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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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Published in: Can Europe Make It?New authoritarian zeitgeist: family resemblancesWhat these regimes have in common is the “man-made” nature of the Zeitgeist. Democracies are not dying in the world...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The 1989 revolutions and the Peace Movement“We saw ourselves as an anti-Cold War movement and not just an anti-nuclear movement. We wanted to end the division...
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhither Poland? After the 2019 parliamentary electionsThe 2020 Presidential election will be the first indicator of how the Polish electorate is responding to the work of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Right-wing authoritarianism in Britain: lessons from Hungary and PolandBritain is hardly living in splendid isolation. It has much to learn from several other European countries.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Perception and politics – the case of Poland: coping with political apparitionsIs there a gap between conservative neoliberalism and conservative nationalism, within which emancipatory ideas...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What’s Left in Poland? Can the ‘three tenors’ led by Adrian Zandberg, take on Poland’s duopoly?At least the coalition program was written under the massive influence of Razem… it will be a decent social...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new Polish migration policy – false startThis draft not only creates a false image of Poland as a country wholly culturally, ethnically and religiously...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Visegradism, Babišism and selfishness as a political programmeSelfishness as a programme: that is the essence of the approach of politicians such as Babiš, Orbán and Kaczyński.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland’s political predicamentPiS is a radical right party professing a nationalist-conservative ideology, but implementing social-economic...
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Published in: 50.50This new political party in Poland wants to ‘re-Christianise’ EuropeFather Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the...
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Published in: HomeSmall-town feminist activism in PolandOn Monday, October 3, 2016 the landscape of social movements in Poland changed. What surprised many observers and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marching with Dabrowski – what the centenary of Polish Independence can tell us about the radical right?“I could not think of a better way to grasp what is behind the nationalist frenzy than to take part in their public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Tickers of terror" – the crisis of Polish media as told by news crawlsAs Poland prepares for another divisive and violent independence day holiday on 11 November (celebrating "100 years...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland's left must offer a real alternative to break the right-wing deadlockThe decimated left faces a considerable challenge in distinguishing itself from the liberal opposition.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme rightThe UK media likes to blame far right gains elsewhere – as in Sweden’s recent election – on PR. In fact the evidence...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European Court of Justice as a bastion of democracy and rule of lawThe crucial role of the ECJ appears even more important in present times, when things taken forgranted, such as...
