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Political Critique Archive

Despite what you’ve read, there’s still solidarity in Italy

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  Tell us about the origins of Baobab experience. How long have you been operating? And what does the name mean? Baobab experience: The Baobab experience started in Spring 2015 and it’s probably the biggest experience of civil […]

We lived and were saved by the sea. Now who will save the boats they’re killing?

Jenny Tsiropoulou on the European directive and the destruction of traditional wooden vessels.

Poland in Transition 1989-1991: Cityscape: Gdańsk

Gdańsk is, with Kraków, Budapest, Paris, Berlin and Prague, one of Europe’s great old cities.

Florian Bieber: In some ways, the EU encourages regional autocrats

Leading academic on Western Balkans talks about constrained democracies, foreign influence and the potential for change.

The Wolf Pack verdict: a war-like sentence

At one o’clock in the afternoon expectations were at breaking point. For days you could feel a kind of countdown, the prelude to one those events that break through inertia and change the course of things. It had been clear for weeks that this wasn’t going to leave anyone indifferent. ‘Alert’ was the word on […]

Postcards from Malta: The paradox of nostalgia

Malta does not brand itself as the place of ultramodern sky-scrapers. Instead, the country is portrayed through images that highlight its idyllic Mediterranean location, rural lifestyle or its ‘glorious past’.

’Zagreb is and will remain an undefeated city’

It was a sunny day, unusually hot for May. At noon, the fire truck was already there. Activists with workers’ gloves were building the bonfire. It looked a little small once the construction was finished. “Are we sure that it will burn like it should? Well, the fire might be enough for us. After all, […]

Getting schooled by Yanis Varoufakis at the DiEM25 meeting in London

On Brexit, the future of Europe and DiEM25’s vision.

Poland in Transition 1989-1991: The Fog Machine

Gradually one learns the first lesson of Poland: “Spoko, spoko. Easy, easy.” You get there when you get there. If you get there.

Do working conditions of journalists in Greece affect press freedom?

Guess what; the impact for democracy is terrifying.

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