Political Critique Archive

A piece by Przemysław Sadura At a time when its voters are in and out of voting booths – municipal elections at the end of 2018, European and national elections in 2019, and presidential ones in 2020 – taking the long view of Poland’s future can help demonstrate what is at stake in these electoral […]

The far-right may be gaining ground, but they do not yet represent public opinion, neither is their ascendancy inevitable.

All in all, the vast majority of pre-election posturing and propaganda is utterly meaningless. All that is really left for us is to sit back and enjoy the show.

Saying the European elections are usually an anticlimax overstates the degree of excitement they generate in the first place. Notoriously, the turnout in the elections has gone down every time since they first took place in 1979. In 2014 the official slogan of the elections was ‘This time it’s different’. It wasn’t: turnout went down […]

Interview by Moritz Ablinger originally published in Mosaik Blog. Mosaik: The KPÖ has never won a mandate in the European Parliament; in 2014 the party received 2.1 percent of the vote. What do you hope to achieve in this election? Katerina Anastasiou: Our goal is to enter the European Parliament. We consider ourselves part of […]

The widespread celebrations of the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in the Czech Republic and Slovakia have once again been marred by the annual arrival of a Russian nationalist biker gang.

Municipalism + Culture = Democracy. Culture helps you build the world you want to see. Democracy needs your imagination.

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published in Italian here. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. They can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The associations, organisations and collectives of resistance in Budapest, campaigning for equality, basic rights and against […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published in Italian in Linkiesta. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. Dresden is a clean and tidy city, very silent. It’s almost unimaginable that here, in February 1945, the Allies’ bombs were falling in tonnes, killing tens […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published here. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. It is a peaceful Tuesday night when we arrive in Dresden, in the North-East of Germany. It is just the second day of the route; the Central […]