Serbia's Election: Student-led opposition triumphs, but communist alternative remains absent

Serbia's parliamentary elections on Sunday, October 25, delivered a decisive defeat to President Aleksandar Vučić's ruling camp, with the student-led opposition winning an outright majority after nearly two years of mass protests. 

 

Yet behind this major political shift lies a fundamental question: where is the independent political voice of the working class?

 

Communists of Serbia support the popular uprising led by students against the corrupt Vučić regime

Photo: Kirill Zykov / RIA Novosti

Communists of Serbia: The end is near 

For months now, the people's justified rebellion against the corrupt and criminalized government, embodied in Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS, has been going on. Of course, we should not forget his engaged servants - Ivica Dačić, Aleksandar Vulin and Milica Zavetnica. 

For a long time, the government responded to public protests with individual acts of violence - driving vehicles into the crowd, sporadic attacks on activists, etc. We are witnessing the beginning of a new phase in the government's reaction, which is reflected in the brutal and inappropriate use of force against the people who are demanding their basic democratic rights. 

Yugoslav communist Svetozar Markanovic dies at 88

The Party of "Communists of Serbia" has announced that cde. Svetozar Markanovic, President of the Central Committee, has died at the age of 88. 

Svetozar Markanovic was born in 1931 in Dvar (today Bosnia & Herzegovina). At the age of 15 he joined the National Liberation War (NOB) and in June 1944 he was admitted to the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. 

After the war, he went to Czechoslovakia where he studied mechanical engineering. In October 1948 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY).