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/Spring-of-the-great-loneliness https://internationalviewpoint.org/Spring-of-the-great-loneliness 2016-05-22T11:03:02Z text/html en Fitim Salihu Kosovo <p>What was predicted to be “The Kosovar Spring” in fact turned out to be opposition's “Spring of the great loneliness”, if we can raise an analogy with one of the masterpieces of the Albanian novelist, Ismail Kadare, <i>The Winter of the Great Loneliness</i> in which he describes Albania's break with the Soviet Union in 1961 and the solitude of the country, which had just turned its back on the Warsaw Pact.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV496-May-2016-" rel="directory">IV496 - May 2016</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Kosovo-+" rel="tag">Kosovo</a>