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Last week we announced the closing of LeftEast. Endings are sad––and that one particularly so,--but it also marks a new beginning, or at least the birth of a successor project.

LeftEast was born 13 years ago. 1679 articles, 663 authors, and 8 summer schools later, it is coming to an end. Thank you to all who contributed! And no farewells from us: in the next couple of weeks we'll be announcing its successor projects! lefteast.org/farewell-state…

the third edition of the ‘Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe’ conference will take place online between 19 - 22 May 2025, and host 250 participants from all over the region. Program: capitalist-transformations.com/conference-pro…. Registration: capitalist-transformations.com/registration/

The situation of political prisoners in Azerbaijan continues to be dire following years of war and increased repression. Veronika Pfeilschifter has interviewed young Azerbaijani left-wing democrats about the meaning and prospects of hope in their lives lefteast.org/hope-explorati…

Long-time activists and researchers in the field of housing rights in Romania, Ioana Florea and Mihail Sandu-Dumitriu look into the popular support for the right to housing and strategize how to build coalitions for housing for all lefteast.org/popular-suppor…

Julia Alekseyeva @thesoviette interviewed by Kristen R. Ghodsee about her book "Antifascism and the Avant-Garde," on the politics of 1960s avant-garde cinema in France and Japan, and their continued relevance for present anti-fascist struggles lefteast.org/this-camera-ki…

As student protests in Serbia continue, we republish LeftEast editor Vladimir Unkovski-Korica's powerful analysis of the movement's unprecedented achievements so far and prospects for continued resistance against the manoeuvres of the ruling party lefteast.org/the-movement-c…

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 lefteast.org/baron-helmsmen…

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. lefteast.org/the-student-re…

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? lefteast.org/javier-milei-2…

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. facebook.com/share/p/1B7vhW…

veteran British activist and scholar Leslie Huckfield writes for us on European politics in the UK today lefteast.org/the-european-u…

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: lefteast.org/the-revolution…

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 lefteast.org/left-parties-a…

@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 lefteast.org/left-parties-a…

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 lefteast.org/volodymyr-ishc…

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. lefteast.org/collective-sta…

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. lefteast.org/beneath-the-gr…

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) lefteast.org/understanding-…

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 lefteast.org/the-partisan-c…