Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jacobsson leads several research projects on social movements in Central and Eastern Europe and is the editor of Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2015, forthcoming) and co-editor (with Steven Saxonberg) of Beyond NGO-ization. The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2013).
In expecting social movements in the post-socialist countries to follow the same repertoire of action as, for...