They protested against fascism at Solidarity Square
Left-wing activists organized a demonstration on Sunday at Solidarity Square to express their opposition to "extreme right-wing tendencies in public life in Poland."
The reason the organizers decided to hold Sunday's gathering was, as they say, "the high-profile events of recent weeks related to, among other things, anti-immigration policy, hatred towards foreigners and consent to the spread of fascist content."
"Auschwitz didn't fall suddenly. We know this quote because it's been repeated many times recently. Auschwitz wasn't the result of a one-time action. Auschwitz wasn't an incident. It grew slowly, as Marian Turski said. It grew on society's indifference. Because we've been watching fascism creep into Poland for years. For many years, PiS policy has been based on the dehumanization of certain social groups. The common enemy, in quotation marks, are refugees who rape, steal, and murder," said Magdalena Górecka of Antifa and Women's Strike.
Małgorzata Prokop-Paczkowska also spoke. "I came today because I'm not angry, I'm devastated, I'm sad, I'm even in a kind of depression," she said during the gathering.
She blamed the Catholic Church and consumerism for the current state of society: "I think that as a society, we have failed primarily in the field of education. After 1989, all governments have essentially focused on catechesis, not secular education. Supposedly, thanks to this catechesis, young people were supposed to be more polite, to possess the values espoused by the ideology proposed by the Catholic Church. This is truly an educational failure and indifference. Where does this indifference stem from? Is it because we all want a better life, to earn more, to have better cars, better, nicer houses, to go on exclusive vacations, and we've become so lost that we forget what's most important?"
The politician (like other activists speaking that day) did not spare words of criticism towards two parties, which she accused of right-wing extremism and sowing hatred towards people, especially people of other nationalities: Confederation and Law and Justice.
Professor Inga Iwasiów, a literary scholar, was also at the rally and raised the "problem of indifference and complicity."
"I dreamed it would be a square of joy, a square of unity, a square of positive emotions, of family walks. Things are different, and so I left home, because the worst thing is to be indifferent. The indifferent are also guilty. They are complicit," she said at Solidarity Square. "For 80 years after the war, we studied fascism, we studied nationalisms, asking ourselves how this could have happened. Among the various questions, there was also the question of those standing nearby. Complicit or not? Are they standing nearby out of fear? Do they not see anything? Is it more comfortable? Are they terrorized? These questions are very relevant today, because some of us simply don't want to go out to the square anymore. Some of us believe nothing is happening or that it doesn't concern us. Some are afraid. I'm not surprised; I'm afraid too."
Speakers frequently cited "verbal violence from right-wing supporters and fascist organizations, death threats, and attacks." Sunday's demonstration, they emphasized, was meant to be a warning against the rise of fascism, which is being reborn before our eyes and is not being condemned by politicians or society. According to the organizers, fascism in Poland has the face of Grzegorz Braun, Dariusz Matecki, and Robert Bąkiewicz.
Several dozen people attended the event, then walked through the center toward City Hall. ©℗
Text and photos by Agata Jankowska
@we are waiting
2025-07-27 17:13:23
Does your post have anything to do with the topic, besides your phobia?
a handful of fighters
2025-07-27 17:04:31
only a handful believed the nonsense about the coming fascism. When Putin went to fight fascism in Ukraine, he had more support.
Edek
2025-07-27 17:02:47
Those who promote hate slogans talk about fascism. It's embarrassing, not worth commenting on.
You have your star
2025-07-27 16:57:08
Dariusz Matecki published a post in which he once again threatened the presence of migrants in Poland. It quickly turned out that the people photographed were Poles. Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior and Administration, commented on the situation.
Luckily
2025-07-27 16:51:39
Szczecin residents aren't idiots. And the fact that some Inga Iwasiów and a few others have some f****** in their heads won't diminish Szczecin. Don't be afraid of them!
We are waiting...😎
2025-07-27 16:42:07
Even by the not-so-high cultural standards of the Law and Justice party, Matecki still stands out. His nocturnal walks on the roofs of the Sejm (lower house of parliament) and his subsequent apologies will go down in history as a record of negative and unusual behavior by the nation's chosen few. I hope the new Minister of Justice will hasten his return to solitary confinement, and the State Forests will see the money he wrongfully collected returned to them.
@@Policy Analyst
2025-07-27 16:40:05
Any proof of this claim??? I'm waiting... when and where did this happen??
To the psychiatric ward
2025-07-27 16:36:05
..immediately. Leftism is a plague and an intellectually dull rabble.
fascist
2025-07-27 16:30:09
I went. I wanted to cum in..., but they made me feel like jelly.
zazeł
2025-07-27 16:27:15
Małgorzata Prokop-Paczkowska and Professor Inga Iwasiów - the intellectual level of the gathering has zeroed out in itself.
Weird
2025-07-27 16:17:14
Why is the opposition being attacked, and not the ruling party? They're in power, they're responsible for what's happening. And secondly: Today, protesters incited sexual violence with the words: "Fuck PiS"? What was that? Is that how you show respect for people with different views?
Jan
2025-07-27 16:15:21
That is, against those currently in power.
@Policy Analyst
2025-07-27 16:13:21
you are, you are an analyst and a politician - it was PO that introduced polarization - the polarization-diffusion model - I believe that attempts like yours to insult the intellect of other people are simply unacceptable.
@Lucifer
2025-07-27 16:11:12
What does "caught the bell" mean?
Policy Analyst
2025-07-27 15:57:34
This is about signaling the social divisions in the Republic of Poland initiated by Jarosław Polskazbawa with the words: either you stand here, or where the ZOMO stood... We have gained so much from divisions, and Putin is just waiting for it... and rubbing his hands in glee, and in two years at the latest he will unfortunately knock on all of our doors with Russian rifle butts... only because the sovereign allowed himself to be bought for 800+ and Kaczelnik and the Confederation will bring the anti-EU work to an end, and we will be left alone in the middle of Europe...
This is stupid. Pathetic.
2025-07-27 15:57:03
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Lucifer
2025-07-27 15:56:51
The one with pink hair was provoking patriots on the border until her guy caught the bell and then she cried on TVN Now he came to Szczecin
So who
2025-07-27 15:51:19
According to them, all non-LGBT+ people are probably fascists.
anti-fascist fascism
2025-07-27 15:45:46
fascism of anti-fascists... observing this environment, I cannot shake off associations with the dark 1930s...
Mike13
2025-07-27 15:33:23
Turnout was a flop. I was there and saw how the entire protest, including journalists, fit onto a single pedestrian crossing, and it wasn't crowded.
Pole
2025-07-27 15:29:13
I'd be more afraid of the handful of extremists under these "banners." However, the insults these strangely timid individuals are provoking toward Poles aren't worth paying attention to at the moment. Although it's worth keeping an eye on them, because perhaps with the right sponsorship, they'll bring about another totalitarian regime for Poles here.
Adler
2025-07-27 15:12:52
What's it like to protest against something that doesn't exist? Only the left knows. Leftist brainwashed people accuse anyone who dares to hold a different opinion of fascism. It's a cancer on society.
Basia
2025-07-27 15:11:03
What nerve. First they spewed hateful profanity, and now they accuse others of it—those they cursed. It turns out the Polish Church built Auschwitz, not the Germans, for the Poles and priests imprisoned and murdered.
Kurier Szczecinski
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