Novi Plamen
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Novi Plamen is a left-wing magazine
for political, social and cultural issues primarily aimed at intellectual audiences on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and the related diaspora. It is a leading publication of its kind in the region, published by the Demokratska misao (Democratic Thought) publishing company based in Zagreb
and largely sold on kiosks. Its editors-in-chief are Filip Erceg
, Mladen Jakopović (pseudonym Daniel Jakopovich), Ivica Mladenović and Professor Goran Marković. The magazine centres on peace and social justice issues, and on the obstacles and potentials for political, economic and social democratisation.
The magazine has an Advisory Board consisting of well-known international left-wing figures such as Noam Chomsky
, Slavoj Žižek
, Ken Coates
, Michael Albert
, John McDonnell MP
, Michael Löwy
, Catherine Samary
and Jean Ziegler
, as well as leading intellectuals and public figures from South East Europe, including the Deputy Prime Minister
of the Croatian government Slobodan Uzelac
, former Croatian Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurčić
MP, former Croatian Minister of Culture Antun Vujić
MP, Croatian MP Milorad Pupovac, president of the Croatian Writers' Association Velimir Visković, President of the Croatian PEN Club Nadežda Čačinovič
, writers Slobodan Šnajder
and Predrag Matvejević
(Vice-President of the International PEN Centre), former Bosnian
Minister for Multiculturalism Marko Oršolić and former Minister for Foreign Trade Dragoljub Stojanov, sociologist and politician Slavo Kukić
, professor and politician Bogdan Denitch
, actor Josip Pejaković
, philosopher Miodrag Živanović, professor Ljubomir Cuculovski
and others. Contributors to the magazine have also included the President of Croatia Ivo Josipović
, Slavoj Žižek
, Igor Mandić
, Todor Kuljić, Olivera Milosavljević, don Ivan Grubišić, Drago Pilsel, Ljubo Jurčić
MP, Biljana Borzan MP, Marin Jurjević MP, Srećko Pulig, Rastko Močnik
, Sonja Lokar, Antun Vujić
MP and Inoslav Bešker
.
Novi Plamen and the Demokratska misao publishing company co-organized an international scientific conference titled Participation, Self-management, Democracy held in Zagreb
in November 2007, along with the Left International Forum of the Swedish
Left Party
.
The name Novi Plamen (The New Flame) is an allusion to the distinguished magazine Plamen which was published in 1919 and edited by Miroslav Krleža
and August Cesarec
.
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
for political, social and cultural issues primarily aimed at intellectual audiences on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and the related diaspora. It is a leading publication of its kind in the region, published by the Demokratska misao (Democratic Thought) publishing company based in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
and largely sold on kiosks. Its editors-in-chief are Filip Erceg
Filip Erceg
Filip Erceg is a Croatian writer, journalist and political scientist.Erceg was born in Slavonski Brod, but lived his childhood in Bjelovar. He graduated in politology at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb...
, Mladen Jakopović (pseudonym Daniel Jakopovich), Ivica Mladenović and Professor Goran Marković. The magazine centres on peace and social justice issues, and on the obstacles and potentials for political, economic and social democratisation.
The magazine has an Advisory Board consisting of well-known international left-wing figures such as Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
, Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
, Ken Coates
Ken Coates
Kenneth Sidney Coates was a British politician and writer. He chaired the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and edited The Spokesman, the BRPF magazine launched in March 1970. He was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999...
, Michael Albert
Michael Albert
Michael Albert is an American activist, economist, speaker, and writer. He is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles...
, John McDonnell MP
John McDonnell (politician)
John Martin McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington since 1997; he serves as Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, the Labour Representation Committee, and the "Public Services Not Private Profit Group"...
, Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is presently the emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales...
, Catherine Samary
Catherine Samary
Catherine Samary is a lecturer at the Dauphine University, Paris and previously a central leader of the reunified Fourth International. She is a co-founder of its largest section, the Revolutionary Communist League....
and Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler is a former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland from 1981 to 1999...
, as well as leading intellectuals and public figures from South East Europe, including the Deputy Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some counties, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, but is significantly different, though both...
of the Croatian government Slobodan Uzelac
Slobodan Uzelac
Slobodan Uzelac, Ph.D., is the current Vice Prime Minister of Croatia for Regional Development, Reconstruction and Return. He is the member of Serbian minority in Croatia....
, former Croatian Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurčić
Ljubo Jurcic
Ljubo Jurčić is a Croatian economist, current president of the Croatian Association of Economists since 2006 and former Croatian Minister of the Economy ....
MP, former Croatian Minister of Culture Antun Vujić
Antun Vujic
Antun Vujić is a Croatian politician, philosopher, political analyst and lexicographer, currently member of Croatian Parliament and formerly Minister of Culture in the Croatian Government .-Overview:Vujić graduated from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy Antun Vujić (born in...
MP, Croatian MP Milorad Pupovac, president of the Croatian Writers' Association Velimir Visković, President of the Croatian PEN Club Nadežda Čačinovič
Nadežda Čačinovič
Nadežda Čačinović is a Croatian philosopher, sociologist, comparatist, feminist and Croatian-language book author.She was born to Slovene parents in Budapest....
, writers Slobodan Šnajder
Slobodan Šnajder
Slobodan Šnajder is a Croatian writer and publicist.Šnajder was born in 1948 in Zagreb, where graduated in philosophy and English studies from the Faculty of Philosophy. He was co-founder and editor of the theatre journal Prolog as well as editor of the edition published by Cekade. His short...
and Predrag Matvejević
Predrag Matvejevic
Predrag Matvejević is a Croatian writer known for his writing as well as for his political activism. His book Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape has been a bestseller in many European countries, and has been translated into more than 20 languages.-Biography:Predrag Matvejević was born in...
(Vice-President of the International PEN Centre), former Bosnian
Bosnians
Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...
Minister for Multiculturalism Marko Oršolić and former Minister for Foreign Trade Dragoljub Stojanov, sociologist and politician Slavo Kukić
Slavo Kukić
Slavo Kukić is a Bosnian Croat sociologist and politician.He teaches as a professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Mostar University and has additional teaching tasks at the universities of Sarajevo and Split....
, professor and politician Bogdan Denitch
Bogdan Denitch
Bogdan Denitch is an American sociologist of Yugoslav origin who is an emeritus professor at the City University of New York . He is a leading authority on the political sociology of the former Yugoslavia...
, actor Josip Pejaković
Josip Pejakovic
Josip Pejaković is a Bosnian Croat actor and writer born in Travnik, Yugoslavia. At one time he was the lead singer for the Travnik based rock group Veziri. He was also an antiwar activist at the start of the Bosnian war. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the left-wing magazine Novi Plamen...
, philosopher Miodrag Živanović, professor Ljubomir Cuculovski
Ljubomir Cuculovski
Ljubomir Cuculovski is a Macedonian philosopher and professor in Skopje. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, with a thesis on The Sources of Bergson’s Theory of Knowledge...
and others. Contributors to the magazine have also included the President of Croatia Ivo Josipović
Ivo Josipović
Ivo Josipović is a Croatian politician who has been President of Croatia since 2010. Josipović entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Croatia , and played a key role in the democratic transformation of this party as the author of the first statute of the SDP that replaced the...
, Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
, Igor Mandić
Igor Mandic
Igor Mandić is a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist.According to literature historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić is the most important and the most versatile Croatian newspaper writer of the second half of the 20th century. His polemic texts have marked a Yugoslav...
, Todor Kuljić, Olivera Milosavljević, don Ivan Grubišić, Drago Pilsel, Ljubo Jurčić
Ljubo Jurcic
Ljubo Jurčić is a Croatian economist, current president of the Croatian Association of Economists since 2006 and former Croatian Minister of the Economy ....
MP, Biljana Borzan MP, Marin Jurjević MP, Srećko Pulig, Rastko Močnik
Rastko Mocnik
Rastko Močnik is a Slovenian sociologist, literary theorist, translator and political activist. Together with Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, he is considered one of the co-founders of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis....
, Sonja Lokar, Antun Vujić
Antun Vujic
Antun Vujić is a Croatian politician, philosopher, political analyst and lexicographer, currently member of Croatian Parliament and formerly Minister of Culture in the Croatian Government .-Overview:Vujić graduated from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy Antun Vujić (born in...
MP and Inoslav Bešker
Inoslav Bešker
Inoslav Bešker is a Croatian journalist.Bešker started his journalistic career in 1967. Since 1989 he has been working as a correspondent from Rome for Vjesnik, Večernji list, BBC, Radio 101, Danas, Croatian Radiotelevision and Globus...
.
Novi Plamen and the Demokratska misao publishing company co-organized an international scientific conference titled Participation, Self-management, Democracy held in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
in November 2007, along with the Left International Forum of the Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
Left Party
Left Party (Sweden)
The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations...
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The name Novi Plamen (The New Flame) is an allusion to the distinguished magazine Plamen which was published in 1919 and edited by Miroslav Krleža
Miroslav Krleža
Miroslav Krleža was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav writer and the dominant figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom and the Republic . He has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Miroslav Krleža was born in Zagreb, modern-day...
and August Cesarec
August Cesarec
August Cesarec was a Croatian writer and left-wing politician.Cesarec was born in Zagreb, which was part of Austria-Hungary at a time. As a high school student he was involved in radical nationalist politics and joined the group that tried to assassinate Croatian ban Slavko Cuvaj...
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