Political Critique Archive

The Roma must be identified with a census. Migrants must be rejected. The effectiveness of vaccines must be questioned. The good times for illegal immigrants are over. The European Union. NGOs paid by Soros. Mario Balotelli. The Italian anti-mafia journalist Saviano. The smugglers behind humanitarian rescue operations. Social centres. Mateo Salvini’s political communication tactics can […]

KATE LAYCOCK Legal moves to increase police powers in the name of fighting terrorism are hardly new territory for Europe. The UK’s 2016 Investigatory Powers Act is one recent example; Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 antiterrorism law, which ended France’s state of emergency by writing many of its provisions permanently into law, is another. But when Germany […]

Three months ago, six people died at the Unipetrol chemical plant in Kralupy nad Vltavou. We went to discover what conditions they worked in.

What Europe Does Ukraine need? Putting the question about Europe this way obviously reminds us of Freud’s famous question that has never been answered: “What does a woman want?” Having “need” instead of “want” inverts the perspective − the Europe that Ukraine wants apparently differs from the Europe Ukraine really needs. Moreover, the Europe needed […]

The Strange Warning of Francis Fukuyama and the Emergence of Postmodern Conservatism

What “feminising politics” means has been largely written and discussed in Spain over the past couple of years. The debate, which is still developing, has some axes that can help us understand the difficulties of introducing feminism into politics without first transforming the political institutions and movements themselves from the inside through daily feminist actions […]

JOVANA GEORGIEVSKI The opening of the “We Have Built Cities for You” exhibition on June 13 at the Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion in Belgrade, gathered artists and researchers from all the countries that once made up Yugoslavia. The exhibition was organized as part of events commemorating 20 years of the Përtej (Beyond) exhibition in 1997, […]

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1st July Austria took the rotating presidency of the European Union. The sinister leaders of Austria, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, vice-chancellor Heinz Strache and interior minister Herbert Kickl – each of them masters of far-right doublespeak – have chosen the slogan 'A Europe that Protects’. The minister for Europe, Karin Kneissl, like Strache and Kickl, is […]

RHIANNON DAVIES “I wasn’t at home the day the police came for me. My friend told me it had happened, so I didn’t go back. Instead, I went underground. But after five months of this hell, I decided to escape.” Arzu Yıldırım is speaking via Skype from Canada, where she has sought refuge. If she returns […]