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The January 6th ‘putsch’, QAnon, and the mythopoetics of the far-right

J.G. Michael
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Less than two months ago many Americans were throwing hosannas and celebrating if not the election of Joe Biden to the White House then the defeat of Donald J. Trump and, presumably, by extension the...

The empire keeps falling

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Coronavirus
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In 10th January 2021 episode of the podcast On the barricades, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discussed the situation in the United States with the leftist journalist and filmmaker Paul Jay. He is the founder...

The golden age of the right and the answer for the left in Romania

Enikő Vincze
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Fundraising with GoGetFunding As commenters have noted in recent days, the attractiveness of the AUR party (which is an abbreviation of The Alliance for the Unity of Romanians as well as means gold) is...

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

Veronika Stoyanova
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Few of the developments of the post-1989 transformation in Bulgaria were a result of popular democratic politics, much of it being part of the global turn towards neoliberal globalization. In some popular accounts in the...

Unions and Socialism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Arto Artinian is an associate professor of social sciences for the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. He splits time in the year between New York and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Having seen...

The Romanian IT sector’s marvel of unionisation

Vladimir Mitev
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The IT sector in Southeastern Europe might seem like a bit of an unconventional place for labour unionisation, as it offers usually well-paid jobs with high social status. But labour issues and possibility for improvement...

How should the contemporary socialist left relate to the history of ‘actually existing socia..

Ben Burgis
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Slavoj Žižek mentioned that detail to me when I interviewed him two weeks ago for my podcast and YouTube show Give them an argument and I’ve been turning it over in my head ever since. The...

“The kids in Albania are rebelling against their fate”

The Barricade
Albania
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The crowd marching down the streets of Tirana resembled a massive approaching tsunami. In its wake, it smashed advertising signs, knocked down street lamps, dislocated rubbish bins, roared, and sang. In the collective memory, this...

The occidentosis and the modernization of Iran

Vladimir Mitev
Education
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The Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979) has been resonating as an event of prime importance in its region for the last 40 years. It is one of the first cases, when the political islam takes...

Bad joke! The far-right will lead the Romanian Parliamentary Commission for Equal Opportunities!

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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The Commission for Equal Opportunities in the Romanian Parliament will be led by the golden representatives of AUR! On December 6, Romanians elected their parliamentary representatives. The big surprise was the Alliance for the Union...

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