Political Critique Archive

Brazilian rapper Emicida talks about the social power of rap music.

Peripheral Literature gives voice to problems like racism, police brutality, violence against women, poverty, misery, slums.

Brazil’s precariat driven to the streets by austerity.

We Brazilians and other Latin Americans constantly experience the artificial, inauthentic and imitative nature of our cultural life.

Letter from Juliana Rebelo Doraciotto against the Policial Violence in São Paulo which happened on last Thursday (13.06).

Protest against the fare increases of the public transportation in Sao Paulo.

By Katarzyna Falęcka (London).

No liberal democracy, political party, market economy, or human right is set in stone. People created these concepts, and people have the power to destroy them. These social constructs are often elevated to the rank of universal laws or endowed with a sacred permanence; they carry on, immutable, even when utterly stripped of the spirit […]

On Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year, the two Polish weeklies „Newsweek” and „Wprost” decided to drive Polish readers to despair with the standard of Polish journalism.