Speaker: Serbia’s Student Protests Following Croatian Blockade Handbook

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Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Dec. 26 that everything so far said and done in the ongoing university students’ protest has followed the instructions laid out in The Blockade Cookbook, a booklet published years ago by Zagreb’s Center for Anarchist Studies.

“That’s where the ‘plenum’ came from. In our country, universities don’t have plenums. That recipe is from The Blockade Cookbook. [Its instructions include] a plenum, then working groups and units, monitors, program units, universities operating under student occupation, direct democracy, and so on. Everything we’ve been hearing these past few weeks comes straight from The Blockade Cookbook,” Brnabic told Pink TV, explaining she took the time to peruse the booklet.

“All the pieces have fallen into place,” she said, adding that merely two-three weeks after the students commenced their blockade of universities throughout Serbia – following the Cookbook’s recipe – she has heard that it is in Croatia’s strategic interest that Vucic not govern Serbia.

“What hurts the most is that there are opposition politicians in Serbia – I won’t name names – who are consciously and deliberately working for Croatian intelligence services,” the parliament speaker concluded.