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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"We need to bring back the sublime in politics." An interview with Jan Sowa
Sociologist 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?The rise of 'youth nationalism' in Poland
What 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?Poland's right turn: inexplicable madness or rational response?
Western commentators see the 'sudden' right-wing turn of Poland as a so-passé mixture of nationalism, populism and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The materialist turn in Polish politics
Could two surprising new political parties - Noweczesna.pl and Razem - shake up the conservative political system in Poland?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Polish presidential election: what happens now?
Everything you need to know about Poland's recent presidential election, at a glance.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Jacek Kuroń - hero of the Polish anti-communist resistance
The radical political ideas of Jacek Kuroń, the Polish opposition leader of the 1960s and 70s - without whom Lech...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland must rediscover its anti-fascist voice
It is imperative that Poland finds an independent voice that includes a condemnation of the far-right both at home...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Polish parliament - guarding human rights?
The decision by the Polish parliament to set up a subcommittee for the implementation of European Court of Human...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Trans rights: Poland's last iron curtain
A new iron curtain in Poland is being drawn between mainstream society and its most vulnerable groups. Part of our...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Commercialisation and nationalism in Polish football
Could there be a link between the increasing commercialisation of Polish football and the rise in far-right hooliganism?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who is the biggest supporter of Ukraine?
Oleh Kotsyuba (Krytyka, Ukraine) speaks with Sławomir Sierakowski (Krytyka Polityczna, Poland) about the events in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Shining a spotlight on Poland
Poland has long been the subject of offensive stereotypes and a hostile UK media. Our new Spotlight on Poland hopes...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Conservative culture and the far right in Poland
Most Poles agree that far right attacks are on the rise in their country, but the government and police are unable,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Wrocław is afraid: an experiment in the European Capital of Culture 2016
What happened when two teachers from one of the biggest and most populated cities in Poland, decided to put...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The false promise of a new left in Poland
As the old, post-communist left struggles with its own failures, the nascent new left already appears to be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What's Left in Poland?
In the first article of our new debate on the Left in Poland, Anna Grodzka MP discusses her party, the Palikot...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland's 1980s, and "transitology" today
The 90th birthday of General Jaruzelski, the military figure who imposed martial law in Poland in 1981, was marked...
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Published in: HomePopulism: a European warning shot and what to do about it
This sudden emergence of populism was in fact a true sign of modernity. This is what you might describe as a warning...
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Published in: HomeThe helpless and the resourceful, or the beginnings of Polish populisms
Poland has two populisms: “the populism of the dispirited”, mobilising those who struggled to adjust to life in the...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job