neoliberalism – The Barricade

“The solution to everyone’s problems lies in solving the problems of the many”

Maria Cernat
European Union
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Interview with Roberto Morea conducted for Baricada by Maria Cernat As I pointed out in a recent article, I had the opportunity to participate as a guest of Transform! Europe at the European Social Forum....

The Barricade was present at the European Social Forum in Florence 2022

Maria Cernat was invited to represent the Barricade in the Transform! Europe Media Alliance project What is the European Social Forum? This a recurring event held by the members of the alter-globalization movement. The alter-globalization...

Paul Gabriel Sandu – Speech at the launch of the translation of the book “Capitalism on edge..

Paul Gabriel Sandu
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Capitalism on edge – a plea for emancipation. The publication in Romanian of Albena Azmanova's “Capitalism on Edge”, for which we have to thank Maria Cernat and Alexandru Ionașcu, is extremely important for the Romanian...

Enikő Vincze – Speech at the launch of the translation of Albena Azmanova’s “Capitalis..

Enikő Vincze
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Mentally and materially, capitalism creates us in such a way that we cannot imagine overcoming it. If we do imagine it, we cannot overcome it without being pushed towards violent actions against it. Thanks to...

West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulati..

Jake Kallio and Benjamin Norton
Analysis & reports
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Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private...

Summit for (capitalism without any) democracy w/ Pat Byrne

Boyan Stanislavski
Anti-corruption
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In the second part (part one — https://bit.ly/3Id00GC) of our discussion with Pat Byrne on the outcomes of the Summit for Democracy, which was held in early January, we discuss how American and other Western...

Elite Cooperation

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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Perhaps ever since C. Wright Mills, we know the elite recognizes one another. It does so from the self-assigned but also lofty position they have been allowed to occupy in society. In general, the elite accepts...

Ben Burgis on cancel culture – part 2

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Maria Cernat continues the discussion with Ben Burgis about his latest book: "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns. A Critique of the Contemporary Left." They explore questions related to the fact that most online cancellations...

The politics of France’s yellow vests

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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In 2018, the new social movement of the Yellow Vests or Gilets Janues emerged in France as a populist grassroots protests. It began on 17th November 2018 and ended 1st May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting COVID-19...

Capital, Profits and Wages in 2021

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Analysis
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Long before Karl Marx and Jenet Yellen, some might have suspected that there are three elements that define the core of capitalism. These are, of course, capital. But capitalism is also a system that is defined...