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The disastrous election defeat of the German Left

Herman Michiel
Elections
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According to analysts, of these 2 million, 820,000 would have voted for the social-democratic SPD, 610,000 for the Grünen (Greens) and 520,000 would not have voted. The score of 4.9% of the votes cast was...

Migrants pay the price for Poland’s nationalistic posture with their lives

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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The hosts of "On the Barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, discuss the situation on the Polish-Belarussian border in this episode, focusing on the Polish authorities' cynical, violent, and downright stupid response to what they...

Poland is a women’s hell following last year’s abortion ban

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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In this episode, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski will discuss the tragic death of a young Polish woman with a dying fetus who was denied abortion and died of septic shock. The public learned about...

Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s eastern border and the Polexit humbug

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Human rights and civic liberties
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The Polish-Belarussian border became a place of utter terror for thousands of Middle Eastern migrants who were enticed by Belarussian dictatorial leader Lukashenko with the prospect of easy access to the European Union. The Polish...

Polish fundamentalist barbarism bears fruit: a young woman died as a result of the abortion ban en..

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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A 30-year-old woman who was 22 weeks pregnant died on September 22, 2021, at the Pszczyna County Hospital. On admission, PROM was diagnosed, and fetal malformations were confirmed. The fetus died while in the hospital....

On capitalistic information monopolies and freedom of expression w/ Patricia Gorky

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Facebook was recently engulfed in a major scandal related to the release of internal documents proving things we already knew: the algorithm makes highly emotional content go viral, it pays no attention to combating human...

Technology by itself will not bring us progress! On technodeterminism w/ Patricia Gorky

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
On the Barricades (Podcast)
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Technodeterminism is a very simplistic perspective that tells us how technological progress will automatically lead to social progress. While simplistic, it is a very suborn idea that is capturing the public’s imagination. In this edition...

How Eastern European Cold-War fascism found a home in Canada

Richard Sanders
Analysis
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For decades the Canadian government has been supporting East European émigré associations whose much-revered founders, leaders and war heroes include veterans of Waffen SS divisions and other fascist military formations, perpetrators of the Holocaust and...

Deaths and debts: Romania’s implosion and Poland’s violent anti-immigrant rampage

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Coronavirus
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As the fourth wave of the global pandemic hits Eastern Europe, the failure of Romanian statehood becomes more apparent. While the police, military, and intelligence services are flush with cash, hospitals are in disrepair. Recently,...

The Romanian Fascist Feeling

We cannot understand the past without understanding our present. This apparently paradoxical statement tries to deal with the revivement of various and multifarious forms of fascism today. In contemporary Romania, more than thirty years after...