Party of the Radical Left founded in Serbia
Left Unity welcomes the foundation of PRL in Serbia: The new party resulted from the transformation of the Social Democratic Union (SDU) – a process in which student movement activists participated as well as members of the Left Summit of Serbia and DiEM25 – which led to the most significant unification of Serbian left forces in the last thirty years.
The PRL (Party of the Radical Left/Partija Radikalne Levice) announced that the last SDU congress represented the end point of a process of the process of left unification in Serbia initiated in 2018. SDU members adopted the new political programme (Declaration of Workers’ Rights) and the necessary statutory changes.
According to the new programme, the PRL will ‘fight for a socialist society based on equality, solidarity, freedom, democracy, internationalism, anti-imperialism, and anti-fascism, a society in which people will be more important than profit’.
The congress also elected a presidency that will consist of five members: historian Milena Repaji?; sociologist Isidora A?imov; playwright Ivan Velisavljevi?, activist Ivan Zlati? and student Mina Miloševi?.
We stand in favour of a radical, fundamental change of the social system and building a socialist society. In that sense, the PRL is moving the political spectrum in Serbia to the left, member of the presidency Milena Repaji?, stated for Mašina.
Ivan Velisavljevic, another member of the PRL presidency, says that the new party is close to the members of the Party of the European Left:
Especially those in the region, such as the Workers’ Front from Croatia and the Left from Slovenia, as well as other workers’, left, eco-socialist and so-called red-green parties around the world.
Repaji? and Velisavljevi? explained that the new party will not wait long to show the public what it stands for:
Literally this morning we joined forces with the Joint Action Roof Over Your Head on preventing an eviction in Dalmatinska Street in Belgrade. We are simultaneously preparing the forming of all governing bodies, says Velisavljevi?.
Now that the party is founded we finally have a clear political articulation of the struggles we are waging in the form of the new Programme and the Declaration of Workers’ Rights, which we will present to the public, Repaji? explains.
The PRL programme indicates aspects of political struggle to which this party aims to contribute:
We will work in favour of Serbia being a secular republic in which dignified work free from exploitation, a roof over one’s head, healthy food and environment, free healthcare and education, gender equality and minority rights are guaranteed.
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