“We aim to balance a Utopian vision of a radically different system with realistic steps to improve life”, state the LINKS candidates at the upcoming Austrian parliamentary elections.
The activists put up the same banner in both Belgrade and Tirana, reading: “The people of Serbia and Albanian say no to genocide. Free Palestine.”
The fact that Germany and EU are making “sacrifice zones” in the EU neighbouring countries is being exposed as a scandal by the climate movement in Germany, but isn’t discussed in the Bundestag, says Hauke Benner, a long-time environmental activist from Berlin.
Unpaid wages and a shortage of resources are the main reasons for the protest by the workers of the pharmacy chain “Apoteka Beograd.” The protest is scheduled for Friday, September 6, at 10 AM in front of the City’s administrative building.
While in neighboring countries elementary school students, and in some cases high school students, are provided with free textbooks, in most of Serbia one can only dream of that.
“Several thousand citizens showed support for detained activists at the protest ‘Safety is in Numbers,’ organized by Eko Straža.
“Let’s finish off with him so he can blow us all…”, said one of the men who rounded activist Ivan Milosavljević while he was inspecting a broader area of a wildfire for water grabbing.
10 Balkan initiatives organizing for Palestinian liberation met this past weekend in Ljubljana, Slovenia. But the most important results of this meeting had nothing to do with Palestine.
The rounding up of activists who protest against lithium mining is “a blatant abuse of the state’s repressive apparatus against its citizens,” according to a statement signed by thirteen lawyers from Belgrade and Niš.
Like many students studying in another country, Asem catches up with his family on the phone roughly once a week. But unlike other students, Asem’s conversations start with his family telling him, “we are alive.”
“This is just the beginning. We must prepare for Thursday because the Constitutional Court wants to annul the decree that suspended the spatial plan for this purpose,” said Zlatko Kokanović after being released from custody in Loznica late on July 7. “Rio Sava submitted that request. We must be there on Thursday to help them … Read more
In direct violation of domestic and international laws as well as court rulings, Kurdish political activist Ecevit Piroglu has been detained in Serbia for several years now. He is currently being held in a hospital in Pančevo, where he has been on hunger strike for the past 140 days. His health and life are on the line.
The demands to open a social dialogue about the future of the Rio Tinto company’s “Jadar” project, i.e. about lithium mining in Serbia, as we can hear in recent days, come too late and do not contribute to solving the problem, but only muddy the waters.
Mašina talked about the French left‘s tactics for the approaching elections with professor Natalie Depraz, a member of the left-wing La France Insoumise political party.
In an effort to renew mass resistance to the genocide in Palestine, the local activist group Support for the People of Palestine announced a protest at 5pm on Sunday, June 23rd in Belgrade.
We talked about current events in Argentina with Sara Cuifre, a feminist and activist for labor rights and a member of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC).
The Slovenian Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the government’s decision to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
Local elections were held in close to 90 cities and local municipalities in Serbia. The day was marked by irregularities and violence against citizens who tried to prevent them.
Art institutions across the United States are repressing pro-Palestinian artists. Mašina spoke with Elizabeth Larison, NCAC’s director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program, about the broader trends within the Art Censorship Index.
On Friday, May 17th Mercedes-Benz workers at two factories in Alabama voted against joining the union, United Auto Workers (UAW). With a final tally of 2,642 to 2,045 against unionizing, the result in Alabama represents the first setback in the UAW’s large-scale unionization campaign that Mašina previously reported on.
North Macedonia’s right-nationalist VMRO-DPMNE won a landslide electoral victory this week, retaking power with almost three times the votes of their rival, pro-European Social Democrats. VMRO-DPMNE’s 2014 redevelopment of capital Skopje rapidly passed into regional legend, with the Eurosceptic party replacing Modernist architecture with gleaming neo-classical facades and a vast array of statuary depicting Macedonian heroes.
