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Don’t believe the myth – Margaret Thatcher ruined egalitarian 1970s Britain

“Monday, May 4 marks the 30th anniversary of arguably the most significant event in post-war British politics: the coming to power of Margaret Thatcher. The dominant narrative – accepted even by many who consider themselves to be on the left – is that Britain’s economy in the 1970s was in such dire straits that our […]

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How HaHa works?

“The video was originally presented at an event organized by the initiaitve Danes je Nov dan (Slovenian for Today is a new day) on 25 March 2013. Danesjenovdan.si is a newly born platform to collect and discuss ideas and questions effecting numerous people. When a certain problem reaches enough attention, the founders of Danes je […]

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A policy of mass destruction

“A new analysis showing how the radical policies advocated by western economists helped to bankrupt Russia and other former Soviet countries after the Cold War has been released by researchers. The study, led by academics at the University of Cambridge, is the first to trace a direct link between the mass privatisation programmes adopted by […]

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On neoliberalism and “workfare” regimes. An interview with John Clarke.

Interviewed by Florin Faje and Alina-Sandra Cucu, 11 March 2013, Budapest Biographical note John Clarke is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University, UK and a recurrent Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, at Central European University. He is one of the best-known social policy researchers of his generation. […]

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Frisco Cafe and Pub– a worker collective in Budapest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r05bhjMsuzY&feature=youtu.be

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My Best-Worst Day in Ukraine: On Research, Relationships and Other Contradictions from the Field

“The very existence of my research site is unethical … My university Institutional Review Board (IRB) did not prepare me for any of this.” –Jonathan Stillo, “Research Ethics in Impossibly Unethical Situations” (posted 21-Dec-2011 on the cac.ophony.org weblog) Recently, someone commented that my research project is a good match for the foundation that awarded my dissertation […]

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“This Generation Has a Flash of Realization in the Middle of a Crisis”: A Discussion on the Student demonstrations in Hungary

In December 2012 students started a series of demonstrations against recent government reforms of higher education. In Budapest and many other towns the students set up discussion forums, organized strikes, and occupied streets, squares and bridges. Besides the slowly reacting official national and local Student Union (HÖK, HÖOK), the newly organized Student Network (SN, HaHa) […]

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Is there Rock’n’Roll Within the Republic of Moldova?

de Vlad Bolocan Pretty much so, yet in a robinhoodish way. It appears spontaneously, shocks and disappears. When, in 1969, Noroc sells 2,5 million copies of a four-tracks single, everyone starts searching for Moldova on the map – the guys in Siberia and the ones in Berlin. De ce plîng chitarele (Why are the Guitars Crying) reaches the 6th place in […]

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Engineering Moldovan Identity: Moldovan Writers from Stalinism to the Independence

de Petru Negură Identity and Cultural Conflicts One of the main tasks attributed to Soviet Moldovan writers and “creative intellectuals”, from the creation of the first literary organization of the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) up until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was to create a system of cultural values (around […]

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“The Turkish police kills, but the resistance forces will not forget!” An interview with a Turkish activist.

Interview of the Bulgarian web portal BezLogo (NoLogo) with a participant in the Turkish events S.B. Original English version of the translation into Bulgarian which is to be found here”   A few days ago we witnessed one of the most drastic scenes of antagonism between the Turkish workers and protesters on May Day. Can you […]