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Lithuania’s government’s anti-Russian hysteria has reached comic proportions (again)

Boyan Stanislavski
Belarus
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda intends to distribute copies of the hit HBO series Chernobyl to EU leaders in order to warn them about the alleged dangers posed by Belarus' recently built nuclear power plant. He...

Why aren’t the vaccinations free and available to everyone on the planet?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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Riccardo Petrella is one of the most important public intellectuals and European officials to be demanding that Covid-19 vaccines be available to everybody. Petrella is a renowned scholar, and has honorary degrees from eight universities....

Gig Work in CEE’s Platform Economy: Delivery Drivers in Croatia

Dunja Kučinac
Analysis
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Up until 2018., everything was relatively fine, but shit started hitting the fan around 2019… If you want to make any money you have to work 12 hours on average. This is capitalist exploitation at...

A Polish priest teaches how to “cure” homosexuality using electroshocks. A Deputy Mini..

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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Homosexuality is a "mental disorder" caused by "hormonal imbalances during pregnancy," "failed relationships with women," or living in a "hermetic male environment," among other things. To "treat homosexuality," electric shocks, ovaries or clitoris excision, and...

Rosa@150

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Germamy
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Then in 1923, a young Adolf Hitler staged his own coup d’état that also failed. Ten years later, Hitler came into power with the help of Germany's conservatives via parliament. Around that time, some of...

Poland: A student is expelled from school for opposing Catholic fundamentalism

Boyan Stanislavski
Citizens Movements
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Teachers with a favorable attitude toward the government, it turns out, could also be used for the same purpose. According to Polish media, a Catholic school in Białystok, north-eastern Poland, expelled a 17-year-old female student...

The populist radical right as a new class vote?

The Barricade
Analysis
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The evolution of capitalism since the early 1980s has caused the social identities built around work collectives to falter through the multiplication of precarious forms of employment, the transformation of modes of production and the...

Fifty Shades of Brown

Walter Baier
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Europe consists of about 50 states, 27 of which are members of the European Union. So, what we see on the far right are ‘50 shades of brown’, so to speak. It is doubtful that...

Polish right-wingers are getting carried away. They now want to outlaw abortion in the Czech Repub..

Boyan Stanislavski
Czechia
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There does not appear to be a more appropriate way to describe the Polish embassy's March letter to the Czech Ministry of Health. It was signed by Antoni Wręga, the Polish chargé d'affaires in Prague....

The dilemmas of Belarus-Russian relations

Veronika Stoyanova
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This meeting has been uncommon in recent months because Putin generally preferred distance forms of dealing with other politicians during the pandemic. Since the beginning of the year, he has made an exception to talks...