#poland politics

[head-post]

Polish farmers block rail links with Ukraine

On 18 February, Polish farmers completely blocked the movement of trucks in both directions at the international checkpoint Dorohusk-Jahodyn and disrupted railway communication with Ukraine, Ukrainian media reported.

Since 9:00 Kyiv time, Polish farmers have been completely blocking the movement of lorries in both directions at the Dorohusk-Jahodyn international checkpoint. The farmers are holding a large-scale protest on the access roads to the village of Dorohusk.

Despite the protesters’ promises to let perishable, dangerous or humanitarian goods through, not a single heavy vehicle has crossed the border since then. The State Customs Service of Ukraine noted that shuttle buses passed through normally without queues.

As of 16 February, Polish farmers blocked six checkpoints on the border with Ukraine.

Read more HERE

[artistmagicial]

Andrzej Duda Prezydent Polski 🇵🇱

[jacensolodjo]

I sit with a book called "Anti-semitism Without Jews" on my bed next to me while i am reading about an antisemitic far-right lawmaker extinguishing the candles of a hanukkiah in Poland's parliament (with a fucking fire extinguisher) on my news feed. With people going 'but why does Poland's parliament even HAVE a menorah if it doesn't even have that many Jews?' (because that's the important question here right? that's what we should be worried about here right? Way to show your asses lmao)

The same Poland that lost 90% of its Jews in the Holocaust. AKA the reason for the book "Anti-Semitism Without Jews" being written because of acts exactly like this but actually happening back during the cold war. Because of how baffling it was for an area with ~0.001% of a population to be Jewish to have such a high instance of antisemitism.

Fucking incredible.

How soon we fucking forget. How things change but the more they stay the same.

Anyway Poland, I'm so sorry you've got this Braun fellow to deal with. I'm glad to see, however, that y'all punished him with the absolute max amount that you could under the circumstances.

(By the way: The answer of course to the question about the menorah in Parliament is that for years, Poland has invited a rabbi to light a menorah in Parliament for Hanukkah because it doesn't fucking matter how many Jews you have, if anything the fewer you have the more important it is to have this kind of tradition because that is how solidarity with Jews fucking works. Because Poland is aware of its own history and is clearly trying to show it isn't that country anymore. The whole fucking history and point of Hanukkah is that you shouldn't let the light go out and stay out no matter how hard the goyim try to snuff it out, that you should let everyone fucking know that the Jews are still here and will continue to be Jews.)

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇱 🚨 POLISH GOVERNMENT LIQUIDATES STATE MEDIA, OPPOSITION LAW & JUSTICE PARTY TO APPEAL DECISION

The current Polish government, under the leadership of Donald Tusk and the Civic Coalition, has taken a decision to liquidate the Polish State-Media organization due to political infighting resulting in a failure to fund the organization.

According to the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bartolomew Sienkiewicz, he decided to shut down the State-Media organization due to the cessation of funding for the agency.

Earlier, Poland's President Andrzej Duda vetoed a budget bill that would have seen the State-Media organization funded to the tune of 3 billion Zlotys ($770 million).

Previously, Sienkiewicz dismissed the chairmen of the board of directors of Polish Television, Polish Radio, and the Polish News Agency, as well as their supervisory boards.

The opposition Law & Justice Party, which recently lost power as a result of the 2023 Polish elections, rejected the moves by the Culture Minister, refusing to recognize the decisions.

Although Law & Justice is now in the opposition, the party held on to control over the boards of the Polish State-Media organization, retaining a powerful platform in the central European country.

Law & Justice Party Press Secretary, Rafal Bochenek told reporters Wednesday that the opposition would appeal the decision to shut down the Polish State-Media organization.

“In connection with Sienkiewicz’s illegal actions and tireless attempts to identify party nominees in public media without the slightest legal basis, contrary to the laws and constitution, as well as court orders, we will soon send relevant statements to the prosecutor’s office,” Bohenek said.

“We will not allow them to subordinate public media to the party and limit citizens’ rights to information,” he added.

Currently, instead of broadcasting the usual Polish Television news channel, the TVP1 channel is being broadcast, which typically shows feature films. The Polish Television news website is also unavailable at this time.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[yuveim]

Seven WCK humanitarian aid workers killed in Israeli strike, including Palestinian, Australian, Polish, British and U.S./Canadian citizens

"The WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle." "The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine."

WRITE TO YOUR GOVERNMENT TODAY TO DEMAND ISRAEL IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS AND THE 32+ THOUSANDS PALESTINIANS KILLED

DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END OF WEAPONS EXPORTS TO ISRAEL AND AN END TO THE GENOCIDE

(USA) Find your representative | United States House of Representatives

(UK) Find your MP | UK Parliament

[mixmangosmangoverse]

The discussion around the fandomization of the I/P conflict is so fucking relevant because why did I just see someone in a discord for a reaction channel that reacts to musicals and cartoons suggest them to react to the Columbia ""protests"" with a heart emoji as if it's another episode of their favorite show and SIX other people agreed with that

[mysharona1987]

[dostoyevsky-official]

this a view of someone who's ignored european developments since 2007, opting for a rosy, outdated view of european politics, i.e. the exact type of american committing the exact type of mistake i'm warning about.

to address this point by point: not only has inflation been a global issue, but the US has consistently enjoyed the lowest inflation of any developed economy. american CPI has remained below the british, polish, and eurozone average numbers. european economies have to deal with fallout from the russian invasion of ukraine that the us can ignore: notably, in energy prices, as the US became self-sufficient in energy (and never imported any from russia to begin with, something squeezing the german economy). america is also not hosting millions of ukrainian refugees.

when discussing european instutions—and "europe" in general—one has to be more specific. do you mean the overarching institutions of the EU, criticized for a democratic deficit that many have pinpointed as one source for euro-skepticism and the rise of the far right? the EU Council, widely ignored and headed by charles michel, an incompetent, blatant nepobaby appointment whom everyone grinds their teeth over? the EU parliament, recently filled with a fresh batch of far-right hooligans, which functions more or less as a rubber stamp for the commission? the EU commission itself, headed by VdL, the latest in a string of failed local politician commissioners (who remembers the alcoholic swindler juncker?) masquerading as technocrats? the ECB, which smothers the monetary (and through the maastricht criteria, the fiscal) policy of eurozone members, thereby fueling resentment, far-right movements, and economic disparity? and all of this held hostage by the veto of one orban or fico, —or the german supreme court, when it decides it's had enough with public investment. those institutions, which remain so opaque that even educated americans—and europeans—aren't entirely aware of their function?

or do we mean the institutions of individual countries, ranging from undemocratic autocracies like hungary to the fief of the jupiter king, who called elections in june, lost them, refused to nominate a prime minister from the winning coalition, didn't name any for over a month, and then appointed a rightwing politician from a party that scored dead last, sidestepping his own centrist party? the UK, where sir keir is handing out five years in jail time to climate protesters, raising tuition fees, relying on private investment companies, and through rachel reeves' plan to fix the alleged budget hole left by hunt before further investment, again enacting austerity? this is all front-page headline news from the last half year.

european countries indeed have cheaper healthcare costs, better pensions, and other public goods that the united states does not. when considering "quality of life," remember, however, that most european countries have unemployment rates considered astronomic in america, especially for under-35s:

to focus again and again on european social democracy is to ignore that it has been steadily eroded since the end of the cold war and especially since the great recession by neoliberal political forces that crush the left and open the door for the far right. in the most blatant example, beside's macron's legislative politricks, the IMF-ECB-EC troika cut off euro cash liquidity flow to greece when syriza was trying to undo austerity under varoufakis. the greek collapse consigned a generation to economic failure, killed seniors, and curtailed possibilities for the youth. this erosion happened even in the nordic model, long imagined by americans as nothing short of a utopia:

In part due to the scrapping of wealth and inheritance taxes and a lower corporate tax than both the U.S. and European averages, Sweden has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth in the world today: on a level with Bahrain and Oman, and worse than the United States. Perhaps most dispiriting for Sanders, Sweden also now hosts the highest proportion of billionaires per capita in the world. Many of the country’s trademark social services are now provided by private firms. Its private schools even benefit from the same level of state subsidy as public schools—a voucher system far more radical than anything in the United States and that Democratic politicians would be crucified for advocating. Both here and there, right-leaning commentators in 2020 decried Sanders’s portrait as little more than what Johan Norberg, Swedish author of The Capitalist Manifesto, has called a 1970s “pipedream.” On this, Swedish observers on the left gloomily agree: despite official rhetoric, the “Nordic welfare model” is now more nostalgic myth than reality. (x)

to problematize further, there's an unadressed first world perspective: who's getting the good quality of life, why are the main economies of the EU so wealthy, and how does the EU continue to enrich itself? there are certainly many living outdoors today, drowning in the mediterranean, or dying of exposure in białowieża. fortress europe is a crime against humanity—and it doesn't beat back the far right. it weakens civic and human rights, undermines legal oversight, and criminalizes humanitarian engagement, allowing an authoritarian creep.

you shouldn't understand the political and the historical as a snapshot in time, but as a moving train. this is the state of europe today. all of the above is necessarily a simplification and an abbreviation, but there's a trajectory you can begin to trace out: given all of the above, where do you think europe is headed?

[lgbtpopcult]

Poland sets out pathway to legalising same-sex partnerships | ICLG

[postmariannizm]

Shoutout to my girl Magdalena Gudzińska-Adamczyk, a Jewish doctor, who was the only person fighting with a disgrace of a human Grzegorz Braun while he was using fire extinguisher on chanuka candles in Polish Parliment. In response he hit her and told her she is not a woman.

[head-post]

Polish PM: Ukrainian support represents one of Polish politics’ treasures

On Thursday, the Prime Ministers of Poland and Ukraine discussed the terms of Warsaw’s additional support for Kyiv and a solution to the current dispute over food imports.

Relations between Warsaw and Kyiv have soured after competition from Ukrainian agriculture and food products entered the European market, particularly affecting farmers from neighbouring countries.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk told his counterpart Denys Shmyhal in Warsaw that military, financial and humanitarian support would not be affected by today’s differences, but would also include diplomatic assistance and support for Ukraine’s prospects of joining NATO and the European Union.

“One of the greatest treasures of Polish politics is that no matter who governs, when it comes to helping Ukraine, no one and nothing will divide the Poles on this particular issue. We will remain together in this dramatic situation in our common history,” the Prime Minister added.

Read more HERE

[panimoonchild]

The world is fucked up

I don't get it either. Why my people must die when Russia has so much support? Because on its own there's no way Russians have numerous drones (Iran) and ballistic missiles which they shelled Odesa today. Where is justice? Make Russia pay!  Please keep spreading our voices and donate to our army and combat medics (savelife.in.ua, prytulafoundation.org, Serhii Sternenko, hospitallers.life, ptahy.vidchui.org and u24.gov.ua).

[azallea]

Mein Herz in Flammen

Will dich lieben und verdammen...

[enfinizatics]

stole the meme from milosz.miedzy.innymi on ig, snorted a little

[lichozestudni]

🇨🇿 rn:

[odinsblog]

For someone who supposedly wants to “denazify”Ukraine, Putin sure does a lot of Hitler apologia.

This isn't the first time Vladimir Putin has been repeating this Nazi propaganda that Poland somehow forced Hitler to invade other countries. Putin has been regurgitating this same old Nazi rhetoric for years, but thanks to one of history's biggest useful idiots, Tucker Carlson, an untold number of tankies + other assorted ignoramuses will believe Putin’s revisionist Hitler apologia.

SN: Strangely enough, Benjamin Netanyahu also engages in the same Holocaust revisionism and Nazi apologia

Anyway, if you’re still dumb + gullible enough to believe that Putin invaded Ukraine to denazify it, or because of NATO, then please send me your full name, phone number, email address, home address, birthdate, ssn, credit card numbers and all of your bank details and social media passwords. I just want to help you out with something. Believe me. The same way you believe Putin :)

👉🏿 https://www.dispropaganda.com/single-post/2020/06/20/putin-blames-poland-for-the-invasion-of-poland