Political Critique Archive

The Polish Ministry of Health has decided to target ‘legal highs’ and it is doing it in the worst imaginable way.

Michael Hartmann is a German sociologist and political scientist. During his academic career he has analysed the transformation of European and global elites. He spoke to Alexander Damiano Ricci about 30 years of changes in the European ruling class: from Thatcher to Corbyn, from Podemos to Syriza, from the Eurosceptics to Maastricht. Professor Hartmann, what […]

What is for replacement of Russian websites? Ukrainian users divided themselves into two camps: some are installing TOR, VPN or Opera, others suggest creating national alternative to “Vkontakte” and “Odnoklasniki” social network.

This year Political Critique relaunched as a fully pan-European magazine. While maintaining our focus on Central and Eastern Europe, we joined forces with European Alternatives to build new relationships with platforms from Italy, Greece, Spain and beyond, and begin working across borders on transnational stories. We covered the big issues – Corbynism, the Catalan referendum, […]

I like austere bars. Bars without affectation, bars that have survived in the antipodes of the cute cafeteria or the pretentious gastrobar, so fashionable nowadays. I like them, above all, because their aesthetic disability allows their guests to relax. And there is something in its decadent and neglected atmosphere that, as a woman, I envy. […]

What are the roles of the art institutions in contemporary societies? What are their abilities to react and intervene in the so-called „refugee crisis”? Watch the video from the Art Real debate held in Gothenburg.

The choice of Mateusz Morawiecki to lead Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) government is widely believed to reflect the PiS’s desire to endear itself to investors and the European Union. In fact, Morawiecki, like his predecessor, was chosen for a very different reason: to facilitate PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński’s consolidation of power.

Ukrainian Security Service officers attempt to arrest the former President of Georgia and head of the Odessa Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili in Kiyv on December 5.

*This is the final part of a series, available to read here. Eliniko has become a symbol of the many camps around the periphery of the Greek capital. It was built in the area of the former airport´s arrival hall and the several sports grounds that hosted the 2004 Olympic Games. The area has been […]

With replacement therapy now illegal, drug users in Russian-occupied Crimea and the self-proclaimed republics of the Donbas are finding it hard to survive.