repression – The Barricade

Statement of solidarity and support for Walden Bello

The Barricade
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Sign the statement against the life-threatening harassment of the Philippine Hugpong ng Pagbabago party against Prof. Walden Bello, co-founder of and current senior analyst at the Bangkok-based think tank Focus on the Global South and...

Eastern European leftist journalists dissect the Belarus situation

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
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Aleksander Lukashenko has been the undisputed leader of Belarus for over 25 years. How is this even possible? Is it truly only through the plethora of dictatorial measures he employed during that time? Certainly not!...

Mass arrest of LGBT people marks turning point for Poland

Claudia Ciobanu
Gender issues
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This article was published on 13 August 2020 at BIRN and is republished with the approval of the author Claudia Ciobanu. “I arrived at the Copernicus monument at around nine in the evening, and I...

Poland: Police disrupt academic conference on Karl Marx

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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As the Polish tragicomedy continues, the anticommunist obsession deepens. The police have interrupted an academic conference on Karl Marx as they were instructed by the local prosecutor to check whether the event does not contradict...