On social and state violence upon immigrants in SpainCorina TulbureCorina Tulbure is a freelance journalist based in Barcelona. She has written stories of displacement and migration in Spain and other countries (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Tunisia, Germany) and about frozen conflicts (Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, Transnistria, and Kosovo). Tulbure holds a PhD
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The prospects for a left-green alternative in Croatia’s capital and beyond.Paul StubbsPaul Stubbs is a UK-born sociologist who has lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia since 1994. His work focuses on policy translation, international actors in social policy and, increasingly, on the history of Yugoslav socialism, social welfare and the Non-Aligned
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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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Weird events have once again transpired on the outskirts of Europe. In Gorna Oryahovitsa, a provincial Bulgarian town, people have been up in arms over a social housing project out of fear it would become… a home for the poor. And to make it even weirder – the Bulgarian Socialist
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What needs to be done in Romania where the right to housing is an ever more important issue, while homeless people and beggars become more and more in numbers in the richest cities.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the
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