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Gavin Rae

Gavin Rae is a sociologist in Warsaw. He has written extensively on the political and social changes in Poland and central and eastern Europe, including Poland's Return to Capitalism: From the Socialist Bloc to the European Union and Public Capital: The Commodification of Poland's Welfare State.

The neoliberal far right in Poland

Gavin Rae

Confederation, the new force on the far right in Poland which broke through in the parliamentary elections, is the party of (male) privilege, not precarity.

PiS attacks LGBT+ rights in Poland, as elections loom

Gavin Rae

Amid simmering social discontent and with the Catholic Church wracked by sex-abuse scandals, Poland’s clerical-nationalist party is exploiting homophobia to drive a wedge into the opposition.

If Biedroń is to help rebuild the Polish left, he has to be the opposite of Macron

Gavin Rae

In any article published in the international press about Robert Biedroń, it seems almost obligatory to describe him as the new ‘Polish Macron’. Biedroń recently

Eastern Europe’s Right-Wing Shift Is Not Unique

Gavin Rae

The Italian elections have confirmed the rightward shift in European politics and the further marginalisation of the left. Following events such as the Brexit referendum,

Poland’s Conservative Nationalism And A Multi-speed Europe

Gavin Rae

The European Union has just had a taste of Polish politics. The country’s internal political divisions burst onto the European scene, when the ruling Law

The Attacks On Poles In Britain Is Part Of A Rise Of Nationalism And Racism In Europe. Including Poland

Gavin Rae

Arkadiusz Jóżwik had been standing outside a pizza take-away in Harlow, Essex, chatting to his friends in Polish, when a group of up to 12

The Polish Church and Government Open New Attack on Women’s Reproductive Rights

Gavin Rae

As the crisis around changes implemented to Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal continues, the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has opened up a new conflict through

Understanding The Liberal Roots Of Polish Conservatism

Gavin Rae

Almost every article in the Western media, covering the recent developments in Poland, have followed the same script. How is it possible, they ask, that

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