Political Critique Archive

On 8 August 2017, a Solidarity without Borders demonstration took place in Hamburg, Germany. According to the police, more than 20 000 people from all over Europe protested against the G20 global leaders summit organised in the city centre. The protestor’s main demands were: to provide help to asylum seekers, stop environmental exploitation and to […]

What are the common problems faced by Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, what is their wider context and are there solutions for the future?

Hungarian authorities have raided and temporarily closed down Auróra, a community centre in Budapest. Supporters of the centre, a home to organisations like Budapest Pride, Roma Press centre and further progressive activists, suspect the attack to be politically motivated.

The Trump team’s strident anti-intellectualism makes it all the more surprising, then, that members of the president’s National Security Council have now received a formal briefing on the Peloponnesian War. That war was fought between Athens, Sparta and their allies from 431-404 BCE—5,000 miles away from American shores and nearly 2,500 years ago. The foreign […]

According to the most modest assessment, the march brought together about 2,500 participants, who walked more than a kilometre down the streets in the city centre.

One of the core themes for discussion in the Fearless Cities summit in Barcelona few weeks ago was the feminisation of politics. What it means to feminise politics has been largely written and discussed in Spain the past couple of years: when we speak about politics we mean any physical and symbolic structure where a […]

The 2015 Paris agreement was signed by 195 countries, pledging themselves to keep global warming below 2°C by reducing levels of gas emission, while developed countries also committed to financially aid poorer partners in preparing for the consequences of climate change and in switching to renewable energy sources. The agreement is but an insufficient, unaccountable […]

Sing and Jump! Sing and Jump! Sing altogether for Donald Trump!

„For nearly a year this place was a headquarters for Islamic State in the region. We do not even want to know what was happening in our house.”

Hundreds of thousands of activists will take the street of Hamburg to protest a G20 divided between two bad alternatives: status quo or authoritarianism.