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

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

4 July 2021 Boyan Stanislavski

Will the Left ever dare to demand socially controlled, non-alienating public services?

Divided we fall s01e06Boyan 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 Baricada.org

28 February 2021 Vladimir Mitev

Aurelian Giugăl: The Romanian government is underfunding public services to discredit them

An interview with the political scientist from the University of Bucharest about the first two months of the Cîţu government, its policies and the draft budget, and its intentions to restart anti-corruption.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two

18 February 2021 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

Richard Wolff is on the Barricades!

A discussion about private vs. public, about China and the West, about the advances of socialism in the United States.Maria 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

8 September 2020 The Barricade

Open letter to the UN Secretary General on Covid-19, Health and Global Public Goods

The Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth proposes solutions to current crisis, based on the commonsThe Barricade

21 July 2020 Maria Cernat

Privatisation until the bitter end: Romania’s forests

Maria Cernat’s interview with Andrei Herţa, a researcher in social anthropology from the Regional Museum of History and Art in Zalău, on forest usage and protection in RomaniaMaria CernatMaria Cernat is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences (FJSC) (2001) and the Faculty of Philosophy (2004) at

26 June 2018 Ivaylo Atanasov

Prof. McDonald: “The debate on the public ownership of water supplies should have started yesterday”

We are speaking with Professor David McDonald from Queen’s University [in Kingston, Canada – ed], who is undertaking research in Development Studies – not very popular in Bulgaria, so would you tell us how your research brings you here? I’ll just say that my background, my teaching area is more

17 June 2018 Boyan Stanislavski

[VIDEO] Reprivatization in Poland or how crooks massively take over schools, hospital and houses

The Barricade sat down with the Polish lawyer and activist Beata Siemieniako about the criminal injustice of the so called reprivatization process in Poland. She wrote about her experience in the field of organizing social resistance against it in the book she recently published Reprivatizing Poland. Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish

27 February 2018 Kaloyan Todorov

The pathetic battle of in-laws and cousins over the Bulgarian energy sector

There is a second wave of “privatization” for a stake in the energy business. The battle is about who should take over. Varna TPP, an asset of the Czechs, was sold in a similar scheme. Kaloyan TodorovBulgarian left journalist and commentator.