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  • 24 February 2021 Noémi Lehoczki

    The largest strike in human history explained

    The Indian farmers’ protests, which started in the autumn of 2020, are at the centre

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  • 24 February 2021 Boyan Stanislavski

    What’s wrong with Left? Learning from past mistakes

    Divded We Fall pocast, episode 2

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  • 24 February 2021 Radu Stochiţa

    The expendables: Romanian medics’ work is undervalued by Cîțu’s right-wing government 

    The coronavirus crisis and the emigration of medical cadres to the West should encourage higher

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  • 23 February 2021 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

    The increasingly grotesque anti-Russian hysteria

    On the Barricades podcasts hosted the Russian polical scientist Stanislav Byshok, willing to know a

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  • 19 February 2021 The Barricade

    Poland: Banning abortions is not enough, some more state violence is welcome!

    Feminist activists harassed by the police.

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13 November 2017 Boyan Stanislavski

The day the world media discovered fascism in Poland

“Why so serious?” one is tempted to ask, in response to the drastic observations on the part of some Western journalists who have finally noticed the rampant Polish neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism. Good for them – better late than never. But where have they been for the last decade?

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5 November 2017 Vladimir Mitev

Romania’s economic dream is made of tears

Ruling social democrats intend to transfer the burden of social contributions upon the employees. Labour unions have already planned protests. Social tension is on the rise, because in spite of the incomes’ rise and the economic growth at least 32% of the full-time employees work for minimal salary, and labour

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26 October 2017 Vladimir Mitev

Maria Grapini: Romania and Bulgaria must increase their economic, cultural and education exchanges so that they could use the possibilities in EU

The Black Sea macroregion is an initiative which will encourage the economic development of Romania and Bulgaria and means cooperation with all the states in the Black Sea zone to the extent that they respect the signed contracts with the EU.

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24 October 2017 Vladimir Mitev

Lorand Szakacs: The group „Right to the City” fights against stigmatisation of the poor

What needs to be done in Romania where the right to housing is an ever more important issue, while homeless people and beggars become more and more in numbers in the richest cities.

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22 October 2017 Nikolay Draganov

From modern despair to traditional slavery

The so called West is largely associated with all kinds of civic liberties, democratic values and general appeasement. This cliche has been particularly actively exploited in the European countries of the former Soviet block. The ideas might have been fantastic but the execution turned out to be a far cry

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Bulgarian Border Police car. Source: Wikimedia Commons, https://goo.gl/yWJ938
22 October 2017 Ivaylo Atanasov

Leading Bulgarian nationalist admitted in court she was smuggling migrants

Aneliya Veleva, who is now a former leader of the local structure of the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB, right-wing extremists), pleaded to be innocent the whole time and the Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov stood up for her. Now she is hoping to avoid an effective

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21 September 2017 Vladimir Mitev

Two Iranian Studies events in Sofia pledge regional cooperation

Department of Iranian Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and “Center for Iran, Balkan and Central European Studies” – IBCE, organized a summer school of Iranian Studies and a symposium for the heads of the Iranian Studies Departments from the Balkan and Central European Universities. The vision for a

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16 September 2017 Ivaylo Atanasov

Outrage in Bulgaria: High school graduation is at risk for thousands of students

Parents, teachers and school principals are in a shock right around 15 September because of another inadequacy in the new Education Law. Regional inspectorates are also puzzled.

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9 September 2017 Vladimir Mitev

Riccardo Petrella: Financial dictates led the EU to failure and drove the world to devastation

The former adviser to the European Commission of Jacques Delors, activist for the definition of water as a common good, instead of a commodity, university professor and left intellectual speaks with Baricada, telling the story of the transformation of welfare inspired societies into the main sources of a ”global disorder”

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31 August 2017 Boyan Stanislavski

Will the Polish ‘Mein Kampf’ be out soon? No, not a translation – a new book

A leading Polish neo-fascist, idol of the Polish radical youth and ex-priest announced he has just started writing a book with the title ‘Moja Walka’ which translates to ‘My Struggle’. Sounds familiar?

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Chaos, desperation and violence

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Union Save Neoliberalism

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