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Fifty Year of Women Voting in Switzerland

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Gender issues
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When we talk about democracy, in most cases we do not think about the fact that eleven decades ago — in the year 1911 — in most countries in the so-called advanced world, women could...

The Risk of Capitalism

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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For those on the receiving end, capitalism comes with many risks. Yet, assessing these risks is a tricky business. Nonetheless, British insurer Lloyd’s Register has done just that. Its 2020 World Risk Poll asked 150,000...

The Russian protests — some reason to the passionate media plot

After the incredible events that have been taking place in the USA recently, we thought it was about time we saw a new chapter in the online political show: this time, it came from Russia....

The Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights

Boyan Stanislavski
Bread & Roses (Podcast)
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The Barricade takes off with another podcast series! This time we focus on the state of the labor movement, its challenges, problems and most important successes today. We will bring union activists, leaders and journalists...

Harriet Fraad discusses controversial chapters in the history of feminism

Renowned feminist, activist, author, and psychotherapist Harriet Fraad comes on the Barricades to discuss matters related to a very dark chapter in the history of feminism and civic movements. For feminists in Eastern Europe, it...

Vaccines and health. How world’s population was denied a human right?

The Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth
Analysis
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There is an urgent need to remedy the catastrophic moral bankruptcy of an unjust world in which vaccines and health are not guaranteed to all the inhabitants of the Earth. On Monday 18 January, the...

Exploitation of Eastern European migrant workers

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
France
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Due to the dismantlement of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, we were told we were now going to live in the best of all worlds. As we were led to believe the mythology...

What’s wrong with the Left?

This is a question asked by more and more people and, paradoxically, there is less and less reflection and, basically, no answer. Instead, those on the Left (and outside it as well) who are critical...

Who Sews Kamala Harris’ Clothes?

Maria Cernat
Elections
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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 Right Normalizes Fascism. The Best Response: Normalize It Back

The problem with our public discussion of fascism is that we trot out the term every time the right turns to violence, and then we withdraw the term when the violence ends. We keep it...