https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Crisis-and-class-struggle-in-Slovenia-the-growing-momentum-of-socialist https://internationalviewpoint.org/Crisis-and-class-struggle-in-Slovenia-the-growing-momentum-of-socialist 2014-11-03T11:31:21Z text/html en Jaša Lategano Slovenia <p>For many liberal spectators, Slovenia was for a long time considered a success story of transition from a ‘socialist dictatorship' into a ‘parliamentary democracy' based on a market economy. In the winter of 2012, however, mass popular uprisings swept through the larger cities and eventually brought down the far-right neoliberal government of the Slovenian Democratic Party. What followed was more or less a continuation of the same policies under a nominally ‘centre-left' government. In a similar way that Tony Blair could be considered Margaret Thatcher's greatest achievement, the technocratic approach to dealing with the manifold crisis devastating Slovenian society in general and the historical achievements of labor movement in particular, has become the universal language spoken by all political forces, often including those of organized labor. It seems, considering the socio-economic situation in the entire European periphery, that the subsumption of all spheres of society under the profit-driven rule of capitalist accumulation has only really begun for Slovenia.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV478-November-2014-" rel="directory">IV478 - November 2014</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Slovenia-+" rel="tag">Slovenia</a>