Political Critique Archive

To be alive is to be privy to the flux and malleability of experience, identity and being, sometimes to be cast adrift in a great sea of anonymity and homelessness, even if your home as such comes with a very nicely delineated address found on a clearly labelled map. There is something that remains nebulous […]

It seems the ghosts of wild 90’s are still present in Slovakia. Read the main facts about the murder of Ján Kuciak.

All citizens have the right to freely associate in parties to contribute to the democratic processes that determine national policy — Article 49, Constitution of the Italian Republic As Italy approaches elections on 4 March 2018, it becomes ever clearer that one of the fundamental testing grounds is not just ‘for whom shall I vote?’, […]

The birds sing in the branches of these trees, and the bells of the Catholic Church sing to the living. The earth rises to reclaim her own, and the grass, the grass, the grass—it covers everything. The fifth chapter of the book by David R. Pichaske.

Political Critique’s weekly selection from the Eastern European press.

Steve Wright is a historian and the author of ‘Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism’ considered by many to be the most influential history of Italian workerism in the Anglophone world. In this interview with Notes from Below, Steve looks at the legacy and contemporary relevance of the ideas explored in […]

An affair concerning the alleged cooperation of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with the Czechoslovak secret service (StB) has recently shaken up the media. The uproar was set in motion by gossip coming from a Slovak ex-agent, Ján Sarkocy, who was active in London in the late 80s, during which time he met with Corbyn. […]

Although Malta is my birth home, having been away for nine years and coming back felt like I was rather an informed tourist with enough local knowledge, than a local myself. Like in other Mediterranean countries, stray cats are a kind of permanent feature on window sills, resting under trees and slowly crossing busy roads. […]

Dawid Krawczyk flew to the places where 80% of people voted Trump. He wanted to meet those involved in his presidential campaign in the Deep South. Is Trump’s United States really the country of their dreams? In the fourth chapter John Salvesen tells how he was inspired by Trump to become a politician.

’When the government made a political decision to close the coal plants, no money was made available to compensate the workers,’ said Patrick van Klink, representing the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (FNV), the largest confederation in the country. ‘We want there to be a fund to compensate the workers for income loss or pension […]