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Czech Grandmothers with Ukraine

Dan La Botz — 2022-11-17T10:48:34Z

“I tend to be a pacifist,” said Ŝabatová, “and I was on 24 February when Russia invaded Ukraine, but when I saw what was happening, I thought, Ukraine has to defend itself. The Ukrainians must defend themselves and we must support the Ukrainians.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Czech Republic, Ukraine

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation

Sebijan Fejzula — 2022-08-09T07:42:00Z

“At the same time, we do not fight this battle alone, rather, alongside other racialized communities in the fight against racism, an institutional matter that involves collectively questioning specific power relations.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Italy, Europe, Czech Republic, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Racism and Islamophobia, Romania

A Lucky Break from Populism?

Andre Kaspas — 2021-10-29T07:03:51Z

“As Czechia [Czech Republic] moves on towards a future that strangely resembles the past, with roughly the same political forces taking over after socio-economic turmoil, as they did in 2010 after the financial crisis, it remains to be seen whether the same mistakes will be repeated.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / Czech Republic

In the name of the communist ideal

Catherine Samary — 2020-06-15T15:40:13Z

One of the received ideas that became a ‘truth' after the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the Soviet bloc's populations cursed communism, yet obeyed it slavishly. In fact, many social movements within the Eastern bloc had long aspired to genuine socialism.

- IV545 - June 2020 / Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Historical events and figures

Eastern Europe: revisiting the ambiguous revolutions of 1989

Catherine Samary — 2019-11-27T20:29:10Z

The year 1989 saw a profound upheaval in the geopolitical order established after the Second World War symbolised by the fall of the Berlin wall on 9 November 1989. This essay examines the effects, implications and context in Eastern Europe.

- IV538 - November 2019 / Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Ex-Yugoslavia, Romania

EU And East-Europeans. Czech Republic As An Example

Viera Hude?ková — 2018-10-21T19:50:16Z

An article by Viera Hude?ková based on an intervention made at The International Conference “Another EU is necessary and possible” organised by the Party of the European Left on the 12th of May 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Czech Republic, European Union

The Avoidable Rise of Andrej BabiÅ¡

Dan Swain — 2017-11-16T17:23:24Z

The Czech Republic's new leader is a sad symptom of a broader crisis.

- IV514 - November 2017 / Czech Republic

The Czech communists' road to Europe

Mark Johnson — 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Czech Communist Party will bring to the European parliament its peculiar mix of progressive social and economic policies and an unattractive attachment to authoritarian and nationalist sentiments. But the decline of anti-Communism at home, and exposure to the libertarian currents of the Western left are likely to transform the party into a modern anti-capitalist force.

- IV360/1 - Autumn 2004 / Czech Republic