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Pat Byrne on feminism – part 1

Maria Cernat
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Pat Byrne is a longstanding labor activist. He was on the executive board of large unions in Great Britain and had a passion for exploring the history of the leftist movements in his country and across...

EU’s externalization of borders enables geopolitical power plays using migrants as political pawns

Vladimir Mitev
European Union
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Ahlam Chemlali, is a PhD Fellow at DIIS – Danish Institute for International Studies and Aalborg University, Global Refugee Studies in Copenhagen Denmark. Chemlali explores how the militarisation and externalisation of European border control to...

Vaishnavi Sundar – an Indian gender-critical feminist – part 2

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Maria Cernat continues the discussion with Vaishnavi Sundar, exploring the ideological differences in the Indian feminist movements. She tries to explain why most Indian feminism is liberal, very pro-sex-work, and what the implications are for...

Vaishnavi Sundar: an Indian gender-critical feminist – part 1

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Vaishnavi Sundar is an Indian feminist and filmmaker. She joins this episode of On the Barricades to explore the faces of feminism in India. When they talk about India, people instinctively think of poverty, castes,...

Ben Burgis on cancel culture – part 2

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Maria Cernat continues the discussion with Ben Burgis about his latest book: "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns. A Critique of the Contemporary Left." They explore questions related to the fact that most online cancellations...

Ben Burgis on cancel culture – part 1

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Ben Burgis is widely known for his best-selling book "Give them an argument. Logic for the Left". He is also a contributor to the Jacobin magazine and a very nuanced intellectual. This year he published...

The six myths of Angela Merkel

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
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As the term of German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to an end with her announcement that she will resign after Germany’s next federal election to be held on 26th September 2021 – Covid-19 permitting, one...

No ivory tower – a discussion on capitalism in education – part 2

Maria Cernat
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Maria Cernat continues the discussion with the Bulgarian-born US-based academic Arto Artinian, who will analyze the current trends in academia from initiatives such as Black Lives Matter to #metoo and their progressive potential. Our discussion...

No ivory tower – a discussion on capitalism in education – part 1

Maria Cernat
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Arto Artinian is a Bulgarian-born US academic teaching at the City University of New York. Maria Cernat invited Arto Artinian to the podcast On the Barricades to discuss his experiences as an intellectual laborer in...

Porn workers as labor force

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
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Today, Sylvester “Stallion’s” net value is about $400 million. But that was not always the case. In 1970, the appropriately named “Stallion” appeared in an American “soft-core pornography romance film” (Wikipedia) called The Party at Kitty...