Political Critique Archive

Are there alternatives to capitalism? Veronika Pehe interviews economist Tomáš Sedláček.

Contemporary commemoration and the failing of philanthropy in public space. Architect Gabu Heindl and artist Eduard Freudmann on plans for a monument to the Polish Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw.

Unions are not the only means of representing workers’ interests. Dawid Krawczyk reports on workers’ self-organization in New York’s Chinese community.

Last Saturday, a crowd of more than 20,000 people gathered in front of the Parliament to articulate their demands for a comprehensive reform of the educational system.

Discover Polish photographer Josef Schulz’s Übergang series – meaning Crossing – which explores abandoned military checkpoints across the continent.

This roundtable discussion at UCL brought together leading academics, journalists and activists to offer an interpretation of recent events.

Dawid Krawczyk interviews Czech Roma rights activist Ivanka Čonková.

Przemysław Witkowski reports from last Saturday’s anti-refugee demonstrations in Prague.

Muslim asylum seekers in Poland are not a new phenomenon. Refugees from Chechnya have been applying for asylum for two decades now.

How similar are the Orbán and Kaczyński regimes?