The objective of my PhD research is to further the thinking of radical democracy, and specifically the concept of agonistic pluralism, by contextualising it in post-communist educational settings. My aim is to explore how practically social connections across difference, which I name radical alliances, are conceived today by young people and how this perception can be re-imagined. Drawing on the literature of radical education, I approach schools as sites with anticipatory potential, i.e. sites where alternatives to the current consensus orientated democracy can be imagined and acted upon. I explore the problem in the case of tensions in Latvia – a society that has been torn apart by the inner-ethnic conflict between Latvians and Russian-speakers, which has ramifications in social exclusion and political engagement amongst minorities.