{"id":5009,"date":"2025-10-31T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:06:24","slug":"our-new-serbia-campaign-takes-off-like-a-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5009","title":{"rendered":"Our new Serbia campaign takes off like a rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went live in a big way this week with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5738\">our new Serbia campaign<\/a> and it shot up to <strong>3,174<\/strong> supporters after just a week online. There was an initial surge of support thanks to the ETF. We expect many more to sign up as the translations go live and we do our followup to the English list as well.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5727\">Lesotho campaign<\/a> continued to grow, but at a much slower pace, picking up just <strong>137<\/strong> new supporters this week.<\/p>\n<p>One of the global unions is exploring the possibility of another Serbia campaign soon. When I pointed out that this would be our third Serbia campaign in less than a year, I was told why that was happening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5010\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5010\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ranko-igor-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ranko-igor-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ranko-igor-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ranko-igor-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ranko-igor.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranko and Igor from the Serbian air traffic controllers union.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recorded and released another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2313632\/episodes\/18109960\">podcast<\/a> today, having interviewed the two Serbian union leaders who were recently sacked after leading a successful strike. We expect this podcast, like the campaign itself, to pick up lots of interest in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/news\/index2025._php\">our new home page<\/a>, which includes the prominent positioning of today&#8217;s news, has moved from being just on the English page to another <strong>20<\/strong> languages. Soon <em>all<\/em> our language sites will be using it. This is leading to the discovery of many small issues with those pages which are being systematically fixed.<\/p>\n<p>I did promise last week not to get all obsessive about our numbers, but couldn&#8217;t resist sharing this one: the labourstart.org website (not including the campaigns) had <strong>100,763<\/strong> visitors in October, and the month isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went live in a big way this week with our new Serbia campaign and it shot up to 3,174 supporters after just a week online. There was an initial surge of support thanks to the ETF. 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