EU mining troubles: what unites striking coal miners and protesting anti-mining activists in the Balkans?

14 December 2021 Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

EU mining troubles: what unites striking coal miners and protesting anti-mining activists in the Balkans?

An extraordinary week of social struggle showed that a different Balkans is possible.Vladimir Unkovski-KoricaThe author is an academic, a member of the leftist group Marks21 in Serbia and Counterfire in the United Kingdom. He is Lecturer in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow.

9 December 2021 The Barricade

Thousands of citizens successfully block traffic at several dozen locations in Serbia on Saturday

On December 4, for the second weekend in a row, citizens gathered to protest against the adoption of the Law on Expropriation and the Law on Referendum, and the implementation of the Rio Tinto Jadar project.The Barricade

22 November 2021 No Cold War

After COP26: The world needs climate cooperation, not a new Cold War

The world needs global cooperation, not a new Cold War.No Cold WarNo Cold War is a worldwide network of groups and individuals organizing to oppose the US-led New Cold War on China. That collective includes The Barricade.

21 November 2021 Boyan Stanislavski

“Capitalism’s deadly threat” — transform!Europe’s 2021 Yearbook is out

“On the barricades” — s03e14 Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and translator. In the late `90 active in the Polish left and later in the labor movement, particularly the biggest Polish labor confederation — The All-Poland Trade Union Alliance. Until 2012 editor-in-chief of its weekly magazine. Contributor at

12 October 2021 The Barricade

Presenting the 2021 transform! yearbook – An Interview with John Bellamy Foster

Join the debate with the transform! yearbook Editorial Board and John Bellamy Foster, one of the world’s leading figures in Marxian ecological theory. The Barricade

5 October 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

Climate injustice in the United States

Notions such as climate justice, ecological justice and ecofeminism become more and more importantThomas Klikauer – Meg Young

6 September 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

Global warming’s walking dead

By 2021, we have impacted on more than half of all our ice-free land on earth and we have indirectly impacted on the other half.Thomas Klikauer – Meg Young

20 August 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

The six myths of Angela Merkel

What do we understand erroneously about the outgoing German chancellor?Thomas Klikauer – Meg Young

4 August 2021 Peoples Dispatch

Protests held in Serbia against large scale mining bid by Rio Tinto

Resident collectives, environment and progressive political groups intensified protests against the mining giant Rio Tinto for large scale mining of lithium-rich jadarite.Peoples DispatchPeoples Dispatch, formerly The Dawn News, is an international media project with the mission of bringing to you voices from people’s movements and organizations across the globe. Since

1 August 2021 Maria Cernat - Vladimir Mitev

On the Barricades with Youri Smouter of 1+1: what goes well and what not in the EU’s East?

Thumbs up-thumbs down s01e04Maria Cernat – Vladimir Mitev