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Feminism in Turkey – an Epic Battle With a Neoliberal Conservative President

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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Being a feminist in a conservative country with a government that overtly fights to limit the rights of women can be a very challenging task. Nevertheless, there are fierce women that do not back down...

EU-wide citizens’ initiative demands abolition of patents on anti-pandemic vaccines

Vladimir Mitev
Commons
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The sentiment in the EU for the abolition of patents on coronavirus vaccines and against big pharmaceutical companies is increasing, after the spat between the EC and the COVID-19 vaccine producers over their insufficient production...

Protests, strikes, and occupations in Romania — Is this a major change already?

Boyan Stanislavski
Labour
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Too early to say definitely, but one thing is absolutely certain: The class balance of forces in Romanian society have shifted. The last three decades were a time of a brutal ideological offensive of neoliberalism...

What is Trumpism?

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
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Donald Trump's politics became an –ism when he and his disciples converted what Trump does into a distinctive doctrine or cause. In 2016, The Hill argued that Trumpism has four ingredients: celebrity; nativism that reaches...

Management Studies and Capitalism

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
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The prime objective of and semi-academics field called Management Studies is to legitimize management, Managerialism (the ideology of management), companies and corporations but foremost corporate capitalism. For that the crypto-academic field of management studies has...

Where is the Left’s economic agenda?

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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On this episode of "Divided we Fall" we discuss the economy and the Left's overall failure to draft a meaningful economic program that would give people a sense of how a departure from a capitalist...

Romanian government threatens unions after protest in the Bucharest metro

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîţu is seeking to sanction protesters who blocked the Bucharest metro on Friday, an action Cîţu described as "illegal". The Prime Minister said he would be looking for the culprits to...

“On the barricades” s02e15: Grotesque stagnancy on the Left

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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In this episode of "On the barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss the departure of the Eastern European Left from its core values and orientation towards the working class and how it has strangely...

HDP under even more political pressure

The Barricade
Analysis
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There has been a severe increase in political pressure against the HDP, including cases of torture. This comes despite the ECtHR’s ruling on the release of Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş, with its expectation of immediate implementation...

Stop Erdogan’s crackdown – Solidarity with the HDP & democratic forces in Turkey

The Barricade
Democracy
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We, members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and we, members of the European Parliament, emphatically condemn the new brutal attempts of the Turkish authorities to lift the immunity of parliamentarians of...

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Feminism in Turkey – an Epic Battle With a Neoliberal Conservative President

EU-wide citizens’ initiative demands abolition of patents on anti-pandemic vaccines

Protests, strikes, and occupations in Romania — Is this a major change already?

Where is the Left’s economic agenda?

Romanian government threatens unions after protest in the Bucharest metro

“On the barricades” s02e15: Grotesque stagnancy on the Left

HDP under even more political pressure

Stop Erdogan’s crackdown – Solidarity with the HDP & democratic forces in Turkey

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