Political Critique Archive

A new Polish law criminalizes blaming Poles for any wrongdoing against other nations.

What are the main challenges that activists in Sarajevo are facing? What are the possible strategies to engage citizens for the right to the city and the defense of cultural institutions in Bosnia Herzegovina?

For the past three weeks Tunisia has been echoing with screams for freedom, dignity and justice. These same calls led to the overthrow of Ben Ali’s dictatorship seven years ago. Fed up with newly imposed austerity measures, the people are taking their anger to the streets to send a clear message to the government. A […]

How the war on drugs was declared in Belarus – and what came out of it. Political Critique tried to find out whether the authoritarian government is effective in its crusade against prohibited substances.

In 2011 Canada’s main polyamorous association, the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association launched a campaign to protest a section of the Criminal Code that threatened to jail people involved in sexual relationships of more than two people: in other words relationships labeled as polygamous. In Canada, that much publicised ‘paradise’, there is also a legal document […]

What are the main challenges that activists in Sarajevo are facing? What are the possible strategies to engage citizens for the right to the city and the defense of cultural institutions in Bosnia Herzegovina?

It is not fair to love a country because it appears to be backward—although I could name half a dozen towns in Western nations that make handsome currency off their refusal to enter the twentieth century. I treasure in Poland an Old which is hard to come by in the West.

Faced with a bleak political landscape, Italian activists involved with a social centre in a former psychiatric hospital in Naples (Ex-Opg Je’ So Pazzo) have decided to launch an electoral platform with ambitions beyond the 4 March. Dubbed Potere al Popolo (Power to the People), it explicitly opposes not just the xenophobic right but the […]

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

It’s done. The votes have been counted, ashes fallen, and blood is being mopped off the floors. The Czech Republic has officially elected Miloš Zeman as its President.