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The horror intensifies: the Polish border guard attack migrants with gas and water cannons

Boyan Stanislavski
Belarus
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The Polish side is becoming increasingly cruel. Near the closed border crossing Kunica-Bruzgi, desperate migrants threw stones, branches, and empty cans of tinned food at Polish officers and soldiers. On the Polish side, the police...

Poland’s response to the ‘migrant crisis’ is brutal, irrational, and repugnant

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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To believe that the Polish response to the migrant gathering on the Polish-Belarussian border could be even remotely rational and meaningful, one would have to be completely insane. Let us begin by recognizing that those...

Migrants pay the price for Poland’s nationalistic posture with their lives

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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The hosts of "On the Barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, discuss the situation on the Polish-Belarussian border in this episode, focusing on the Polish authorities' cynical, violent, and downright stupid response to what they...

Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s eastern border and the Polexit humbug

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Human rights and civic liberties
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The Polish-Belarussian border became a place of utter terror for thousands of Middle Eastern migrants who were enticed by Belarussian dictatorial leader Lukashenko with the prospect of easy access to the European Union. The Polish...

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,...

Warfare on the borders of EU: hybrid-legality and a chance for the Left?

Andris Šuvajevs
Belarus
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In early August, the government of Latvia declared a state of emergency on the border with Belarus. Included in this measure was a decision to not accept any asylum claims. While the emergency measure is...

There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth

Right to City (Timişoara, România)
Human rights and civic liberties
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With the increasing militarization of the Croatian-Bosnian border and in an overall hostile environment towards migrants, the Balkan route has been shifting in recent months towards Romania. Since October 2020, there has been a sharp...

A transnational response to the attacks on the Istanbul Convention

The Barricade
E.A.S.T. (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational)
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On April 11th, EAST members, women and LGBTQIA+ people from Turkey, Poland, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, […], drawing from Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, gathered together in a public assembly. This assembly was called...

Exploitation of Eastern European migrant workers

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
France
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Due to the dismantlement of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, we were told we were now going to live in the best of all worlds. As we were led to believe the mythology...

The horror intensifies: the Polish border guard attack migrants with gas and water cannons

Poland’s response to the ‘migrant crisis’ is brutal, irrational, and repugnant

Migrants pay the price for Poland’s nationalistic posture with their lives

Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s eastern border and the Polexit humbug

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

Warfare on the borders of EU: hybrid-legality and a chance for the Left?

There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth

A transnational response to the attacks on the Istanbul Convention

Exploitation of Eastern European migrant workers

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