Poland’s proposed abortion ban is part of a broader attack on women by the right-wing PiS government, which has sought to banish the word “gender” itself from the country’s vocabulary. But Polish feminists and their allies are fighting back.
This summer, France’s Socialist government quashed the country’s largest wave of strikes of protests in a generation to impose a drastic overhaul of French labor law, revealing deeper fault lines in the process.
In casting its lot with the undemocratic European Union, the British left is making a profound mistake.
Crazed free-marketeers and unashamed racists have brought the UK to the brink of leaving Europe. Despite the EU’s neoliberal character, only a Remain vote will allow us to take responsibility for the future political direction of a continent that we cannot escape.
If one thing is clear, it is that Central Europeans will not come out onto the streets solely for an abstract idea of “more democracy in Europe.” The question therefore remains: how to inspire Central Europeans to mobilize for real reform?
Thousands of teachers have taken to the streets across Slovakia, demanding higher salaries and an overall budget increase for the education sector.
Your new pan-European movement seeks to democratize Europe. In that case, it is essential that it is joined by people from Central Europe—where xenophobia, racism, and neo-fascism are dramatically on the rise.
The work of Hungarian thinker and statesman István Bibó provides a guide to his country’s twisted politics.
Activist Bálint Misetics, who has witnessed the situation in Budapest in the past days, speaks with Political Critique editor Veronika Pehe about Hungary’s response to the refugee crisis.
The EU as a whole is once again, as Europe was in the 1930s, a world of borders and refusals.
Progressives outside of Europe have long seen the EU as a constructive force in the world and its creature the euro as a symbol of the European social model. To read the new Greek memorandum is to lose those illusions.
What’s happening in Greece? Sarah Leonard, who just returned from a reporting trip to the country, joins us to explain what just happened and what’s next for the working people of Greece and the rest of austerity-ridden Europe.
The ideological gap between Labour and the Tories is larger today than at any time in the past twenty years. But will the popularity of Labour’s social-democratic program prevail over lukewarm support for its leader—and the rise of the far right?
The hopes and fears of leftists around the world following Syriza’s dizzying victory last week can best be summed up by a famous scene on the TV show Saved by the Bell where the episode’s heroine, Jesse Spano, takes too many caffeine …
As “urban renewal” threatens to further marginalize the city’s poor, Marseille activists are demonstrating that genuine cultural, environmental, and social renewal can go hand in hand.
