Bulgarian Anarchists Speak on the Border Crisis
Our solution is a social revolution. This will happen when the exaggerations of the refugee crisis become the reality and the proletariat of Europe works with them to create a new world.
Our solution is a social revolution. This will happen when the exaggerations of the refugee crisis become the reality and the proletariat of Europe works with them to create a new world.
“He was singled out as the only self-immolator who was driven by his ‘own moral consciousness,’ rather than, say, desperation or economic hardship.”
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field.
“The neo-Nazi ideology of the attackers is completely ignored, and the whole incident is trivialized as a bar fight instead of a cold, calculated racist attack by people who vocally promote genocide.”
The border triangle between Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece more and more resembles an international ping-pong match. FRONTEX missions have become an inseparable part of border life in the region.
The right to healthcare is still written in the Bulgarian constitution, but is de facto cancelled as a ‘normal’ part of a wider process of ‘development’ characteristic of advanced capitalist societies.
A new form of nationalism is on the rise in Europe – one that is not founded in the nation-state but is instead fortifying wealthy core EU member-states by turning the periphery into an alert border zone.