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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

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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

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26 August 2018 Kaloyan Todorov

No people, no problem… and no public transport

Or, how General Toshevo, one of Bulgaria’s largest municipalities, lost half of its bus lines. And yet no one understands why. Kaloyan TodorovBulgarian left journalist and commentator.

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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

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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

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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.

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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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Poland: Time to abolish the codgerstate

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