Ankica Čakardić is assistant professor of social philosophy at the University of Zagreb. She is an author of Specters of Transition: A Social History of Capitalism and Like a Clap of Thunder: Three Essays on Rosa Luxemburg.
Eighty years ago, the Women’s Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia was founded to help resist the Axis powers and their local collaborators. Working-class women played a decisive role in fighting fascism — and claimed their place in building a new socialist society.
Western liberal outlets acclaimed Social Democrat Zoran Milanović’s election as a victory for a “leftist” presidential candidate. But his campaign was mainly aimed at scooping up conservative votes — as all Croatian politics shift toward the radical right.