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The protesters in Belarus are something very different from the oppositional leaders in exile

Vladimir Mitev
Belarus
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Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat is a Polish journalist and expert on Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She is the deputy editor of the Polish left media platform Strike and an editor at another Polish left-wing media...

Over 100 people protested before the Polish embassy in Bucharest

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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More than 100 people, most of them Poles, protested before the embassy of their country in Bucharest on Friday evening, 30 October. At that time, Warsaw saw more than 100,000 people demonstrating against the Constitutional...

Polish society reacts against catholic fundamentalism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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In their 25 October 2020 podcast "On the Barricades" Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discussed the Polish top court ruling to ban abortions due to fetal defects and how the public has reacted. Boyan Stanislavsky...

Poland: The Supreme Leader up for a violent confrontation?

Boyan Stanislavski
Gender issues
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The chaos from the streets leaked into the Polish parliament yesterday. The leftist MPs blocked its upper chamber, demanding immediate inclusion in the current work of parliament regarding a bill allowing unconditional abortion allowance until...

Our Strike is Essential! Together with Polish Women for Freedom of Abortion

This text is a message of support by the E.A.S.T. – Essential Autonomous Strugges Transnational and was originally published on 28 October 2020 at the Transnational Social Strike Platform. On the 22nd of October, the...

Poland: Rage and fury after yet another fundamentalist excess

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_2533" align="alignleft" width="169"] Protest in front of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw, the banner reads "no!", photo: Boyan Stanislavski[/caption] Since the shocking verdict of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal last Thursday, which resulted in...

Top Court in Poland Bans Abortions Due to Foetal Defects

Polish women will be forced to give birth to foetuses with congenital defects. Maria Cernat discusses the situation in Poland with Karolina Więckiewicz, a feminist and activist who is a member of the Aborcyiny Dream...

The Polish war on women is over 30 years old

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Poland has had one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in Europe since 1993. On Thursday a constitutional court ruled that one of the three exceptions to the ban – cases of severe foetal impairment...

Golden dusk? Greek Nazis finally convicted

Boyan Stanislavski
Greece
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On 7 October, the day of the court ruling to decide the fate of the fascist organization Golden Dawn and its leaders, a mass demonstration of 50,000 protesters gathered outside the Athens Court of Appeals....

Ruse: Little Manhattan in the Balkans

David Bisset
Bulgaria
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“The cost of housing relative to prevailing income levels is very high, which makes it virtually impossible for households earning less than BGN 1000/month,…., to purchase or rent any housing in the market. More than...

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