europe) is being sent, Alarm shares an article by Laura Vassileva discussing the current situation in the region and stressing some of the man-made dangers that have contributed to the catastrophic situation.

🏔 "Due to its geographical location, Turkey is one of the most active earthquake areas in the world. [...] Many citizens also remember the strong earthquake of 1999, which hit Kocaeli province east of Istanbul and left 18 thousand dead. At that time, the earthquake reached 7.6 on the Richter scale."

🏗 "The 40-second tremor on Sunday night was caused by the collision of the Arabian tectonic plate with the Eurasian plate. Between them is a small Anatolian Block, on which Turkey lies. According to geologists, such a strong earthquake means that the plates move horizontally by five meters, and aftershocks can last for days, weeks, even months. Therefore, buildings continue to collapse. In addition, independent journalists draw attention to non-compliance with some regulations that have been in place for the construction of buildings since 1999 and were introduced precisely on the basis of frequent earthquakes in the region. What's more, many buildings in the region were built before 1999 and the necessary modifications were not carried out. Despite the Turkish proverb 'Geography is destiny', the region could have been better prepared for the disaster."

🎯 Read the full article in Czech here:

Jihovýchod Turecka a severozápadní Sýrii zasáhla řada zemětřesení, nejničivější z nich o síle 7,8 stupně Richterovy škály. Obě země hlásí tisíce mrtvých.

02/02/2023

🛠 In Hungary, the ÉTMOSz trade union managed to successfully win a wage increase for the workers of the Robert Bosch Automotive Steering company situated in the village of Maklár, Mérce reports. The union managed to win this increase by pressuring the company through previously scheduling a strike for February 1st.

🚩 According to the union, the wage negotiations with Bosch ended successfully, and the issue of a wage increase that had been going on for months was finally resolved. In addition to the previously agreed 10%, workers are now supposed to receive an additional 5% increase in their basic salary.

🎯 Read the full article in Hungarian here:

A szakszervezet a Bosch-ra fogta a pisztolyt, a cég nem várta meg a dörrenést.

31/01/2023

Listen to the Eastern European Left Media Outlet - ELMO's panel discussion on transnational migration in Central Eastern Europe (CEE).

Invited speakers: Attila Melegh (Hungary), Goran Lukić (Slovenia), Marta Stojić Mitrović (Serbia), Olena Fedyuk (Ukraine). Moderator: Marko Miletić

The discussion is a concluding event of ELMO’s thematic article series called “Transnational migration in CEE from intersectional perspectives of race, gender, class and citizenship” published between 13th-30th January. To access the series in English and in local languages (Romanian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian), use this link: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOmigration

30/01/2023

🥦 The fifth and last article of ELMO's transnational migration in CEE series analyzes migrant labour from Eastern Europe, West Africa and South Asia in the Italian agribusiness.

🍇 "In general, it is clear that all migrants are deserting farms, and in some cases the Italian job market altogether, whenever possible. Chances and rates of flight are dictated by a conjunction of factors, from differential, policy-driven ease of mobility to unequal economic conditions in the countries of origin, variations in the number and kind of transnational connections and in forms of racialised, gendered, and religious discrimination. Overall, the current crisis in migrant labour supply reinforces the trend towards that “great resignation” which has invested job markets across the post-industrial world, albeit with characteristics and contours that are specific to the farming sector and the national labour market."

👉 Read Irene Peano and Chiara Busca's article "Where Have Eastern Europeans Gone? Made-In-Italy Agribusiness, Mobility Control, And The Great Resignation " in English on LeftEast: https://tinyurl.com/ItalianAgribusiness

👉 Find the text in Serbo-Croatian on Mašina and Radnička prava, in Ukrainian on Спільне / Commons, in Hungarian on Mérce, in Romanian on Platzforma and Gazeta De Artă Politică, in Bulgarian on Диверсия and Барикада.

‼️ 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. And in COMMENTS below.

📌 The articles of the series will be published simultaneously in several languages on ELMO member platforms between 17th-30th January and a concluding panel discussion will be held on the 31st of January at 19 CET with invited speakers. More about the event here: https://fb.me/e/3Zn4rIYLo

📌 Read all parts of the series here: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOmigration

26/01/2023

👩‍🔧 The fourth article in ELMO's transnational migration in CEE series, talks about Serbian migrant workers in CEE, with a section dedicated to health care workers.

🙋‍♀️ "Sourcing labour from Serbia has never been easier. But the recruitment channels are not managed or monitored. With fake information circulating and actors willing to profit from migration flows, Serbian labour migrants are in danger of over-exploitation. Nevertheless, many people want to leave Serbia because they are fed up with a system that has little respect for their dignity. There is an increasing need to support and develop communities of migrant and transnationally active workers. A very practical step in this direction would be to establish regular information flows among all those directly affected, organising educational, training, and self-help sessions."

👉 Read András Juhász and Tibor T Meszmann's article "Drifters in the Making: Labour Migration from Serbia and the (Re)production of (Trans)national Inequalities" in English on LeftEast: https://tinyurl.com/serbian-workers

👉 Find the text in Serbo-Croatian on Mašina and Radnička prava, in Hungarian on Mérce, in Ukrainian on Спільне / Commons, in Romanian on Platzforma and Gazeta De Artă Politică, in Bulgarian on Диверсия and Барикада.

‼️ 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. And in COMMENTS below.

📌 The articles of the series will be published simultaneously in several languages on ELMO member platforms between 17th-30th January and a concluding panel discussion will be held on the 31st of January at 19 CET with invited speakers. More about the event here: https://fb.me/e/3Zn4rIYLo

📌 Read all parts of the series here: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOmigration

24/01/2023

⛔️In the third article in our transnational migration from CEE series, Celine Cantat analyzes how Hungary's anti-migration policies are related to EU border regimes, Europeanism and East-West (economic) relations.

‼️ "Analysing the articulation between the civilisational myth of a virtuous Europe to be defended against the migratory threat and the subaltern position of the new Schengen countries thus allows us to grasp Hungary’s investment in the role of defending a ‘white’ and ‘Christian’ Europe. From this perspective, we can rethink the country’s migration policy not as a radical break or moral anomaly from the rest of Europe, but rather as the exacerbation of trends characterising the EU accession process and as the result of the country’s specific position within the European space."

👉 Read "Citizenship and Exclusion in Contemporary Hungary" in English on LeftEast: https://tinyurl.com/citizenship-exclusion

👉 Find the text in Hungarian on Mérce, Ukrainian on Спільне / Commons, in Serbo-Croatian on Mašina and Radnička prava, in Romanian on Platzforma and Gazeta De Artă Politică, in Bulgarian on Диверсия and Барикада.

‼️ 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. And in COMMENTS below.

📌 The articles of the series will be published simultaneously in several languages on ELMO member platforms between 17th-30th January and a concluding panel discussion will be held on the 31st of January at 19 CET with invited speakers. More about the event here: https://fb.me/e/3Zn4rIYLo

📌 Read all parts of the series here: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOmigration

19/01/2023

‼️ In the second part of ELMO's article series about transnational migration in CEE, read Oksana Dutchak's article about enforced single motherhood of Ukrainian refugees - "Together We Stand: Enforced Single Motherhood and Ukrainian Refugees’ Care Networks."

👩‍🍼"In this article I analyze how reproductive labor is managed by Ukrainian refugees in the context of enforced single motherhood. I am particularly focused on the role that informal networks of support play. While being deeply gendered and depoliticized, these networks offer women a source of time, critically needed for social reproduction. How are these networks of support (re)created in and after displacement? How do they structure the lives and experiences of Ukrainian refugees? Which structures of inequalities stand behind them and how should these informal networks be evaluated from a political perspective?"

👉 Read the whole article in English on LeftEast: https://tinyurl.com/singlemotherhood
👉 Find the text in Ukrainian on Спільне / Commons, in Serbo-Croatian on Mašina and Radnička prava, in Romanian Gazeta De Artă Politică and Platzforma, in Bulgarian on Диверсия and Барикада, and in Hungarian on Mérce.

‼️ 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. And in COMMENTS below.

📌 The articles of the series will be published simultaneously in several languages on ELMO member platforms between 17th-30th January and a concluding panel discussion will be held on the 31st of January at 19 CET with invited speakers. More about the event here: https://fb.me/e/3Zn4rIYLo

📌 Read all parts of the series here: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOmigration

18/01/2023

📕 ELMO's newsletter is finally out! Our very first post features a yearly review of our shared content for 2022 - as well as an introduction to our multilingual thematic article series on transnational migration. Check it out as a post on our Substack here: http://bit.ly/3iQj86c

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17/01/2023

In the first part of ELMO's migration themed articles series, read an analysis of different studies about how Ukrainian refugees see their future and about who (can) leave, return, why and in which conditions, in Anastasiya Riabchuk's article "Who will Stay and Who Will Return? Divergent Trajectories of Ukrainian War Refugees in the EU".

"Out of the 4.5 million Ukrainian refugees who received temporary protection status in the EU, more than 80% are women, and two-thirds have children[9]. At the same time, among those Ukrainians who are returning to Ukraine, only one third are with children (UNHCR research at the border with those returning to Ukraine, carried out on April 3-27). This is quite expected: mothers with children are more hesitant to return to Ukraine while the war is still ongoing, fearing for children’s safety."

👉 Read the whole article in English on LeftEast: https://tinyurl.com/whowillstay

👉 Find the text in Ukrainian on Спільне / Commons, in Serbo-Croatian on Mašina and Radnička prava, in Romanian Gazeta De Artă Politică and Platzforma, in Bulgarian on Диверсия and Барикада, and in Hungarian on Mérce.

‼️ 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. And in COMMENTS below.

📌 The articles of the series will be published simultaneously in several languages on ELMO member platforms between 17th-30th January and a concluding panel discussion will be held on the 31st of January at 19 CET with invited speakers. More about the event here: https://fb.me/e/3Zn4rIYLo

📌 Read all parts of the series here: https://tinyurl.com/ELMOmigration

13/01/2023

📢 The Eastern European Left Media Outlet – ELMO is launching a multilingual thematic article series, consisting of 5 parts and this introduction. The general theme of the ELMO series is transnational migration in the broadest sense of “mobility in terms of human movement across national borders” (Yeoh and Ramdas 2014).

‼️ We find the theme especially relevant and important to reflect on in the Central European context. This is not only because migration is a source of political gain, and indeed an opportunity for very real and fast capital accumulation, but also since migration stands in front of us as a contemporary development full of contradictions. It shapes social, economic, and political development, as well as the lives of peoples and communities in the broader region.

📌 The articles will be published simultaneously in several languages on ELMO member platforms between 17th-30th January and a concluding panel discussion will be held on the 31st of January at 19 CET with invited speakers. More about the event here: https://fb.me/e/3Zn4rIYLo

👉 Read the whole introduction in English on LeftEast: https://tinyurl.com/ms327ykc

👉 In Bulgarian on Диверсия, in Romanian on Gazeta De Artă Politică and in Serbo-Croatian on Radnička prava (published on Monday).

‼️ 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. And in COMMENTS.

12/01/2023

📢 In Serbia, the workers of the Zijin Copper company in the city of Bor are organising a protest today at 15:30 CET, Mašina reports. The company's trade unions have called for this protest against the company's new work regulations, which, as they say, were implemented unilaterally by the company's leadership without consulting them.

⚒ In the letter they sent to the authorities, the unions stated that the new rulebook "significantly reduces the rights" of employees, and that with it, the employer avoided harmonizing labor prices with the decision of the Social and Economic Council of Serbia. Thus, the letter states, the employer "ignored the representatives of the ministry who attended the negotiations as well as the position of the Ministry of Economy that the rights of workers and trade unions must not be reduced".

🎯 Read the full article in Serbian here:

Mašina

06/01/2023

🚩 On this day 175 years ago (6th January 1848), Bulgarian revolutionary, poet, and anarchist Hristo Botev was born. On this occasion, Барикада shares his introductory article in the 4th edition of the "Zname" newspaper, published on 5th January 1875 and titled "The only salvation for our people lies in revolution"

🎯 Read the full article in Bulgarian here:

По повод 175-годишнината от рождението на големия поет, публицист и революционер Христо Ботев припомняме негова уводна статия от в. „Знаме“, г. I, брой 4 от 5 януари 1875 ...

04/01/2023

🚩 To start off the new year, Radnička prava share their general overview of workers' actions during the past year in Croatia. Starting with 2019, Radnička prava provides a yearly overview of workers' actions reported in relevant Croatian media outlets after the end of each year.

⚒ In 2022, in Croatia, the yearly report includes mostly workers strikes and protests. Various other forms of workers' activities have also been noted, such as an organised sick leave in support of a colleague, a demand to receive due severance pay, the May Day march, a refusal to start work until payments are guaranteed - and even more disruptive actions of individuals workers aimed personally at their bosses who hadn't paid them.

🎯 Read the full article in Croatian here:

Radnička prava su portal koji donosi pregled vijesti, tekstova i video materijala s temom radničkih prava i radničkih borbi.

29/12/2022

🚩 LeftEast reprints an article on the rise of the far-right in Romania and how the left keeps up with its challenges, originally as an interview with Adina Marincea and Veda Popovici for Le Courrier des Balkans

❌ With Romania's far right AUR party entering Parliament in 2020, fascism gained access to mainstream power, and a rehabilitation of fascist leaders is underway. The rising far right is accommodated in universities, established cultural milieus, and social movements. The left in Romania is dispersed but it should find its power from smaller groups, deal with and build on answers to issues of housing, environment and migration.

🎯 Read the full article in English here:

Note from LeftEast editors: This text was originally published in Courrier des Balkans (CdB), in two parts. The interview was conducted and translated to French by Florentin Cassonnet, a CdB correspondent in Bucharest. The current text is a slightly edited version of the original interview. Courrier...

27/12/2022

📝 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐮𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰!

ELMO has been around since 2019, as a cooperation between Central-Eastern European leftist media platforms advocating for the alleviation of skyrocketing social inequality, raising awareness about the plight of marginalised groups, and highlighting the dangers of ethno-nationalist revival in the region. In 2022, through the cooperation of ELMO member platforms, we made:

🔴 55 translations of 37 texts into 10 different languages across 14 platforms: Mašina, Radnička prava, Platzforma, Gazeta De Artă Politică, The Barricade (including Барикада and Baricada România), Mérce, Alarm, Диверсия, Спільне / Commons, LeftEast, Kapitál, Bilten and Krytyka Polityczna;
🔴 An original article series about Central-Eastern European housing movements with 5 articles that were translated 30 times in 10 languages - Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, English, Slovak, Polish: https://bit.ly/3hOcr3X

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23/12/2022

📢 On 30th June, we held a panel discussion on how urban and radical housing justice movements are resisting the post-socialist neoliberal transformations of Central Eastern European (CEE) cities, as the concluding event of our thematic series called 'CEE housing movements resisting neoliberal urban transformations'. LeftEast shares Iskra Krstic's report on the discussion.

🎤Invited speakers: Alona Liasheva - Спільне / Commons - Ukraine, Ana Vilenica - Radical Housing Journal - Serbia, Enikő Vincze - Căși sociale ACUM / Social housing NOW - Romania, and Vitalie Sprînceană - Platzforma - Moldova, moderated by Nóra Ugron (Social Housing NOW!/ LeftEast) from Romania.

🎯Read the article in English here: https://bit.ly/3FOajkJ

📌Read the article series here: https://bit.ly/3hOcr3X

📺 Watch the discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=external&v=1150592422186535

Note from LeftEast editors. This article is a report of the closing panel discussion of the multilingual ELMO series CEE housing movements resisting neoliberal urban transformations. All articles from the ELMO series, as well as the introduction, are available here in English. At the end of each En...