The Barricade

26 October 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

Poland: Rage and fury after yet another fundamentalist excess

Poland’s uprising against the Catholic yoke has begun.Since the shocking verdict of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal last Thursday, which resulted in the banning of abortions on the grounds of them representing drastic malformation of the fetus, there has been a huge and growing wave of protests all over the country.

24 October 2020 Maria Cernat

Top Court in Poland Bans Abortions Due to Foetal Defects

Interview with Karolina Więckiewicz, a feminist and activist who is a member of the Aborcyiny Dream Team (Abortion Dream Team)

23 October 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

The Polish war on women is over 30 years old

The recent ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland is the latest episode in the 30-year long war on women in that country. It is disgusting and enraging but it is a part of a process that has been going on since 1988.

23 October 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

Golden dusk? Greek Nazis finally convicted

A discussion with Eleftheria Angeli, a left-wing activist, economist and researcher from Greece, on the roots and deeds of the Greek extreme right and on what happens next after the ban of the Golden Dawn party

23 October 2020 David Bisset

Ruse: Little Manhattan in the Balkans

Why does Bulgaria need a right to housing movement? And what are the dimensions of the housing issue in one of the big Bulgarian cities?

22 October 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

Poland does not deserve a single woman or a child

Postcard from Poland ️#4

22 October 2020 The Barricade

What is the situation of the Czech left after the regional elections?

The results of the Czech left in the regional elections are poor, for both the Communist KSČM and the social-democratic ČSSD. In regional councils, left-wing voices will be heard even less than in the past.

21 October 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

The autumn wave of coronavirus strikes Eastern Europe. Where’s the left?

The left has given up on having its own agenda in the conditions of coronavirus pandemics. The extreme right is the only opposition to the right-wing governments in the region. That is a problem.

20 October 2020 Paul Jay

Is Trump Good for Bulgarian Corruption?

The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was the guest of Paul Jay’s The Analysis podcast, discussing Bulgarian protests, the all-weather warm relations between Sofia and Washington, the Bulgarian acquisition of US war planes, the genesis of Bulgarian organised crime and oligarchy in the times of transition, the eternal Soros-Trump clash in Eastern

17 October 2020 Maria Cernat

How do we make progressive politics appealing to a conservative workforce?

Ben Burgis, contributor to the Jacobin, gets interviewed by the Barricade