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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free European cities in democratic alliance
Meet Zdeněk Hřib, the mayor who challenged Russia, China, and the V4. Interview.
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Published in: Global ExtremesPoland is moving further towards autocracy
In 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 quackery
The 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 ahead
Of 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 round
A 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 entertained
It 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 world
This 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 today
A 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 confinement
Is 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 resemblances
What 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 elections
The 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 Poland
Britain 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 apparitions
Is 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 start
This 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 programme
Selfishness 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 predicament
PiS 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’ Europe
Father 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 Poland
On Monday, October 3, 2016 the landscape of social movements in Poland changed. What surprised many observers and...