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Kiedy lewica przyjmuje rasistowską politykę

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W dniu 17 października 2024 r. „Lewica” złożyła zdumiewające oświadczenie. Minister edukacji z „Lewicy” Dariusz Wieczorek, wspólnie z dwoma innymi prominentnymi członkami „Lewicy” - minister ds. równości (!) Katarzyną Kotulą i Agnieszką Dziemianowicz-Bąk, zorganizowali konferencję prasową w Sejmie na której z dumą ogłosili, że chcieliby wprowadzić zasadę, że polskie uczelnie wyższe nie będą mogły mieć więcej niż 50% studentów zagranicznych. W dniu 12 października Tusk ogłosił, że chciałby zawiesić prawa azylowe w Polsce. Chociaż później przedstawił to tak, aby twierdzić, że chodzi głównie o białoruskich i rosyjskich azylantów, jasne jest, że te posunięcia są politycznie schlebiające ogólnie rasistowskim nastrojom wobec imigrantów i azylantów. Aby nie być gorszym od premiera, prominentni członkowie „Lewicy” [sic] ogłosili zamiar wprowadzenia limitów dla studentów zagranicznych. Przypomina nam to bardzo wyraźnie Numerus Clausus, kiedy Polska nałożyła ograniczenia na liczbę Żydów, którz

When the Left Embraces Racist Politics

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  On October 17, 2024, the „Left” (Lewica in Polish) made an astounding announcement. Minister of Education from „the Left”, Dariusz Wieczorak, together two other prominent members of „the Left” - Minister on Equality (!) Katarzyna Kotula and Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk held a press conference in the Parliament where they proudly announced that they would like to introduce a rule that Polish institutions of higher education would not be able to have more than 50% foreign students. This is just the latest in the racist campaigns run by the ruling Civic Platform and its coalition partners. Right-wing Prime Minister Donald Tush, grossly misrepresented by many European journalists as „liberal”, ran his election campaign using some of the most agressive racist rhetoric, at times surpassing the racists of the more conservative Law and Justice Party. On October 12, Tusk announced that he would like to suspend asylum rights in Poland. Although he later spun this to claim this was mostly abo

Race, Class and Second-Class Status: Reactions to the Current Refugee Crisis

  In the last few weeks, over 2 million refugees have come to Poland from Ukraine. What we have witnessed has been a wave of solidarity, mutual aid and self-organization unlike anything seen in the country in many years. Thousands of people, the majority of which have never done anything like this before, have opened their homes to total strangers in need of shelter. Many more have donated a wide variety of goods and gone to train stations to welcome people with food and other necessities. Much of the help that has gone on has come from self-organized initiatives. The NGOs that normally help migrants have of course been active. In Warsaw, the city authorities who make a lot of noise about how much they have helped in fact acted relatively late. All sorts of people were actively engaged and provided the majority of help at the beginning and, as far as we can see, continue to do so. This sort of behaviour towards others is heart-warming and seems like the way the world should react to