Paramilitary organizations from Poland and Slovakia are tightening their partnership. Members of the Slovak Recruits and Strzelec have been training together on shooting ranges and exchanging weapons. Both groups are linked to far-right and pro-Russian movements.
Tomáš Madleňák
Konrad Szczygieł
On 11th of November nationalists marched through the capital of Poland. European extremists gather every year in Warsaw to be seen and to count their ranks. Independence March is not a patriotic picnic. It is a show of force, a right-wing, radical, and constantly growing force.
The pandemic did not kill the far right. Nor did it stifle media interest in the topic. The painstaking attention devoted to the formation of a ‘Far-Right International’ revolving around the Hungarian Fidesz, the Italian League, and the Polish Law and Justice (PiS) parties is a good case in point.
As women in Poland stage mass protests against the country’s Constitutional Tribunal’s abortion ruling in the autumn of 2020, Angela Gandra, Brazil’s secretary of state for family affairs, arrives in Warsaw.
Tens of millions of zlotys, expensive properties, and a behind-the-scenes war for influence and money – we reveal the financial dealings of an empire built in Poland by a group of Catholic fundamentalists.
The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to ban abortion in cases of foetal defects resulted in a wave of pro-women’s rights protests in Warsaw and other cities.
An anti-abortion movement operating in Poland and Hungary is quietly providing financial support for the far-right party, backed by American alt-right and the Russians.
