Political Critique Archive

For young Poles, being a pro-market conservative – and annoying at parties – is cool and trendy. Being leftist is passé.

On Saturday, October 13th 2018, people in more than 50 European cities, from Minsk to Lisbon, from Nicosia to Eskilstuna, have gathered on the streets to raise their voices against nationalism and for a united Europe. More than 800 prominent European artists, writers, academics and politician supported the Call To Action of 13-10.org. Organisations and individuals […]

When describing foreign workers’ conditions, the perspective of those left home is often ignored.

“VICTORIE!” declared the Romanian LGBT rights organisation MozaiQ on their Facebook page last night, after a referendum this weekend to make legalising equal marriage even harder was lost following a nationwide boycott campaign. The two-day vote, on whether to amend the constitution’s definition of marriage to specify that it is between “a man and a woman” (rather […]

The connection between the music scene and social activism is certainly strongest in Tbilisi with relatively little traction outside of the capital.

*‘Municipio’ means ‘Town Hall’ in Italian. This word was not translated in order to preserve the jeu de mots. The outcome of the municipal elections held on 10 June 2018 marked the end of Renato Accoriniti’s stretch in office and shut the City Council’s door on his three connected party lists, including Cambiamo Messina dal […]

Good news? Yeah, there is good news. The xenophobic SPD ended up with a disaster.

How to get EU protections for a same-sex marriage.

We call for the immediate release of the mayor of Riace, Mimmo Lucano. We stand with him for an open, humanist and democratic Europe! On Tuesday, 2nd October, we have learned that there are many treats to solidarity. One of them: deprivation of freedom. What we now know is that, Mimmo Lucano, the mayor of […]

Eurozine was invited to both report on and participate in this year’s “European Cultural Challenge”, a two-day “advocacy retreat” organised by the European Cultural Foundation, bringing together a hundred participants from 17 European countries, with the general aim to “re-think and build Europe as an open, inclusive and democratic space in which courageous citizens dare […]