• In Memoriam: Aleksandar Aco Todorović (1955-2014), the Leader of ”The Erased”

  Our comrade and associate Aleksandar Aco Todorović (1955-2014), the leader of  ‘’The Erased’’ from Slovenia, is found dead in Ptuj, Slovenia. Todorović, together with his friends, managed, after two decades of struggle, to force republic of Slovenia to acknowledge administrative ethnic cleansing of the Slovenian citizens with non-Slovenian or mixed origin (mostly Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and Roma) during the Slovenian […]

  

• Imagination – the Solution for Society’s Problems – interview with David Graeber

  By Milenko Srećković According to the testimony of his older colleagues, David Graeber is ”one of the best anthropologists of his generation”. By political conviction, he is an anarchist that advocates real, direct democracy, and is widely regarded for his contribution to the Occupy Wall Street movement especially in the early days of its creation when the organizational structure was […]

  

• Social resistance to neo-liberal policies in Serbia – report from the debate in Paris

  Social resistance to neo-liberal policies in Serbia with Milenko Srećković from the organization “Pokret za Slobodu” Minutes of the meeting Association pour l’Autogestion, ATTAC and the Assemblée Européenne des citoyens February 3rd, 2014, CICP offices, Paris By Kassia Aleksić Translation from French to English by Dorothée Genovese During the first International Gathering of “The Workers’Economy” (January 31st – February 1st, […]

  

• We Opposed the Demonization of Serbs – Interview about the Freedom of Speech

  Interview with Mick Hume, British author and editor By Milenko Srećković In 1997 British magazine “LM” published a translation of the article “The picture that fooled the world” by German journalist Thomas Deichmann, where the way in which big media corporation ITN reported on war in Bosnia in 1992 was called into question. In his article Deichmann concluded that ITN’s […]

  

• African Anti-land Grabbing Struggle

  Interview with Henry Machina and Ibrahima Coulibaly All across the world small farmers point to the negative consequences of increasingly widespread global phenomenon of ’land grabbing’, which leads to concentration of agricultural land and natural resources ownership in the hands of big investors and international corporations. This process, in addition to seizure of farmland, is very often accompanied by eviction […]

  

• A true Left is against imperialistic wars and neo-liberalism

  Interview: Kate Hudson, representative of the British party Left Unity In March last year, a group of British leftists supported by famous director Ken Loach issued a public call for creation of new left-wing party, while the initiative was realized at the founding conference at the end of November. A party by the name of Left Unity was formed with […]

  

• POKRET ZA SLOBODU removed Privatization Agency plaque…

  By taking off and destroying the Privatization Agency plaque we want symbolically to start the process of abolition of the institutions which have been acting against the interests and the existence of the majority of Serbian citizens since its creation. It is just another step of our organization in fighting the capitalist actions against workers and peasants. We also want […]

  

• The Unacceptable Easiness of Killing – on Western Terrorism

  By Milenko Srećković Often repeated statement about the greatest crime on European territory after WWII being committed in Srebrenica seems like being designed to hide the fact that the greatest crimes after Hitler were committed precisely by European states and countries of European descent, such as United States of America. Such crimes, of much greater proportions than the one in […]

  

• Political Will Crucial for Eradicating Hunger

  Freedom Fight Info editor Milenko Srećković talked with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter for Serbian Daily Politika. Freedom Fight Info presents you that interview in English. Interview with Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food By Milenko Srećković Since it is estimated that world population will grow to 9.7 […]

  

• Anti-landgrabing campaign in Serbia

  By Pavle Antonović (FreedomFight.net) Anti-landgrabing campaign in Serbia – launched by the Pokret za slobodu (www.pokret.net) several years ago as a part of its broader struggle against criminal privatization and corruption – points out that the process of the Serbia’s accession to the European Union will in fact benefit only those deeply involved in privatization theft in the last decade. […]

  

• Digging in for a new food system in Ireland

  Interview with Fergal Anderson After years of involvement in the work of social movements in Europe and Latin America, young Fergal Anderson with his partner Emanuela Russo, who he met a few years ago in Barcelona, decided to go back to his homeland and start a small vegetable farm in county Galway, Ireland. By Pavle Antonović and Vladimir Bogićević (FreedomFight.net) […]

  

• Adolf Hitler’s Birthday Gift – Memorial to Gavrilo Princip

  By Vladimir Bogićević (FreedomFight.net) In this photo Adolf Hitler is inspecting his birthday gift – the memorial taken away from Sarajevo, dedicated to Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This assassination, one of the many that were committed all around the world at that time, was used by Austro-Hungarian Empire as a pretext for attack on Serbia, […]

  

• The Way of SYRIZA – Strategy and Current Development

  – Interview with Yiannis Bournous By Filip Krantić and Milenko Srećković (FreedomFight.net) In the last elections in Greece anti-austerity leftist political party SYRIZA was on the verge of taking power and still has a good chance for that in the next elections. At the same time, some critics from the left accuse this party of softening its current anti-capitalist policy. […]

  

• Changing Ourselves while Changing Society

  Social competitiveness as one of the basic features of capitalism is often merciless. Living in the society in which we are left to ourselves and meaningful relationships are rare, it is crucial for us to learn how to cope with the situation and to transform it for individual and collective benefit. In this exclusive interview for Freedom Fight Info Dennis […]

  

• Corporate Control over Public Interest – International Investment Treaties

  By Freedom Fight Info The last two decades have witnessed the silent rise of a powerful international investment regime that has ensnared hundreds of countries and put corporate profit before human rights and the environment. Through International investment treaties – such as Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), states determine the rights of investors in each other’s territories. These treaties include a set of investment […]

  

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Report from the “Workers’ Economy” international meeting, January 31 and February 1, occupied factory of Fralib, Marseille.

Fralib is a herb processing and packaging factory located 20-odd kilometres away from the southern French port city of Marseille. The previous owner of the factory, chemical and agri-food giant Unilever, decided 3 years ago to move production of Lipton tea abroad to save on labour costs. The 80 workers, through protest and boycott campaigns, have demanded that the factory […]

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by admin / on February 5, 2014 at 6:20 PM /

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Debate: Social resistance to neo-liberal policies in Serbia – on 3rd February, in Paris

A l’initiative de l’Assemblée Européenne des Citoyens, Attac, l’Association pour l’Autogestion, Information-débat sur les résistances sociales aux politiques néo-libérales en Serbie Avec Milenko Srećković  LUNDI 3 FEVRIER, à 18h, CICP, 21 ter rue Voltaire, Paris 11è. Pendant plus de deux décennies – après le démantèlement de la Yougoslavie – la Serbie a subi des crises permanentes accompagnées de guerres, de […]

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by admin / on January 22, 2014 at 12:12 AM /

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Chomsky: The Internet is full of people who can’t read and want to talk about sandwiches

In an interview uploaded to YouTube, Noam Chomsky answers the question “[d]oes the generative potential of the internet help to form new kinds of social or cultural associations” by saying that he knows of “actual cases” of “adolescents who think they have 500 friends, because they have 500 friends on Facebook, but these are the kinds of friends who, if […]

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by admin / on October 24, 2013 at 2:27 PM /

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Book Review: On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare (2013, Pluto Press) by Noam Chomsky and Andre Vltchek

 By Richard Falk, Foreign Policy Journal Recently I read On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, published in 2013 by Pluto Press here in London, consisting of a series of conversations between Chomsky and the Czech filmmaker, journalist, and author, Andre Vltchek, who is now a naturalized American citizen. Vltchek in an illuminating Preface describes his long and close friendship […]

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by admin / on October 22, 2013 at 10:02 AM /

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About 83 Percent Of Serbian Citizens Against GMOs – Survey

In Serbia, nearly 83 percent of citizens voted to ban the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on their territory, according to a survey conducted by the portal 021.rs. Of 1,827 people surveyed, 82.9 percent voted for complete prohibition of GMOs, 10.9 percent are against the ban, while 6.1 percent are undecided, according to a press release. The group “Citizens […]

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by admin / on October 21, 2013 at 11:09 PM /