Political Critique Archive

The crisis of the Left has become critical all over Europe. If the Left wants to avoid becoming insignificant in the coming decades it has to be thoroughly overhauled.

As the Slovak teachers’ movement for better working conditions continues, politicians fail to take action.

European Union can leave Poland behind. And it seems that it starts to be willing to do that.

Is the new linking legislation going to break the internet? Traditional media are pressuring lawmakers to introduce link censorship laws in the EU.

Philipp Ther discusses his latest book on the history of neoliberalism in Europe after 1989

DiEM25 dreams of real democracy; the idea behind it is to be a movement of the movements. Two members of Krytyka Polityczna just joined its coordinating committee.

UPDATE: Populist billionaire candidate Andrej Babiš and his party ANO have won the 2017 Czech Republic’s general election.

Dawid Krawczyk talks to Magdalena Bartnik from the Harm Reduction Foundation and Agata Kwiatkowska from Social Education Foundation about the politics of injection drug use.

What will be the influence of Central & Eastern Europe in the post-Brexit Europe?

For the first time in 20 years, the opposition is represented in the Belarusian parliament. While this is a purely symbolic institution, the EU should consider cooperating with Belarus’ new parliamentarians.