MLADEN JAKOPOVIĆ / DANIEL JAKOPOVICH
born 1985 in Zagreb, Croatia
Daniel Jakopovich is the pen name of Mladen Jakopović. His earlier writings also appear under the shorter version of the name, Dan Jakopovich
EDUCATION
Peace & Conflict Studies - London Metropolitan University
B.A. 2007 (First Class Honours)
Political Science MA - New School for Social Research, New York City, 2007 - 2009
Sociology PhD – University of Cambridge, 2009
PROFESSIONAL/PUBLIC POSITIONS
Editor, Hrvatska ljevica (Croatian Left), 2003-2004.
Editor, 11.teza (Thesis Eleven), 2004-2006.
Director, Demokratska misao/Democratic Thought publishing house, 2006 -
Main Editor, Novi Plamen, 2007-
Member of the National Committee of the Socialist Party USA, and the chair of its Labor Commission, 2007 - 2008 (resigned)
Editorial board member of Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2010-
Member of the Council of Peace Pledge Union, 2011-
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
O reformi obrazovanja (On Education Reform), Hrvatska ljevica, March 2002;
Novi Plamen, April, 2007; Institute for Education Policy Studies website (English), 2008
Sofizam danas (Contemporary Sophism), Hrvatska ljevica, January 2003.
Let's talk about barbarism, Chartist Magazine, May/June 2004.
Hiperbolizirani odgovor na kritiku moga članka Nenasilni Otpor (A Hyperbolised Response to the Critique of my Article on Nonviolent Resistance), 11.Teza, March 2007.
Germany and US: Discordant Harmony/Deutschland und USA: Uneinige Harmonie, Znet (English & German version), March 21, 2005.
Fortress Europe is a Conquering Navy, Black Flag, 2005.
On Means and Ends, Black Flag, 2005.
Remembering the Hungarian Revolution (Hungarian Workers Against Stalinism), Solidarity, October, 2006.
The Global AIDS Pandemic and the Response of the Relevant Actors, Solidarity, January 2007.
Green Unionism in Theory and Practice, Synthesis/Regeneration, Spring 2007./Eine machtvolle Synthese: Gewerkschaften und Ökologie – „Grüne“ Gewerkschaftsarbeit in Theorie und Praxis, Direkte Aktion 191, January-February 2009/ Labournet.de, 1 February, 2009.
Svjetski rat protiv djece (World War Against Children), Novi Plamen, March 2007.
Europa kao kultura promicanja vrijednosti (Europe as a Culture of Promoting Values), Novi Plamen, March 2007.
Novi Plamen: A New Progressive Voice, Znet, March 15, 2007.
Pakao na Bliskom Istoku: fragmenti (Hell in the Middle East: fragments), Novi Plamen, April, 2007.
Nova iskušenja palestinske sirotinje (New Crosses of the Palestine Poor), Novi Plamen, May/June, 2007.
Mediji u Venezueli: od mitologije do oslobođenja, Novi Plamen, May/June, 2007. Media Freedoms in Venezuela: from Mythology to Liberation, Socialist Resistance, May/June, 2007.
Revolutionary Unionism: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, New Politics, Summer 2007.
The "Rose Revolution" in Georgia (2003): A Case Study in High Politics and Rank-and-File Execution, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, September, 2007.
Djeca kao kolateralne žrtve rata u Iraku (Children as "Collateral Damage" of the War in Iraq), Novi Plamen, July/August, 2007;
ZNet, January 7, 2008;
Respect Newspaper, Issue 3, March 2008.
/Los Niños Como "Daños Colaterales" De La Guerra De Irak, ZNet Espanol
Diktator na samrti (A Dictator on his Deathbed?), Novi Plamen, July/August, 2007.
/No Solidarity with the Regime, Solidarity, January, 2008.
Argentina: Tvornice radnicima (Argentina: Factories to the Workers), Novi Plamen, July/August, 2007.
Z Magazin Balkan, Autumn 2007.
The FBI's COINTELPRO Operations Against the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Outlook, 2007.
Revolucionarni sukob i revolucionarna partija u Gramscijevoj misli, Novi Plamen, October-November, 2007; La révolution et le parti dans la pensée de Gramsci, une actualization, Inprecor, September-October, 2008; Revolution and the Party in Gramsci's Thought: A Modern Application, International Viewpoint, IV406, November 2008; Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres (English and French version).
On the Tenant Power Question, Anarchosyndicalist Review, 2008.
Ključni zadaci antikapitalističke ljevice nakon izbora u Hrvatskoj (Critical Tasks of the Anti-capitalist Left After the Croatian Elections), Novi Plamen, January/February 2008.
Veliki plan, Novi Plamen, January/February 2008.
A Few Basic Facts: On Hunger and Capital, Against the Current, March/April, No.133, 2008.
A World War On Children, Morning Star, Tuesday, 15 April, 2008.
Sartreov egzistencijalni marksizam i potraga za humanističkom autentičnošću (Sartre's Existential Marxism and the Search for Humanistic Authenticity), Novi Plamen, March - April, 2008.
Pobuna Latinske Amerike (Latin American Revolt), Novi Plamen, March-April, 2008.
Time Factor in Insurrections, Strategic Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 3, May 2008.
Društvo bez tjelesnog nasilja nad djecom (A Society Without Physical Violence Against Children), Novi Plamen, May-July, 2008.
Korejski kolonijalni rat i američka potpora masovnim smaknućima (Korean Colonial War and the American Support of Mass Murder), Novi Plamen, May-July, 2008.
Review of a Classic: Giovanni Arrighi’s “The Long Twentieth Century”, The Commune, September, 2008.
Genocide of Neglect, Morning Star, Tuesday, 15 July, 2008; AIDS – genocid ravnodušnosti, Novi Plamen, August-October, 2008.
Should we be Looking at States or the Capitalist System, The Commune, November 2008.
The Interdependence of Nationalisms, and the Struggle for a Left Alternative, The Socialist WebZine, November 2008.
Licemjerje selektivnih humanista: o Jami Barbara, Saveznicima i zločinima, Novi Plamen, March, 2009.
Neredi u Grčkoj - labuđi pijev autonomizma?, Novi Plamen, March, 2009/Riots in Greece – the “Swan-Song” of Autonomism, The Commune, February 2009 .
Slijepe ulice izralesko-palestinskog sukoba, Novi Plamen, March, 2009/Blind Alleys of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The Commune, April 2009.
Uniting to Win: Labor-Environmental Alliances, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol.2, Issue 2, 2009
Sources of the Democratic Deficit in the Yugoslav System of “Self-Government“, Znet, June 17, 2009/Las fuentes del déficit democrático en el sistema de “autogestión” yugoslavo, Cayapa: Revista Venezolana de Economia Social, No. 20, 2011
In the Belly of the Beast: Challenging US Imperialism and the Politics of the Offensive, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, July 2009 (a shorter version of this article was published in Dialogue and Initiative: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Summer 2009)
Hannah Arendt and Nonviolence, Peace Studies Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2009
Potreba “deimperijalizacije” (The Need for “De-imperialisation”), Novi Plamen, July 2009
Podsjećanje na klasik – Giovanni Arrighi: “Dugo dvadeseto stoljeće“ (Remembering a Classic - Giovanni Arrighi: The Long Twentieth Century), Međunarodna politika, No. 1137, January-March 2010
The British National Party: Underlying Causes of Far Right Growth, its Present Nature and Prospects, Europe solidaire sans frontiers, 5 October 2010/Putanja europske krajnje desnice: slučaj Britanske nacionalne stranke, Sociološka luča, No.2, 2010
Kritički intelektualac i "kraj povijesti" (The Critical Intellectual and the "End of History"), Republika, February 2011
Plamen socijalne ekonomije (The Flame of Social Economy), Novi Plamen, No. 15, February 2011
The Construction of a Trans-European Labour Movement, Capital and Class, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2011
Fo is still the Enemy of Power and Corruption (interview with Dario Fo), The Tribune, March 16th, 2011
A Humanist Defence and Critique of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Peace Studies Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2011