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Anti-Semitism in Saxony – Three Times per Week

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
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Antisemitic* incidents are increasing in the far eastern German state of Saxony known to be stronghold of contemporary German Neo-Nazism., says the Berlin-based Report Antisemitism RIAS – a foundation that monitors antisemitism throughout Germany. Uwe...

Skeletons in the Neoliberal Cupboard

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
Analysis
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Promoted by the likes of Friedrich Hayek, Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher, Roland Reagan, Alan Greenspan, etc. une idée fixe of neoliberalism has been around since the 1980s. The key elements of this ideology...

Working class mobilizations in Serbia and Romania

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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In Serbia the freelancers have been protesting since late January, while in Romania the unions are mobilizing. This week, the guests of our show On The Barricades shall be Marko Miletić, from the Serbian left-wing...

What Planet Is NATO Living On?

Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J.S. Davies
Analysis
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The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning...

Who is bothered by the flag of the Labin Republic?

The Barricade
Croatia
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We are currently commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Labin miners’ uprising, commonly known as the “Labin Republic”. This “Republic” was never declared; it gained its name as a marker of the control achieved over...

Iran in the mirror of its movies

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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The Iranian movies were probably the most attractive feature at the online Middle Eastern and North African Region Film Festival (“MENAR”), which took place in Bulgaria between 15 January and 7 February 2021. Iranian cinema...

Human Rights and Germany’s New Supply Chain Law

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
Analysis
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In February 2021, Germany’s main business daily, The Handelsblatt, reported that Germany’s grand coalition, consisting for the social-democratic SPD and Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU –reached an agreement on the introduction of a new Supply Chain...

Covid and fictitious capital

Michael Roberts
Analysis
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During the year of the COVID, output, investment and employment in nearly all the economies of the world plummeted, as lockdowns, social isolation and collapsing international trade contracted output and spending. And yet the opposite...

Sofia Nădejde — looking up to an Eastern European feminist-socialist hero

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Sofia Nădejde was a Romanian novelist, playwright, translator, journalist, women's rights activist and socialist. She had an amazing life and an amazing career. It made her an exceptional character that is most definitely worth looking...

Young Romanian Students and Left-Wing Activism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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Right-wing intellectuals have dominated Romania for the past three decades. The largest protest following the 1989 Revolution was focused on anti-corruption. The intellectuals in Romania seldom protested for economic reasons. Their main concern was to...