Lessons from the Illiberal Democracies
Today’s Tories are closer to the right-wing populist governments of Eastern Europe than the neoliberal mainstream. To defeat them, Labour has to avoid the mistakes that empowered those projects.
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Gavin Rae
Gavin Rae is a sociologist living in Warsaw. He has written extensively on Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, including two books: Poland’s Return to Capitalism and Public Capital: The Commodification of Poland’s Welfare State. He is co-founder of the left-wing think tank Naprzód.
A Country without Solidarity?
Poland is the only EU state with no left in its parliament – but a new electoral alliance hopes to revive its once-powerful left-wing tradition.