It’s Ilchovski-gate this time. A very typical story from Bulgaria during the reign of Boyko Borissov. It’s about blackmail, racketeering, feuds between oligarchs, escort girls, gold bars, stock speculation, and businessmen – some loyal to Borissov and others attempting to dissent. Get this and a lot more of the cheap
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“An attack on a pastor who conducts catechesis in accordance with Church teachings is unacceptable,” says Poland’s Deputy Climate Minister Edward Siarka, defending a priest who told students that “homosexuality is a disease” that can be “treated with electric shocks” or “removal of ovaries or clitoris.”Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist,
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Poland’s unprecedented interference with the Czech Republic’s right to legal abortion occurred in March, but only recently came to light. It also demonstrates that the current Polish Catholic fundamentalists have become completely detached from reality, living in an imaginary world that is a projection of their own propaganda.Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and
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A chronology of the games they are playingOvidiu ŢichindeleanuOvidiu Ţichindeleanu is a philosopher and a theorist of culture, a co-founder of the Romanian left-wing site CriticAtac, the Romanian platform Indymedia, and the Eastern European left-wing political platform, LeftEast. He was a member of the Governing Board of the El Taller
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The initiative is part of a wider international movement that seeks to define water, knowledge and algorithms as universally accessible public goods – as commonsVladimir 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
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A message by Feleknas Uca & Hişyar Özsoy — co-spokespersons of HDP party (Turkey) for Foreign AffairsThe Barricade
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Joint statement by Manon Aubry and Martin Schirdewan, Co-Presidents of The Left group in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL and Tiny Kox, President of the European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of EuropeThe Barricade
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Bulgaria’s national and international political contradictions revolve around corruption and the rule of law.Vladimir 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 initially started as a Romanian language
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The French political and social situation – with its many strikes, social movements, and highly ideologised political currents – often fascinates observers outside France. The life of a central figure in the French socialist movement, Jules Guesde, who is little known outside France provides insights into the specificities of the
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Even though Luxemburg’s writings have been widely analysed and her correspondence subjected to detailed examination from various viewpoints, this question is harder to answer than it seems.The Barricade
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