Kind of a rant since I’m trying to get people’s attention here on what’s going on in my country atm. So prepare for a long one lol.
In case you all aren’t informed since I don’t see It’s being talked a lot unfortunately, a front part of a communist era train station that was reconstructed collapsed killing 15 people last November. The ruling neoliberal government (Serbian “Progressive” Party) that had a role in overseeing the project tried to lie and say that It had nothing to do with It even though it did. Making a lot of people angry. Mind you said party I mentioned is basically a slightly more liberal offshoot of the much older far-right ultra nationalist “Serbian Radical Party” that’s been around since the 90s.
This led to a lot of universities and colleges to shut down and are basically now run by self organized students since last December. They basically use large auditorium’s to vote on stuff, old school Soviet style. Though very recently a lot of unions, including workplaces in which some of my family members work, have proclaimed a general strike. And school’s plan to shut down too (originally winter break is supposed to end on January 20th).
Unfortunately a lot of violence is happening. From undercover government goons breaking into people’s home and threatening them to students getting run over by government goons as well and beaten by cops. Before you go “Oh this is a western coop!”, It is not. The students themselves proclaimed to not have an ideology and are not aligned with any political party (for better or worse I know, kinda annoying).
So yeah I hope something like this, that’s about It.
Also I know It’s fedipedia but It kinda explained what’s happening here in short so here.
If it was a colour revolution it would get a lot more coverage in the west. Power to the students!
Yeah, the fact that this is the first I’m seeing someone talk about this here tells me this is happening organically.
yugopnik talked about the situation around a month ago, that’s how I’ve heard of it
The students themselves proclaimed to not have an ideology and are not aligned with any political party
Isn’t this also how every US coup starts though?
Just watch out for vague platitudes about freedom I guess 🤷♂️
Some guy actually got beat up for waving an EU flag. Also some neonazi too got beat up for waving a SS Waffen flag of all things.
Hoping this anger gets directed correctly by whatever communist parties you have over there, power to the students and strikers
I’ve heard literally nothing about this in my country’s media, thank you for informing us comrade!
I’m so glad people over there care enough about people dying like this to get in the streets and demand change. If this happened in my country, we’d have a candlelight vigil and that would be it, everything would proceed as before.
Don’t know where you live, but people in Serbia aren’t protesting only because of this singular canopy, but because of a series of corruption scandals and overall malpractice that spans as far back as the collapse of Yugoslavia. From aflatoxin levels in the milk being 10x than what is allowed in most countries to the weapons being sold to literal fucking ISIS, this situation is simply the straw that broke the camels back. If I were to start listing all the affairs committed by the government, it would literally take me a year to finish. And don’t even get me started on Vucic straight-up being a EU/US vassal, installed as a puppet to completely erase Serbian influence and institutions from Kosovo, leaving Serbs still living there to the mercy of the ethno-nationalist Kosovo “government”.
Don’t know where you live
the land where we call corruption “campaign finance” and we call malpractice “a good economy”.
