Serbia

The biggest protest in Serbian history happened on 15th March in the capital Belgrade. The upper estimate is 800,000 people; the entire population of Serbia is less than seven million. It was a culmination of […]

The situation in Serbia has reached the boiling point, after three months of student protests demanding justice for the fifteen victims of the collapsed roof at the railway station in the city of Novi Sad […]

A roof at the train station collapsed in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia on a busy November morning, killing 15 people. It collapsed two months after a ‘reconstruction’ job where tonnes of new […]

There is an ongoing bitter battle in Serbia around a proposed lithium mine. This battle isn’t new – the current Serbian government approved the mine in 2021 and it is generally acknowledged that it was […]

On 23rd May 2024 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that designated 11th July as the “International Day of Reflection and commemoration of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica”. The resolution was drafted by Germany. […]

During the month of May, two mass shootings took place in Serbia within two days. The first shooting was at a school in Belgrade, carried out by a 13 year old, who killed his school […]

Twenty-five years ago, in July 1995, 8,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were slaughtered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica – one of the final atrocities in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The designation of Srebrenica […]

Postal workers in Serbia are on strike. Socialistworld.net has written before about the difficult conditions workers are faced with, followed with solidarity actions. Workers in Serbia feel isolated, so any messages of solidarity will be […]

For the last two weekends, drawing a parallel with the ‘Yellow vests’ protests, in France, there have been anti-government protest marches in Belgrade. The second one was much bigger than the first, with, according to […]

Unjustly sacked workers of a water company in Serbia have been in a legal battle with the management for many years, and now the situation has become so desperate that they are organising a hunger […]

Following very successful solidarity action by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in support of a postal workers’ strike in Serbia, we publish below a letter from the leader of the Independent Union of […]

Below we publish an interview with Zoran Pavlovic, President of the Independent Trade Union of Postal Workers. Postal workers in Serbia have been on strike since last week, over a variety of issues. The publicly-owned […]

On 2 April, presidential elections in Serbia were won by the current Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić. A hard-line nationalist in the past, who miraculously converted into a pro-EU fanatic, he is the latest in a […]

Government alarmed by “poor striking back!”Next Sunday, 2 April, presidential elections take place in Serbia. There are 11 candidates, including the current prime minister, who is increasingly hated by big parts of the population and […]

Stagnating economy and joblessness lead to growing working-class dissent In the second round of Serbia’s presidential elections on Sunday 20 May, Tomislav Nikolic won a majority against the incumbent, Boris Tadic. In an election dominated […]

Stalled EU deal… status of Kosovo…crisis grows

Balkan leaders and imperialist powers responsible for wars and division

Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people

Independent class position needed

Neo-liberals victory means attacks on working people

The ultra nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) has become the biggest force in Serbian politics following the country’s general election on 28 December 2003.