Category: Europe
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Remembering Polish-born revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, 150 years after her birth
OPINION Rosa Luxemburg was born on the 5 March 1871 in the Polish town of Zamość, as Rozalia Luksenburg. She was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), before splitting from the latter to help establish the Communist Party of…
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Neglected state schools and far-right rhetoric: Macron’s legacy will be defined by his vanity politics
OPINION The quality of state schools in France has become so poor that working-class parents are turning to bursaries at Catholic private schools for their children’s education. As the government passes its ‘Islamist separatism’ law, these parents from France’s quartiers are battling a festering yet seemingly unacknowledged form of socio-economic segregation that threatens their children’s educational…
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Telegram revenge porn scandal: police investigate as more than 50 000 men share explicit content of women and underaged girls
CN: this article contains discussion of rape, child pornography and revenge porn REPORT The Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs is currently investigating a case of mass revenge porn that has shaken Serbia and the surrounding Balkan region over the past few days. There is now increasing evidence to suggest that thousands of men have collaborated…
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Guinness, Riverdance and St. Patrick’s Day: the Irish cultural superpower lives on
OPINION Ah yes, ‘tis the time of year again that the rivers of the USA are dyed green, Guinness’ marketing team goes to town and Irish politicians fly around the world, shaking hands and kissing babies. It must be St. Patrick’s day. A rather different one this year from the global drinking fests that have characterised…
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Poland’s Virgin Mary case: our barbaric blasphemy laws need revoking
CN: this article contains discussion of sexual abuse and homophobia OPINION On the 2 March 2021 a Polish court acquitted activists Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar, Anna Prus and Elżbieta Podleśna. They had been put on trial for ‘offending religious feelings‘, after using the image of the Virgin Mary whose halo displayed the colours of the LGBTQ+ pride rainbow flag,…
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Men, do better
OPINION CN: This article contains discussion of sexual violence and murder A week ago, few people knew who Sarah Everard was. Now, in the most tragic of circumstances, we all do. Sarah Everard disappeared on 3rd March whilst walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham at around 9:30 pm. She has not been seen…
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Chetnik collaboration and acts of genocide in the former Yugoslavia: an interview with Balkans scholar, Stevan Bozanich
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of genocide INTERVIEW Stevan Bozanich is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia). His research focuses on, among other things, paramilitary violence and far-right nationalism in the former Yugoslavia. Bozanich’s wide range of published works range from the sculpture of nationalism in fin-de-siècle…
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The social construction of “Turks” in Bosnia, and the Srebrenica genocide: an interview with Emir Suljagić
CN: this article contains discussion of genocide and Islamophobia INTERVIEW Emir Suljagić is a Bosnian journalist, politician and scholar. In 1992, at aged 17, he fled the ethnic cleansing of the Drina valley to the last remaining Bosniak (Muslim) enclave, in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Emir survived the genocide of 8,372 Muslim men…
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Why integrated education should be non-negotiable in Northern Ireland
OPINION How to bring together a community divided by civil war is a long, arduous and difficult process with no clear blueprint or one-size-fits-all remedy. However, there are certain policies a government can take that would be conducive to reconciling one section of its society with another. One such measure that seems blindingly obvious to me…
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Examining the oppression of Polish socialism offers answers to Poland’s socio-economic woes
OPINION Socialism and the struggle for self-determination in Poland always went hand in hand. However, every time the country regained its autonomy it ended up rejecting democratic and egalitarian ideals. This was the case after Poland gained its independence in 1918, following over a century of foreign rule. In the nineteenth century socialist activists, including Józef…
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