KOMBINATAS 2025 | The New World Disorder: the new era of neoliberalism – Tarun Gidwani
Release Date: 08/01/2026
KOMBINATAS 2025 | Sustainable development – new economic, environmental, social system for human survival - Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis
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Recorded live on the main stage of the Kombinatas festival 2025, former UN Independent Group of Scientists member Prof. Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis delivers a compelling keynote address on the urgent need for a systemic paradigm shift in global sustainability. Beginning with the cautionary tale of Easter Island's ecological collapse, Staniškis critiques free-market GDP growth imperatives and warns that incremental technical fixes are insufficient to prevent reaching critical global tipping points. Drawing on his work with the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Report, he advocates...
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | Political visions of sustainability. Panel discussion
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, this panel discussion dives into the political implications and strategic organizing needed to turn transformative social visions into reality. Moderated by Gražina Bielousova, a scholar teaching at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science, the session features insights from an expert panel including historian and newly elected Seimas member Laurynas Šedvydis, Lithuanian Green Party leader and public policy analyst Ieva Budraitė, and Vilnius University associate professor of comparative politics...
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | Peacebuilding, Beyond Surrender – Jess Kavinsky
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, peacebuilding practitioner Jess Kavinsky leads a critical workshop dismantling the weaponization of "peace" as a tool for passivity, reframing it instead as an active method for justice and liberation. Drawing from extensive field experience in Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Germany, and Estonia, Kavinsky facilitates an interactive discussion to explore diverse working definitions of peacebuilding and how they apply to contemporary struggles.
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | Climate-Humanitarian Crisis in the Russia–Ukraine War Double Vulnerabilities and Gaps in Response – Ihor Potarskyi
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, field data collection coordinator Ihor examines the profound environmental and humanitarian crises caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, from toxic pollution to the ecocide of the Kakhovka Dam. Drawing on grounded research in war-affected regions, he critiques top-down international aid models and advocates for a just recovery rooted in local knowledge, frontline community needs, and ecological justice.
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | The New World Disorder: the new era of neoliberalism – Tarun Gidwani
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, Tarun Gidwani explores the collapse of the "free trade" era and the persistent survival of neoliberalism in a post-globalization world. Drawing on academic expertise and grassroots organizing experiences in India and the UK, the speaker outlines actionable new strategies for the left, advocating for localized industrial policies, community debt relief, and robust labor clauses in trade agreements.
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | Practicing Direct Democracy: Serbia student movement – Ana Vilenica
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, this session delves into the 2024–2025 student-led movement in Serbia and its radical experiments with direct democracy in the face of authoritarianism. The discussion highlights how grassroots initiatives—spanning university plenums, neighborhood assemblies, and liberated cultural spaces—forged a powerful new infrastructure for broader social resistance.
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | Organising Trade Unions in the Baltic Context – Jurgis Valiukevičius
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, representatives from G1PS share their firsthand workplace organizing experiences and walk through a practical, step-by-step guide to establishing a labor union in Lithuania. The session also features insights from an interactive collective bargaining workshop designed to test effective negotiation strategies between employers and workers.
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | How the EU border regime instrumentalizes migration – Daria Krivonos & Daria Tarkhova
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, researchers and organizers Daria Krivonos and Daria Tarkhova critically examine the militarization of Finland's borders and the discourse of "instrumentalized migration" within the broader carceral EU border regime. Their presentation breaks down the impact of recent pushback laws while exploring tactical initiatives and campaigns for building active solidarity with asylum seekers.
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KOMBINATAS 2025 | Localising the Pro-Palestinian Movement in Lithuania – Em & Roo
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Recorded live at the Kombinatas festival in 2025, Roo and Em discuss strategies for localizing anti-zionist solidarity in Lithuania and confronting the country's institutional ties to the Israeli military and other institutions. Drawing on their organizing experiences in the Netherlands and Austria, they offer practical frameworks for building an effective working group to take concrete local action.
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Tarptautinės genocido tyrėjų asociacijos rezoliucija dėl situacijos Gazoje
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Tarptautinė genocido tyrinėtojų asociacija: Pareiškia, kad Izraelio politika ir veiksmai Gazos ruože atitinka genocido teisinį apibrėžimą, pateiktą Jungtinių Tautų konvencijos dėl genocido prevencijos ir baudimo (1948 m.) II straipsnyje; Pareiškia, kad Izraelio politika ir veiksmai Gazos ruože yra karo nusikaltimai ir nusikaltimai žmoniškumui, kaip apibrėžta tarptautinėje humanitarinėje teisėje ir Tarptautinio baudžiamojo teismo Romos statuto.
info_outlineRecorded live at the Kombinatas festival 2025, Tarun Gidwani explores the collapse of the "free trade" era and the persistent survival of neoliberalism in a post-globalization world. Drawing on academic expertise and grassroots organizing experiences in India and the UK, the speaker outlines actionable new strategies for the left, advocating for localized industrial policies, community debt relief, and robust labor clauses in trade agreements.