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Poland: Demonstrating for Women’s Rights and for an End to the Right-wing...
Interview conducted by Philippe Alcoy and originally published in Revolution Permanente. Translated from the French by William Coker. Protest against abortion restriction in Bielsko-Biała, November...
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(Post)pandemic struggles in social reproduction: intersectional alliances...
Source:Musafiri.CasaJurnalistului.Ro Note of the LeftEast editors: The present text, which we co-publish together with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social...
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#25N : Essential Struggles Against Patriarchal Violence
Note from LeftEast editors: we stand with this position shared by the Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational network, first published on the website of Transnational Social Strike. November 25th...
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(Post)pandemic Struggles in Social Reproduction: Women & Migrants Maintaining...
Note of the LeftEast editors: The present text, which we co-publish together with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social reproduction, (women’s) labour and...
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(Post)pandemic Struggles in Social Reproduction: Who will pay for pandemic...
Note of the LeftEast editors: The present text, which we co-publish together with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social reproduction, (women’s) labour and...
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(Post)pandemic struggles in social reproduction: “Manage somehow”: notes from...
Note of the LeftEast editors: The present text, which we co-publish with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social reproduction, (women’s) labour and migration in...
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Post(pandemic) struggles in social reproduction: Romanian live-in care...
Note from the LeftEast editors:The present text, which we co-publish with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social reproduction, (women’s) labour and migration in...
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Essential Strike Manifesto for the 8th of March
Note from LeftEast Editors: We share the Essential Strike Manifesto by E.A.S.T. (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational), a network composed mostly of women, migrants, workers and activists born...
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Misogyny – the other pandemic!
Image: Mădălina AbrudeanSource: Feminism Romania The socio-economic crisis triggered by the pandemic disproportionately affects women. On March 8 – International Women’s Day – we protest in front of...
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A Transnational Response to the Attacks on the Istanbul Convention
Women demonstrate in Istanbul against the Turkish withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. This text was originally published on the Transnational Social Strike Platform website. There is also a...
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(Post)pandemic struggles in social reproduction: COVID-19 and housing justice...
Note of the LeftEast editors: The present text, which we co-publish together with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social reproduction, (women’s) labour and...
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Our Strike is Essential! Together with Polish Women for Freedom of Abortion
by E.A.S.T. – ESSENTIAL AUTONOMOUS STRUGGLES TRANSNATIONAL On the 22nd of October, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal declared abortion for foetal malformation – one of the few remaining grounds for...
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(Post)pandemic struggles for social reproduction: Transformative action along...
Note from the LeftEast editors: The present text, which we co-publish together with TSS is part of a series of publications and webinars on the topics of social reproduction, (women’s) labour and...
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In Search of Afghanistan: An Interview with Ali Abdi
Three women walk by an ancient site in Bamyan, a city in central Afghanistan with a Hazara and Shi’a majority. The rock-cavity in the background contained one of two 1,500-year old Buddha statues that...
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[Book] Essential struggles: pandemic fronts
Note from LeftEast editors: the bilingual volume “Essential struggles: pandemic fronts” was published in 2021 as a result of the E.A.S.T. network collaboration during the pandemic, whose webinars and...
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Resisting ‘the same old story’: violence, rape and the urgent need of...
Note from the author: Girls and women in Albania rise up (again and again) throughout the country against domestic and systemic violence. From an almost infertile context, we can finally talk about and...
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Intersectionality: Post-Marxism, Anti-Marxism, and Neoliberal Capitalism
Intersectionality chart. Source: Misty McPhetridge, BSSW Intersectionality is all around us. The slogan and evident false dichotomy – my feminism is intersectional or it is bullshit – is used without...
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The War in Ukraine Seen on the Ground. Interview with Oksana Dutchak
Ukrainian refugees wait at the border checkpoint with Hungary, 27 February 2022 [Wikimedia Commons] Oksana Dutchak is a researcher based in Ukraine and an activist of E.A.S.T. – Essential Autonomous...
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The Anti-Capitalist Basis and Potential of the Slogan: “We Want Social...
Note from LeftEast editors: This article originally appeared in Romanian in The Political Art Gazette and we publish it as part of the collaboration in the ELMO – Eastern European Left Media Outlet...
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Frieda Afary’s Interview with a Ukrainian Socialist Feminist
We repost Frieda Afary’s interview with Oksana Dutchak, who is a Ukrainian sociologist and co-editor of Commons, a Leftist journal in Ukraine. She talks about the courageous popular resistance to...
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Frieda Afary’s Interview With a Russian Anti-War Feminist
We repost Frieda Afary’s interview with Ella Rossman, a feminist from Russia, a member of the coordinating group of Feminist Anti-War Resistance and a doctoral student at the University College London,...
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We asked: why is the war in Ukraine a feminist question? Frieda Afary...
Commons, Wikimedia Note of LeftEast editors: Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the war continues to have devastating effects on women. In the conditions of war, the processes of...
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Female Face of Russian Anti-war Movement: Why Women Protest?
Source: Telegram Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine and the following establishment of de facto martial law in Russia, Russians have been protesting against the war. Though this...
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[VIDEO]: How Can Feminist Solidarity Help Ukraine?
We repost this video and its original introductory text with the permission of the organizers. On May 10, Internationalism from Below teamed up with Haymarket Books, the Ukrainian leftist journal...
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There are words: violence against women, femicide. And there is the question:...
The death of Beáta Molnár, the 30-year-old woman murdered by her partner in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, brings the discussion of gender violence back into the public eye. Her dead body was found wrapped in...
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The Need for Anti-War Socialist Feminism
“Feminists are everywhere!” Graffiti in Bucharest, 2014. Credit: Mark Ahsmann, Wikimedia Commons. First published in Romanian on CriticAtac and Platzforma. The article is translated as a part of the...
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The Witches of the Unwanted Colonies
This interview was initially published by Kohl Journal as part of its “Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries” issue. What does it mean to be a feminist in an unwanted colony,[1] a place deemed unworthy of...
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The Eighth of March in Russia: USSR, war and women’s rights
Translation of a column published in DOXA in Russian. «The woman behind the wheel is the driver,» says the propaganda of the Moscow region transport. From the poster, a stern, old-fashioned cold...
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Fearless, angry, devastated, and determined: Feminist struggles in Montenegro
Note from LeftEast editors: in this article, young journalist, activist and feminist Marija Pešić discusses how she sees recent developments in feminist organizing against femicide and against...
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Lea Vajsova: There is a boom of feminist organizations in Bulgaria after the...
Note from Lefteast Editors. We repost Vladimir Mitev’s interview with sociologist and left feminist activist Lea Vajsova, which originally appeared at Crossbordertalk on 13 February 2023. We saw the...
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