Wsparcie Wspieraj Wydawnictwo Wydawnictwo Dziennik Profil Zaloguj się

Political Critique Archive

European Others

Being European without being white and Christian does not only put one in a strange place, but also in a strange temporality: Europeans who lack one or both of these qualities tend to be read as having just arrived or even as still being elsewhere – if not physically, then at least culturally. In European […]

Art Under Attack

Statement Today we find ourselves at a time when the conditions of political reaction, violence and extreme right-wing populism are harshly challenging the modus operandi of the artistic and cultural field. We all have been used to the model, in which art becomes politicized and socially engaged when it steps out of its territory and […]

Those who hope will renew their strength

This is an abbreviated version of a talk given at the Alternative European Summit in Belgium, on the 11th of November 2018. It traces a developing situation: only two weeks before the talk was due, the main stock markets of developed countries briefly crashed around the world. This fueled the discussions on the next global […]

Citizens beyond borders

In the contemporary moment, “Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart”, write Niccolò Milanese and Lorenzo Marsili in their recent book Citizens of Nowhere. Indeed, after years of ongoing ecological, humanitarian and economic crises, the demand to “take back control” of the decisions that affect their everyday lives seems to resonate not only […]

Croatia’s fixation on entering the Schengen area is a priority at the expense of people’s lives

About three weeks ago The Guardian published the reportage by Lorenzo Tondo from Velika Kladuša, Bosnia and Herzegovina with a frightening title: ’They didn’t give a damn’: first footage of Croatian police 'brutality’. This wasn’t the first time that similar accusations were expressed in international media. Similar claims were published already in August, but activists […]

How is gentrification affecting the life of women in Lisbon?

Neoliberalism has been shaping cities as places for tourism, gentrifying and dismantling the cooperative environment of neighborhoods in different cities across Europe. At the same time, we see how the urban and housing crisis is affecting and excluding especially women and other minorities from public spaces. We travelled to Lisbon, one of the European cities […]

The far right knocks on the the door of Spanish politics

*This article was first published on the Spanish magazine CTXT *This article was first published on October 23, 2018 On Sunday October 7, the Spanish far right party Vox achieved what they had been looking for for a long time: their baptism as a relevant political actor in the Spanish public sphere. They did it by […]

We need to look for origins of fascism in capitalist crises

Ankica Čakardić is an assistant professor and the chair of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Gender at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her research interest include Social Philosophy, Marxism, Marxist-feminist and Luxemburgian critique of political economy, and history of women’s struggles in Yugoslavia. She is a member of The Complete Works of […]

Drug wars in Belarus. Interview with mothers on strike

Every year in Belarus several thousand people go to jail for violating Article 328 or “illicit trafficking in narcotic and psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogs.”

Orbán, keep your hands off our universities!

A coalition of Budapest students occupies the parliament square to protest the Hungarian government’s attacks on academic freedom.

Wczytywanie...