Bulgaria
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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. Continue reading
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CINEMA UTOPIA: Flame
“He was singled out as the only self-immolator who was driven by his ‘own moral consciousness,’ rather than, say, desperation or economic hardship.” Continue reading
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The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop
Transcribed from the 24 January 2015 episode of This is Hell! Radio and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the whole interview: “Roma are among the poorest citizens in Bulgaria. But somehow, paradoxically, they are considered the most privileged, because of their supposed “privileged” access to welfare.” Chuck Mertz: We’ve… Continue reading
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“There Were Just Too Many”
AntiNote: This interview originally appeared in German in issue #104 of the Antifaschistisches Infoblatt (AIB) and was posted online in December 2014. It bears mentioning that since the interview was initially conducted in English, it has now been translated and re-translated. Apart from any fantastic coincidences, these are not the exact words of Jock Palfreeman.… Continue reading
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“Refugee Apocalypse!”
BULGARIA: A look at asylum seekers’ portrayal in politics and media, the little-known practice of “external addressing” in which corrupt officials collude, and the all-too-familiar rise of fascist gangs with the state’s implicit approval by Tsvetelina Hristova and Raya Apostolova for LeftEast In the summer of 2013, as a mass of people was fleeing the… Continue reading
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How Healthcare Kills
AntiNote: this article appeared this month as part of an ongoing collaboration between LeftEast and the Balkan web portal Bilten.org, where it can be read in Serbo-Croatian. Reprinted with permission. “Over the last year and a half, ten Bulgarians committed violent suicide via self-immolation because of the increase of electricity prices; with these ‘well-intended’ healthcare… Continue reading
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Bulgaria: at Fortress Europe’s Postern Gate
AntiNote: this article was the result of a recent collaboration between LeftEast and the new Balkan web portal Bilten.org, where it can be read in Serbo-Croatian. It appeared in the original English last week on LeftEast. Reprinted with permission. “While the EU proclaims democracy and universal human rights, a new form of nationalism is on… Continue reading
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The Antidote Writers Collective seeks to resist and counteract the poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves.
We believe that a strong collective immune system is built through knowledge and understanding and that the struggle against division and repression requires building a new culture of discussion that goes beyond flat definitions, brittle ideologies, stubborn dogmas, idle preconceptions, and petty rivalries.
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