Author: Gal Kirn

Gal Kirn currently lives in Berlin, works at TU Dresden, while in his hometown of Ljubljana he is a member of the Left Party (Levica). His book Partisan Ruptures and Contradictions of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia is forthcoming later this year (Pluto Press), he co-edited the book Beyond Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2017), Encountering Althusser (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Surfing the Black, Transgressive Moments in Yugoslav Cinema (Jan van Eyck Academie, 2012), and edited the publication Post-Fordism and its Discontents (JvE Academie, 2010).

European Progressive Future? Neither Yesterday’s Tsipras nor Today’s Greens

One cannot and should not turn away from the disastrous results of the recent European Parliament elections, especially considering that Leftist parties across the European Union (EU) expected to gain … Keep reading »

Social Movements • June 3, 2019 • Gal Kirn
The Emergence of the New Left Party in Slovenia

Initiative for Democratic Socialism Only a few years ago anyone advocating socialism in the Slovenian public media was seen either as an old nostalgic decrying “good old times” and Josip Broz … Keep reading »

Social Movements • April 4, 2014 • Gal Kirn
A Ghost is Haunting Slovenia, the Ghost of Revolution!

At the moment that I am writing this text, the massive social uprising in Slovenia continues and enters, with even fiercer political determination, into a new stage of political maturity. … Keep reading »

Social Movements • February 25, 2013 • Gal Kirn

Author: Gal Kirn

European Progressive Future? Neither Yesterday’s Tsipras nor Today’s Greens

The Emergence of the New Left Party in Slovenia

A Ghost is Haunting Slovenia, the Ghost of Revolution!