Srdja Pavlovic / 20 Oct 2021
Montenegro in Crisis
Serbian Nationalist Threats
A few days ago, Montenegro’s Democratic Front (DF) issued its most significant threat to date to their partners in the ruling coalition.(...)
Yugoslavia
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 28 Jul 2021
Antifascist Montenegro
Eighty Years of Resistance
Montenegro is a study in contrasts: a proudly traditional culture that adopts the latest technology and trends with ease; a rugged, mountainous topology that drops dramatically to the gentle Adriatic Sea via modern highways and old, winding roads; and a climate of baking dry heat in the summer, turning to cooling rain and snow-topped peaks in the winter. (...)
Drasko Duranovic / 15 Jun 2021
The Urine Stench of Freedom
Montenegro in Crisis
His name doesn't matter. He is from Niksic, but he could be from any city of this new "liberated" Montenegro.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 19 Feb 2020
Rock Against Neoliberalism
Wire’s Mind Hive
When a band has been around as long as Wire, starting off a new record with the line “It’s nothing new” feels like a dare. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 18 Dec 2019
Tito in Pyongyang
Laibach’s Party Songs
When the news broke that the Slovenian band Laibach would be playing North Korea in 2015, long-time fans of their high-concept Kitschkunst smiled. What could be more Laibach than being the first Western rock group to play in the world’s most isolated country? (...)
Heather McRobie / 09 Sep 2019
Sarajevo to the West
Susan Sontag’s War
When Zdravko Grebo, a legal scholar at the University of Sarajevo, died this year, it seemed to many Sarajevans the end of an era: the last of his generation, of dissident, socialist anti-fundamentalist Bosnian thinkers who embodied the best of Yugoslav dynamism and spoke to the hope – as Sarajevo has often stood for – that Europe can carve out a space between totalitarianism and late capitalism alike.(...)