Political Critique Archive

*This article is part of a five-part series, available to read here.  In summer 2015, Greeks awoke from a short dream that they associated with the left-wing party Syriza. At the time Tsipras´s party made Greeks feel that they had someone they could rely on in the hard times of austerity, someone who would defend their […]

After the complete failure of leftist parties in last month’s Parliamentary elections, Czech journalist and co-founder of A2larm, Jan Bělíček, put forward an analysis of this defeat that draws interesting parallels with Poland. ‘One of the reason the Left lost’, he stated in an interview for the major Czech weekly political newsmagazine Respekt, ‘was that […]

Estimates suggest that over 150,000 gathered in Rome on the 25-26 November to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In Italy, where gendered violence remains high and the subject treated as a sensationalist emergency rather than a structural problem, this was a strong turnout, notable for its cross-generational dimension. The main […]

Be careful with your dogs sir. They’ll shoot them. Do you know there is a hunt running here?

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

I was asked to write an article in defence of no borders. This article isn’t really that, because I don’t believe it needs defending. But I would like to explain it a little. To break the myths, if you’ve heard any at all, of no borders as either an obscure brand of radical left politics, […]

#Heritage is novel because it co-opts the trappings of “critical,” pluralistic curation yet neutralizes true civic debate.

I flew to the places where 80% of people voted Trump. I wanted to meet those involved in his presidential campaign in the Deep South. Is Trump’s United States really the country of their dreams?

It’s that day again. That hallowed time of year when the whole family comes together to hit up Amazon Prime, max out the MasterCard and quite literally beat off the competition at the local mall’s big annual sale. It’s a day where love abounds: love for gadgets, for giant teddy bears and kinky lingerie, all […]

„Today my heart feels open, because the baton of Italian feminism has passed to young and well-prepared women: it is one of those cases in which daughters had no need to destroy their mothers.” With this intervention, Paola Mastrangeli, from the Alma Sabatini Center for the Non-Sexist Use of Language, closed the presentation of the […]