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  • 6 January 2021 Enikő Vincze

    The golden age of the right and the answer for the left in Romania

    The repositioning of right-wing forces necessitates anti-nationalist and anti-racist class solidarity of all workers.

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  • 5 January 2021 Veronika Stoyanova

    Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

    An account of a civilizational downgrade.

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  • 2 January 2021 Vladimir Mitev

    The Romanian IT sector’s marvel of unionisation

    Florentin Iancu of the labour union SITT told the story of his union to a

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  • 29 December 2020 Ben Burgis

    How should the contemporary socialist left relate to the history of ‘actually existing socialism’?

    Lenin danced in the snow on the day that his Soviet Republic had officially lasted

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  • 23 December 2020 The Barricade

    “The kids in Albania are rebelling against their fate”

    A wave of young people’s protests broke out following the murder of Klodian Rasha by

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6 January 2021 Enikő Vincze

The golden age of the right and the answer for the left in Romania

The repositioning of right-wing forces necessitates anti-nationalist and anti-racist class solidarity of all workers.

Continue reading
5 January 2021 Veronika Stoyanova

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

An account of a civilizational downgrade.

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2 January 2021 Vladimir Mitev

The Romanian IT sector’s marvel of unionisation

Florentin Iancu of the labour union SITT told the story of his union to a community of Bulgarian labour activists

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29 December 2020 Ben Burgis

How should the contemporary socialist left relate to the history of ‘actually existing socialism’?

Lenin danced in the snow on the day that his Soviet Republic had officially lasted longer than the 1871 Paris Commune. Did you know that?

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23 December 2020 The Barricade

“The kids in Albania are rebelling against their fate”

A wave of young people’s protests broke out following the murder of Klodian Rasha by the police on 8 December 2020

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22 December 2020 Vladimir Mitev

The occidentosis and the modernization of Iran

The pre-revolutionary Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad looks for the creation of a new subject of the Iranian modernity – not in the blind Westernization, or in retreat to lifeless tradition, but in “a return forwad” to breaking the spell of machine and technology and putting them in service of

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22 December 2020 Maria Cernat

Bad joke! The far-right will lead the Romanian Parliamentary Commission for Equal Opportunities!

Postcard from Romania #3

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20 December 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Lithuania’s failed social-democracy. Was the 2020 election LSDP’s funeral? 

The 20 December 2020 episode of the podcast On the Barricades was about Lithuania, its political and social condition and the state of its left forces

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18 December 2020 Michael Roberts

COVID vaccines: calling the shots

“This is the people’s vaccine. Federal scientists helped invent it and taxpayers are funding its development (…) It should belong to humanity.”

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13 December 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Progressive politics and conservative working class: how to be matched?

A discussion about one of contemporary’s left primary problems

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22 December 2020 Maria Cernat

Bad joke! The far-right will lead the Romanian Parliamentary Commission for Equal Opportunities!

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