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The Strange Non-Death of Polish Neo-Liberalism

Posted by on Sep 27, 2014 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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0 comments Neo-liberalism, like the famous cat, seems to have nine lives in Poland. The effort to cut back the state and give freer rein to the market has suffered at least three near-death experiences. The initial “shock therapy” approach implemented by Leszek Balcerowicz in the first Solidarity-affiliated government in 1990 generated such high unemployment and social dissatisfaction that voters...
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Poland’s Feminist Genealogy

Posted by on Sep 24, 2014 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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3 comments There is an infamous story in Poland about a sign at the shipyard in Gdansk where the trade union movement Solidarity got started in 1980. Although nobody actually saw the sign, many people firmly believe that it existed. The sign read: “Women, do not disturb us. We are fighting for Poland.” “The sign is very important to Polish feminism,” Agnieszka Graff told me in an interview outside...
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