Political Critique Archive

According to the common saying, prostitution is the oldest profession in the world – but it isn’t. Midwifery is.

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

Noah Fischer’s perspective on the monetization of arts and the change in its perception.

The reported unemployment rate in the Žilina region is 6 percent, which is below the average for Slovakia. We assumed it would be easy to locate workers willing to be interviewed. We were wrong. As a result, we compiled this report out of three interviews with employees of three different companies based in this region.

The detachment between the Balkans and European Union may be detrimental to the development of Europe in its entirety.

Oksana Dutchak has presented the results of her research “Wages and working conditions of the garment industry workers in Ukraine” within TEXTUS exhibition at Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC). The research was conducted in January-March 2017. Political Critique has interviewed Oksana about its details. Oksana, is this your own project? No, I was working within a […]

The history of pirateism through the lens of technological and copyright development.

A Fidesz proposal to amend the procedure of nominating judges would privilege legal bureaucrats and deter trained judges.

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

The Sicilian born Marxist-feminist talks about the new, global wave of women-led mobilisations and the continuing importance of class politics.