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“The solution to everyone’s problems lies in solving the problems of the many”

Maria Cernat
European Union
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Interview with Roberto Morea conducted for Baricada by Maria Cernat As I pointed out in a recent article, I had the opportunity to participate as a guest of Transform! Europe at the European Social Forum....

COP27 and the 10 Rules of Corporate Greenwashing

Thomas Klikauer
Analysis
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With the Coca-Cola sponsored blah-blah-blah festival of COP27 in the Egyptian dictatorship done and dusted – until the next one – corporate greenwashing has worked its magic again. And this is not just because Rachel Rose Jackson of Corporate Accountability commented that, COP27 looks like a fossil fuel industry trade...

The Barricade was present at the European Social Forum in Florence 2022

Maria Cernat was invited to represent the Barricade in the Transform! Europe Media Alliance project What is the European Social Forum? This a recurring event held by the members of the alter-globalization movement. The alter-globalization...

Postcard from Israel

Olga Stefan interviewed Israeli citizens on the day of the election The election on November 1 saw the highest voter turn-out in more than 20 years despite it being the 5th election in 4 years....

Musk was in Romania? Not really

Fact-checking is waking up, drunk, and taking a shot of vodka Ever since the discussion about fact-checking started – it's been a few years now – I've been seriously questioning the viability of this model...

Why are we afraid of revolution?

Vladimir Borţun
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Comments on Albena Azmanova’s book "Capitalism on edge" Could anyone have imagined 10 years ago that a book written by a former anti-communist dissident who openly poses the question of overcoming capitalism would be translated...

Paul Gabriel Sandu – Speech at the launch of the translation of the book “Capitalism on edge..

Paul Gabriel Sandu
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Capitalism on edge – a plea for emancipation. The publication in Romanian of Albena Azmanova's “Capitalism on Edge”, for which we have to thank Maria Cernat and Alexandru Ionașcu, is extremely important for the Romanian...

Enikő Vincze – Speech at the launch of the translation of Albena Azmanova’s “Capitalis..

Enikő Vincze
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Mentally and materially, capitalism creates us in such a way that we cannot imagine overcoming it. If we do imagine it, we cannot overcome it without being pushed towards violent actions against it. Thanks to...

Kant and the current Ukrainian conflict

Boyan Stanislavski
Democracy
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Has a rational person the right to declare that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an act of unprovoked aggression? Yes and no. It all depends on how you look at it. The systematics of...

Feminazis & Fuckilates – The Language of German Neo-Nazis

Thomas Klikauer
Germamy
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It is not uncommon for the radical right to use specific terms, hateful words, and a kind of ideologically-shaped terminologies. At times, it is rather an antiquated language. Germany’s right-wing extremists are no different in this. More...