POLAND: Fascist MPs sneak into parliament under banner of rock star’s party
A group of hardcore fascists won 10 seats in Poland’s parliament, hidden in the lists of Kukiz’15, a populist party headed by former rock star Pavel Kukiz, and have now set up a parliamentary group of their own.
The forgotten workers’ resistance against the Nazis: Warsaw’s Jewish tailors
A hidden history of Jewish workers’ resistance in the factories of the Warsaw Ghetto should be celebrated today.
Eyewitness: thousands of fascists march in Warsaw
A march by at least 40,000 fascists and their supporters dominated the streets of Warsaw on Poland’s Independence Day and grabbed the news headlines. The fascists’ march was bigger and broader than in previous years.
Lanzmann’s films on the Holocaust
Today is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany.
Poland: fascists storm election authority offices in local polls debacle
Fascists and far right parties have seized on the fiasco of Poland’s local elections – in which results were delayed for a week after the poll last Sunday – to occupy the national electoral offices and demonstrate in cities across the country.
Thousands of Poland’s fascists hijack Independence Day
Thousands of fascist and ultra-nationalist thugs marched through the centre of Warsaw today, hijacking Poland’s annual Independence Day celebrations.