November 11 - Polish far-right groups & anti-manifestations
Nov 11, 2019 22:54:33 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Nov 11, 2019 22:54:33 GMT -7
Today we celebrate a Veteran Day in the US and Europe. For Poland it is an independence day. The manifestations were less aggressive than the last year.
There were national parties, but they were guarding against anti-law and fascist signs, as well as some anti-nationalistic much more liberal manifestations of young people in Warsaw.
Outside Warsaw the manifestations were linked to the local traditions. For instance in Poznan also St. Martin Day was celebrated.
Here is more:
www.euronews.com/2019/11/11/polish-far-right-groups-march-in-warsaw-on-independence-anniversary
Polish far-right groups march in Warsaw on independence anniversary
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By Reuters • last updated: 11/11/2019 - 23:40
Polish far-right groups march in Warsaw on independence anniversary
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Tens of thousands of Poles took part in a far-right march in the capital Warsaw on Monday to mark Polish independence, an annual event that has become a focus of friction between nationalists and liberals.
Some chanted "God, honour, homeland!" and "No to the European Union!" and waved red-and-white Polish flags. Others lit red flares, blanketing sections of the parade with smoke.
"We have to return to our roots. Our world has abandoned God and Christianity," Robert Bakiewicz, head of a group organising the march, told participants in central Warsaw. "We will die as the nations of western Europe are dying."
A small group of hardline Italian far-right group Forza Nuova members also took part, waving flags.
Poland has become increasingly polarised since the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in 2015, calling for a revival of patriotic and Roman Catholic values in public life and a rejection of Western liberalism.
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On Nov. 11, Poles mark the 1918 establishment of the second Polish republicREUTERS
Critics say PiS, which won a second term last month with 44% of the vote, has tacitly encouraged groups with roots in the fascist and anti-Semitic movements of the 1930s that organise the march, although the party denies this.
Last year, on the centenary of Polish independence, government officials and President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the PiS, agreed to hold a joint event with the annual march organisers, but walked at a distance, away from any overt displays of nationalism.
This year, PiS held its own, separate events.
"Our nation has a mission and it has to fulfil it," PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Sunday. "Our mission is to sustain everything that's a foundation of our Christian civilisation. We will walk this path, and if it's done in a thoughtful way, it will bring us to victory."
On Nov. 11, Poles commemorate the establishment in 1918 of the second Polish republic, created after World War One from parts of what was then Russia, Germany and Austria.
Two years ago, the march was dotted with racist banners, some of them reading "Pure blood, clear mind" or "Europe will be white or uninhabited".
Before PiS came to power, scuffles between participants and police were not uncommon, but in recent years, more families with children have joined.
Another far-right march, in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, was ended by city authorities due to racist remarks 25 minutes after it had begun.
"The march was dissolved (...) due to hate-speech (anti-Semitism) and the use of pyrotechnics," the vice-president of the Wroclaw City Council, Bartlomiej Ciazynski, wrote on Facebook, adding that several hundred people took part in the march.
There were national parties, but they were guarding against anti-law and fascist signs, as well as some anti-nationalistic much more liberal manifestations of young people in Warsaw.
Outside Warsaw the manifestations were linked to the local traditions. For instance in Poznan also St. Martin Day was celebrated.
Here is more:
www.euronews.com/2019/11/11/polish-far-right-groups-march-in-warsaw-on-independence-anniversary
Polish far-right groups march in Warsaw on independence anniversary
COMMENTS
By Reuters • last updated: 11/11/2019 - 23:40
Polish far-right groups march in Warsaw on independence anniversary
CopyrightREUTERS
TEXT SIZE
AaAa
Tens of thousands of Poles took part in a far-right march in the capital Warsaw on Monday to mark Polish independence, an annual event that has become a focus of friction between nationalists and liberals.
Some chanted "God, honour, homeland!" and "No to the European Union!" and waved red-and-white Polish flags. Others lit red flares, blanketing sections of the parade with smoke.
"We have to return to our roots. Our world has abandoned God and Christianity," Robert Bakiewicz, head of a group organising the march, told participants in central Warsaw. "We will die as the nations of western Europe are dying."
A small group of hardline Italian far-right group Forza Nuova members also took part, waving flags.
Poland has become increasingly polarised since the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in 2015, calling for a revival of patriotic and Roman Catholic values in public life and a rejection of Western liberalism.
REUTERS
On Nov. 11, Poles mark the 1918 establishment of the second Polish republicREUTERS
Critics say PiS, which won a second term last month with 44% of the vote, has tacitly encouraged groups with roots in the fascist and anti-Semitic movements of the 1930s that organise the march, although the party denies this.
Last year, on the centenary of Polish independence, government officials and President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the PiS, agreed to hold a joint event with the annual march organisers, but walked at a distance, away from any overt displays of nationalism.
This year, PiS held its own, separate events.
"Our nation has a mission and it has to fulfil it," PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Sunday. "Our mission is to sustain everything that's a foundation of our Christian civilisation. We will walk this path, and if it's done in a thoughtful way, it will bring us to victory."
On Nov. 11, Poles commemorate the establishment in 1918 of the second Polish republic, created after World War One from parts of what was then Russia, Germany and Austria.
Two years ago, the march was dotted with racist banners, some of them reading "Pure blood, clear mind" or "Europe will be white or uninhabited".
Before PiS came to power, scuffles between participants and police were not uncommon, but in recent years, more families with children have joined.
Another far-right march, in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, was ended by city authorities due to racist remarks 25 minutes after it had begun.
"The march was dissolved (...) due to hate-speech (anti-Semitism) and the use of pyrotechnics," the vice-president of the Wroclaw City Council, Bartlomiej Ciazynski, wrote on Facebook, adding that several hundred people took part in the march.
