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Why Democracy doesn’t work on an empty stomach

Maria Cernat
Democracy
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An attempt to explain It is often said that it is literature that provides us with the best explanations of social phenomena in a condensed form. I tried to explain to a militant American pacifist,...

Thumbs up, thumbs down, part 2: Government breakdown in Bulgaria; The Summit of the Americas

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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This is the second instalment of this week's “On the Barricades” release. This episode is part of our regular series, which we co-produce and co-host with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Maria, Boyan, and Youri discuss:...

The real Zelensky: From celebrity populist to unpopular Pinochet-style neoliberal

Natylie Baldwin
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Ukrainian academic Olga Baysha details Volodymyr Zelensky’s embrace of widely loathed neoliberal policies, his repression of rivals, and how his actions fueled the current war with Russia. A comedic actor who rose to the country’s...

On the ongoing global devastation of democracy by mainstream media and NGOs w/ Pat Byrne

Boyan Stanislavski
Democracy
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The so-called Summit for Democracy, convened by American President Joe Biden, is set to begin in a few days. Before it begins, Pat Byrne, our guest, analyzes the dominant model of 'democracy' based on western...

How corporations seek to control civil societies through political “influence” and mon..

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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Unlike other wealthy elites what have, for example, inherited wealth (aristocrats, great-grand-children of 19th and 20th-century robber barons, etc.) and elites that simply stole money (mafia) and obtained it semi-legally (Russian oligarchs), the corporate elite...

Saxony’s New Nazis

Thomas Klikauer
Analysis
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Located in Germany’s far eastern corner bordering on the Czech Republic and Poland lies the state of Saxony. Today the state has about four million people down from five million in 1990. To many Germans,...

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

Ben Burgis
Analysis
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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...

Brexit and the UK’s future

The Barricade
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...

How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century?

Albena Azmanova
Analysis
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”In the past decade, social protest has been widespread, witty, and …weak.” That is the beginning of the article ”Anti-Capital for the 21st Century (on the metacrisis of capitalism and the prospects for radical politics)”...

The Corona Crisis and the Consequences for European Politics

The Barricade
Analysis
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This article was published on 28 May 2020 on the site of the Transform!Europe Network. Preamble The health crisis that the world is facing reveals a structural crisis that already existed and that the EL...