Krytyka Polityczna

The online daily magazine Krytyka Polityczna publishes and showcases a range of opinions rather than news, entertainment, or clickbait articles. The team aims to publish quality journalism in the third sector, distancing itself from the demands of the advertising market that prevail in mainstream media and subordinate them to mass-market culture.

Krytyka Polityczna consists of the online magazine KrytykaPolityczna.pl, a quarterly print magazine Krytyka Polityczna, a publishing house, cultural centres in Warsaw, Gdańsk and Cieszyn, activist clubs in a dozen cities throughout Poland as well as in Kyiv and Berlin and a research centre: the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.

In 2005, the community associated with the magazine, Krytyka Polityczna, established the Association of Stanisław Brzozowski, a non-profit organisation emphasising the role of public debate, culture, and art in shaping attitudes and social awareness. The organisation became a formal structure uniting all its institutions, and financially supporting the magazine.

Krytyka Polityczna provides readers with opinion pieces on current political events in Poland and abroad. It also publishes extended interviews on various topics, books and film reviews, and articles about various cultural events that balance global, regional, and local issues.

It also publishes influential Polish authors and foreign contributors: essayists, columnists, journalists, and films, theatre and literature critics, including Immanuel Wallerstein, Robert Reich, Paul De Grauwe, Dani Rodrik, Zygmunt Bauman, Naomi Klein, Slavoj Žižek, Judith Butler, and many more.

Krytyka Polityczna is the contemporary heir to the Central and Eastern European traditions of an engaged intelligentsia representing an ethos of public activity and creating a "social glue" through social movements.

Last updated: January 2023

Last updated date: April 2023