• In Today’s World Sovereignty Is Not Tolerated

  Interview: JOHN PILGER, war correspondent, journalist and filmmaker. As in Greece today, German economic power played a major role in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia – in encouraging Croatia to break away. John Pilger, world-famous war correspondent, journalist and documentarian, started his career as war correspondent back in the time of the Vietnam War. He was born in 1939 in Australia […]

  

• NATO exploits Greater Albanian Nationalism

  Interview: SEVIM DAGDELEN, MP for the German Left Party (Die Linke) Greater Albanian nationalism is flourishing on this soil, which is being exploited by NATO to discipline Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and even Greece. I recently criticised the KLA, and subsequently received not only sexist, racist and fascist letters from Greater Albanian nationalists, but even death threats. Furthermore, because I criticised the KLA I was defamed as a Serbian […]

  

• American Exceptionalism and American Torture

  In 1964, the Brazilian military, in a US-designed coup, overthrew a liberal (not more to the left than that) government and proceeded to rule with an iron fist for the next 21 years. In 1979 the military regime passed an amnesty law blocking the prosecution of its members for torture and other crimes. The amnesty still holds. That’s how they […]

  

• The Expensive Consequences of Cheap Food: An Interview with Raj Patel

  By Milenko Srećković Raj Patel is the author of the bestseller “Stuffed and Starved – The Hidden Battle for the World Food System” and the most recent book “The Value of Nothing” – named after famous Oscar Wilde’s aphorism ‘Nowadays, people know price of everything and the value of nothing’. In his book he criticizes a dominant attitude towards food […]

  

• 100 Years since the ”Shot Heard Round the World”

  By Milenko Srećković Although whole epoch in the eve of the First World War was filled with many similar political assassinations, Gavrilo Princip`s shooting of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand – that took place on this day exactly one hundred years ago – is best remembered because it was a pretext for the attack on Serbia that eventually led to the […]

  

• In memoriam – Bratislav Srećković (1948-2014)

  On Thursday, May 22nd, died Bratislav Srećković, our long-year associate and translator. He indebted our organization with his contributions to all our more significant publications: from Z magazine (2007-2009), books “Land and Freedom” (2011), “Deindustrialization and Workers Resistance” (2011) and “Struggle for the Future” (2013), to our magazine in English Freedom Fight Info. We are forever thankful for all his […]

  

• Resistance to the NATO Aggression against Serbia – one of the Battles in the Global War

  By Milenko Srećković At the beginning of the NATO aggression in 1999 the Cuban leader Fidel Castro expressed belief that Serbian guerrilla skills, acquired and developed throughout history, will provide dignified resistance to air strikes and a potential ground invasion of the biggest military alliance in the world, behind which stood nineteen world’s most powerful country. On the other side, […]

  

• Unlearned Lesson of War in Bosnia

  By Milenko Srećković Military interventions of international forces, which opt for one of the parties in religious-sectarian conflicts, only stir up already started wars and increase the number of their victims. For many, that interventionism began during the war in Bosnia. Mick Hume, editor of the British magazine “LM”, who criticized media reporting on events of those years and opposed […]

  

• Crisis is Paid by the Most Vulnerable – Interview with the ATTAC activist

  Interview with Lisa Mittendrein, member of the board of ATTAC Austria By Pavle Antonović and Vladimir Bogićević In the article ”Disarming the markets” published in the Le Mond Diplomatique, its editor-in-chief Ignatzio Ramonet proposed founding of the organization that would pursue adopting of Financial Transactions Tax (Tobin tax). The organization was named ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions […]

  

• 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 […]

  

Other News

Palestine Supports Serbia on Kosovo

BELGRADE, June 10, 2015 – Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic stated on June 10, after a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, that Palestine was decisively against the recognition of Kosovo’s independence. Abbas stated that Palestine appreciated the support of Serbia during the vote on Palestine’s observer status in the United Nations, stressing the “historically friendly relations which bind the two […]

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by admin / on June 12, 2015 at 10:02 PM /

Jewish MP in Britain Speaks Out on War Crimes in Gaza – Speech by Gerald Kaufmann to the British Parliament

(video link and transcription of major excerpts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5UeZlTywxs   I was brought up as a Jew and a Zionist. On the shelf in our kitchen there is a tin box in which we put money for the Jewish National Fund to help the pioneers in Palestine. . . .   I first went to Israel in 1961 and have been […]

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by admin / on August 10, 2014 at 11:33 PM /

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Tony Blair Bears ‘Total Responsibility’ For Isis, Says Academic Who Advised Him On Iraq

There is “absolutely” a link between the invasion of Iraq and the rise of terror group Isis, for which Tony Blair bears “total responsibility”, says a leading academic who advised the then prime minister in the run-up to the war. Speaking exclusively to The Huffington Post UK, Professor George Joffe of Cambridge University said Tony Blair had a “shallow mind” […]

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by admin / on June 18, 2014 at 11:41 AM /

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Why Noam Chomsky Is One of America’s Great Public Intellectuals

Chomsky appears to be an exile in his own country by virtue of his political interventions and his displays of fierce courage. By Henry A. Giroux / TruthOut.org Noam Chomsky is a world renowned academic best known not only for his pioneering work in linguistics but also for his ongoing work as a public intellectual in which he has addressed a […]

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by admin / on May 20, 2014 at 6:10 PM /

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Syria refugee scheme “disgracefully insufficient”, say campaigners

The government is refusing to say how many Syrian refugees it has relocated to Britain in a move campaigners say may mean the number is “embarrassingly low”. Great Britain – The Home Office has refused a Freedom of Information request to disclose the number of Syrian refugees brought to Britain under its Vulnerable Person Relocation programme. Luke Cooper, of the […]

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by admin / on May 19, 2014 at 7:28 PM /