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A pyrrhic victory for Serbia’s ruling party

The Barricade
Elections
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Luka Petrović, transform! europe, 19 April 2022 Serbia held a triple election on 3 April, encompassing regular presidential elections, regular local elections in a number of municipalities, and snap parliamentary elections. Due to the opposition’s...

Women’s day 2022. Do we fully know what we want?

Maria Cernat
Democracy
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Feminism has always been a movement for liberation and progress. Frequently confronted with hatred, violence, and general reluctance. Over the last two centuries, the same arguments have been used to oppose it. The most heinous...

A Polish Catholic fundamentalist organization has split over internal erotic issues

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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The far right in Poland has just given its political opponents a late Christmas present. It is well known that hypocrisy is most visible among radical conservatives. The majority of them, on the other hand,...

There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth

Right to City (Timişoara, România)
Human rights and civic liberties
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With the increasing militarization of the Croatian-Bosnian border and in an overall hostile environment towards migrants, the Balkan route has been shifting in recent months towards Romania. Since October 2020, there has been a sharp...

This safety asphyxiates us: the banal border in Barcelona

Last month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning to set up patrols to attack immigrants. In Barcelona, citizen patrols, without confirmed ties to...

We condemn the Israeli settler-colonial violence against Palestinians

We unequivocally condemn the recent escalation of the Israeli state’s persisting settler-colonial violence against Palestinians, which has most recently manifested itself in the forced expulsions of families from the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh...

Poland: Banning abortions is not enough, some more state violence is welcome!

During the last six months, Poland witnessed one of the largest protests in its modern history. Polish youth took to the streets, en masse, against the barbaric ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, which nearly ruled...

The Right Normalizes Fascism. The Best Response: Normalize It Back

The problem with our public discussion of fascism is that we trot out the term every time the right turns to violence, and then we withdraw the term when the violence ends. We keep it...

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....

Why we can’t expect support from the West

Rositsa Kratunkova
Analysis
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This article was originally published at the Bulgarian left-wing platform dVersia on 30 September 2020. Bulgaria has been deeply shaken by a revolt demanding the resignation of the government for more than 80 days. The...