“Rijeka is a Croatian city, as well.” This is how Igor Bezinović, director of “Fiume o Morte!” describes an important message of his film, which is this year’s Croatian candidate for the Oscars and has already been awarded the main prize in Rotterdam.
Workers engaged at Uber, Bolt, Glovo and similar platforms formed a trade union to fight for the rights guaranteed by the Labour Law of the Republic of Croatia.
According to the still unofficial results of the local elections in Croatia, the support received by the green-left coalition We can! (Možemo!) announces changes on the political scene of the neighbouring country.
Striking similarities were revealed among ex-Yugoslav republics during this pandemic: the burden of the crisis was placed on the workers, who, although fragmented, organized resistance all across their shared former homeland, while at the same time facing the double threat of infection and possible termination.
The green-left coalition won 7 seats at the Croatian 151-seat parliament, surprising everybody. The turnout was less than 50%, the lowest ever in Croatia’s parliamentary election. The conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the biggest chunk of the electorate, while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) suffered a heavy blow to its position. Several right-wing parties won seats, too.
