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Category: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

25 January 2021 The Barricade

Essential Strike Manifesto for the 8th of March

A document by EAST – Essential Autonomous Struggles TransnationalThe Barricade

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21 January 2021 Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă

The most relevant 2020 events for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans

A review of the Western Balkans’ slow motion to the EU.Miruna Butnaru-TroncotăDr Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, Romania. Since 2019 she has coordinated the SNSPA Center for European

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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.Enikő VinczeProfessor of sociology at the Faculty of European Studies at the Babeș-Bolyai University. Activist for right to housing in the frame of the organisations Căși sociale ACUM! (Social housing now!) in Cluj and Blocul pentru Locuire

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5 January 2021 Veronika Stoyanova

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

An account of a civilizational downgrade.Veronika StoyanovaVeronika Stoyanova works as a Lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Her research focuses on theories of ideology and utopia, post-socialist studies, and Roma exclusion in Europe.

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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 activistsVladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the Romanian website BARICADA Romania, which

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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?Ben BurgisBen Burgis is a leftist philosophy professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College and the author of the best-selling Give Them An Argument: Logic for

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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 Maria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences (FJSC) (2001) and the Faculty of Philosophy (2004) at the University of Bucharest. She obtained an MA from FJSC in 2002 and in 2008 she got her PhD in Philosophy. She is

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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 forcesMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania

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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 problemsMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region. The work title of their podcast is “Squatting reds in tracksuits”

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10 December 2020 Andrius Bielskis

The great demolition of the Lithuanian Social Democrats

2020 Lithuanian general electionAndrius BielskisAndrius Bielskis is Director of Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, and Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. He is the founder of the progressive social movement ‘New Left 95’ and the director of DEMOS Institute of Critical

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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 Maria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the

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19 November 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

Chaos, desperation and violence

Postcard from Poland #7Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and

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16 November 2020 Maria Cernat

Union Save Neoliberalism

Postcard from Romania #2Maria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the Faculty

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3 November 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

Poland: Time to abolish the codgerstate

Postcard from Poland ️#6Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and

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