Political Critique Archive

What is the future of Białowieża Forest? Interview with Krzysztof Cibor of Greenpeace Polska.

Following a landmark year, in which the feminist movement finally „went mainstream” in many countries, International Women’s Day 2018 was about providing visibility of problems, but, more importantly, furthering solutions and strategies for change. There were new policy proposals, like those offered by Italy’s Nonunadimeno, new protest discourses like Spain’s 'feminist strike’, and an ever deeper […]

Following a landmark year, in which the feminist movement finally „went mainstream” in many countries, International Women’s Day 2018 was about providing visibility of problems, but, more importantly, furthering solutions and strategies for change. There were new policy proposals, like those offered by Italy’s Nonunadimeno, new protest discourses like Spain’s 'feminist strike’, and an ever deeper […]

At a time before feminism was a mainstream movement, before 8 March was reclaimed as a global project of emancipation, four journalists from the Basque Country decided to launch a project that would influence the way gendered discourse is narrated in the Spanish media. Since 2010 Pikara Magazine has shown that in order to create pluralistic and […]

What is Kuchnia Konfliktu and who are Superbohaterki? Natalia Sawka introduces the new Polish feminism.

How to conceptualise a new district in Ukrainian town of Slavutych by translating one urban context to another?

I was marching in Zagreb with fAKTIV last year. Emotional and powerful, the Night March that they organised gathered between 6000 and 8000 people, more than anyone could have imagined. The protest was the consolidation of a number of years of mobilisation, a symptom of feminist anger in Croatia that is growing bigger with every […]

As Steve Bannon paraded around Rome last week ahead of the Italian elections, he looked noticeably calmer than usual. Posing for photographers in front of Bernini’s iconic baroque fountain in Piazza Navona the conspirator par excellence spoke enthusiastically about his “fascination” with the political forces at work in the country, and his genuine desire “to learn” […]

Why did the collapse of neoliberalism lead to this right-wing populist wave fuelling xenophobia? Neoliberalism was held together by a story.

Dawid Krawczyk in conversation with Yoni Golijov, the producer of Risk, the biographical movie about Julian Assange.