“On the Barricades” — s05e03 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the infamous right-wing authoritarian EU leader, extended his party’s 10+ year regime by winning the April 2022 election by a landslide. Having won on a campaign of bold neutrality and non-support of Ukraine in the war, he promptly amended the Constitution to enable himself to run what has been a near-continuous state of emergency, going back to the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The current state of “danger” enacted in late May, due to the war in a neighboring country, allows him to appear a strong protector of his citizens, backing up his surprisingly successful pro-peace rhetoric. Not that the state of emergency during the pandemic protected Hungarians from the epidemic, or that any “protections” are in place against the economic fallout of that and now more inflation. But what kind of opposition does Orbán face? Rather than offering anything politically substantial, the other parties of parliament unite on their wanting Orbán out– without an idea of how to do so or what to replace him with. Instead they obsess about the constitution reform, which no one cares much about in the current circumstances. Given the elitist self-promotion and political shallowness, it is no wonder there has been a mutual loss of respect between these parties and Hungarian society– a gift to Orbán. “On the Barricades" speaks with Emese Szilágyi, a Hungarian human-rights lawyer and Junior Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who is also the editor of the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Arts' blogsite, to discuss these issues, and the overall state of affairs in Hungary. ******************** Check out our website at https://thebarricade.online/ ******************** Subscribe to our YouTube channel https://bit.ly/Barricade_YT ******************** Subscribe to our Rumble channel https://rumble.com/user/thebarricade ******************** Follow us on Spotify http://bit.ly/Barricade_SF ******************** Follow us on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/baricada ******************** Like our Facebook page https://.facebook.com/EnBaricada/ ******************** Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/_the_barricade_ ******************** Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/thebarricade/ ******************** Hey there! The Barricade is a leftist media outlet set up by a group of activists and journalists from around Eastern Europe. This channel is part of our efforts to provide analyzes, news as well as opinions and comments from and on our region, often disregarded by the West (including the left) in a very colonial manner. One of our tasks is to confront such an approach as well as many other naïve and superficial views about Eastern Europe and its left. It has history, experience and competence to participate in the global debates. And we're doing this via this channel and its flagship show "On the barricades" hosted by Boyan Stanislavski and Maria Cernat. Please, support us by becoming a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/thebarricade Thanks so much! See you on the barricades! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scuf0JBGYYo

“On the Barricades” s06e15 This week we have two releases of “On the Barricades” where hosts Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss with Arto Artinian, our returning guest and friend who is a Bulgarian-Armenian professor of sociology working at a college in New York. This second installment is an in-depth discussion of “the Left”, which currently has become quite the opposite of its classical meaning of those who organize for progress. Where do Leftists stand and where do we go from here? How do we move past the current pathologies, sectarianism, vile libertarianism, the culture and toxic role of the NGO cliques, pessimism, etc? How do we connect with the masses and get back to the concrete problems that regular people face in this time of intensified crisis? ** Check out our website at https://thebarricade.online/ ** Subscribe to our YouTube channel https://bit.ly/Barricade_YT ** Subscribe to our Rumble channel https://rumble.com/user/thebarricade ** Follow us on Spotify http://bit.ly/Barricade_SF ** Follow us on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/baricada ** Like our Facebook page https://.facebook.com/EnBaricada/ ** Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/_the_barricade_ ** Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/thebarricade/ ** Hey there! The Barricade is a leftist media outlet set up by a group of activists and journalists from around Eastern Europe. This channel is part of our efforts to provide analyzes, news as well as opinions and comments from and on our region, often disregarded by the West (including the left) in a very colonial manner. One of our tasks is to confront such an approach as well as many other naïve and superficial views about Eastern Europe and its left. It has history, experience and competence to participate in the global debates. And we're doing this via this channel and its flagship show "On the barricades" hosted by Boyan Stanislavski and Maria Cernat. Please, support us by becoming a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/thebarricade Thanks so much! See you on the barricades! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7lA3RKZJk