The postdoctoral researecher at the University of Cambridge Julia Rona is the guest of the On the Barricades podcast, speaking about her new book on protests in EuropeThe Barricade
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The Belarussian protests and its media coverage
The site Tut.by and the Zabastovka channel on Telegram provide good quality journalism and workers’ perspectives. The protests are self-organised and the Poland-based Telegram channels such as NEXTA just encourage them.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between the two countries.
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The West — Lukashenko’s unrequited love
“These protests will not succeed. These oppositional leaders in Ukraine are waiting for their time” Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, a Polish left-wing journalist and an expert on Eastern Europe, claimed in a special interview for The Barricade.Vladimir MitevVladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian-Romanian journalist based in Rousse, a town on the very border between
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Poland’s war on women continues
Conservative crusades in Central and Southeastern Europe met unexpected resistance among Poles. What happens next?Maria 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
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Poland: The Supreme Leader up for a violent confrontation?
Postcard from Poland #5Boyan 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 magazine. Contributor at Baricada.org
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The Bulgarian middle class wants to be getting empowered by the anti-corruption fight
The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was interviewed by the Danish organisation Democracy in Europe on the Bulgarian protests: their demands, the comparisons between the Bulgarian and the Romanian anti-corruption fights and protests, the role of the new left and its democratic innovations.Zlatko JovanovicZlatko Jovanovic has taught, has researched and has written
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The grotesque decay of the Bulgarian mafia-owned state and social despair
The Prime Minister is naked! In his bedroom, with a gun right next to his head and piles of cash and gold.Nikolay Draganov – Boyan StanislavskiNikolay Draganov is a Bulgarian journalist based in Sofia, currently writing for the left analytical platform BARICADA Since 2012, he has been working as a
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Street protests and change: Bulgaria and Romania in each other’s mirror
The middle class struggles for change in Bulgaria, but the protests’ slogans deal with justice, not social affairs. Real change would come from the “downtrodden masses”, who need to find new energy, free time and financial resources in order to strengthen themselves politically. They are presently lured into populist and
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Statement of The Belarusian Left Party “Fair World” on the situation in the country
The Belarusian member party of the European Left with comments on the situation in Belarus and its immediate demandsThe Barricade
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Western “comrades” have betrayed Lukashenko
In the geopolitical coordinate axis of “our own/foreign”, Lukashenkno is foreign. That is why the greetings for Lukashenko keep coming from China, Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, but there are no greetings from Warsaw or Washington. No greetings come from Berlin, either. Nor any from Riga and KievThe Barricade
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