Using the Berlin referendum vote to expropriate large-scale landlords as a reference, ELMO’s roundtable brought together activists from movements in Romania, Serbia, Hungary and Germany to discuss struggles for the right to housing.András JuhászAndrás Juhász is a political activist from Zrenjanin, Serbia. He is a member of the editorial board of
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“I believe in socialism. I am convinced that everyone has the right to be happy”, this is how Elke Kahr explains her political credo. She has been active in the Communist Party of Austria for nearly thirty years. On September 26, she and her comrades from Graz, the country’s second
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Grassroots activism has been on the rise in Romania – housing movement, labour union movement and alternative mediaThe Barricade
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Why does Bulgaria need a right to housing movement? And what are the dimensions of the housing issue in one of the big Bulgarian cities?David BissetDavid Bisset is a specialist in child poverty and deprivation. He is one of the founders of Equilibrium, which is one of the leading social care
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Weird events have once again transpired on the outskirts of Europe. In Gorna Oryahovitsa, a provincial Bulgarian town, people have been up in arms over a social housing project out of fear it would become… a home for the poor. And to make it even weirder – the Bulgarian Socialist
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