The Barricade

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’

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

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

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

6 August 2018 Florin E. Platon

The Black Sheep of Corruption

A position from the Romanian DiEM25

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