LeftEast

The LeftEast section of CriticAtac is a place where various voices, efforts and groups from around the region broadly understood come together in a sustained analytical and political effort. This is a platform where our common struggles and political commitments come together beyond the national borders and beyond the straightjacket of the national languages.

Therefore, this platform is a political act. Ideologically, the platform is explicitly left wing in orientation, by this meaning at least left of the classical social democracy. Nonetheless it aims to remain largely inclusive and open, accommodating enough strands of the contemporary left without losing the critical edge while maintaining a dynamic environment for intellectual conversations.

This is not an academic platform, nor it tries to act as a makeshift one. Also, it is not simply a news agency for the lefties about the region. It seeks to offer a mixture of theoretically – and analytically – informed contributions about current matters, local but not parochial, seeking to engage audiences beyond the national publics and beyond the academic circles. It aims to inform, illuminate and mobilize.

The aim is to constitute an alternative to the way we see the region but also to the type of intellectual production historically associated to this part of the world. Therefore, the platform seeks to publish not only regular analytical productions, but also interviews, reportages, travelogues, literary reviews, cultural commentaries, recommendations, videos and so on. Ideally these contributions should be original as much as possible, but of course there is no limit to texts already published elsewhere as long as those who propose the texts manage to secure proper approval.

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