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  • 14 April 2021 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

    Bulgaria’s political system is a non-representative democracy

    The 11 April 2021 episode of the On the Barricades podcast had as a guest

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  • 13 April 2021 Mirena Filpova - Boyan Stanislavski

    Non-representative democracy — season BG, episode 2021

    The devastation will continue in Bulgaria after its April 2021 parliamentary elections

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  • 10 April 2021 Vladimir Mitev

    Fereydoun Majlessi: Extremists did not allow Rouhani to keep his word 

    An interview with the pre-Revolution Iranian diplomat to the United States about the China-Iran ”comprehensive

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  • 10 April 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link

    News in the 21st Century

    How is present day capitalism changing media?

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  • 7 April 2021 Vijay Prashad

    Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

    “We need cool heads to prevail. Anything other than that could lead to a catastrophic

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5 September 2018 Vladimir Mitev

Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu: Does Eastern Europe have the power to de-link itself from the mechanisms of dependence?

The Barricade talked to Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, the Romanian philosopher, about the importance of the late Samir Amin’s ideas, the need for Eastern Europe to follow its own path of development, the message of the Telciu Summer School, and the need for a ‘left-wing spirituality’

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1 September 2018 Стоян Гогов

Nicola Miller on socialist architecture and its destruction in Bulgaria

Nikola Miller is one of the most talented and good photographers of abandoned buildings and ruinous monuments in Bulgaria. The fact that she is a foreigner gives her a different and much more unbiased perspective, both to the forgotten factories and monuments and to the situation in Bulgaria. This is

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27 August 2018 Lacko Solymár

Orban and the modern Central European witchhunt

In 1116 Coloman the Learned, Hungary’s king at the time, declared there were no such things as witches, and this saved us from burning each other at the stake. A pillar of “western civilization” development which entertained for centuries. We had to wait for the XXI century and our new

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26 August 2018 Kaloyan Todorov

No people, no problem… and no public transport

Or, how General Toshevo, one of Bulgaria’s largest municipalities, lost half of its bus lines. And yet no one understands why.

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22 August 2018 Vladimir Mitev

Ahlam Chemlali: The Summer School at Telciu is a unique event

The Barricade talked with the Danish expert on migration and human rights abuses about her experiences at the most significant decolonialist event in Romania this summer

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6 August 2018 Florin E. Platon

The Black Sheep of Corruption

A position from the Romanian DiEM25

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17 July 2018 Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

Moldova: the future is bright. For the oligarchs

After a heated debate about possible unification with Romania, another political scandal rocked Moldova a few months before parliamentary elections. At the end of the day, however, it proved mainly the weakness of local opposition and lack of any force that could genuinely lead the citizens to combat the oligarchic

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16 July 2018 Vladimir Mitev

Ilie Şerbănescu: “Behind both fighting camps in Romania external masters stand”

The veteran analyst explains what Iohannis`s mistake was, who benefits from the changes in justice and why Romania is not on the road to becoming a new Poland or Hungary

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11 July 2018 Telciu Summer School

Dear Summer School, please don’t die!

A crowdfunding call by the Telciu Summer School

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1 July 2018 Vasile Ernu

Victoria Stoiciu: Capital is socially assisted in Romania, not the poor

Vasile Ernu speaks with Victoria Stoiciu about the new serfdom and the guaranteed minimum income: ”In our country the fight against poverty has turned into a fight against the poor”

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Chaos, desperation and violence

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Union Save Neoliberalism

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