Covid-19 – The Barricade

Polish medics took to the streets! Is it a genuine threat to the notoriously right-wing government?

Boyan Stanislavski
Health
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Following a massive protest in the Polish capital on Saturday, healthcare workers established a 'white town,' essentially a tent city, next to the prime minister's office, with an initial stay of a week. 'White Town...

Covid-19 propaganda in Australia

Thomas Klikauer
Analysis
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Recently, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is commonly known as “Scotty from Marketing” – in short: Scomo – said, his Covid-19 “exit strategy depends largely on vaccination rates”. This is fine propaganda. Yet it does...

Covid-19 and the gender gap in Germany

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Coronavirus
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By mid-July 2021, Germany had around 92,000 Corona deaths and about 800 to 900 new cases per day. Most discussions centered around two issues, a summer holiday in southern Europe and the expected coming of the fourth...

Why aren’t the vaccinations free and available to everyone on the planet?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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Riccardo Petrella is one of the most important public intellectuals and European officials to be demanding that Covid-19 vaccines be available to everybody. Petrella is a renowned scholar, and has honorary degrees from eight universities....

Covid and fictitious capital

Michael Roberts
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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...

“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...

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

The Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth
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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...

COVID vaccines: calling the shots

Michael Roberts
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the world, the big pharmaceutical companies did little investment in vaccines for global diseases and viruses. It was just not profitable. Of the 18 largest US pharmaceutical companies, 15 had...

The great mishandling: Covid-19 in Eastern Europe and some usual colorful pathologies

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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Poland, Bulgaria and Romania have lost all control in terms of the ongoing pandemic. The contractions as well as the mortality rates are horrifying. The powers that be have other priorates. For example in Poland...

The autumn wave of coronavirus strikes Eastern Europe. Where’s the left?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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On this episode of the Barricade's Podcast (18 October 2020), Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss the approach of the left towards measures taken by various governments to contain the pandemic as the second wave...