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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionThe deadly political game being played at the EU’s eastern borderAmid accusations of “hybrid war”, Poland and the EU have forgotten that the migrants caught up in its stand-off with...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisIn Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracyRight-wing, conservative and nationalist magazines were the primary beneficiaries of funds recently allocated by the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisWhat happens when governments deny racism exists?A recent government report concluded that the UK does not have a problem with racism. But history shows us the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionFrom street to state: How radical nationalists gained power in PolandThe appointment of a former far-Right activist to a key state body shows how deep the radical Right runs in Polish...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUnholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justiceAs the far Right unites, it is time that we also stand together and strengthen our ties
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A shrinking space: media capture in Orbán’s HungaryThe demise of a once thriving independent broadcaster is yet another signpost in Hungary's deteriorating democracy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“They’re uncompromising”: How the young transformed Poland’s abortion protestsFour years ago, Polish women went on strike over an abortion ban. Now, a younger, fiery generation has joined them.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightAre Poland’s football ultras really supporting the Women’s Strike?Did Poland’s notorious far-right football fans find solidarity with a popular protest stemming from the liberal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lysistrata: what do Polish women want?The essence of their rebellion finds one of its best expressions in the juicy and powerful Polish expletive...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightHoly war in the city of knives: anti-semitism and football on the streets of KrakowIn Krakow, what seems like blatant anti-Semitism is often normalised as nothing more than football-related banter.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland’s civil society awakening – when stones turn politicalWhile liberal forces in Poland lost the fight for electoral democracy in July, the battle within Polish civil...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free European cities in democratic allianceMeet Zdeněk Hřib, the mayor who challenged Russia, China, and the V4. Interview.
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Published in: Global ExtremesPoland is moving further towards autocracyIn Poland, the right-wing ruling party uses polarisation to pursue its conservative autocratic agenda.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Chronicles of culturological quackeryThe concept of culture as a 'driver of societies' that has become the lucky charm of nationalists, has its origins...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland: trouble aheadOf course, it would have been worse for the Law and Justice party if Trzaskwski had won. But PiS is still worried.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland: Duda heads for the second roundA president in the shape of Rafal Trzaskowski, hostile to PiS’s nationalist and populist goals, would not look...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dismantling democracy – the right to be entertainedIt is not enough any more to call populists names. Calling them fascists has ceased to make any impression on many...
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Published in: 50.50How a harsh Polish abortion bill sparked women’s strikes around the worldThis week, Poland's parliament votes on restricting abortion rights. In 2016, we resisted a bill like this,...
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Published in: 50.50‘This is war’: The story behind Poland’s bid to ban abortion todayA new book traces religious and ‘traditional values’ networks in Poland and beyond. Now, amid COVID-19, they’re...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mental confinementIs it not true that this now-suspended normality was experienced by most of us as burdensome, painful, unbearable,...
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