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Summit for (capitalism without any) democracy w/ Pat Byrne

Boyan Stanislavski
Anti-corruption
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In the second part (part one — https://bit.ly/3Id00GC) of our discussion with Pat Byrne on the outcomes of the Summit for Democracy, which was held in early January, we discuss how American and other Western...

Real summit of fake democracies or a stocktake by US imperialism

Boyan Stanislavski
Anti-corruption
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We talk with Pat Byrne, a long-time socialist activist, political analyst, and historian of the European left, a week before the President of the United States convenes the Summit for Democracy. Boyan Stanislavski discusses the...

From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to apocalypse

Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Analysis
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Within three months of the ascendancy of Joseph Biden to the presidency of the United States, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear war, whether by design or accident, as Russia reports that the...

Bulgarian justice is a litmus test for developments in society

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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The Bulgarian judiciary has been at the centre of political talks and clashes for more than nine months since the protests began in the summer of 2020. They erupted after prosecutors stormed the president's office,...

The great demolition of the Lithuanian Social Democrats

Andrius Bielskis
Analysis
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The right-wing political parties have, regrettably, won the 2020 parliamentary election in Lithuania. The conservative Homeland Union — Lithuanian Christian Democrats managed to gain 50 seats in the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament), while two liberal...

The grotesque decay of the Bulgarian mafia-owned state and social despair

Nikolay Draganov - Boyan Stanislavski
Analysis
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Where is Bulgaria 30 years into capitalist restoration? Pretty much at the end of its statehood. The society and culture in deep decline, the economy virtually controlled by oligarchic structures and institutions that are only...

Bulgaria protests: what is to be known?

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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The Barricade's Boyan Stanislavski made an intreview with Jana Tsoneva - one of the leading commentors on the Bulgarian protests in the international press. Jana Tsoneva belongs to the left-wing organisation Collective for Social Interventions....

The anti-politics of liberal ”analysis” displayed again. This time in Romania

Vladimir Borţun
Analysis
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For a peripheral country like Romania, the recent protests there (in August 2018) have received their fair share of attention in the international press. However, all analyses of these protests have come from a narrow,...

The Black Sheep of Corruption

Florin E. Platon
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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A position from the Romanian DiEM25 This article been circulated, amended and agreed by the Romanian members of DiEM25, for a radical approach against the corruption plaguing Romania and the entire Eastern Europe. We heard...

Summit for (capitalism without any) democracy w/ Pat Byrne

Real summit of fake democracies or a stocktake by US imperialism

From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to apocalypse

Bulgarian justice is a litmus test for developments in society

The grotesque decay of the Bulgarian mafia-owned state and social despair

Bulgaria protests: what is to be known?

The anti-politics of liberal ”analysis” displayed again. This time in Romania

The Black Sheep of Corruption

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