Debate and discussion: The left acts, the right profits?
Just before and on 27 January, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, part of the Polish radical left participated in small demos in a few cities (e.g., Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Poznan). Each demo attracted a few dozen people, organised with the message, “Auschwitz (Oswiecim) 1945, Chechnya 2005, Stop the genocide” (as the poster of the organisers put it explicitly in Krakow). The demos were organised in the main by the Committee “Free Caucasus”. This group is dominated by the radical anti-Communist right (activists from the Republican League, who were a few...