Political Critique Archive

Statement According to a survey by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in 2017, people gave the same answers to certain question as they did ten or twelve years ago. Could you please name an important Hungarian writer? Imre Kertész. A musician?  Zoltán Kocsis. A theatre director? Róbert Alföldi. Culture as it is preserved in the libraries and museums has gone untouched; in other words, the cultural canon […]

Link to the original article When we embarked on our project to explore Social Reproduction Theory (SRT), at the back of our mind was the phrase from the Marx and Engels’ German Ideology, ‘[human beings] must be in a position to live in order to be able to ‘make history’’.  In class societies, since there lies between […]

We sat down with Big Brother Watch’s Jennifer Krueckeberg to discuss how the police are utilising new technologies, the implications of this for civil liberties, and to what extent we can justify mass surveillance in the name of security. Green European Journal: The United Kingdom deploys more advanced surveillance technologies than many other European countries as […]

Who is behind Black Lives Matter Denmark? How do they fight against racism and how did it all get started? Bwalya Sørensen and Talk Real at TRANSEUROPA festival 2017.

Listen to the episode „The left and the EU – the neoliberal conundrum” of the Another Europe podcast with economist Ann Pettifor and Podemos activist Sirio Canos Donnay. Reflecting on the polarisation between the right and left which has opened up in European politics since the financial crisis this podcast discusses the neoliberal conundrum: if […]

Quick guide on how to properly defend the Czech motherland.

Over a month has passed since the rescue vessel Sea Watch 3 has been given the order to stay put in Malta, unable to leave its moorings. Although the boat is at a standstill, slowly swaying with the movement of the sea beneath them, the volunteers polish up the vessel as they await the day when they can go […]

Agora CEE 2018 meeting in Cieszyn (5TH edition)

Marian Kotleba – a teacher from Banská Bystrica who became the most notorious Slovak nationalist. Who is he? What do people of his hometown say about him?

This year’s march for the equality of sexual minorities has brought up an issue rarely considered in connection LGBT people in Czech Republic – that of unsavory sponsorship.