First episode of the Bread and Roses podcastBoyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and translator. In the late `90 active in the Polish left and later in the labor movement, particularly the biggest Polish labor confederation — The All-Poland Trade Union Alliance. Until 2012 editor-in-chief of its weekly
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On the Barricades Special Podcast , 15 November 2020Maria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various developments in Poland, Romania and the region. The work title of their podcast is “Squatting reds in tracksuits”
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Intellectual stagnancy and political subordination to liberal democracy prevail in this region. Anti-communism is widely accepted. Many activists escape the reality and engage in massive online battes on social mediaMaria Cernat – Boyan StanislasvskiBoyan Stanislavski (Poland) and Maria Cernat (Romania) make a regular video podcast, in which they discuss various
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The region needs to overcome current labour precariousness, control its dependency on western capital and roll out more public expenditure on R&DBogdan GradinaruRomanian expat living in Munich, Germany. Member of DiEM25 Germany and Romania and occasionally writer for DiEM25 official web site, reporting and having a special interest in Eastern
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The Barricade talked to Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, the Romanian philosopher, about the importance of the late Samir Amin’s ideas, the need for Eastern Europe to follow its own path of development, the message of the Telciu Summer School, and the need for a ‘left-wing spirituality’Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist
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