Serbia’s Government Is Targeting the Public UniversityIn the seventeenth month of a student-led mass movement in Serbia, the death of a student at the Faculty of Philosophy triggered an orchestrated attack on the University of Belgrade by the country’s government-police-tabloid complex. On the eve of the police raid, protesters gathered in front of the rectorate, and the rector delivered a historic speech situating the university as the last autonomous institution in the country ready to confront ruling-party power. But the question remains: what kind of politics, and in whose name?
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/serbia-university-belgrade-student-social-movements"Not Guns for Hire": Trump's Failure to Trigger a Kurdish Uprising The timing of the pact has led many to suggest that it was intended as preparation for an alignment with Israel and the U.S. in the coming conflict. Enderyarî, without directly refuting that narrative, pointed out that the relevant discussions between the parties had started in the aftermath of the 2022 anti-government “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran—significantly predating the current war. “Although political conditions also played a role, the formation of this alliance was a historical necessity, and it can even be said that it was delayed,” said Enderyarî. Regardless, Iranian Kurds quickly found themselves thrust into the forefront of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran. In the first week of fighting, the U.S. and Israel bombed numerous government positions in Kurdish regions of Iran, while making public calls to Kurdish groups to launch an uprising against the government. That uprising, intended to drain the resources and attention of the Iranian military, while potentially causing the ethnic dissolution of the country, did not come to pass. Other Iranian Kurdish groups who spoke to Drop Site expressed suspicion over attempts to maneuver them into a conflict at the behest of foreign powers. Ebrahim Alizadeh, General Secretary of Komala (CPI), also known as the Kurdistan Organization of the Iranian Communist Party, the only party of the seven that didn’t join the alliance, stated that one of the reasons his group had not joined the February 22 announcement was out of belief that the alliance had been hastily formed i
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