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Eastern Europe will not be well served by another Justin Trudeau term

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Welcome back to Season 3 of our show "On the Barricades!" Youri Smouter, the Euro-Afro-American leftist and youtuber at "1+1," is hosting it in its fifth episode. After the summer break, Youri will relaunch the...

Webinar: Producing knowledge from the left in Eastern Europe

The Barricade
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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A webinar hosted by the Transnational Institute (TNI) will address knowledge production in Eastern Europe by leftist organizations and it will be held on 21 October at 6PM CET. You can register here to attend. Understanding Eastern Europe’s post-socialist...

If we can’t outlaw the ‘gig’ horror, could we at least regulate it?

We publish an opinion expressed by the European Public Service Union (EPSU) on the critical need to regulate the market of 'platform work,' in which individuals use an app or a website to match themselves...

Political theater outperforms political activism? w/ David Schwartz

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Art & culture
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This time, The Barricade's hosts sat down with David Schwartz, a Romanian theater director and, in some ways, political activist. His art is meant to motivate people to take political action and to instill hope...

Czech Elections: All fears have come true

Jiří Málek
Czechia
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With 27.8% the SPOLU (Togеther) coalition, consisting of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), and Liberal Democratic Party (TOP 09), received the most votes; the next largest vote share — 27.1% — went...

Presenting the 2021 transform! yearbook – An Interview with John Bellamy Foster

The Barricade
Ecology
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transform! yearbook 2021 is the seventh of an annual series reporting on and analysing European and world political and social developments. The current issue looks at capitalism’s impact on the world ecosystem through global warming and...

What worked and what didn’t in feminism on the left and In Eastern Europe?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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The third season has begun! This is the first episode of The Barricade's flagship show, featuring Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, in its third season. We'd like to offer some strictly ideological and strategical deliberations...

Who bought Politico for a billion dollars? A right-wing German news conglomerate?

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Germamy
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At the end of August 2021, Germany’s right-wing Axel Springer bought the US political magazine Politico for about $1bn (€850m) – the most expensive acquisition in the history of Germany’s right-wing Springer Group. Until the...

Germany’s new neo-Nazis: the Reichsbürger

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Democracy
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Only a few weeks ago, a Reichsbürger in Germany shot a police officer with a crossbow during a house’s search in a remote town called Linden, in the north of Hessen. The Reichsbürger is accused of attempted manslaughter...

Climate injustice in the United States

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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A few days ago, President Biden was urging climate action when saying, we don’t have much more than 10 years. Fighting global warming is inextricably linked to what Bill McKibben and others call climate justice....