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Sadism towards migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border and Poland’s political theater

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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You have most likely not heard about the humanitarian crisis on the borders of Belarus and Poland, as well as Belarus and Lithuania and Latvia. This is because, as soon as the news went viral,...

Endgame for neoliberalism? What is on the horizon for the return of politics?

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Analysis
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One year after the widespread switch to the reduced life of the first lockdown, the global system remains in crisis. Each European country, after having undergone all kinds of restrictive measures, finds itself in more...

Zelensky follows Poroshenko’s path

Veronika Stoyanova
Nationalists
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Ukraine and its political development have long been just a marginal issue for the mainstream media. Information about Ukraine appears sporadically, although most of Ukraine's problems since 2014 have not been resolved. Crimea remains under...

Bulgaria’s political system is a non-representative democracy

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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On April 4th the General Election was held in Bulgaria. Another stage of the political, social and cultural degradation and destitution was marked. This time the most emblematic element was the massive vote for a...

Non-representative democracy — season BG, episode 2021

Mirena Filpova - Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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On April 4 in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, 25% of voters supported Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's right-wing party, GERB. But new parties that campaigned on anti-corruption and COVID denial also did extremely well. The left's decline...

Crisis of the left

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There are very few people on the Left who are ready to accept the fact that the Left movement has been facing a crisis of ideology since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and Social...

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...

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

Veronika Stoyanova
Analysis
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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...

What is the situation of the Czech left after the regional elections?

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Czechia
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This article is commentary by transform! europe's Board member Jiří Málek. It was originally published on 15 October 2020. The political turning point in left-wing strength within the Czech Republic was between 2016 and 2019,...

Brexit and the UK’s future

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Global affairs
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Brexit shows three wider phenomena about the contemporary world, argues The Other News’ founder Roberto Savio in a video which The Barricade was allowed to republish in its three languages. Brexit shows the crisis of...

Sadism towards migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border and Poland’s political theater

Zelensky follows Poroshenko’s path

Bulgaria’s political system is a non-representative democracy

Non-representative democracy — season BG, episode 2021

Crisis of the left

What’s wrong with the Left?

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

Brexit and the UK’s future

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