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New platforms – new labor

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Economy & finance
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Today’s platform capitalism is symbolized by a handful of multi-national corporations such as Alibaba, Facebook, Google’s Alphabet, Amazon, Tencent, Uber, etc. Increasingly, these corporations are not just re-shaping how people shop, but also how work is...

Hungary: Orban vs. protesting workers, part 2

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Education
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In the second part of the talk with Judit Zeller from the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the On the Barricades podcast focuses on the parallels between the state response to teachers' protests in Hungary and...

Hungary: Orban vs. protesting workers

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Education
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In the newest episode of On the Barricades, we discuss advocating for labor rights with Judit Zeller, a member of Hungarian Civil LIberties Union. The topic is the teachers strike in Hungary and disobedience declared...

Kazakhstani Chessboard — Part 2 — From spontaneous demos to rampant riots

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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What exactly happened last week in Kazakhstan? This is a question that many people have. Was this a genuine protest, or a western-led American jab in Russia's soft underbelly? Was this a working-class movement or...

Kazakhstani Chessboard — Part 1 — The setting

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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Last week, a stunning series of events occurred in Kazakhstan, a major Central Asian country. In comparison to many other states with a similar history of ties to the USSR, this post-Soviet republic was largely...

European Forum 2021 – Videos and Recordings

The Barricade
Analysis
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This year's Forum was held in Brussels and online on 26 and 27 November. Starting on 15 November, a number of online events took place in the framework of the Forum, like the presentation of...

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

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Just weeks after the world’s media was reporting that national tensions had brought the region to the brink of war, an extraordinary week of social struggle showed that a different Balkans is possible. At first glance, two...

If we can’t outlaw the ‘gig’ horror, could we at least regulate it?

We publish an opinion expressed by the European Public Service Union (EPSU) on the critical need to regulate the market of 'platform work,' in which individuals use an app or a website to match themselves...

Political theater outperforms political activism? w/ David Schwartz

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Art & culture
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This time, The Barricade's hosts sat down with David Schwartz, a Romanian theater director and, in some ways, political activist. His art is meant to motivate people to take political action and to instill hope...

Always by the side of Elton Debreshi and the Albanian mine workers

The Barricade
Albania
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The explosive planted in the car of the miner and head trade-unionist Elton Debreshi in the late hours of the night, is an ominous event for democracy and basic human rights in Albania. It has...