Political Critique Archive

We travelled to Croatia to talk to activists and scholars about how social movements and other grassroots movements can expand their political influence.

Paramedics usually don’t know what to do with someone on a bad acid trip, and are not prepared to do the psychological work to help users.

Abused and tortured: MDAC brings light to the inhumane treatment of disabled residents of Göd institution.

Media coverage of the refugee crisis has been driven by polemic. New research shows that public attitudes are in fact ambiguous, much less black and white than has often been supposed.

On Wednesday, PiS submitted a bill draft to the Parliament whereby all the members of the Supreme Court will have to step down – except for the ones personally permitted to stay by the Minister of Justice.

Poland’s slide to illiberalism. PS Editors’ Podcast with Sławomir Sierakowski.

For many years now I have been meeting activists in Poland and in Europe – people working in NGOs, social movements, informal environments and cultural institutions. Some are embedded in professional western NGOs that resemble corporations, some occupy theaters or take over factories. We keep on talking about our actions, engagement, about our goals. Recently, […]

This is the sexualisation of racism: anti-Islam feminists talk about Muslim women’s emancipation, but what does this emancipation look like? They are doing jobs that feminists don’t want to do.

Agne Pix: Does technology protect our privacy on the Internet or is it a threat? Bruce Schneier: There are a lot of technologies that help preserve privacy and keep us and our data secure, like for example encryption. Technology can also remove privacy: you may think of cameras or listening devices and insecure Internet connections. […]

It is well known that public monuments are seen as representations of power, whether contemporary or from previous periods in history. Statues, busts, fountains, public squares and a wide array of plaques and horsemen, among others, are materialized places of memory and clearly comprise a symbolic battleground. They often change in accordance with major political or societal […]