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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Illiberalism and authoritarianism can be successfully challenged in PolandThis past week Poland's PiS government suffered its first blow since coming to power nearly a year ago. It was an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Poland's 'Black Protest' could be a potential game changerWith its move to change the abortion legislation, the Polish government has opened Pandora's box, the consequences...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Central and eastern Europe as playground of a conservative avant-gardeCentral and eastern European hard right parties have more rapid success than their western counterparts, due to...
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Published in: HomeSelf-organised struggles of migrant care workersHow do migrant workers successfully enact labour and social rights? ‘Respekt’, a local network established by Polish...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"We need to bring back the sublime in politics." An interview with Jan SowaSociologist Jan Sowa discusses the anti-government protests, the forgotten legacy of Solidarity and the decline and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Two halves: Poland copes with freedomOn the 35th anniversary of Poland’s modernising transformation, the question arises, how was the emancipatory...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Interview with Adrian Zandberg, Partia RazemIf you don't have a Left that is able to question unjust social relations and give viable perspectives on changing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Stealing the spectacleA new Polish xenophobia cannot be explained only by political economy, but also needs to be understood in terms of...
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Published in: HomePoland welcomes internet filteringAny limits set for free expression online must be traced in pencil, not in ink, and not, and this is particularly...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise of 'youth nationalism' in PolandWhat is causing the youth of Poland to mobilise so strongly in the name of nationalism and xenophobia?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Illiberal tangos in central and eastern EuropeFar right organisations may be considered drivers of change in Central and Eastern Europe; their impact being felt...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?To confront polarisation one must look into the abyssWhat Brexit has shown us is that people are still easy to manipulate and that tribal divisions are still pretty much...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reflections of a post-communist peasantThe situation in central and eastern Europe should serve as a warning against Brexit.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can Poland’s opposition mount an effective challenge?The divided opposition will struggle to mount such a challenge unless it can also address Poles’ broader concerns,...
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Published in: 50.50Poland: a total ban on abortion?With unprecedented political momentum for a total ban on abortion in Poland, thousands are marching in protest and...
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Published in: HomeAs Poles shift right, democracy runs scarceWhile the Law and Justice party insists that local disputes are best settled at home, Polish opposition and fearful...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Rethinking “eastern European racism”Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Youngsters and refugees, or how exile changes eastern EuropeOfficial anticommunism never contented itself with making an equation between fascism and communism. It gravitated...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Silence – the EU’s strategy for human rights abuses in its neighbourhoodTalk in Brussels among non-governmental organisations and parliamentarians is that the EU lacks a strategy to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Euroradio: from Warsaw for BelarusWhat do you do when your national media is state controlled? For Belarusian 'non-State' media the answer has been to...
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