Roma – The Barricade

The privatization of anti-racism

...Or, how the state institutions were sacked and all we got was this suspect philanthropist funding anti-racism projects. In this second episode of this week’s “On the Barricades”, hosts Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski continue...

Capitalist society, not just attitudes, are to blame for social exclusion of the Roma population.

Boyan Stanislavski
Bulgaria
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The Roma population in Romania, 86% of whom live in appalling conditions that force children to beg and hunt through trash to survive, are the target of major, normalized racism by their non-Roma neighbors; similarly...

Why is xenophobia the most prevalent conviction in Bulgaria?

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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The Bulgarian population is rife with negative stereotypes about others — Turks, Roma, Jews, refugees, and sexual minorities. Anyone familiar with the situation on the ground will recognize that such sentiments have always been a...

Bulgaria’s transition to capitalism — a very uncreative destruction

Veronika Stoyanova
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Few of the developments of the post-1989 transformation in Bulgaria were a result of popular democratic politics, much of it being part of the global turn towards neoliberal globalization. In some popular accounts in the...

The “Hunger Games” of Eastern Europe – Bulgarian “socialists” protest against so..

Georgi Hristov
Bulgaria
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Weird events have once again transpired on the outskirts of Europe. In Gorna Oryahovitsa, a provincial Bulgarian town, people have been up in arms over a social housing project out of fear it would become......