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The real life of law: Polish lessons on housing activism in the postcommunist...
Abstract In this paper, I analyze the content and practice of law enforcement in the domain of tenants’ protection in Warsaw to draw lessons from Polish examples on the strategy for housing activism in...
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Housing poverty and (missing) housing policies in Hungary (part 1)
Housing has recently become a hot topic in Hungarian public discourse. This increase in attention was caused by the alarming hardships caused by the steep increase in the interest on foreign currency...
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Struggles in and over Public Space: Hungarian Heritage as a Homeless Free Zone
Source: CritCom, Council of European Studies, Columbia University In November 2013, members of the organization The City Is for All (A Város Mindenkié, henceforth AVM) were forcibly removed from the...
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Housing poverty and (missing) housing policies in Hungary: A radical...
Note from the LeftEast editors: the first part of Mariann Dosa’s text on the housing policies in Hungary can be read here. Any housing policies that prioritize equity need to be based on broadly...
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Debt, Rents and Homelessness: Housing Policies in Postsocialist Romania
On September 16, 2014, about 30 people protested in front of the Bucharest City Hall. They demanded to be offered a housing after they had been forcefully evicted a day before from their houses on 50...
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Dancing in Kosova
Note from the LeftEast editors: this article has been originally published on the website of Vetevendosje site, and is reprinted in LeftEast with the permission of its author. This year a new...
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International Workers’ Day: resounding struggles from Greece to Russia
“For more than twenty years have the wage workers of this country begged and prayed their masters, the factory lords, to reduce their burdens. It has been in vain.” – this proclamation could easily...
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VIDEO: Living up to a name: The story of Plamen Goranov. An interview with...
LeftEast recently sat down with Martin Marinos and Andre Andreev to discuss their film ‘Flame: A Short Film About Plamen Goranov,’ which recently won the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Audience Award for...
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PLAN C: Which plan for the Left government in Greece after the new memorandum?
Over the last couple of days, the Global Centre of Advanced Studies (GCAS) “Democracy Rising” Conference took place in Athens, Greece. There has been much talk about three possible plans for the future...
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VIDEO: Where have all the workers gone
This film tells the tale of textile workers in post-Yugoslav states. The garment industry was very successful in socialist times, and employed thousands of workers, particularly women. After the...
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NO to transition 2.0: Social recomposition, Decolonisation and Transautonomism
This article was originally published as part of the Gazette of Political Art (GAP) #12 „In the Name of the Periphery. Decolonial theory and intervention in the Romanian context” December 2015,...
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We knew, but we could not believe: a short essay about Iranians’ attitude...
933 Of course everyone knew! Amidst family photos, selfies, and anecdotes, other types of pictures have surfaced on social media. These images have spread, bit by bit, news of horror across the...
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What is fueling the fuel price protests in Bulgaria?
The price of fuel has become the focal point of anti-austerity protests and not only in France. On November 11 2018, or one day after the 29th anniversary of the mythical November 10th 1989,...
View ArticleUkraine: 30 Years in Pursuit of Equality
As the Ukrainian government gears up to celebrate 30 years of independence, the reality is that, for many, independence has not brought the prosperity they were promised. LeftEast would like to thank...
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