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“On the Barricades” 2021 May Day special edition: How capitalism ruins your mind /w Dr..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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This day used to be an opportunity for the labor movement to show its strength, for its leaders to deliver populist speeches to large crowds, and for social-democratic politicians to engage in intense virtue signaling....

New hope in the fight against neoliberalism!

Maria Cernat
Analysis
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In 1973 the democratically elected leader of Chile, socialist Salvador Allende, was toppled from power. Army general Augusto Pinochet became the leader of Chile for the next sixteen years. During that time, the Chicago Boys...

The struggle for freedom of speech is either unconditional or meaningless

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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I could explain endlessly how desperate and hopeless the situation with the media in Bulgaria is, and how more and more often I regret that I took up the profession of journalism at all. That...

Hans Modrow: Gorbachev and his associates knew what they wanted to remove, but not what to build

The Barricade
Bulgaria
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Hans Modrow is known as the last "communist" prime minister of the German Democratic Republic. He was born in 1928 in the province of Pomerania, located in present-day Poland. At the end of World War...

April thumbs ups and thumbs downs! w/ Maria Cernat & Boyan Stanislavski

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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Because it's the last Sunday of the month, the hosts of "On the Barricades" will discuss their April thumbs ups and thumbs downs. Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski will address the situation in East Ukraine...

How to be a German neo-Nazi girl

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
Analysis
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This is the story of a German girl who joined a völkisch-Aryan-Aryan legion of Neo-Nazis. This is her report after exit from Germany’s present day neo-Nazi scene. At the tender age of just thirteen, Irma...

Will Zagreb be ours?

With local elections due to be held in Croatia on 16 May 2021, a left-green political platform Zagreb je Naš (Zagreb is Ours — henceforth ZjN) stands on the brink of a historic achievement[efn_note]The author...

Will prosecutors in Poland go after Pope Francis for “offending religious feelings”?

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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The Catholic-fundamentalist craziness in Poland has just reached new heights! The District Prosecutor's Office Warszawa-Śródmiecie Północ is investigating whether Pope Francis' words "God loves you as you are,'' displayed on a rainbow flag, offend religious...

From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to apocalypse

Oliver Boyd-Barrett
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Within three months of the ascendancy of Joseph Biden to the presidency of the United States, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear war, whether by design or accident, as Russia reports that the...

Bulgarian elections of 2021: repackaging the same old (TV) story

Jana Tsoneva - Georgi Medarov
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Bulgaria held inconclusive general elections on April 4, 2021. The hitherto center-right ruling party GERB won them but with a result preventing it from forming a government. A nascent anti-GERB coalition is shaping up in...