If it was a colour revolution it would get a lot more coverage in the west. Power to the students!

The students themselves proclaimed to not have an ideology and are not aligned with any political party

Isn't this also how every US coup starts though?

Just watch out for vague platitudes about freedom I guess 🤷‍♂️

Hoping this anger gets directed correctly by whatever communist parties you have over there, power to the students and strikers

I've heard literally nothing about this in my country's media, thank you for informing us comrade!

I'm so glad people over there care enough about people dying like this to get in the streets and demand change. If this happened in my country, we'd have a candlelight vigil and that would be it, everything would proceed as before.

Stay strong brother! Sending my best wishes 🖖🏾

gives you his energy

Hopefully, this leads to brighter days ahead, thinking of you comrade!

How accurate is Yugopnik's summary of the student protests and Serbian politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjO3K7jjMjs

It's a rough situation. Glad my friends in the area have been able to keep me filled in - I really hope things take a turn for the better.

Before you go "Oh this is a western coop!", It is not. The students themselves proclaimed to not have an ideology and are not aligned with any political party (for better or worse I know, kinda annoying).

You do realize a lot of color revolutions don't start out necessarily run entirely by CIA-brained, CIA-trained people? It's that those people are taught and given the resources to seize control of existing protests, to steer them, to set an ideology because they are the ones with pre-existing networks, with resources, with access to funds, to methods, with training on running these things, etc.

Any protest full of people with empty heads as you describe is just waiting for someone to come along and fill them with some ideology and what is the most common ideology but that of the dominant global hegemon which has invested VAST, vast resources in compromising human assets to pre-prepare for using things like this in countries all over the world and has more than half a century experience doing it?

I'm not going to jump to condemn but at the same time I've heard people sing this exact tune (on lemmy) about other events that turned into attempted color revolutions so we will see.

I'll just say anti-corruption is good in theory in a vacuum but in practice let's remember the fascist Navalny Russian opposition activist and US/NATO asset ran an anti-corruption foundation. Anti-corruption often turns into taking out the local oligarchs and creating a vacuum which allows plundering and power seizing by the global Atlantacist capitalists and their comprador pawns.

In realpolitik terms eastern European western-skeptical capitalists who are not subservient to the US/NATO/EU led order and want to carve out their own fiefdom are often by necessity somewhat anti-imperialist and provide a bulwark to even more states becoming pawns and fodder of the US/NATO/EU order.

One of the most commonly repeated attacks on anti-western capitalists who are not compradors of the west is corruption, this is well tread as a road and an in for the western narrative of the west as some corruption free utopia city on a hill when in reality you're trading local corruption and gangsterism by people with local addresses for international corruption and gangsterism and strengthening the single biggest gangster empire instead of propping up smaller rivals who while not great for people living under them, in the big picture tend to be important for stymieing western influence and are really all we and China have in light of the abysmal state of class consciousness and socialist movements in a part of the world that has had the earth salted against its growth with the fall of the USSR.

So while I do hope for the best and I'm not going to automatically condemn or decry until it becomes clear, I'm pessimistic about who this benefits.