Political Critique Archive

„Conservative critics across the globe are increasingly framing themselves as pushing against a deeply nihilistic culture.”

Ewa Majewska and Katarzyna Rakowska talk on Black protests, abortions and reproductive rights.

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: Tell us a bit about your work in Sail for Children. What exactly is it that you do? Sail for Children:  Here at Sail for Children we restore boats seized from the mafia and […]

Polish hospitals are not much for ice when it comes to post-op recovery, I discover later Tuesday afternoon, lying alone in my bed back in 538. No ice, no water. No nothing, just me, my bed, a couple of roommates.

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: What is Another Europe is Possible? Who are you? And how did you get started? Zoe Gardner: Another Europe is Possible began when we saw that the ‘remain’ campaign ahead of the UK’s EU […]

I recently went to an exhibition that has given people in Spain plenty to talk about over the past few months: Derain, Balthus, Giacometti. A friendship between artists. I admit that I went out of pure curiosity: to corroborate or deny the disturbing character that public opinion presupposes of Balthus’s girls. Indeed the exhibition contains […]

Listen the history of Auschwitz, the whole history of Auschwitz in one man’s brain.

It’s not only the language and resetting of the agenda that the ruling parties of Hungary and Poland have in common. However, they do not mirror each other either.

„Sex work is a job. End of story.”

„While the former ghetto is certainly a geographical place of memory, as Elie Wiesel once said — a memory of overt violence — it is also a place of cultural resistance.”