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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,...

Hungary: Orban vs. protesting workers

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Education
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In the newest episode of On the Barricades, we discuss advocating for labor rights with Judit Zeller, a member of Hungarian Civil LIberties Union. The topic is the teachers strike in Hungary and disobedience declared...

Thousands of citizens successfully block traffic at several dozen locations in Serbia on Saturday

The Barricade
Ecology
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Citizens blocked roads in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and dozens of smaller cities in Serbia for two hours. Protest was organised by of the Ecological Uprising, the Open Civic Platform “Action”, Don’t let Belgrade D(r)own...

The Protests of Serbian Freelancers and the Possibilities of Digital Labor Struggles

Slobodan Golušin
Analysis
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2021 witnessed an unprecedented mobilization of online freelancers in Serbia. Thousands of people, doing various online jobs on different digital platforms and organized around a common association, marched on the streets of Belgrade to protest...

Poland: A student is expelled from school for opposing Catholic fundamentalism

Boyan Stanislavski
Citizens Movements
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Teachers with a favorable attitude toward the government, it turns out, could also be used for the same purpose. According to Polish media, a Catholic school in Białystok, north-eastern Poland, expelled a 17-year-old female student...

Romanian government threatens unions after protest in the Bucharest metro

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîţu is seeking to sanction protesters who blocked the Bucharest metro on Friday, an action Cîţu described as "illegal". The Prime Minister said he would be looking for the culprits to...

“On the barricades” s02e15: Grotesque stagnancy on the Left

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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In this episode of "On the barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss the departure of the Eastern European Left from its core values and orientation towards the working class and how it has strangely...

Young Romanian Students and Left-Wing Activism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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Right-wing intellectuals have dominated Romania for the past three decades. The largest protest following the 1989 Revolution was focused on anti-corruption. The intellectuals in Romania seldom protested for economic reasons. Their main concern was to...

Freelancers in Serbia protest

The Barricade
Labour
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I was called by the head of the cabinet of Ana Brnabić. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance, Siniša Mali, will sit at the negotiation table with us. We won one small battle,...

Chaos, desperation and violence

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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On the afternoon of November 18, 2020, thousands of people gathered in the center of Warsaw in response to yet another call for mobilization against the almost complete abortion ban proclaimed by the Constitutional Tribunal....