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

During the last six months, Poland witnessed one of the largest protests in its modern history. Polish youth took to the streets, en masse, against the barbaric ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, which nearly ruled...

Richard Wolff is on the Barricades!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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Richard Wolff will be remembered as the professor who made economics interesting for the public again! For decades the economy was a simple tool to discipline the poor, the working class, the migrants, and the...

“Never again fascism!”

Nikolay Draganov
Bulgaria
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A march entitled "No Nazis on our streets" was held for another year in Sofia. Anarchist and other left-wing organizations from the country gathered in the center of the capital and held a joint anti-fascist...

The Polish madhouse continues!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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The right-wing hardliners in power are unable to rule, so instead of that, they have to create one outrage after another to keep the society under full stress and to spark all kinds of artificial...

The case of Kamala Harris and feminism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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The aesthetics of feminism have never been so trendy! Take the idea that the feminist struggle is one of individual emancipation - in that case, we can be delighted with what we've achieved: Women are...

The geopolitical vaccine war is caused by profit-making

Vladimir Mitev
China
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The spat between the EU and the UK over the shortfall of deliveries of AstraZeneca vaccines revealed a European Commission with an ugly face. The threat to activate Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol,...

“The covid vaccine was created thanks to public money – let it be a public property!”

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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The Left in the European Parliament officially supports the the European Citizens' Initiative No Profit on Pandemic for free and universal access to a Covid-19 vaccine and treatments for everyone. [caption id="attachment_3041" align="alignleft" width="450"] Marc Botenga (source: Wikimedia...

Ukraine: Workers protest utility price hikes demanded by U.S., IMF

The Barricade
Anti-corruption
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On New Year’s Day, the price of electricity, gas and oil for heating, and other utilities doubled for most households in Ukraine. The surprise price-hike was announced by President Vladimir Zelensky’s government under orders of...

Master of Disaster

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
Education
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Nestled in the northern Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Jacobs University is one of Germany’s few private tertiary institutions Jacobs University In a country dominated by 107 state-run universities., it is soon to join a...

Saxony’s New Nazis

Thomas Klikauer
Analysis
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Located in Germany’s far eastern corner bordering on the Czech Republic and Poland lies the state of Saxony. Today the state has about four million people down from five million in 1990. To many Germans,...