LeftEast editors Adela Gjorgjioska, Mary Taylor, and Konstantin Kilibarda sat down with Fabio Mattioli to discuss his new book Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe. In this interview, we explore themes of peripheral financialization, populism, masculinity/gender, capitalist accumulation, and working-class resistance in postsocialist Macedonia, including the more global lessons we can draw from Mattioli's case study. Thanks to Mike James for the music. This is the first in LeftEast's podcast series and we look forward to hearing your comments on it.

[LeftEast podcast} Fabio Mattioli on financialization and authoritarianism in Macedonia

Interview of Slovene Radio Student with a Bulgarian anti-fa activist on the occasion of the call for solidarity issued by groups in the country to get help in blocking the annual neonazi Lukov March.
https://radiostudent.si/dru%C5%BEba/%C4%8Drna-luknja/anarhizem-na-kosovu

Radio Student: Bulgaria Calls for Solidarity against Neonazi March

We present here the discussion of the new book of Common Notions publishing house 'In the Name of the People' which took place in New York in late July 2018.  

This truly internationalist and collectivist publication boldly examines the forms of right and leftwing populism emergent in the fissures of the political world. Experimental in both form and analysis, In the Name of the People is the commune form of thought and text.

The ghost of the People has returned to the world stage, claiming to be the only force capable of correcting or taking charge of the excesses of the time. The relationship between the collapse of certain orders, the multiplication of civil wars, and the incessant appeal to the People is clear: as the liberal mode of governance experiences a global legitimation crisis, different forms of right and left populism gain strength within the fractures of ever expanding ruins.

mmune form of thought and text.The ghost of the People has returned to the world stage, claiming to be the only force capable of correcting or taking charge of the excesses of the time. The relationship between the collapse of certain orders, the multiplication of civil wars, and the incessant appeal to the People is clear: as the liberal mode of governance experiences a global legitimation crisis, different forms of right and left populism gain strength within the fractures of ever expanding ruins.

In the Name of the People is an analysis and reflection on the global populist surge, written from the local forms it takes in the places we inhabit: the United States, Catalonia, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Quebec, Russia, and Ukraine. The upheaval and polarizations caused by populist policies around the world indicates above all the urgency to develop a series of planetary revolutionary interpretations, and to make the necessary connections in order to understand and act in the world.

TO PREORDER THE BOOK, FOLLOW THIS LINK: http://www.commonnotions.org/buy/in-the-name-of-the-people

Common Notions is a publishing house and programming platform that advances new formulations of liberation and living autonomy. Our books provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice. By any media necessary, Common Notions seek to nourish the imagination and generalize common notions about the creation of other worlds beyond state and capital.

[Book Launch & Discussion] Common Notions: In the Name of the People

In this first episode of the FeminEasts podcast, recorded in early 2018, we speak with Boryana Rossa about her work, the Sofia Queer Forum 2017 edition "Sex & Revolution" and broader topics concerning sexual art, politics and sexual liberation in Eastern Europe and beyond. We publish this interview while the next edition of the Queer Forum is taking place in Sofia November 9 - December 2, 2018.

Boryana is a Bulgarian-born, US-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and academic who works in the fields of electronic arts, film, video, performance and photography. In 2004 together with the Russian artist and film maker Oleg Mavromatti, Rossa establishes UTRAFUTURO–an international group of artists engaged with issues of technology, science and their social implications. In 2012  Rossa has finished her PhD on Post Cold -War Gender Performances. Cross-cultural examination of gender representations viewed through Soviet, Russian and Bulgarian film re-enactments, in the  Department of Arts, at Rensselaer, Troy, NY. Since 2012 she has been a founding member and co-director with Stanimir Panayotov of Sofia Queer Forum, an event that investigates, with the means of contemporary arts, gender and sexuality. She is currently an Assistant Professor, Art Video and Transmedia Core at the Department of Transmedia, Syracuse University.

[FeminEasts] Queer Podcasting from Around the Blocs, is part of the platform FeminEasts within LeftEast, curated by Alexandra Ghit and Mariya Ivancheva. The aim of this podcast series is to open a decolonial queer space for discussion of feminist topics related, but not limited to Eastern Europe. This episode was edited by Alexandra Ghit.

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