On the Barricades

⚠️ SPECIAL EDITION ⚠️ This is part two of a special edition of our show this month, hosted by Canadian-American journalist and filmmaker Paul Jay, as part of a co-production between The Analysis and The Barricade . See part one here . In this episode, we discuss the reasons behind the ongoing fearmongering about Russia allegedly preparing to invade Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The entire story appears to be a hoa...

This is part one of a special edition of our show this month, hosted by Canadian-American journalist and filmmaker Paul Jay, as part of a co-production between The Analysis and The Barricade . In this episode, we discuss and deconstruct the ongoing, rather irrational fearmongering about Russia allegedly preparing to invade Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The entire story appears to be a hoax concocted by ‘anonymous...

The so-called Summit for Democracy, convened by American President Joe Biden, is set to begin in a few days. Before it begins, Pat Byrne, our guest, analyzes the dominant model of 'democracy' based on western concepts. He is a long-time socialist activist, political analyst, and European left historian. Boyan Stanislavski and Pat Byrne deconstruct the dominant notion of democracy and discuss the k...

In the most recent episode of our flagship podcast On the barricades 📹🎙 we talk with Pat Byrne, a long-time socialist activist, political analyst, and historian of the European left, a week before the President of the United States convenes the Summit for Democracy. Boyan Stanislavski discusses the significance of this event as well as the nature of the current understanding of the concept of dem...

The #s03e15 🎦🎙 episode of the podcast On the barricades focuses on the crisis of liberal democracy in Eastern Europe, with Bulgaria and Romania serving as ‘great’ examples. 💬 We are made to swallow the same dish, only with different flavors 💬 dr. Maria Cernat said of 🇷🇴 Romania's current political crisis. In 🇧🇬 Bulgaria's recent elections, a “anti-corruption” 🙄 party led by two Harvard graduat...

To believe that the Polish response to the migrant gathering on the Polish-Belarussian border could be even remotely rational and meaningful, one would have to be completely insane. Let us begin by recognizing that those individuals do not intend to settle in Poland and instead seek to travel to Western Europe. Despite this, Poland is erecting razor wire fences and mobilizing troops, police office...

The hosts of On the barricades , Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, discuss the situation on the Polish-Belarussian border in this episode, focusing on the Polish authorities' cynical, violent, and downright stupid response to what they refer to as a ‘hybrid war’ waged on Poland by Belarus' president. Along the Belarusian border, the Polish government has deployed around 15,000 soldiers, police...

In this episode, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski will discuss the tragic death of a young Polish woman with a dying fetus who was denied abortion and died of septic shock. The public learned about the case from the lawyer for the deceased woman's family, 30-year-old Izabela from the Polish town of Pszczyna in the south. Yesterday, massive marches were held in over 70 cities and towns across th...

Facebook was recently engulfed in a major scandal related to the release of internal documents proving things we already knew: the algorithm makes highly emotional content go viral, it pays no attention to combating human trafficking, it is extremely detrimental for children and teenagers, and finally, the profit is the only thing that matters! But this is not new nor specific for social media. So...

Technodeterminism is a very simplistic perspective that tells us how technological progress will automatically lead to social progress. While simplistic, it is a very suborn idea that is capturing the public’s imagination. In this edition of our show, we invited Patricia Gorky. She's originally from Eastern Europe, now living in the US. She's a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, IT...

As the fourth wave of the global pandemic hits Eastern Europe, the failure of Romanian statehood becomes more apparent. While the police, military, and intelligence services are flush with cash, hospitals are in disrepair. Recently, two major medical facilities burned down as a result of no one taking care of the electrical grid, which had never been repaired or renovated in the previous 30 years....

Welcome back to Season 3 of our show On the Barricades ! Youri Smouter, the Euro-Afro-American leftist and youtuber at 1+1 , is hosting it today. After the summer break, Youri helped us relaunch the thumbs-up and thumbs-down series featuring Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski. Today, we spoke about Canada and Justin Trudeau's other term, as well as the implications for Canadians and, of course, E...

This time, The Barricade ’s hosts sat down with David Schwartz, a Romanian theater director and, in some ways, political activist. His art is meant to motivate people to take political action and to instill hope that a better world is possible. Furthermore, his works demonstrate that unity on the Left is very much possible and that the type of approach to the general public that does not look down...

The third season has begun! This is the first episode of The Barricade ’s flagship show, featuring Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, in its third season. We’d like to offer some strictly ideological and strategical deliberations in addition to our usual commentary on the most important events taking place in our region and around the world. Maria Cernat explains the nuances of feminism today, a...

Bulgaria's transition from state-controlled socialism to capitalism and 'democracy' began as a ridicule of democracy and later devolved into a mockery of dictatorship. The latter were the nearly 15 years of Boyko Borissov's absolutist rule, a former personal guard and karate champion with a stellar criminal record. His regime could only exist because of the total support of Berlin and Washington,...

You have most likely not heard about the humanitarian crisis on the borders of Belarus and Poland, as well as Belarus and Lithuania and Latvia. This is because, as soon as the news went viral, the Polish government declared a state of emergency along the border between the two countries, and the entire area was immediately cleared of all journalists and activists. This is what emergency laws permi...

Following a massive protest in the Polish capital on Saturday (Sep. 11), healthcare workers established a 'white town,' essentially a tent city, next to the prime minister's office, with an initial stay of a week. 'White Town 2.0,' as the organizers refer to it, has been built in downtown Warsaw, near the prime minister's office, with a section of the street fenced off with barriers. Supposedly er...