Political Critique Archive

Interview with Júlia Lázár.

The radical political ideas of Jacek Kuroń, the Polish opposition leader of the 1960s and 70s – without whom Lech Wałęsa’s Solidarity would never have come into being – have been relegated to the archives far too soon. It’s time to revive them.

How to bring radical voters back to the mainstream?

Nothing can give their lives back to the passengers and crew of the Boeing, but the message about their tragedy can – and loftiness is not out of place here – change the course of history.

Slawomir Sierakowski in Dissent Magazine.

International Drug Policy Conference EAST DRUG STORY. DRUG POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF CORRUPTION.

Annual Freedom March in Kiev in Ukraine for liberalization of drug laws and decriminalization of drug possession.

Drug policy activists at the Draftsmen’s Congress in Kyiv, initiated by Pawel Althamer at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. June, 2013.

A culture war has been raging in Poland since the fall of Communism in 1989, pitting secular forces against the Roman Catholic Church on issues ranging from abortion to taxes to education.

Protest movements in Bulgaria and Romania have taken different paths to address similar issues.