Balkans

Balkans

• Nato and the new imperialism

  

  Written in June 1999, John Rees explains why the war in the Balkans was not about the plight of refugees but part of Nato’s expansion. It wanted to dominate the Balkans and eastern Europe as well as control the oil rich areas of the Caspian Sea

• Serbia's spring in October

  

  Written in 2000, Lindsey German analyses the Serbian revolution and NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia which began 20 years ago today

• Left advances in Serbia: news from the protest frontlines

  

  The left has to engage with mass movements but to maintain an independent profile, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• Students protest in Albania: internationalist alternatives in the Balkans

  

  Students in Albania are protesting, and the solidarity pouring in from across the Balkans shows the possibility for internationalist alternatives, argues Kevin Ovenden

• Macedonia's failed referendum: a disaster for the EU and Nato

  

  The failed referendum in the small Balkan state represents a major upset for the West, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• Tensions in the Balkans: is Serbia preparing to recognise Kosovo?

  

  The Serbian President’s rhetoric since July 2017 has been suggestive of a compromise deal – but, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, the future is still uncertain  

• The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito's Yugoslavia - book review

  

  Vladimir Unkovski-Korica locates the roots of Yugoslavia’s bloody collapse in the ‘market socialism’ of the Tito years

• Rapidly decreasing middle ground: the Balkans and the Trump Effect

  

  Southeastern Europe is far from exempt from post-neoliberal global convulsions, observes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica 

• Breaking Bosnia's deadlock

  

  The imperial powers are once again at loggerheads in the Balkans. Dragan Plavsic argues for a decisive response from the left

• Serbian elections: more of the same?

  

  Serbia's prime minister will not have much opposition in parliament, though it may prove more difficult to implement his policies, writes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• Serbia: workers resist neoliberal attack on their rights

  

  Workers in Serbia have taken to the streets to defend their rights in the largest protest movement since the beginning of the global financial crisis writes Pavle Ilic of Marks21

• The people’s uprising: a break with Dayton Bosnia?

  Bosnia and Hercegovina has begun to clear up the wreckage left after some of the worst unrest for years. Andreja Zivkovic reports