Political Critique Archive

Navigating a rapidly transforming economy and society after the fall of communism wasn’t always easy. Films and TV series could offer something of a how-to guide.

A year after the murder of an investigative journalist Ján Kuciak, a Slovak politician, lawyer and anti-corruption activist Zuzana Čaputová has suddenly surged into the lead in opinion polls to become country’s next president.

“I always wanted to do something for society,” 17-year-old Louise Vanden Abeele from Belgium tells me over Whatsapp. “After these summer holidays, which were very hot for Belgium, I heard about a mobilization for climate and was very interested in it. When I heard about the global strike beginning January, I thought that the Belgium […]

Women across the world were protesting on March 8 on International Women’s Day, demanding life without fear, violence, exploitation and oppression, marching together against domestic violence, transphobia, inequality and many other issues that women are facing across the globe. These pictures are showing us once again that women cannot be silenced, that their place is […]

From a network of fake news sites, with nebulous links to the party, to direct ministerial endorsement, the pseudo-scientific fight against the ‘dangerous’ measles vaccine has been adopted as a vital linchpin in the rise of the Trumpian Five Star Movement.

Who’s behind the Polish anti-vaccination movement?

In the communist period, Czech vaccination policy was top-down and paternalistic. Despite its successes, it was openly undemocratic. Today some people are challenging this legacy and demanding a more individualised approach to healthcare.

Transnational Social Stike Platform is publishing the fourth «weekly striker» approaching the next global feminist strike on March 8th (see also nr. 1, 2 and 3). This weekly striker is dedicated to the experience of organization of Non Una di Meno (Italy). They spoke with Roberta Ferrari, who discusses the way in which the feminist strike has reactivated an unexpected […]

The following interview was conducted by Hannah Schultes with three of the members of LevFem, Zhivka Valiavicharska, Neda Genova, Raia Apostolova – a newly formed anti-capitalist queer-feminist collective in Sofia, Bulgaria. LevFem participated actively in the mobilization of the protest that marked the International Day Against Violence Against Women in Sofia in 2018. The collective emerged a few weeks prior to […]

Editor’s note: By publishing 36 curricula in the Official Gazette last month, the Ministry of Science and Education formally carried out the task to reform education. However, this is not a story with a happy ending for school kids in Croatia. Even at first glance, it is clear that the curriculum is far from what […]