Political Critique Archive

Representative political space is created plurally throughout political participation by means of the representative system, and is thus defined as representative democracy. The political space can only be established by a plurality. Without plurality there is neither space nor politics. Yet a plural institution of the European political space clearly does not come about through […]

Vaclav Drozd visits Mladá Boleslav to see, why did a politician who is strongly against foreigners win the election.

Last week, Theresa May presented the long-awaited Brexit deal. It seems to have disappointed everyone in the UK, government and parliament, and even the Brexit secretary in theory responsible for negotiating it, Dominic Raab, resigned. The UK cabinet as a whole begrudgingly accepted the proposed deal as the least bad the UK is likely to […]

Trans people in the UK have faced a “deluge of hatred” and an increasingly “hostile environment” online, say LGBTQ+ rights activists. Social media platforms including Twitter and YouTube have policies intended to prevent discriminatory and hateful content, but activists say they’re not working. “If I said I was transgender or supportive of transgender people on […]

Daphne Büllesbach is Executive Director of the non-governmental organisation European Alternatives. She is a political scientist and board member of the German Think Tank “Institute for Solidarity Modernism”. With the German weekly „Jungle World” she spoke about the upcoming European elections, transnational parties and the emancipatory potential of cities. The elections to the EU Parliament […]

On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking what many hoped would be a new era of cooperation and openness across borders. German President Horst Koehler celebrating its demise some years later spoke of an ‘edifice of fear’ replaced by a ‘place of joy’, opening up the possibility of a ‘cooperative global governance which […]

This interview was first published on the Spanish magazine CTXT. Emilia Roig is the founder and executive director of the Berlin-based Centre for Intersectional Justice. The CIJ advocates for effective and inclusive anti-discrimination policies in order to address structural inequalities in Europe. Roig holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University and Sciences Po Lyon. […]

The hundredth anniversary of Czech state – the real masterpiece of irony.

Europe has been gripped by crises in recent years that increasingly throw the entire future of the European Union into question. In this first ever ‘live audience’ event, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by three guests that cross generations and perspectives. They explore the history of the union, the distinctive vision of […]

A case study in Budapest’s most notorious district.