Novi Plamen

Novi Plamen

Cover of issue 7, January/February 2008
Editors-in-Chief	Filip Erceg Mladen Jakopović Goran Marković
Categories	Political magazine
Frequency	Quarterly
First issue	March 2007
Company	Demokratska misao
Country	Croatia
Website	www.noviplamen.org
ISSN	1846-386X

Novi Plamen (English: New Flame) 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 (English: 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.^[1]

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. ^[2]

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.

References

1. ^ "Novi plamen na Balkanu". Danas. http://www.danas.rs/dodaci/vikend/plave_strane/novi_plamen_na_balkanu.45.html?news_id=198550. Retrieved 2011-06-05. 
2. ^ "O Novom Plamenu (About Novi Plamen)". Novi Plamen. http://www.noviplamen.org/index.php?page=onovomplamenu. Retrieved 2008-02-28. 

External links

• Ex-Yugoslavia: A New Progressive Voice, by Dan Jakopovich
• Novi Plamen official website