Political Critique Archive

The most striking factor when discussing the ‘sharing economy’ is the evolution of the term itself – largely in the direction of being used to signify a growing trend in market economy.

Kurt Borg spoke to Dr Anne-Marie Callus, current Acting Head of the Department of Disability Studies at the University of Malta, about the film The Shape of Water. Here’s what she had to say about it: K.B: The Shape of Water, which has recently won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, highlights issues which are relevant […]

Few things rile up today’s conservatives like the boogeyman of post-modernism. 

“Battered for a decade, Greece feels an unexpected whiff of revival as Europe gains strength … It’s nearly springtime in Athens: Street trees are heavy with citrus, wildflowers are erupting in the pine-scented hills and the air is thick with talk of a Greek exit. But not the kind of exit that has preoccupied the […]

The German economy is growing and the coffers are full. This is the best moment for a new, fairer politics.

Poland 2018: What happens when you change the lyrics of the national anthem?

Srecko Horvat, the co-founder of DiEM25, talks about the pan-European movement, Europe, Yanis Varoufakis, Alexis Tsipras and his friend, Julian Assange.

Globalisation and automation: these are the trends reshaping our world, or so we are told. According to the consultancy McKinsey, 80% of jobs could technically be automated by 2050. Globalisation will bring the Global South closer to the Global North. Together, they will create a world in which an ever greater number of human beings compete […]

To date, Czechia has not announced any date for a coal phaseout, although the country has signed up to the Paris Agreement and the national energy strategy envisages a decreased role for fossil fuels over the coming decades.

Two years ago in Berlin, Yanis Varoufakis launched the project DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), a „democratic, pan-European and cross-border” political movement. DiEM25 intended to build a democratic Europe from an internationalist project in order to meet the various crises crisscrossing the continent (debt, banking, poverty, low investment and migration), and to tackle the […]