In Ukraine, war against the working class started a long time ago
Olena Lyubchenko, a PhD candidate in political science at York University in Toronto, is the author of the brilliant piece “On the Frontier of Whiteness? Expropriation, War, and Social Reproduction in...
View ArticleNeo-Nazis online
The advent of the internet has proven to have provided great benefits to neo-Nazis, right-wing extremists, white power thugs, the Proud Boys, the Aryan Brotherhood, and all the other adjacent hate...
View ArticleThumbs up, thumbs down, part 2: Government breakdown in Bulgaria; The Summit...
This is the second instalment of this week’s “On the Barricades” release. This episode is part of our regular series, which we co-produce and co-host with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Maria, Boyan, and Youri...
View ArticleMaria’s thoughts on the book “Covert Regime Change” by Lindsey O’Rourke
Maria Cernat, one of the hosts of “On the Barricades,” recorded a solo commentary. She discusses Lindsey O’Rourke’s study on the use of regime change as a tool for the US to advance its interests...
View ArticleWill the forthcoming elections spell the end for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
In the shadow of Ukraine’s ongoing conflict, the West’s ‘handicapped child’ in the Balkans may be about to simmer down for good. While the international public is preoccupied with the whirlwinds of the...
View ArticleFrom Belarus, with love…
A postcard from Minsk. Here are some impressions from my recent trip to Belarus. Can my rather superficial observations be extrapolated, and can a general picture of the country be derived from them?...
View ArticleFrance at war
“I am confident that Ukraine will turn things around and win this war. This will happen in the next few weeks. We don’t brag about our accomplishments, but rest assured that you will hear about them” –...
View ArticleKant and the current Ukrainian conflict
Has a rational person the right to declare that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an act of unprovoked aggression? Yes and no. It all depends on how you look at it. The systematics of free speech,...
View ArticleEnikő Vincze – Speech at the launch of the translation of Albena Azmanova’s...
Mentally and materially, capitalism creates us in such a way that we cannot imagine overcoming it. If we do imagine it, we cannot overcome it without being pushed towards violent actions against it....
View ArticleWhy Democracy doesn’t work on an empty stomach
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,...
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