Political Critique Archive

Plans to increase wood mining and to shoot the endangered bison population in the Polish Białowieża Forest is a textbook example of the failure of the state to protect nature.

Stories shared on social media draw attention to sexual and gender-based violence – and the responsibility of men.

Instead of vilifying the populists as fascists and racists, and their voters as deluded and stupid, we had better learn from them while scaling up the fight against them.

Since the UK voted to leave the European Union on 23 June, there has been a reported rise in racist hate crimes committed against Britain’s migrant population, including Poles.

A report about a journey on foot taken by medical workers from Romny to Kyiv in order to save the healthcare facility where they work.

Hungarian government reaches new low by branding protesters ‘mentally ill’.

When I am in New York, it is clear that some are incredulous that the majority of Britons should wish to leave the EU and indeed we saw that President Obama warned strongly against it. Some think that the „proof is in the pudding” to coin an English expression because Donald Trump came out in […]

The mainstream is not ascendant anywhere—those who are ascendant are politicians contesting the mainstream, usually populists.

People feel that there is a huge gap between the rhetoric and the reality of the EU. They are constantly being told that the EU guarantees peace, stability and progress, but see the tensions and divisions which have emerged within Europe in the past years. The British vote has put the German government under pressure. […]

Interview with Lakshmi Narayanan, co-founder of an Indian waste pickers’ union and cooperative.